World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C. Photo by Barbara Armstrong Patrick Tobia, a WWII veteran and the author's father, in 1944. Photo provided by Barbara Armstrong ...

Friedrich St. Florian, an Austrian American architect who designed the World War II Memorial on the Mall, helping to honor ...

Design Approved for WWII Memorial. By ABC News. September 21, 2000, 3:59 PM. W A S H I N G T O N, Sept. 22 -- Last night, the National Capital Planning Committee voted by a narrow margin to ...

Now that both houses of Congress (unanimously) and the president have approved the location and design of the World War II Memorial, perhaps it is timely for the Commission of Fine Arts to explain ...

Friedrich St. Florian, designer of World War II Memorial, dies at 91. The Austrian-born architect won a national design contest with his vision for a classically inspired plaza on the Mall.