You can comment on the proposals. Many of the world’s top landscape architects and architects presented their designs for three grand projects on the National Mall: Constitution Gardens, Union Square, and the Washington Monument Grounds at Sylvan Theater.

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The competition is fierce because all the design proposals offer elegant, exciting, innovative ideas to solve sticky ecological, security, and public-space design challenges, reports The Dirt. Each proposal may reflect $100,000 or more of conceptual and design work. But all that work may actually be worth it: The payoff could be big for these top designers. Some $700 million in public and private funds are expected to be raised to make these projects a reality. Also, in the United States at least, few sites would get more visitors than a major new site in the city of monuments.

Visit The Dirt to get highlights and a selection of images. View all the proposals and offer comment on the Trust for the National Mall site.