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 in the West End/Foggy Bottom neighborhoods.

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.