Articles Tagged with ''Washington D.C.''

While Henry David Thoreau’s solitary sojourn at Walden Pond lasted two years, two weeks, and two days, it took Michal Friedrich, owner of Delta Shelter, also known as Stilt Cabin [RECORD, April 2006, page 92], in Mazama, Washington, only a year and a half to realize he wanted visitors to his secluded mountain retreat.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery share a National Historic Landmark building in downtown Washington, D.C., recently renovated by local firm Hartman-Cox Architects and renamed the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, in honor of a generous gift from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.

History, if left forgotten, can fall perilously to the wayside. Such was the fate of the Washington, D.C. landmark Atlas Theater Cinema until a foundation sought to transform the former 1930’s movie house and adjoining vacant storefronts into a new, state-of-the-art 58,000-square-foot performing arts facility.

MY Studio/H'weler + Yoon Architecture's Lo Rez Hi Fi gives a D.C. building a much-needed sense of place

Congress is considering a non-architect for the nation’s most visible architecture post, the Architect of the Capitol, and that’s riling the American Institute of Architects.