[10traistintarry]

The Washington style. You can identify it by the brick rowhouses and the rounded corners. Very pleasant, in my opinion.

Logan Circle at Rhode Island Avenue. Vintage 1890s or 1900s. Gutted and rebuilt interiors in the late 1990s through 2000s timeframe.

[assonomaf]

Right off Logan Circle in the Shaw neighborhood (or Shaw Historical District, if you prefer). The group of people that you can see are gay activists campaigning with mayoral candidate Fenty (one of whom lives in my building, is a good guy, and a good leader). The reason why I mention this is because the gays tend to be the vanguard of gentrification. They move in, rebuild a neighborhood that has been trashed, and make it safe for the less adventurous. This neighborhood is still a little sketchy.

Built 1890s or 1900s. Gutted and rebuilt interior 2000s.

[aparneioninny]

Across the street, the new DC Convention Center. 2000s. Somewhat novel architecture for DC, because it uses more glass than normal, but still has lots of faux stone that makes it fit into the city. Really quite a jewel on the edge of Shaw. Cost a whole helluva lot and is huge.

[georgshult]

Across the street from the DC Convention Center are buildings whose facades probably will be included as elements in new construction. Sketchville.

[LkEHaduy]

Detailed facade on this building.

[bettingonosports]

I missed a fuller snap of the DC Convention Center. 6 blocks by 2 blocks. Mostly underground.

Not many businesses have moved into the storefronts of the convention center yet. Looks like a couple of breweries, bakeries and other yuppyville amenities are moving in. Maybe I'll move into the neighborhood, once the crackheads move on from the area and the real estate prices settle.

[gogona]

New condo building down the street in Shaw. Getting close to zoned commercial (count the storeys). This is about as novel as it gets for residential architecture (i.e., not much).

[Bobobsdo]

Some new construction in the 16th/17th Street area. Condo building with references to the Washington style.

[Dr.Hoodoba]

The infamous The Cairo, which was built in the 1890s and led to the institution of height restrictions in DC. Scandalous architecture at the time. Swan ky hotel that became a haven for drug users and hookers. Rebuilt in the 1970s as an apartment building.

Edit: Can't even say s****y.

[leijggeds]

The facade.

[Khcyhshq]

Across the street is the fish market, which I can't imagine will be able to afford the rent for long. In the Washington style.

[eocavrWM]

I'm still a bit mystified about your whole "novelty is not a goal" remark. What exactly do you mean by that?

I thought this building was rather nice:

[Nautilus]

Hehe, I had forgotten about the Cairo. That's a bizarre building for sure, also because of its location.

[TudareWQT]

I was just going to say I was disappointed seeing the Ronald Reagan Building's faux-classicism, but then I saw pictures of the interior, which are actually pretty cool:

[Encannavalf]

Neo-classicism is the norm for official DC. The Ronald Reagan building is just the modern, gold-plated version of it.

Again, that's DC's look, but you do get an innovative building here or there for the public buildings. Like the IMF, which you show, above. I consider that a public building.

Our firm often has its Christmas party at the Ronald Reagan building and the interior indeed is rather impressive.

[DarrenBent]

Originally posted by Jaguar
Bethesda FTW! From what little I've seen, it doesn't really scream Washington to me. Maybe if you post some examples, I will be turned from my errant ways...

[FallJimerks]

I don't understand how you can approve such sameness. Aren't you guys supposed to emphasize individuality? Dynamism? Forward-looking?

[chuecfafresslds]

Related to this, the movie The Minority Report was filmed mostly in DC. The imagined futuristic city where the lead character lived was across the Potomac in the Rosslyn suburb, where architecture isn't controlled nearly as much as in DC (no height restrictions, etc.). It's possible to imagine cars driving on the sides of skyscrapers there, I suppose.

However, the city of DC itself where the lead character bagged the pre-murderer was in a neighborhood of DC, the look of which was the same in the future as it is today.

Really nice touches by Spielberg in that movie as it relates to Washington.

[zawhmqswly]

I thought Rosslyn was quite ok, still nothing interesting, but it was diverse, with a certain organized chaos-feeling to it.

[Jjfotqse]

I haven't been to Paris since I was a kid so I can't really say. Amsterdam freaks me out however, but it's even more uniform than DC. I think I even prefer Atlanta over Amsterdam.