Posts tagged Photography
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1959 alternate Kennedy Center design
Nathaniel Kelso sent over these 50-year-old renderings of an alternate design for the Kennedy Center. It looks a bit like a UFO landed on the banks of the Potomac. Keep reading…
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Photo of the day: Church of the unleaded
BeyondDC posted this photo of a church in Rosslyn built above a gas station. Or was a gas station built under a church? Does it count as Good Works to enable people to fill up their tanks? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Two sides of many coins
Adams Morgan ANC commissioner arrested: Nancy Shia, representing northeastern Adams Morgan on ANC 1C, was arrested Sunday for taking pictures of a crime scene. Shia claims she was “just trying to document the scene,” while police claim she was “impeding a police investigation” and opened the door of a police vehicle to get a picture of a juvenile suspect. Keep reading…
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MOB rides the streets of DC
On Saturday, a mob of cyclists assembled at Freedom Plaza in “bike tie formal”. Their mission: to ride to Dupont Circle and then Columbia Heights’ Red Derby, to show the colors of DC’s new Ministry of Bicycling (MOB), pass out informational flyers on cyclists’ rights and responsibilities, and have a lot of fun. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: The many faces of government edition
Meet the bubble bus: WMATA released images of their new Metrobuses, slated for service in August. DCist has more. Keep reading…
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Urban-suburban: guess the location
Below are two pictures, taken in the area. Can you identify one or both of them? Click for bigger versions. Keep reading…
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Bad urbanism on the Potomac waterfront
In December, I got into an interesting debate on the Dupont Forum neighborhood list about my feelings concerning the Third Church landmarking. Lance, who considers the building a “masterpiece,” asked if my desire to get rid of most 1970s-era buildings in downtown DC extended to more widely praised structures like the Watergate and Kennedy Center. I replied:The Watergate and… Keep reading…
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Density on U Street?
I got my first taste of local politics last month by attending the Dupont Circle ANC meeting. DC is divided into a number of regions each with an Advisory Neighborhood Commission, a group of unpaid local elected representatives. They do have certain powers, such as reviewing and approving liquor license applications, though most of the board’s actions are advisory, like giving… Keep reading…
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The soul-crushing emptiness of downtown DC
410,000 people enter Washington, DC each weekday (as of 2005), the second-largest increase of any American city. But if you walk around large parts of downtown in the middle of the day, you might not think so. So many buildings face inward, with their public spaces in central courtyards cut off from the fabric of the city, feeding their workers in indoor cafeterias, leaving the… Keep reading…