At the June 15 hearing on Mayor Tony Williams’ plan to build a new central library, proponents of abandoning the existing Martin Luther King Jr. Library argued (among other things) that renovating the existing structure would be more expensive than building a new one. Specifically, D.C. Public Library Office of Capital Construction Acting Director Jeff [...]

Mayor Tony Williams and his business-establishment allies want to build a new main library at New York Avenue and 10th Street NW on the old Convention Center site, and abandon the Martin Luther King Jr. Library at 901 G Street NW to an uncertain fate. They may very well get their way, but not because [...]

There are two possible viewpoints on the new pedestrian path that traverses the old Convention Center site: That it's a little ridiculous, or that its ridiculousness is kind of cool.
Actually, there's probably a third opinion, representing the entity that planned and bankrolled the project: the D.C. government. But that assessment is a closely guarded secret. [...]

The Montgomery County Council voted Thursday afternoon to design a new south entrance to the Bethesda Metro station. This entrance would include an interchange with the proposed Purple Line, a rail link to Bethesda and perhaps to New Carrolton and beyond. The $5 million design appropriation doesn't guarantee the construction of the Purple Line, which [...]

Everybody hates K Street, by which most mean those blocks redeveloped with bland International Style knockoffs in the ‘70s and ‘80s. And yet that type of K Street building remains the model for office buildings throughout the city. Given D.C.'s height limitations and zoning rules, as well as developers’ desire to construct every leasable square [...]

In 1989, the Montgomery County Council voted to build a segment of the Purple Line—a metropolitan rail-loop concept first proposed and named by City Paper almost 20 years ago—between Silver Spring and Bethesda. Since then, advocates of the rail line have expanded their vision to include a link that extends eastward as far as New [...]

Why does it seem like there's a church on every block of 16th Street NW from the White House all the way to Silver Spring? Walk up, say, Connecticut Avenue, and you're lucky to find two churches and a synagogue by the time you hit Chevy Chase. What gives? Am I imagining this, or is [...]

It’s easy to see why some people are uneasy about the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority’s plan to take control of the construction of the Metrorail extension from West Falls Church to Dulles Airport, via Tysons Corner and Reston. The idea, quickly accepted by Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine, moves a public project into the semipublic sphere, [...]