I recently visited the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. and came away with this animation of the waterfall located in the cafeteria in the East Building.
The National Gallery of Art East Building was designed by I.M. Pei & Partners. If you visit the museum it might be hard to tell who designed it, because it has become routine to rub the engraving of I.M. Pei on the wall.
“Ladies and gentlemen we are Fugazi from Washington D.C.” That’s how the band Fugazi started all their concerts, and now I can relive all three of the Fugazi shows I was lucky enough to see.
Fugazi recently announced the Fugazi Live Series, a digital archive housing recordings of over 800 of the band’s shows. Tickets for Fugazi shows never cost more that $5 dollars, and that’s the most it will cost you to download one of the live shows from the archive.
Below are a few other photos from a Fugazi show I went to with my brothers on the D.C. Mall back in June 2000. It was free.
Washington D.C. has another landmark to add to its list of notable buildings, which now includes the Bicycle Tranist Center.
The center, designed by KGP design studio, acts as a garage of sorts for the bicycle community and tourists that frequent the District’s streets on bike. According to designboom, the Bicycle Transit Center:
is located outside of washington’s union station is designed to be a highly visible catalyst in the promotion of bicycle use. the enclosure is strategically placed between two turn-of-the-century landmarks – union station and the post office – to meet the needs of thousands of tourists and commuters who pass through the transportation hub on a daily basis.
Not only is the structure practical, it’s also visually appealing outside and in.
The amount of public space that is saved when constructing one bicycle transit center compared to your standard parking facility is huge. Check out the below example.
[All photos courtesy of KBP design studio and designboom]
How about that, Washington D.C.? Wear it!
So you’ve chosen to live in a Washington D.C. city-block brownstone, congratulations! You now have all the storage space in the world inside your house, but absolutely no space and/or (clean) way to get what you need from the back “yard” to the front “yard”. The solution was discovered on Saturday.
Let’s say the front of your house looks like this and you need to get bags of top soil and mulch to work on your “yard”. Do you take the alley around the corner? Do you decide that your tile and hardwood floor is up for the challenge of mud and rocks? I didn’t think so either. The answer lies with the lattice.
Most porch crawl spaces are only good for protecting crud, decay, and the occasional dead bird, masked by a good piece of lattice work. Now, ours holds the aforementioned soil, mulch, and rakes.
Part of our project, past hacking our micro-jungle to size, was to re-level the plot of soil. Problem was, I had no place to put the excess dirt, so I removed the lattice and filled part of the crawl space.
The next logical question came from my girlfriend Julie…
Julie: “Now that you ripped it off, what are you going to do now?”
Me: “I have a plan. I could get some hooks and hang it, then we can use it for storage.”
My whole last sentence was made up on the spot. It wasn’t even a fully formed thought. Julie realized what I hadn’t and agreed that keeping garden supplies in the front made the logistics of gardening and keeping a clean house, well, logical.
Three 6” hooks, screwed into the underside framework of the porch, set in about ¼” to allow for the most flush-yet-removable lineup of the lattice to the porch. Here’s the final product.
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