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HQ2 twofers and Providence
Two major eastern cities have won the HQ2 sweepstakes, and you have to wonder whether the twofers – Long Island City and Crystal City, outside Manhattan and D.C. – both realize they got half a loaf. How soon will it … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development, Uncategorized
Tagged Amazon, Branding, CommerceRI, Crystal City, HQ2, Long Island City, New York, Providence RI, Urban Planning, Washington
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Steampunk vid of New York
Came across this film, “The Old New World,” of New York and bits of Boston and Washington, D.C. (the Capitol), in about 1931, on the Kuriositas website. It is the Old New World Project run by Alexey Zakharoff. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Old Video
Tagged Alexey Zakharoff, Boston, New York, Steampunk, The Old New World, Washington
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Independence architecture
The classicism of the Jefferson Memorial, inspired by the Pantheon in Rome, a design beloved of Jefferson, is by John Russell Pope and was dedicated in 1943, during the Second World War. The monument’s classicism was pecked at by modernist … Continue reading
Steampunk vid of New York
Came across this film, “The Old New World,” of New York and bits of Boston and Washington, D.C. (the Capitol), in about 1931, on the Kuriositas website. It is the Old New World Project run by Alexey Zakharoff. It is … Continue reading
Design for a WWI memorial
Not long ago I wrote of an open competition for a national monument for World War I to be built at Pershing Square. The square has honored Gen. John “Black Jack” Perhsing, commander of U.S. forces in Europe, for decades. … Continue reading
What monuments tell us
Recently, as museums to remember the stain of slavery in America are under construction in Washington and planned in Charleston, there has arisen the vital question of whether memorials should speak in a traditional language everyone can understand or a … Continue reading
The landscapers’ gentility
The American Society of Landscape Architects plans to turn its headquarters, on Eye Street in Washington, into a “world-class” Center for Landscape Architecture. Shudders ran up my spine as I saw the article that said so, by an anonymous contributor … Continue reading
Ike memorial update
Frank Gehry has agreed to remove the two smaller of three giant screens, or as he calls them, tapestries from his design for a memorial on the Washington Mall to Dwight Eisenhower. It appears that the central sculptural plaza would … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Darrell Issa, Dwight Eisenhower, Frank Gehry, Memorials, Washington
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Washington perceived
A few random shots of our nation’s capital on its birthday (in 2011, actually):
Posted in Architecture, Photography
Tagged architecture, classicism, Monuments, photography, Washington
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Romancing the Post Office
The New York Times reports the finalization of Donald Trump’s agreement to renovate the old U.S. Post Office Building, on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., as a hotel. This is one of my favorite buildings and I’m glad to hear … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development, Preservation
Tagged Donald Trump, Post Office Building, Washington
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