His design was criticized as banal and beneath its subject. It was also praised for fitting seamlessly into hallowed space on ...

Friedrich St. Florian, the architect renowned for his design of the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, ...

Friedrich St. Florian came to the United States for his master's degree in architecture from Columbia University.

U.S. News Insider Tip: While it's pretty during the day, the memorial is incomparable at night. Visit after sunset. – Marisa Méndez, Senior Editor The World War II Memorial was dedicated in ...

France’s plans to build a national memorial for victims of terrorism – originally shelved due to budget cuts – are back on ...

Battle of the Bulge veterans Frank Cohn, left, and Harry Miller salute the presentation of the colors during the battle’s 80th anniversary wreath-laying ceremony at the World War II Memorial’s ...

A Warsaw memorial recognizing the more than 300,000 souls who died at the Nazis’ Treblinka extermination camp was defaced with graffiti equating the Holocaust with the war in Gaza. The ...

The Austrian-born architect won a national design contest with his vision for a classically inspired plaza on the Mall.

WASHINGTON — The man behind D.C.'s National World War II Memorial has died. An immigrant from Austria, in 1997, Friederich St. Florian beat out 400 other architects, when his design was selected ...

Friedrich St. Florian, an Austrian American architect who designed the World War II Memorial on the Mall, helping to honor the sacrifices of the 16 million Americans who served in the war and the ...