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ElevationDC: New Metropolitan Branch bike trail designs
April 08, 2015
The District Department of Transportation Saturday presented preliminary design plans for parts of the Metropolitan Branch Trail that will link existing off-road segments in Northeast DC with the Maryland border. Read more.
CityBizList: New Director to Build Network of Public Spaces for NoMa
April 07, 2015
Stacie West has joined the NoMa BID as Director of Parks Projects, where she will engage the neighborhood and lead the NoMa Parks Foundation’s efforts to acquire sites, design parks, and build a network of public spaces for this rapidly growing neighborhood. Read more.
The Wash Cycle: PEPCO Park an opportunity to straighten out the Met Branch Trail
February 24, 2015
The NoMa Park Foundation a group supported by the NoMa BID with the goal of creating parks in NoMa, recently released a map of proposed park space in the area. Since the area is bisected by the Metropolitan Branch Trail, it’s no surprise that many of the trails are adjacent to the trail. These parks have the potential to make the trail even better. The underpass art parks have been written about before, but some of the others are new. Read more.
Washington Post: As D.C. embraces its industrial past, New York’s High Line Park shows the way
November 25, 2014
NEW YORK – Julian Hunt went to see the High Line Park in New York City’s West Side before it was even open.
Hunt, a D.C. architect, made the trip as part of a painstaking labor of love. For the better part of a decade, he has been attempting to convert a series of abandoned concrete tunnels beneath Dupont Circle, where streetcars once rumbled, into a menagerie of art galleries, performance space, cafes and exhibitions.
Washington Post: Shaping the City | D.C. bridges to be site of mixed-use projects
October 15, 2014
The goal of bridges is to span across rivers or valleys, streets or highways, rail yards or railroad tracks. Essentially a structurally supported deck, a bridge is a connector enabling movement between whatever the bridge connects. But a few bridges achieve another goal: If the bridging deck supports activities and structures, it is a destination as well as a connector.
With sufficient length and width, a bridge can become in effect built land, a place for residential, commercial and recreational development, a “reconstituted ground plane” in architectural parlance.
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