John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Designed by Edward Durell Stone and opened in 1971, the Kennedy Center serves as the United States' national cultural center and a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy. Its long, horizontal massing, travertine cladding, and colonnaded facades exemplify late-modernist monumental civic architecture. The complex contains multiple performance halls and public terrace spaces that integrate interior performance venues with views of the Potomac River.