I miss apartment buildings that looked like apartment buildings

Apartment building on Cedar Street at Blair Road, Takoma, Washington DC

Gables apartment building on Blair Road in Takoma. Designed by DC architect Eric Colbert, the building was intended to be condominiums until the real estate crash. It abuts subway and railroad tracks and has excellent sound proofed windows to limit train noise.

Vacant apartment building on Broad Street in Newark, NJ. Aaron Houston for The New York Times.


Apartment building in Portland, Oregon. Photo by Laura Hill.


Proposed building at 14th and Maryland Avenue NE, from "Valor Picks Up Faith Bible Church" in the Washington City Paper Housing Complex blog.