Wall Street Journal: A New Gateway to the West

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Never having visited Eero Saarinen’s stainless-steel-clad Gateway Arch – created as an entry in a 1947 architectural competition, completed here in 1965 and now the focus of a $380 million re-configuring of the surrounding national park (including some $220 million from private sources) and the opening of a $176 million visitor center and museum in a subterranean space of 150,000 square feet – I was unprepared for the impact it has in person.

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