The beauty of Park(ing) Day, an international event dedicated to improving the quality of the urban environment, lies in the impact of transforming a parking space into a park. This year, our team at Landscape Architecture Bureau [LAB] saw Park(ing) Day as an opportunity to actively engage the neighborhood where we work. Turf’s Up! Park […]
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by Quentin Wodon For those who may not know it yet, the Barracks Row Festival is an annual family-oriented event for our Capitol Hill community. More than 100 organizations and vendors have stands each year. Depending on weather, up to 10,000 people pass through the street where the event is located. The event took place this past Saturday […]
Last week, we looked at the design and building of a tunnel to move books from the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress over to the Capitol. Today, we’ll look at its completion and use – as well as repairs that were necessary not long after it opened. Unsurprisingly, the tunnel was of great […]
The tunnels underneath Capitol Hill have always fascinated me, and anyone who has seen the bookcases that line every free space in my house knows my love of books. It is therefore inevitable that I write about the book tunnel that connected the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress with the Capitol in the […]