Posts about Architecture
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AU’s campus plan offers mediocre architecture
While American University’s campus plan will improve Ward 3 and DC as a whole, the architecture in the proposal is mediocre at best. Beyond the land-use planning, East Campus and North Hall’s proposed buildings offer little in terms of aesthetics. The spaces are disorganized and the forms are uninspiring. On the outside, the buildings don’t relate to the… Keep reading…
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More residents won’t make Wallach or U Street like Ballston
Despite support from the neighborhood ANC and historic staff, the Historic Preservation Review Board last month rejected designs for a 6-story building along the east side of 14th Street, agreeing with some neighbors who have organized to fight the proposal. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Follow the money
Team Thomas spends on luxuries; Imagine the L Street cycletrack; Ike Memorial has windshield perspective; Gray supports aerial Dulles station; Gowdy, unexpected champion of DC autonomy; Rage against the machine; Hate crimes shift, but still under-reported; Community polices trail; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Teeming with Teeters
Teeter to North Old Town; Yards getting retail; Crossroads at a crossroads?; One way to get a road project done; Policies impact pregnant, breastfeeding first responders; 12 arrested for voting rights; What a creative name; 2 competing reauthorizations coming; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Quality of life
Why are gas prices high?; Brown’s top priority: Chocolate milk; People explain why they bike; Clean up after your dogs; Sears interested in our tax breaks; West End library not quite as affordable?; Union asked about transit operations; 2-year terms for Maryland delegates?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The bike life
Obituary for “the bike lady”; To catch a bike thief; Drivers take bike frustration to police; Council looks at ethics; Metro morsels; St. E’s will still move ahead, needs food; No more Arts for 5th and Eye; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Sprawl debate rages on
Sprawl lives; Sprawl report author speaks for roads; Housing is getting even more expensive; Petworth/Park View station?; Councilmember fights crime herself; It’s sink or swim in the water taxi business; Gray picks Peck to pluck out waste; Make no little plans. Keep reading…
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Why a classical memorial better honors Eisenhower
This Monday, the anniversary of D-Day, the National Civic Art Society (NCAS) and the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICA & A) announced the winners of the Eisenhower Memorial Counterproposal Competition. This competition was initiated after one of the most famous modern architects, Frank Gehry, had been selected to design a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bad old days
Scandals are the 80s all over again?; Thomas, get out; Hit and run, alcohol and PTSD; Where are the rent controlled apartments?; Pile of twisted metal or triumphal arch?; New Hampshire may weigh in on DC statehood; HOT builder bowing out?; Gabe putting in bike lanes; Auto executives for higher gas taxes. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Lessons from the past
Don’t tear it down; DC United won’t go in Florida Market; Contention mounts over complete streets funding; Detroit plans to shrink; German transit inspired Disney, but not LA; HOV privilege ends for hybrids; It’s a man’s world; And…. Keep reading…