Posts about Judiciary Square

A brighter day dawns: Metro will make mezzanines at 10 stations brighter using fluorescent lights it has been testing at Judiciary Square. It also might take out the carpets in train cars. (Examiner) (Comment)

And...: Google Maps ignores I-66 in Northern Virginia, probably because it's HOV only during rush hour. (WTOP) ... A cyclist crashed his bike on Monday in Judiciary Square, without the help of an errant automobile, and shares his story. (People-Powered Arlington, Rob Pitingolo) ... Capital Bikeshare passed the 3,000 member mark yesterday. (Comment)

Leg closer to getting covered: A DC Council committee approved legislation for the project that will build over the Center Leg Freeway next to Georgetown Law and reconnect some of the street grid. Dreyfus, the developer, also needs permission from FHWA. (Michael Neibauer/WBJ) (Comment)

Center Leg gash to heal: A deal is almost done to deck over the I-395 trench from Massachusetts Avenue to E Street. Louis Dreyfus would build 3 buildings and some green space to fill the current "gash" in the area and reconnect F St. across the site. (Capital Business) (Comment)

You say "of its time," I say "faux modernism": Post architecture critic and Modernism cheerleader Philip Kennicott gushes over a glass box addition to the Old City Hall, now the Court of Appeals, in Judiciary Square. According to Kennicott, the architect wanted something "of its own time." BeyondDC points out that glass boxes were new in the 1950s, and we should at least admit that they're one well-worn style of the past like any other. (Comment)

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