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Archive for the ‘Built’ Category
Elmer Staats
July 27, 2011
MLK Library
July 11, 2011
Rachel and I camped out – trying get some work done – for a couple hours yesterday at MLK Library on G Street near Gallery Place. Opened in 1972, the hulking black metal box designed by famed-architect Mies van der Rohe is in pretty miserable condition – and has been at least since I first visited more than a decade ago. You can’t spot it from this angle, but the stairway light fixture pictured above doubles as a trash receptacle. New and beautifully renovated libraries are opening all over DC – WWMS (what would Mies say?)
Harpers Ferry
May 28, 2011
April 2011
April 18, 2011
Last week, the last of the high rise buildings in Chicago’s famed Cabrini Green public housing project (thank you Meera), demolition under way.
1111 Constitution Avenue
April 15, 2011
The Internal Revenue Service Headquarters Building, 1111 Constitution Avenue Northwest, under construction – I’m not sure of the date, but the building’s construction lasted from 1928 to 1936.
Congo Chancery
February 20, 2011
During a walk through Rock Creek Park and down 16th Street on Saturday, Rachel and I were struck by the disrepair of this otherwise beautiful residential structure at the intersection of 16th Street and Colorado Avenue, NW, which the sign in front intriguingly identifies as the Republic of the Congo Chancery. Who knows why this place hasn’t been kept up, but it’s hard not to find some symbolism. Read the rest of this entry ?
