Posts tagged Design Review
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What if the Kennedy Center was part of downtown DC?
The Kennedy Center is a marble island cut off from downtown by highways. What if instead, it was the heart of a new urban neighborhood linking Georgetown and the National Mall? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New density for Fairfax
Fairfax zoning fight; New heights for Reston; A library or housing?; Less boring in Loudoun; New design, longer walk; More free Metro; Welcome to Metro; Gentrification hits Cleveland. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Traffic takes to the trails
Traffic on (Safe)track; SafeTrack solutions, round two; Data warehouse design; The rent is too damn high; Executive branch and bikes; Toward a safer Metro; Carless counts; Congestion pricing for NYC. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Honest pay for honest work
Fight for 15; Poor workmanship, just deserts; Avoid the crush; 7000 problems; Inherent vices; Too much FBI parking; Long goodbye for DC General; House flipping not flopping; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stop-and-go
Red light, green light; Metro isn’t alone; Homeless shelter plan, refined; Metro puts late-night service to bed; When SafeTrack comes too late; That’s the tweet of the police; DC’s dining stars; The price of parking; And…. Keep reading…
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Imagine a Kennedy Center that’s part of downtown
The Kennedy Center is a marble island cut off from downtown by highways. What if instead, it was the heart of a new urban neighborhood linking Georgetown and the National Mall? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Transit trials
Plans for BRT; Study first; Should busking be allowed?; Less transit regulation?; Faster transit projects; A city without slums; A better bus stop; And…. Keep reading…
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Federal board wants “dignified,” dull Southwest Waterfront
The Wharf development has the potential to create an exciting pedestrian-oriented, human-scale space along DC’s Southwest Waterfront. But a federal board of artists and architects, most of whom don’t live in the Washington region, is trying to make it much more boring. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Planning places
Happy Birthday, Reston!; Greens fore housing; Landscaping’s good, bad, and ugly; How tomorrow doesn’t move; Feats of strength up next; If biking were a pill…; “Is the dog included?”; Robocop II: Dogwalkercop; Towers rise in London; And…. Keep reading…
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What would taller buildings mean for DC’s architecture?
Would lifting the height limit lead to better architecture? It’s not that simple, say architects. There are many people and forces, both cultural and economic, that shape the built environment, not just height. Proponents of relaxing the height limit say that it would improve the quality of architecture, but they usually mean that new buildings will be less boxy if there’s… Keep reading…