Mission Accomplished: Federal Building

摘要

The Oklahoma City Federal Building makes a strong and welcome statement of federal pur-pose in a place that will always figure in our collective memory. It replaces the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that collapsed in a terrorist bombing on April 19, 1995. Aimed at the federal government, that attack killed 168 people and was the worst such incident on U.S. soil when it occurred. We are just beginning to see the impact of that blast and that of the more recent 9/11 attacks on the civic landscape. In that context, the federal building is significant as a major public project that manages to combine necessary security with design excellence.