Posts about Hirshhorn Bubble
And...: A planned balloon for the Hirshhorn Museum will not violate the height limit. (City Paper) ... The Georgetown ANC is overly concerned with cars. (Georgetown Metropolitan) ... Another fight over historic designation of a church could be brewing on Georgia Ave. (City Paper) ... More details on Glen Echo Park's vanished streetcar. (Post) (Comment)
Hate to burst your bubble: NCPC isn't buying this "temporary structure" dodge by which the Hirshhorn Bubble's designers hoped to circumvent design review. They're insisting on oversight. (Housing Complex) (Comment)
Bubble in a donut: The Hirshhorn is planning to install a temporary giant bubble in its donut hole center with a piece bubbling out the side, to accommodate special events. I generally like it, but recoil at NYT architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff's usual knee-jerk reaction to all DC architecture: the weirder the better, what DC needs most is to be "shaken up," and anything the Commission of Fine Arts hates, he loves, regardless of whether regular people like it or not. (DCist, NY Times) (Comment)
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