#washington d.c. – @nickkahler on Tumblr

Weiss / Manfredi, Women's Memorial and Education Center, Arlington, VA, 1997

#weiss manfredi #weiss / manfredi #women's memorial #education center #memorial #women #arlington #virginia #memory #female #stair #terrace #arlington cemetery #washington d.c.

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Paul Cret, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., c. 1932

#drawing #history #architecture #paul cret #folger #folger library #folger shakespeare library #library #washington d.c.#washington dc #facade #elevation #neoclassicism

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William F. Pederson & Bradford S. Tilney, Winning Competition Entry for the FDR Memorial, Washington D.C., 1961 (via brutalism)

#bradford s. tilney #architecture #competition #model #panel #wall #frame #scale #art #black and white #franklin delano roosevelt #washington d.c.#william f. pederson

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John Johansen and Costantino Nivola, Competition Entry for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C., 1961

#john johansen #architecture #column #design #black and white #model #series #space #immense #scale #costantino nivola #sculpture #form #washington d.c.

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Trust for Public Land, Top 40 US Cities for Access to Parks: 1-10, 2013

01) San Francisco, CA
02) Sacramento, CA
03) Boston, MA
04) New York City, NY
05) Washington D.C.
06) Portland, OR
07) Virginia Beach, VA
08) San Diego, CA
09) Seattle, WA
10) Philadelphia, PA

#trust for public land #map #cartography #san francisco #sacramento #boston #new york city #washington d.c.#portland #virginia beach #san diego #seattle #philadelphia #list

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It is clear from the trove of documents leaked by Snowden that the only protection against NSA or GCHQ intrusion is membership of Five Eyes: the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. New members do not seem to be welcome, and the lesson is that outside that tight circle, it does not matter how senior you are, and how close a friend you think you are to Washington or London, your communications could easily be being shared among the handful of white, English-speaking nations with membership privileges.

Julian Borger, "On the Five Eyes and NSA Intelligence Crisis," 2013 (via guardian)

#julian borger #eric snowden #quote #document #five eyes #membership #circle #united states #united kingdom #canada #australia #new zealand #english #white #race #washington d.c.#london #member

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HOK, "Congress Threatens To Leave D.C. Unless New Capitol Is Built" for The Onion, 2002

#HOK #design #capital #congress #washington d.c.#capitol #drawing #dome #amusement park #the onion

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Diller Scofidio + Renfro, "Bubble" for the Hirshorn Smithsonian, Washington D.C., 2013

#washington d.c.#politics #bubble #pneumatic #architecture #video #diller scofidio renfro

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We are in a fiscal mess. The effects were not merely regional but nationwide. We induced cheap labor to come here to glut a full-up market. We created a huge relief program, only part of which should on any reasonable theory fall on New York. We have had little sympathy and aid from Washington. Locally, we refused to be honest about threatening clouds. We pretended not to see them. Where were the statesmen, bankers, industrial leaders, philosophers, pundits and the news media and advertisers? It is late for wailing, amateur pontificating, the confessional, mea culpa, financial miracles and promises henceforth to be good. Where were the wise men of Gotham when our vaunted financial system began visibly to fall apart? Where were the pundits who boasted that you can’t build anything too big for New York? Why all the astonishment when we woke one morning forced to extreme remedies? How did we so suddenly learn that we must choose between meekness and megalomania, parsimony and extravagance, the low and the strident keys?

Robert Moses, "Asleep at the Fiscal Crisis," 1975

#quote #robert moses #financial crisis #economy #gotham #new york city #urbanism #washington d.c.#wall street #op-ed