Contrary to Donald Trump’s claims, the U.S. government isn’t neglecting its borders. It’s just the opposite: The U.S. is investing in them heavily, replacing border stations that used to be little more than shacks with facilities that are modern, secure, and welcoming.
Border-control facilities took home two of the 2016 General Services Administration Design Awards, announced last month in Washington, D.C. The Mariposa Land Port of Entry (designed by Phoenix-based Jones Studio for Nogales, Arizona) and the San Ysidiro Land Port of Entry (designed by the Seattle-based Miller Hull Partnership for San Ysidiro, California) both won GSA Design Awards.
In terms of both infrastructure and philosophy, these projects offer a significant departure from the Republican Party’svision for a border wall running the length of the U.S.–Mexico border. As Eddie Jones of Jones Studio explained toArchitect, his design for the Mariposa Land Port of Entry started with “Border Lines,” a poem by Alberto Ríos, Arizona’s poet laureate and a Nogales native. That poem concludes, “Let us turn the map until we see clearly:/ The border is what joins us,/ Not what separates us.”
[For more of this story, written by Kriston Capps, go to http://www.citylab.com/design/...re-welcoming/503705/]
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