To me, the interesting thing about Philip Kennicott’s recent architecural polemic “The Mediocre Mile,” isn’t his architectural criticism but the sheer volume of construction he’s writing about. The Post’s Dana Hedgpeth described the construction in the Mount Vernon Triangle (its southern boundary is Massachusetts Avenue) in this story from April: “120,000 square feet of retail, […]
Rethinking College Park
Click here to visit the new blog Rethink College Park. In May I blogged about an interesting op-ed published in the University of Maryland student newspaper written by Maryland undergraduate David Daddio. Although College Park is the home of the University of Maryland’s flagship campus with almost 35,000 students and has its own Metro station […]
Metrorail Growth and ‘Gentrification’ Use
This post is third in a series on gentrification in the District of Columbia. Part 1 – D.C. Gentrification and Section 8 Subsidized Housing Part 2 – ‘Gentrification’: The Birth of a Word in D.C. Part 3 – Metrorail Growth and ‘Gentrification’ Use Part 4 – Neighborhood Revitalization and Displacement In my previous post I […]
‘Gentrification’: The Birth of a Word in D.C.
This post is second in a series on gentrification in the District of Columbia. Part 1 – D.C. Gentrification and Section 8 Subsidized Housing Part 2 – ‘Gentrification’: The Birth of a Word in D.C. Part 3 – Metrorail Growth and ‘Gentrification’ Use Part 4 – Neighborhood Revitalization and Displacement I find the term “gentrification” […]
Washington’s Real Estate Royalty
It was hard to miss the Post’s sprawling feature on District developer Jim Abdo in yesterday’s paper. The article, ostensibly regarding a new development deal he’s pursuing in Northeast on New York Avenue, lingers luxuriously on the finer details of his Northwest home. ( … “once home of the former ambassador from Ghana” … “assessed […]
Preserving Maryland’s COMSAT Building
When it opened in 1969, the COMSAT building located along I-270 in Clarksburg was at the cutting edge of modern architecture. Designed by renowned architect César Pelli, the futuristic lines of the building’s exterior was inspired by aircraft design and its distictive glass and aluminum facade remains striking today. The interior spaces of the building […]
Portland Photos
I just uploaded 131 photos I took in Portland, Maine in November 2004 to Flickr. I originally posted many of these with explanatory text as part of my Portland Photo Project. (Only the static HTML of those posts are archived due to a hosting crash) > See my Flickr Portland set