Items Tagged with 'Washington D.C.'

On M Street's upscale retail strip, an enigmatic new store for Canadian luggage brand Monos is the third to be designed by the Vancouver-based firm.

In a 8–1 vote, the commission gave its final blessing to the $400 million project just two days after a federal judge ruled that construction must come to a halt.

The suit would require the administration to comply with historic preservation laws and secure Congressional authorization before moving forward with any alterations.

The associate professor at Texas A&M University discusses civic buildings that have been earmarked for sale or for the wrecking ball.

The so-called classicism of President Trump’s White House ballroom is less about style and more about a failure to communicate, writes Iman Ansari.

In the April 1903 issue of RECORD, Montgomery Schuyler dedicates nearly 5,000 words to McKim, Mead & White’s expansion and renovation of the White House—a project that included an early iteration of the now-demolished East Wing.

An excavator began tearing into the facade of the structure in advance of construction work on Trump’s planned ‘big, beautiful’ ballroom.

A revived version of a short-lived 2020 mandate is back, establishing a strong preference for classical and traditional architecture in civic buildings, particularly in Washington, D.C.

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is beginning to recall Mar-a-Lago with the recently paved-over Rose Garden and plans for an ‘exquisite’ 650-person ballroom off the East Wing.