Installed to create a greater understanding of the historical relevance and significance of the people and events that have come to define the region and country, the monuments and memorials that surround the Dover Capital Complex are connected to various pieces of Dover history. These monuments serve as an imaginative way for audiences to experience […]
Category: Monumentous Imagination
Bryant Park Imagines New Ways to Utilize Urban Greenspace
Known as Manhattan’s Town Square, Bryant Park is home to a variety of community activities throughout the year. Featuring a unique landscape and notable monuments, the park highlights how an imaginative use of a space can create engagement for audiences across a city and beyond. Named After William Cullen Bryant Designated as public property in […]
The Calle Ocho Walk of Fame Imagines a New Way to Celebrate the Community
Paying tribute to Cuban & Latin actors, writers, artists and musicians, the Calle Ocho Walk of Fame celebrates the many individuals that have helped shape the Little Havana community. The effort to do so has brought residents together to discuss what sort of people they want to highlight while creating an attraction that has captured […]
The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial Imaginatively Portrays the Triumph of the Human Spirit
Inspired by Alex Haley’s 1976 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial has multiple connections to the location where it resides at the City Dock in Annapolis, Maryland. Commemorating the spot where Kunta Kinte set foot on American soil, it is dedicated to all of the African […]
The Bill of Rights Monument is an Imaginative Triumph of Human Freedom
The Bill of Rights Monument resides within the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza in Phoenix, Arizona. Created to celebrate the civil rights that the Bill of Rights granted to Americans and to the concept of human freedom, the Bill of Rights Monument is an especially imaginative interpretation of the physical words and spiritual concept that the […]
The Southernmost Point Buoy is an Imaginative Approach to Creating an Attraction
The Southernmost Point Buoy marks what has become a geographic distinction of the continental United States in Key West, Florida. This concrete anchor has become an icon for the area that compels activity from visitors and appears on all sorts of merchandise, highlighting what an especially imaginative approach to cultivating attention and activity can look […]
The Arts of War and The Arts of Peace Imagine a Unique Adornment for Washington D.C.
Gilded-bronze equestrian statues known as the Arts of War and the Arts of Peace flank the entrances to a bridge and parkway in Washington, D.C. Created to enhance a plaza as well as to a newly constructed bridge, the statue groups represent an especially imaginative approach to doing so that has connected audiences to the […]