The plan is simple: refinance all of our properties until we have no equity and depend on the most conservative lenders. Then, we have no choice but to build bland, unappealing neighborhoods with safe retailers and no bike lanes.
I was at a panel discussion with a bunch of big DC developers recently, and literally all they talked about was how DC wasn't giving them enough tax credits or subsidizing parking downtown and then one whined about how Union Market was hard to emulate. Zero initiative, heads in the sand.
I am sorry but seeing signature policies as anything other than an electoral strategy is boomer-brained. There are better ways of measuring success and also better ways to message efforts to the public.
Where is this allegation that Janeese doesn't have "signature policies" coming from?
We've had 12+ years of chasing big projects while basic services rot. DC didn't have a working crime lab during the peak of COVID violence!
Do these people know what the mayor does?
Speaking of circular sanitation, La Bistoquette in Geneva completed construction several weeks ago. This mass timber cooperative has over 100 homes and every WC flush is directed to an earthworm composter onsite, where the nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium can be returned to the soil.
Love the Low Library National Gallery National Archives
Please no, just plant some rain gardens.
Understanding other minds? Pretty hard it turns out!
It is OK if you thought this. Radiolab and The Oatmeal spread this research before it was fully cooked, and almost everyone outside of Spain is taught bad color theory.
The #1 thing to understand about color perception is that it takes place in your brain and not in your eyes.
Just as different kinds of receptors have evolved, so have different signal processing systems.
Human eyes can sense way less of the spectrum but the brain differentiate very finely.
You can’t understand this administration if you don’t understand this ⬇️
I just think the credibility is shot no matter who.
I actually think the Post’s self-immolation benefits Janeese, for better or worse. In 2018 they could get Ward 3 to line up for Bowser, but this year I wonder if an endorsement would be a kiss of death.
If wanting old people to lobby out of a building that looks like Gormenghast Castle is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
Tell them Blue Crush (2002) is part of the Avatar universe.
That’s where it flinches
It commits!
Not more than 7! I remember it being built.
The same architect designed this five years later, 12 blocks away.
You just have to lean into this. Only reference ragtime and Busby Berkeley numbers. Make stuff up. Convince them that Lush Budgett won the 1998 Oscar for directing.
Walk around this city and you might get the impression the race is between JLG and Vincent Orange.
I have seen a single sign for him.
"Surely this narcissist will appreciate MY genius"
"no that's too long"
The good news is that this isn't a real rendering, the bad news is that this is:
Possibly the most Pomo building ever, with a big pediment over a big arch and some columns
Kind of nuts to think that KPF became an international name designing Pomo stuff like this. (AARP HQ, 1991)
Not to Chevy Chase residents lol
That’s right. @kimpbender.bsky.social
I was interviewed by a foreign magazine recently, and after I explained that classical architects thought Trump was their chance to get back at modernists, the journalist asked “why did they think that?” And I did not have an answer.
I want to hear less about BOFA and more about Bo Pho.
