Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Architectural Tour of the Neighborhood

One of the benefits of working at an institute for Architects are the Architects. I went on a company sponsored tour of the general area around our office today and learned a lot the buildings. One of the staff member\Architects took a group of 10 of us on a walking tour and described a bunch of buildings, including the World Bank, the Renwick Gallery, the Old Executive Office Building and the Corcoran Museum. A building lesson including how building sometimes wear hats and have "ass holes" (garage and loading doc entrances). A history lesson, L'Enfant and Jefferson's competing vision of the city and that originally, public buildings were designed to be white and residential buildings were red. Pretty interesting stuff for a quick one hour tour and I'm signed up for another one in a week or two.

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