Tag: urban design
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Don’t Ruin Waffle House
The Underappreciated Architecture of Waffle House CityLab, May 26, 2015 “Why would you eat your grits anyplace else?” That’s the title of a song on the Waffle House jukebox, and it’s what I think to myself every time I dig into breakfast at the greasy-spoon chain, a personal favorite, which has some 1,500 locations from Delaware […]
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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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Bjarke Ingels’ Hot to Cold
Review: Bjarke Ingels Group’s Hot to Cold at the National Building Museum Architectural Record, Jan. 28, 2015 How to account for the unstoppable rise of Bjarke Ingels? The Danish architect touched down at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., last week to launch Hot to Cold, a new exhibition of his firm’s work. Tousle-haired […]
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Urbanizing Gas Stations
Why Gas-Station Restaurants Are Great for Suburbs A new crop of restaurants in gas stations, like Seoul Food D.C., will help suburbs grow into more authentic urban places. CityLab, Nov. 14, 2014 It’s 1 p.m. on a Tuesday, and I’m at Seoul Food D.C., eating a kimchi-bacon rice bowl as I watch cars whoosh down […]