The Guardian's Oliver Wainwright explores the inspiration behind Louis Kahn's posthumously built FDR monument in NYC, and wonders if it isn't one of the legendary American architects best works. Oddly enough, some of the early sketches for the park show a truncated triangle reminiscent of the Great Seal that FDR added to the dollar bill in 1935. Coincidence? [The Guardian; previously]
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