January 2014

• Examining the Eames @ the National Building Museum

  Want to learn more about how and why Charles and Ray Eames had such an important impact on modern design? The design duo will be read more >

  January 30, 2014

• Two for Sale in Holmes Run Acres; Cook Architecture Renovation Coming Soon

  Last Spring, Holmes Run Acres, the National Register of Historic Places-designated neighborhood of nearly 350 homes in Falls Church, was bursting with sales. We are starting read more >

  January 29, 2014

• Living in a Goodman Alcoa Care-free Home

  During the past several years, I have written about a number of the two dozen Charles Goodman-designed Alcoa Care-free Homes that were built read more >

  January 21, 2014

• Finalists to Present MLK Library Ideas

  Happy Martin Luther King Day. I thought it was appropriate to give an update on the expected renovation and modernization of Mies van der Rohe’s read more >

  January 19, 2014

• Goodman Barrel-Roof Townhome in River Park

  In the 1956 book “Aluminum in Modern Architecture,” published by Reynolds, Charles Goodman discussed how he was working on aluminum, rather than wood, to hold read more >

  January 15, 2014

• Metro Wins 2014 AIA 25-Year Award

  While Washington’s Metro has its share of problems as anyone who has ridden it knows, its stunning yet simple brutalist design by Harry read more >

  January 12, 2014

• Lost: Rockville’s ‘Pink Bank’ Building

  The “Pink Bank” in Rockville at 255 N. Washington St. will be no more. Work has started to take down the 1964 former Suburban Trust read more >

  January 5, 2014