3rd and H Street Rendering

3rd and H Street Rendering (3-23-07)
Originally uploaded by akimber96.

I just don't have the energy to constantly deal with cookie cutter modernism. The architects here claim that the building is original, while the proposed post-modernist albeit context sensitive building to be catty-corner from this one to be uninteresting.

To me, this building feels no different than the office ghettos downtown.

Considering all the efforts that were expended fighting the BP gas station from 2000-2003, it's ironic.

There is an architecture book titled Architecture: Choice or Fate?. The way I think about it is the choice of an architect by the developer yields the fate of a neighborhood that has to deal with a building once it is constructed.

This design communicates "H Street, office ghetto" even though the building is actually residential housing with ground floor retail.

(Thanks to ANC Commissioner Alan Kimber for posting this rendering. More are available via his Flickr site.)