I am friends with many of the people who work for the political consulting company EchoDitto. They recently asked their CEO to take a leave of absence after he announced on his personal blog he would support U.S. Senator John McCain if he ran for president in 2008. Their actions kicked off a long comment […]
Is it Gentrification if the Lots Are Empty?
Inspired in part by Mr. Kennicott’s article, I decided to take a little tour of the Mount Vernon Triangle area, where a number of large condominium projects are either under construction or planned. See the entire set here.
DC’s Building Boom
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, […]
Lassiter Interviewed
Ann Arbor blogger Homeless Dave recently posted this interview with University of Michigan professor Matt Lassiter. The interview notes he recently made tenure. Here’s a taste: ML: Yeah. So you’re against sprawl, right? And you can think of that in terms of being a good environmentalist, and you’re against big developers coming in and messing […]
National Building Museum
I thought this photo I took of the National Building Museum‘s Great Hall came out well.
1100 New York Avenue
I’ve wondered about this building for a while now and only recently got a chance to take some photos. It was built in 1940 as a Greyhound bus station and successfully saved from destruction by the Art Deco Society of Washington, according to their website. The historic structure is now part of the modern office […]
Site Design Changes
You may have noticed some design changes to this website I made over the weekend. I widened the layout and greatly condensed the sidebar content, eliminating the blogroll and moving some of the old links to my archives page. I deleted the links partly because of what I read in this post about how they […]