Design
Forget the Wall, What About a Mexican 'Gateway of Friendship'?
Architects once contemplated a spectacular border crossing celebrating the Americas.
America elects a new president, and he immediately proposes a bold intervention on the U.S.-Mexico border: An “International Gateway of Friendship” to represent the dear bond between our great nations.
This actually happened, and not in a bizarro 2017 universe where Donald Trump speaks fluent Spanish. It was 1929, and President-Elect Herbert Hoover had floated the idea of something monumental for our associates in Central and South America. That’s according to historical documents from the 22nd Lloyd Warren Fellowship, Paris Prize in Architecture, maintained by New York’s Van Alen Institute.