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DCist: Photos: The NoMa Underpass Finalists
October 15, 2014
Behold: The ideas ten finalists have to transform four underpasses that connect the NoMa neighborhood.
The designs for underpasses on K Street, L Street, M Street and Florida Avenue NE all incorporate light in some way, whether it’s through projected images, an LED tree or a rain canopy.
Washington Post: D.C.’s NoMa rail project finalist designs revealed
October 15, 2014
Unusually bucolic in comparison to other major cities, Washington has many neighborhoods that border parks or rivers. NoMa, the emerging mixed-use district whose name stands for “north of Massachusetts Avenue,” is a little different. The area’s principal tributary is the track bed that curves north from Union Station, carrying Amtrak, MARC and Metro trains.
Within NoMa are four streets that pass under the rail lines between First and Third streets NE: Florida Avenue and K, L and M streets. On the west side are mostly new residential and office buildings, including NPR’s headquarters; the east side is more residential, but is home to Gallaudet University and the rapidly redeveloping Union Market area.
Greater Greater Washington: Architects try to spruce up NoMa’s underpasses
October 15, 2014
Projectors could shine interactive art or sign language shapes on the walls of NoMa’s underpasses. Large sculptures made of LEDs could give visual interest to the ceilings and walls. Ten teams of architects envisioned ways (some dubious) to illuminate and enliven the tunnels where K, L, and M streets and Florida Avenue cross under the railroad tracks.
Washington City Paper: The 13 Possible Futures of NoMa’s Grimy Underpasses
October 14, 2014
NoMa has a park problem. Initially designed as an office park with little thought given to pedestrian- and resident-friendly amenities like, say, grass, the neighborhood has seen a residential development boom and increased cachet from the growth of surrounding areas like Union Market and H Street NE. So it’s trying to make itself more livable, aided by $50 million in city funding to create parks there.
Elevation DC: #parkingdaydc turns ~20 street parking spaces into mini-parks for the day
September 22, 2014
PARK(ing) Day has come and gone another year. As always, Elevation DC managing editor Rachel Kaufman CaBiked to as many spots as possible while the parklets were up.
PARK(ing) Day is a decade-old event where groups of people turn a street parking space into a mini park (or “parklet”). Maybe it’s just a bit of grass and a chair, maybe it’s a game of cornhole or a park bench. (One category of “things that go in parks but that we haven’t seen in parklets”: statues. Let’s have a giant statue in a parklet next year, please.)
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