A reader reports:
“I know pop-ups and pop-backs have been featured at length before, but I have never seen one quite like this – an addition onto the addition with an old back porch incorporated onto the first level.”
Architecture
4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW
It kinda reminds me of what someone in the 1950s would think the future will look like. What do you guys think of the new student center at UDC? Certainly an improvement over what it used to be – maybe a fitting tribute for Marion Barry after all…
previously in 2012:
And other buildings on campus:
16th and I St, NW
Well this is another wild transformation – looking forward to seeing how this front part turns out:
Quite a change from before:
2013
Thought this one in Friendship Heights was pretty sweet. But obviously the question that must be asked – is it considered a pop up?
would have never guessed from looking at the front:
New one going up on upper 14th Street across the street from Le Caprice in Columbia Heights. Thumbs up or down?
Upton and Reno Road, NW
Actually I don’t what you’d call this – looks like they cracked the house clear in half and added way way back. We’ll definitely revisit when it’s completed.
With a view into the soapstone valley trail. Awesome.
The Cleveland Park library is located at 3310 Connecticut Ave, NW. Thumbs up or down on the renderings? There’s already some pretty serious debate on the Cleveland Park listserve. Here’s the current view via google:
From the Cleveland Park Historical Society:
“The concept design presentation for the new Cleveland Park Library as presented at the Oct. 6th community meeting is now available to view below. CPHS’s Architectural Review Committee will review the plans at its November 9th meeting, which neighbors are welcome to attend. We will send out a notice of the agenda in early November.”
Easy to overlook with the newseum across the street but this one is a beauty:
Thanks to a reader for sending from Crestwood on Matthewson Road. Do you dig it?
Ed. Note: I pray we get to take a virtual tour of the inside one day too.