Posts tagged The Mall
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Breakfast links: More questions than answers
Should our Metro advertise?; “Human error,” but whose?; What would Jefferson say?; More walkability or the end of the world?; Is Fairfax really chicken or just a little bit?; Should MLK Ave get a Circulator?; The biggest subway ever. 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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Live chat: Kirk Savage, tomorrow at 1 pm
Tomorrow at 1 pm, we welcome our next live chat guest, Kirk Savage, author of Monument Wars: Washington, the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Looking to history
Historic Walter Reed; Independence from B Street; Do you know?; Year of Sustainability; 5 mph less, 40% fewer deaths; And…; Thanks, Stephen!. Keep reading…
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Morning links: No free pass
Hate to burst your bubble; Cranky old starchitect; Change gives trail crossing the green light; Bill says “Fauquier” to unsupportive counties; Tolls high, road cost higher; Who you callin’ “you”?. Keep reading…
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Late breakfast links: Movers and shakers
Streetcars make landfall; Know where you are on H; Bubble in a donut; Bye bye billboards; Tax break narrowly approved; Hit-and-run? Oh well; Over in federal-land; And of course. Keep reading…
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National Gallery East Wing crumbling from Pei’s inflexibility
The facade of the I.M. Pei-designed National Gallery East Wing is now crumbling. Catesby Leigh reports in the Wall Street Journal that the building, constructed using an experimental curtain wall system that the architect described as “a technological breakthrough for the construction of masonry walls,” has become unstable. While the technological reasons… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Water water everywhere
Metro migraines; The Mall Map; Two-driver car replaces driverless cars?; I was wondering that too; Right hand, meet left hand’s billboard; Driving on the left in Missouri; Not Rhombus Heights. Keep reading…
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Ideas for a “3rd Century” National Mall
The National Coalition to Save Our Mall has released their plan for the future of the National Mall. They call this a “3rd Century Mall,” building on the original L’Enfant Mall from the White House to the Washington Monument to the Capitol, and the 1901 McMillan Commission’s expanded Mall and Federal Triangle. They point out that original plans envisioned… Keep reading…