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Architect: Phil Freelon

The North Carolina Freedom Park board is proud to collaborate with Phil Freelon and his team of colleagues at Perkins+Will. Freelon’s design achievements include cultural, civic and academic projects for some of America’s most respected cultural institutions. Freelon led the design team for the recently dedicated $500M Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington DC. In Spring of 2016, his design was chosen for the North Carolina Freedom Park.

In Spring of 2017, the North Carolina Freedom Park’s designer, Phil Freelon and his colleagues at Perkins+Will received a Merit Award from the American Institute of Architects Triangle Section for the project’s design.