1711 Rhode Island Avenue, NW in December 2015
Architecture
Thanks to a neighbor for sending:
“That’s quite a piece of copper for a finial. The owner reports its a historical recreation of the original finial that was on the house since 1880. (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
This new building on the corner of Sherman around Lamont has been taking months to go up, but it somehow keeps getting uglier and uglier. Who approved this monstrosity?”
The old Washington Post building and future Fannie Mae Headquarters located at 15th and L St, NW is starting to look pretty dope. With a bright blue sky it will look even doper.
In comparison to before demo when it was the WaPo HQ:
When I was checking out the new All-Purpose, man if you haven’t been to Navy Yard in a minute, this guy threw for me for a bit. It’s DC Water’s new administrative headquarters:
“The new headquarters will be built over an operating pump station in the Capital Riverfront neighborhood. With 151,300 gross square feet, it will house approximately 350 employees and will allow DC Water to consolidate its administrative offices in a single location. Construction began in 2016 and is expected to be completed in early 2018.”
It was a cloudy day and I’m sure would be more mind blowing with blue skies but I dig it.
There’s a whole block of Yuma Street near UDC that it looks like it came straight out of the Brady Bunch set. Most of the houses look like the example above. Check out the cool renovation of one of these:
We’ll revisit when it’s finished. In the meantime – think it’ll be a nice transformation or too early to tell?
Thanks to Jeff for sending from Sherman Avenue. Updates as construction progresses.
1st and L Street, NE
Back in March Bisnow reported:
“Douglas Development has acquired the St. Phillips Baptist Church in NoMa with plans to turn the building into a synagogue.
The building, at 1001 North Capitol St. NE, sits next to the John and Jill Ker Conway Residences, an architecturally striking building that recently delivered with 124 micro-units for homeless and disabled veterans.”
pre-pop via google
Thanks to Edward for sending:
“I was a little worried about 716 Jackson St NE in Edgewood back in April (middle photo) but looks pretty okay.”
Not bad at all: (more…)