Posts tagged Freedom Plaza
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How Pennsylvania Avenue’s Freedom Plaza failed
One of Freedom Plaza’s designers, architect Denise Scott Brown, described the original design as “a lovely success” but said “I see the execution as a failure.” Keep reading…
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As downtown DC’s Pershing Park becomes a World War I memorial, process preserves a landscape but doesn’t save the park for people
Pershing Park, a secluded pocket near the White House, is being converted into a national World War I memorial. At the behest of its promoters, the memorial removes the active spaces for people that made the park popular, while keeping secondary elements that close off the park from the city and keep it desolate. Keep reading…
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DC’s downtown could have been more like L’Enfant Plaza
Poking through the archives of the Washington Post, Tom at Ghosts of DC found a plan to sink several roads in downtown DC into trenches, build tunnels, and create a large underground parking structure beneath a big plaza where Freedom Plaza now stands. Keep reading…
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Why is Pennsylvania Avenue’s Freedom Plaza such a failure?
One of Freedom Plaza's designers, architect Denise Scott Brown, described the original design as “a lovely success” but said “I see the execution as a failure.” Keep reading…
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Downtown DC could have been more like L’Enfant Plaza
Poking through the archives of the Washington Post, Tom at Ghosts of DC found a plan to sink several roads in downtown DC into trenches, build tunnels, and create a large underground parking structure beneath a big plaza where Freedom Plaza now stands. Keep reading…
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Sidewalk snow clearing Hall of Shame
Around the city and region, a lot of sidewalks are clear, and a lot aren’t. Where they aren’t, in many cases the snow is now packed down into a sheet of ice, making walking very treacherous. I asked readers to send in photos and reports of the problem areas along their commutes. Steve Mothershead, who walks along Martin Luther King Avenue, SE to the Anacostia Metro in… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Emerald City
Green is good; Gentrification not behind murder rate drop; Getting the Occupy out; Purple Line’s condemnations; Compromising on the waterfront; Metro board wants options; Business density makes for walkability. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Death and near-death
Orange Line train hits man; Residents want action after ped crash; Frank Kameny dies; Commission suggests Md. gas tax hike; Don’t give MWAA to McDonnell too; Bill pushes CBAs for Walmart & others; Is the Artisphere good?; Views of the occupation. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Visible progress
Montgomery zoning rewrite is good; 15th Street cycle track now for cyclists again; See Metro rebuild tracks; What to do with RFK?; Too many hotels?; Metro dealing with full parking lots; 2 bike deaths, 1 set of charges; And…. Keep reading…