This project is about prioritizing people and green space over highways and cars. Perkins Eastman is working with the National Capital Planning Commission to outline a broad approach to free the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from the knot of road infrastructure that isolates it from the city’s fabric. The plan involves capping the Interstate 66 interchange, installing landscaping, parks, and bike/pedestrian pathways that connect the Kennedy Center to the Lincoln Memorial and the National Mall on one end and the southern edge of Rock Creek Park on the other, offers greater access to the Potomac River waterfront, and opens new parcels for development. These meaningful changes will underscore the Kennedy Center’s relationship to the city, increase park space—and clean air—to residents and visitors, and expand the area’s biodiversity.