by Tom Sherwood

Washington, D.C. is filled with memorials that commemorate events and people of the past, but a new memorial concept is meant to give people a glimpse of what could be the future of the city’s landscape.

On Thursday, the National Park Service, National Capital Planning Commission and Van Alen Institute announced that Climate Chronograph has won the Memorials for the Future contest.

The winning memorial design reimagines Hains Point in Southwest with cherry trees and shows how those trees would wither and die as the sea level rises over time.