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Smithsonian Institution South Mall Campus Master Plan designed by BIG, the Bjarke Ingels Group: comprehensive plan includes revitalization of the Castle, with expanded visitor services & new entrances.
Renewal of Carnegie Library building to become a retail, events and education facility by UK architects Foster + Partners. The lease gives Apple 19,000-sqft of the Carnegie Library. The Historical Society will also continue to operate its museum and library in the building as per existing lease.
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Design: David Jameson Architects: In the late 1800’s, Washington DC developers built groups of row dwellings in typically full block increments. Among the longer streets of L’Enfant’s Plan, anomaly lots would emerge at the confluence of competing row dwelling developments.
Design: David Jameson Architects: “Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.”- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The design inspiration for Aesop’s first Washington, DC environment is rooted in the DNA of the historic U Street and Shaw neighborhoods’ music.
President Donald Trump approves a public memorial commemorating the Gulf War’s Operation Desert Storm and Operation Desert Shield in Area I, near the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Eisenhower Memorial design by Frank Gehry and AECOM – new renderings released: the memorial’s key element, a 440-foot-long woven-metal tapestry, remains. But the subject of the tapestry has shifted.
Architects : Bates Smart / KCCT. Architecture competition-winning design to be located at the diplomatic heart of Washington with views of the White House.
U.S. Capitol building dome restoration news. After two years of meticulous repairs led by Architect of the Capitol Stephen T. Ayers, FAIA, along with architect-of-record Hoffman Architects, the historic landmark is now back to its former glory.
Hall McKnight, an award-winning architectural practice from Belfast, has won the Gallaudet University International Design Competition. Washington, D.C. higher education institution to advance deaf and hard of hearing individuals.
Design: BIG architects. Images of the design by this up-and-coming Danish architect’s next major US project: the new stadium building for the Washington Redskins in Washington DC.
Design: OMA New York, architects. Two conceptual plans have been created for the 190-acre RFK Stadium-Armory Campus site, with design concepts by OMA New York, led by partner Jason Long, in partnership with DC-based program management team, Brailsford & Dunlavey
Design: BIG architects. Nearly 1,400 people have signed a petition in opposition to Bjarke Ingels’ proposal to demolish a portion of the Smithsonian Institution campus: the Enid A Haupt Garden, which would be razed to make way for a new plaza.
Design: ikon.5 architects. Inspired by the unique ‘Hoya Saxa’ (stones) identity of the Georgetown student body, the center creates an experience of study and casual living spaces carved out of interior and exterior stone edifices.
The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission selects a design titled “The Weight of Sacrifice” for the National World War I Memorial by Joseph Weishaar, a graduate of the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas.
Design: REX. Washington, DC’s building stock is largely composed of two typologies: heavy masonry or concrete buildings with high-relief facades and punched windows—in the Beaux Arts, Neoclassical, Art Deco, and Brutalist styles.
This is an architecture competition project for the new Czech embassy building in Washington, D.C., working with the steep land with the emphasis on privacy and security.