Posts tagged Preservation
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Preservation problems: predictability and pellucidity
The latest historic preservation plan essentially concludes that people don’t trust historic preservation in DC because they don’t know enough about it, and recommends that staff and advocates push harder to persuade people of preservation’s positive effects. As I argued yesterday, that’s not preservation’s primary problem. Rather,… Keep reading…
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“Perception” is not preservation’s primary problem
The DC Historic Preservation Office (HPO) has released a new plan for preservation through 2016. From conversations with preservationists and the public, HPO concluded that “preservation has a perception problem,” which it wants to combat. However, perception isn’t the only problem. Most of the challenges the preservation office says they heard are… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: “Snowquester”
Snow; Residents win the war; Issa endorses better design; Prince William vs sprawl; Preserve “Mad Men” era buildings?; Fairfax considers red light cameras; Bad ideas for FBI; A sport looking for space; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro’s got the beat
Metrobeat?; 3rd suicide avoided; Transit Center problems go further; No streetlight contract again; Really tall pop-up; “Mega-commutes” not uncommon; Silly other states; And…. Keep reading…
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A building can look smaller without losing a floor
The architects of an 8-story apartment building at 13th and U streets, NW have tweaked their design after the Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) came close to asking to remove a whole floor. Instead, they’ve aptly demonstration how it’s possible to make a building feel less large without actually making it much smaller at all. In December, HPRB heard from… Keep reading…
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Park Van Ness will fill in Connecticut Avenue streetscape
Developer BF Saul plans to replace its Van Ness Square, a low retail complex that contains a Pier 1 Imports, Office Depot, and a number of other stores, with a 273-apartment building and ground floor retail. Keep reading…
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Streetcar car barn design improves in latest round
The DC Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) will discuss a new set of designs for the Benning Road streetcar maintenance facility this Thursday. The US Commission on Fine Arts (CFA) already got a look last week. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: State of the non-state and adjacent state
Gray: build 10,000 affordable units; McDonnell gas tax plan struggles; Election “rigging” won’t pass; This week in new bills; Post building a landmark?; VDOT ignores pleas, crash happens; Connect Tysons and Vienna; Ward 5, green job center?; And…. Keep reading…
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Will economic renewal reach Anacostia in 2013?
Farm vehicles no longer have their own parking privileges in Historic Anacostia. A weathered sign offering them special treatment is now gone; a new perimeter fence and fresh asphalt recently appeared on a site where, in 2008, a developer envisioned a $500-700 million mixed-use project. Vacant storefronts, social service providers, treatment centers, art galleries, city… Keep reading…
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Board lauds 13th and U design, still balks at height
The Historic Preservation Review Board lavished praise on the architectural design for a proposed residential building at 13th and U Streets, NW, but demurred from approving the project yesterday, as they could not make themselves entirely comfortable with the building’s size. Keep reading…