Posts tagged Architecture
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Can architecture transcend its obsession with expressive design?
Thursday’s Kojo Nnamdi Show discussed the role of architects in shaping our built environment. Much of the conversation focused on whether architects should only consider the aesthetic design of a building, or larger issues including environmental sustainability or even structural practicality. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The way you get to work
Thousands bike to work; Bike here; Reshaping Portland; Next they’ll give them away for free; Off the MARC; Red Line convert; Leesburg ready for bikes and pedestrians; Debating walkability. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Carnage and enforcement
Driver acts responsibly after hitting cyclist; Driver faces no consequences for killing cyclist; MPD ticketing rolling stop; PG working on poor safety record; More Metro Kiss & Park; Pick the worst housing project. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Zealous enforcers and budget maneuvers
Yo building is so ugly, only terrorists want to photograph it; Maryland offers more money for PG buses; MoCo may allow parking revenue to fund transit; Performance parking working in Philly; Berliner proposes more Metro stops in Bethesda; Arlington picks stimulus projects; Clarendon zoning adjusted; Park Service cracks down on pedicabs; An even greater Thomas Circle vision; Twice a day?. Keep reading…
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Architect discusses Union Station bicycle transit center
Construction has begun on a 1,700-square-foot bicycle transit center at Union Station in Washington, DC. The station will hold approximately 150 bikes on 2-tier racks and will also offer bicycle rentals and repairs. Although the station will not have showers or bathrooms, it will include a changing room and lockers that will be available for members. Membership… Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: Bikes, trikes and automobiles
Bikes becoming fashionable in NYC; Arlington pushes trikes; Montgomery pushes cars; No eating unless you’re a cop; Lewis calls out the antis; What’s wrong with Franklin Square?; Rail should replace short flights; Short buildings equal job sprawl; Korea has “women-only” parking spaces; Bags for the City. Keep reading…
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Reinvent memorialization, maybe; reinvent plazas, no
Today, Post architecture critic Philip Kennicott weighs in on the choice of Frank Gehry to design the Eisenhower Memorial. The commission document calls for a “plaza-type” memorial, including a canopy and a small building. It also asks Gehry to design “a new vision of memorialization: a new paradigm for memorials.” Is that really what we need? Certainly,… Keep reading…
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Smithsonian picks architects, design for African-American museum
Today, the Smithsonian announced that they have selected Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup to design the National Museum of African-American History and Culture. Their design submission resembled a rectangular, mostly concrete building with a basket or crown on top. Keep reading…
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Are architectural hybrids any good?
For years the world of architecture has been split between two opposing camps. One camp favors traditional buildings and the other favors modernist ones. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: New news on old issues
The bag man vs. the bag bill; Eisenhower memorial or Gehry memorial?; Anacostia trolley delayed until 2012?; Sidewalk safety and suburban styling in Silver Spring; HPRB rejects sidewalk cafe, house move; How smart is it?; Ward 7 development latest to ask for parking exception. Keep reading…