History, if left forgotten, can fall perilously to the wayside. Such was the fate of the Washington, D.C. landmark Atlas Theater Cinema until a foundation sought to transform the former 1930’s movie house and adjoining vacant storefronts into a new, state-of-the-art 58,000-square-foot performing arts facility. The architect combined five structures through a four-year, extensive adaptive reuse and renovation that carefully preserved key historical elements and brought new life to the street front of a once bleak and neglected corridor.
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