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Brits say Di memorial
doesn't hold water




Princess Diana

The Brits have chosen a Seattle artist's design for a Princess Diana memorial
fountain, but critics blasted the idea as having more Northwest grunge than
Union Jack royalty.
Kathryn Gustafson's so-called water feature will have two stone channels -
shaped in a necklace - that flow down a hill into a kiddie pool in London's
Hyde Park.

Construction of the $4.7 million project is expected to begin right away and be
finished by Aug. 31, 2003, the sixth anniversary of Diana's death.

Shortly after a selection committee announced its pick yesterday, critics
branded it an unfitting homage to the People's Princess.

"She's the most celebrated Briton of the last quarter century, and we've
remembered her with a puddle," said Vivienne Parry, a friend of Diana's.

A blue-ribbon panel struggled for 18 months to find the right shrine for the
Princess of Wales. The picks came down to Gustafson's concept and one proposed
by Bombay-born British artist Anish Kapoor - a colored dome of water - which
lost out because it was deemed slightly too radical.



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