http://goodspeedupdate.com/2007/2116 Rob Goodspeed's blog Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:30:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://goodspeedupdate.com/2007/2116/comment-page-1#comment-508777 Interchangeable facades | WNYmedia.net Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:26:32 +0000 http://goodspeedupdate.com/?p=2116#comment-508777 [...] Living in the DC area for over a dozen years, a stroll down K street or really any street downtown would lead to seemingly at least one re-skinned structure on each block. Its done on such a level in DC that its almost annoying. Structures change completely every 10 years without the slightest bit of fanfare or nostalgia. Seeing a PoMo 80’s structure loaded with marble columns and playful shapes is to understand its death is near. Twenty years from now, DC developers will hurry to rip off the turn of the century shiny curtain walls to fit contemporary design needs. There is no sense of history or permanence in downtown DC architecture. It is all about what is fashionable now. The old facades are gone before their place in history can be understood (Modernism is finally getting its recognition as worth saving but PoMo is still too recent: see preservation efforts for Mies’ DC Public Library). [...] [...] Living in the DC area for over a dozen years, a stroll down K street or really any street downtown would lead to seemingly at least one re-skinned structure on each block. Its done on such a level in DC that its almost annoying. Structures change completely every 10 years without the slightest bit of fanfare or nostalgia. Seeing a PoMo 80’s structure loaded with marble columns and playful shapes is to understand its death is near. Twenty years from now, DC developers will hurry to rip off the turn of the century shiny curtain walls to fit contemporary design needs. There is no sense of history or permanence in downtown DC architecture. It is all about what is fashionable now. The old facades are gone before their place in history can be understood (Modernism is finally getting its recognition as worth saving but PoMo is still too recent: see preservation efforts for Mies’ DC Public Library). [...]

]]> http://goodspeedupdate.com/2007/2116/comment-page-1#comment-59869 The Goodspeed Update » Blog Archive » Shaw Library Demolition, Reconstruction Under Way Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:03:31 +0000 http://goodspeedupdate.com/?p=2116#comment-59869 [...] photos I’d found from when the building just opened, perhaps fitting as the building was declared a historic landmark by the city last [...] [...] photos I’d found from when the building just opened, perhaps fitting as the building was declared a historic landmark by the city last [...]

]]> http://goodspeedupdate.com/2007/2116/comment-page-1#comment-35554 Dupontiste Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:47:40 +0000 http://goodspeedupdate.com/?p=2116#comment-35554 If I ran the DCPL system I would turn the Mies library into a research library rather than a lending library, get the Washington Historical Society to move there from the Carnegie Library, and then turn the Carnegie Library back into a branch library for the downtown/Convention Center neighborhood. If I ran the DCPL system I would turn the Mies library into a research library rather than a lending library, get the Washington Historical Society to move there from the Carnegie Library, and then turn the Carnegie Library back into a branch library for the downtown/Convention Center neighborhood.

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