US Justice Department warns it may demolish the Kennedy Center and replace it with an outdoor amphitheatre

A US Justice Department attorney told a federal court the administration may demolish the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC — designed by Edward Durell Stone in the 1970s — and replace it with an outdoor amphitheatre overlooking the Potomac River, if courts continue blocking its renovation plans. The court filing describes the institution as in a "financial and structural death spiral."