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阿登·法希是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻华盛顿分社常务编辑。他曾报道多场总统竞选以及奥巴马、特朗普和拜登政府。他的执行制片人作品包括《与梅杰·加勒特共进午餐》和哥伦比亚广播公司新闻原创播客《背叛特工》，其作品曾获两项艾美奖、杜邦奖和纽约节金奖。
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由特朗普任命的负责审查华盛顿特区公共建筑的委员会在提出质疑后，最终批准了特朗普总统的一项建筑优先项目的初步设计：一座250英尺高的石制拱门，将高耸于林肯纪念堂和阿灵顿国家公墓之上。
委员们就拱门的结构地基、行人和轮椅通道以及结构顶部的金色雕像向项目建筑师尼古拉斯·沙尔博诺提出了质疑。
该计划要求在哥伦比亚岛建造这座拱门，这是波托马克河中的一片人工地带，属于华盛顿特区范围。该地点目前是纪念大桥脚下的一个草质交通环岛。设计中包含一座镀金青铜自由女神像和两只白头海雕——三座雕像均展开翅膀。
“这些带翅膀的形象看起来有些怪异，”委员詹姆斯·麦克克里谈到这些雕像时说道。
拱门两侧还将设有两座金色狮子雕像。
“我认为狮子雕像部分需要改进，”麦克克里说道，他还建议建造更大的门洞、取消一条地下通道，而最具争议的提议或许是缩小拱门的尺寸。
投下初步设计赞成票的麦克克里表示，这座拱门如果高度调整至约166英尺，能够“更好地融入”华盛顿的纪念性天际线，而非现有提案的尺寸。
麦克克里曾是特朗普亲自挑选的白宫宴会厅建筑师，但后来因该项目规模方面的分歧被替换。
内政部长道格·伯根周四介绍了该项目，并援引历史为建造拱门辩护。伯根表示，国会在规划国家广场时，曾计划在哥伦比亚岛建造两根纪念柱。这些柱子原本高达160英尺，象征南北战争后的北方与南方。
这些纪念柱最终并未建成。伯根称，拟建拱门的两根支撑柱是对这项已有100多年历史的规划的呼应，其高度也将达到约160英尺。
这座将环绕防护桩的拱门，还设有一部可直达的观景台。
委员会共收到约1000条公众意见。
美国美术委员会秘书托马斯·吕贝克表示，“100%的评论都反对该项目”，并宣读了一条批评拱门规模的意见。该意见称，这座拱门将“成为天际线中一个突兀的主导垂直元素，而这片天际线向来抵制此类突兀的闯入”。
该评论者还抨击该项目与某位现代政治人物的关联过于紧密。
建筑师沙尔博诺将有机会吸纳这些反馈意见并修改设计，之后委员会将就是否给予最终批准进行投票。
如果按照250英尺的高度建造，这座拱门将显著高于横跨纪念大桥的99英尺高的林肯纪念堂。华盛顿纪念碑的高度为555英尺。
一个越南战争退伍军人组织已经提起诉讼，要求阻止该项目的建造。他们认为，这座拱门会破坏公墓与林肯纪念堂之间的视觉联系。截至目前，法官尚未作出干预裁决。
“Arc de Trump” receives preliminary design approval from arts commission
April 16, 2026 / 2:19 PM EDT / CBS News
By Arden Farhi
Arden Farhi Washington bureau managing editor
Arden Farhi is the managing editor for CBS News’ Washington bureau. He has covered several presidential campaigns and the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations. His executive producer credits include “The Takeout with Major Garrett” and the CBS News original podcast “Agent of Betrayal,” and his work has been recognized with two Emmy Awards, a DuPont Award and a NY Festivals gold medal.
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A Trump-appointed commission tasked with reviewing public buildings in Washington, D.C., raised questions about but ultimately gave preliminary design approval to one of President Trump’s architectural priorities: a 250-foot stone arch that would tower above the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.
The commissioners questioned project architect Nicolas Charbonneau about the arch’s structural footings, pedestrian and wheelchair access and the golden statues atop the structure.
Rendering of Trump triumphal arch that would sit between Lincoln Memorial and Arlington Cemetery submitted by Interior Dept. to Commission on Fine Arts, April 16, 2026.
The plans call for the arch to be built on Columbia Island, a man-made strip of land in the Potomac River that is part of Washington, D.C. The site is currently a grassy traffic circle at the foot of Memorial Bridge. The design features a gold-plated bronze Lady Liberty and two bald eagles — all three statues with their wings extended.
“It seems odd,” commissioner James McCrery said of the winged figures.
Two golden lion statues would flank the arch structure as well.
“I’d say work on the lions,” said McCrery, who also suggested building a larger doorway, eliminating an underground access tunnel and, perhaps most controversially, making the arch smaller.
McCrery, who voted in favor of the preliminary design, said the arch could “better participate” in Washington’s memorial skyline at about 166 feet, rather than at its proposed size.
McCrery was Trump’s handpicked architect for the White House ballroom, but was later replaced after disagreements emerged over that project’s size.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum introduced the project Thursday and leaned on history to justify construction of the arch. Burgum said when Congress drew up plans for the National Mall, it included an “adornment” of two columns on Columbia Island. The columns were to rise 160 feet and symbolize the North and South after the Civil War.
The columns were never built. Burgum said the two columns supporting the proposed arch were allusions to the more than 100-year-old plan and would also rise about 160 feet.
The arch, which would be ringed with protective bollards, includes an elevator-accessible observation deck.
The commission received about 1,000 public comments.
CFA secretary Thomas Luebke said that “100% of the comments were against the project,” reading one that criticized the arch’s scale. It said the arch would “assert itself as a dominant vertical element in a skyline that has resisted such intrusions.”
The commenter also knocked the project for being so closely associated with a modern political figure.
Charbonneau, the architect, will have a chance to absorb the feedback and revise the design before the commission votes on whether to give it final approval.
At 250 feet, the arch would be significantly taller than the 99-foot Lincoln Memorial which sits across Memorial Bridge. The Washington Monument is 555 feet.
A group of Vietnam War veterans has already sued to block construction. They argue the arch would obscure the visual connection between the cemetery and Lincoln Memorial. So far, the judge has yet to intervene.
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