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Month: November 2013
Kevin Roche’s S.E.C. Buildings, next to Union Station, Washington,DC
One of Mr. Roche’s most important and iconic buildings is the Ford Foundation (1967), near the United Nations. Approximately 40 years later, he designs the S.E.C. buildings and he returns to and re-interpets his earlier treatment of the building skin as a three dimensional screen pulling the passerby into — at least visually- the building and the movements of its inhabitants.
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Daniel Burnham’s Union Station, Washington,DC 1912
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From New York Public Library research room
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Early 20th century apartment building, 2311 Connecticut Ave.,Washington,DC
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Early 29
Kevin Roche’s glass tower on NY Ave.,NW, one of his several Washington,DC buildings already up or in design
Fall flowers
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Street Art: abandoned fire alarm box
Opposite Treasury Department.
Soon to be de-scaffolded Washington Monument, with Treasury Building at right.
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The Bauhaus Re-interpreted in Washington,DC
The pristine white apartments of the Bauhaus are here enlivened with cubes and curves, bands of angled brick, in yellow rather than white flat siding, and the overhang supported by pole are less regular. And the least Bauhaus feature is the stone facing under the overhang and on the low walls. It is my assumption that the stone facing is original.
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Photographing History 