Tag: DC
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La Casa Review
Concrete Details: La Casa in Columbia Heights Is a Rare Aesthetic and Policy Success Washington City Paper, Oct. 15, 2015 The best building that’s gone up in the District in recent months isn’t a swish law office or a deluxe condo tower—although you might easily mistake it for either of those things, with its double-height lobby…
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Why D.C. Teaches Kids to Bike
Why D.C. Wants to Teach Every Kid How to Ride a Bike Starting this fall, all second graders in D.C. public schools will learn to ride in PE class. CityLab, Sept. 1, 2015 Before the start of the new school year in Washington, D.C., as families were buying supplies and teachers were drafting their lesson…
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Ballers
Balls to the Walls: Snarkitecture Creates Gigantic Ball Pit in National Building Museum Architectural Record, July 7, 2015 New Yorkers can take the subway to Coney Island and Angelenos can cool off in Venice or Santa Monica, but Washingtonians are out of luck if they want to hit the beach—the shore is a three-hour drive…
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Filthy Lucre
Bird of Prey: A Macabre Twist on James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room Architectural Record, May 18, 2015 Painted by James McNeill Whistler in the 1870s, the Peacock Room, on display in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is one of the most celebrated interiors in history. Decorations in teal and gold swirl over…
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College Park, College Town?
The Plan to Make College Park a College Town Washingtonian, March 2015 US Route 1 inside the Beltway in Maryland is no crummier than the turnpikes outside Amherst, Massachusetts; Bloomington, Indiana; or any other town that hosts a major state university. A traveler headed south through College Park takes in a view of Taco Bell,…
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