Your weekly chance to take a stab at real estate appraisal. Submit your guesses in the comments and closest guess gets the pricespotter crown for the week.
This nice little house built in 1931 and recently restored is located in the WESLEY HEIGHTS neighborhood. The 8 bedroom, 6 and a half bathroom has apparently been home to a past vice president. The Big Reveal and bragging rights for the closest guess will be this Friday afternoon.
Another Picture and more details after the jump…
Well as the “New” Newseum puts up the finishing touches, an interesting element of the building is fully taking shape. Namely, the addition of Condos slapped on the back of the building. This mixed use helped off set the cost of the building which is on some major prime real estate right across from the National Art Gallery and does look slightly out of place from the surrounding government buildings (Though it matches the new museum perfectly).
The option for mixed use is not explored often enough to help make the best use of areas and in some cases allow valuable buildings, which benefit the public, to be built in areas they otherwise might not have been. Plus bringing more residences to that area of town will help round out the mix which currently is pretty dead at night once all the tourists have gone home!
In the first of a series of posts highlighting how green architecture is being incorporated into Washington Area buildings we take a look at the “Green Roof”
Last year the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) replaced the conventional roof on its downtown Washington, DC headquarters with a green roof. Even more interesting is that in addition to the roof, they installed equipment to monitor the benefits of the roof and after a year of monitoring, the results are in!
The new green roof was found to have retained thousands of gallons of stormwater, reduced building energy costs by hundreds of dollars a month, and lowered outdoor air temperatures. These striking results extend the benefits to the entire area and shows other area companies that installing green architectural elements is not only environmentally friendly, but cost friendly as well.
More details on the ASLA report, how to get a tour of the project, and one more picture after the jump…
The Dupont Circle underpass construction is nearing completion. The underpass, which moves traffic under the circle instead of through it, helps create a town gathering place of Dupont without being bisected by traffic. Beautifully pictured here at night pre-construction, the way the street lights are exposed makes it look like a group of low lying stars have descended on the circle. Very Nice.
[Photo: Andresincollege]
It’s great to see the preservation of existing architecture when new developments come along and the Bethesda Theater conversion to condos is a good example of the preservation of previous architecture.
It really does add something to down town Bethesda to have the blue neon sign as part of the street scape. The development did maintain a performance space in the original building but so far the space hasn’t gotten much use.
This great picture at right shows great contrast and how sometimes, a little neon can be a good thing!
The Capital City Market in North East is in for some major changes after over 80 years as one of the areas only whole sale markets.
In its place on the 24 acres site will be a new billion dollar redevelopment of the area called New Town.
It is interesting and a little sad to see the displacement of these historic sites, however the facilities have never been able to keep up with the new standards in market storage and shipping that is vital to keeping a modern market up and running. Interestingly enough, 80 years ago the market moved to it’s current location to make way for development from what bacame the down town area of the golden triangle.
Though a plan already was approved by the city council, one important element of responsible growth that would be nice to see in the plans would be developing space for some of the current vendors in remain in the area. It’s thoughtful and responsible conditions like that that help areas retain the people that helped create it, and is something we wish was part of more of the developments in the area!
Your weekly chance to take a stab at real estate appraisal.
Remeber that House /Medieval Castle, well the results are in and this little slice of DC real estate can be yours for a cool $6,875,000. Shocker that it’s still on the market, though it does have a nice address (4 Thompson Circle). Nice job with the guesses!
One of the key things lacking in the Rosslyn “down town” area is a central gathering place which distinguishes itself as a destination and event space for the area. The new Central Place development planed for the two block area surrounding the Rosslyn Metro Station bound by Lynn Street and Fort Myer Drive aims to provide just that solution.
Unlike some other developments going on in Rosslyn, the Water View has spectacular views and an excellent location at the base of the Key Bridge.
The new development will house the Hotel Palomar on the first 15 floors and residences the rest of the way up to the 31st floor observation deck.
From the looks of it, the build out is nearing completion. It will be nice when they finally finish and can repave the onramp to 66, currently it is a beat up mess that is no friend to the poor cars that have to pass by.
One more photo of the view from Georgetown after the jump
