Posts tagged Memorials
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Breakfast links: Finding flaws
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Breakfast links: Tensions on and off the bike
Enforce bike parking rules; Conflict is the bike story; Tensions in Hill East; Questions surround Big K site in Anacostia; A glimpse at MLK Memorial; More NoMA park responses; Raise my taxes, please; Toronto surrenders (to cars); And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More ups and downs
Two slots at DCA up for grabs; Virginia to raise speed limits; Height debate continued; Gray softens on lower parking rates; Bethesda escalator repair nears end; Arlington Trader Joe’s to get parking; L’Enfant Plaza-Future Banneker Memorial Station?; Is there an answer to gentrification?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bears and hogs
Seat hogs article hogged Page One space?; ANCC still for the trail; ANC roars at Big Bear; DDOT to all be in one building?; Tattoo Vermont Avenue; Silver Line delayed?; New cameras, more money?; Bike bits; Are we the best?. Keep reading…
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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…
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Gehry Eisenhower memorial delivers old forms in a new style
Frank Gehry’s proposed design for the Dwight Eisenhower memorial was released by the National Memorial Commission yesterday. The proposal closes part of Maryland Avenue to create a monumental civic square between the Air and Space Museum and the Department of Education. For the design Gehry departed from his signature crumpled titanium look in favor of a collection… Keep reading…
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Live chat with Kirk Savage,“Monument Wars”
Welcome to our live chat with Kirk Savage, author of Monument Wars: Washington, the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape. Keep reading…
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What’s That? #5: The answers
Congratulations to Teo, who identified all three pictures in this week’s What’s That? 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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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…