Posts tagged Eisenhower Memorial
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Breakfast links: More questions than answers
Mixed-use, not sports practices; Food trucks on the Mall?; Creep on the CCT?; Georgetown vacant lot hard to build on; Who hates, who likes Ike’s memorial; Better buses; Manhattan to the limit; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Everything old is new again
Urban farming returns to DC; Fighting sprawl in 1959; Mark Center gets a parking max; Cities fight gangs, power vacuums; UK crashes mapped; Eisenhowers criticize Eisenhower Memorial; Cop hits bicyclist; Next stop, holiday cheer. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Follow the money
Team Thomas spends on luxuries; Imagine the L Street cycletrack; Ike Memorial has windshield perspective; Gray supports aerial Dulles station; Gowdy, unexpected champion of DC autonomy; Rage against the machine; Hate crimes shift, but still under-reported; Community polices trail; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The bike life
Obituary for “the bike lady”; To catch a bike thief; Drivers take bike frustration to police; Council looks at ethics; Metro morsels; St. E’s will still move ahead, needs food; No more Arts for 5th and Eye; And…. Keep reading…
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Why a classical memorial better honors Eisenhower
This Monday, the anniversary of D-Day, the National Civic Art Society (NCAS) and the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICA & A) announced the winners of the Eisenhower Memorial Counterproposal Competition. This competition was initiated after one of the most famous modern architects, Frank Gehry, had been selected to design a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bad old days
Scandals are the 80s all over again?; Thomas, get out; Hit and run, alcohol and PTSD; Where are the rent controlled apartments?; Pile of twisted metal or triumphal arch?; New Hampshire may weigh in on DC statehood; HOT builder bowing out?; Gabe putting in bike lanes; Auto executives for higher gas taxes. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Growth in Virginia
Smart Growth a success in NoVa; Virginia growth strengthens urbanized areas; Stafford wants to use UDAs to accommodate growth; DC Council hears about bike and pedestrian safety; MetroAccess customers face fare hike; Eisenhower memorial could have been Education plaza; Snyder mad over parking revenue?; ARRA spending on new roads is “squadered” money; And…. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Seen through a lens
New cameras coming; Visting a better transit system; CaBi: Try it, you’ll like it; Loh more open on Purple Line; Can you do better for Ike?; Hine gets smaller, loses Shakespeare and Tiger; Move the region forward through meetings; McCain doesn’t want you to bike to the airport. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Finding flaws
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Gehry Eisenhower memorial actually not daring enough?
Earlier this morning I contributed to a group post about the proposed Eisenhower Memorial, designed by starchitect Frank Gehry. While the group piece included many of my thoughts, I wanted to expand upon my personal reactions. My overall impression of these initial images is that Gehry’s design is thoughtful and inoffensive, but also underwhelming. Gehry has always… Keep reading…