tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post2418713752425264183..comments2024-03-25T18:50:15.135-04:00Comments on DCmud - The Urban Real Estate Digest of Washington DC: New Residential Planned for Shaw's Blagden AlleyKenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295461340042242438noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-65965657719914329482012-04-18T10:38:12.898-04:002012-04-18T10:38:12.898-04:00Does Reatig have more than one design in her toolb...Does Reatig have more than one design in her toolbox. Good god, at least try something different. If it wasn't so ugly, it would at least be boring at this point.IMGophhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10389077782536090328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-32034769034152961682012-04-17T18:18:33.453-04:002012-04-17T18:18:33.453-04:00Her work is awful - every building looks like the ...Her work is awful - every building looks like the offspring of a shipping container mating with a rubix cube.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-80486033053367521732012-03-29T13:56:01.844-04:002012-03-29T13:56:01.844-04:00Reatig has a problem, identified by a couple of th...Reatig has a problem, identified by a couple of the previous commenters, with her buildings looking cheap and out of place. Turns out that grey concrete block, even specialty "groundface" block, just looks like concrete block. Turns out that large areas of windows, when used in rowhouses, just get covered with shades. (Not the case for apartment buldings, I note, as low as the second floor.) Turns out that colored metal panels look like Romper Room, not like adult architecture. Washington isn't a tropical third-world country (nor the Netherlands).<br /><br />This one looks much less alienating than most of her previous work. In fact, it looks like it could be a good addition to the block. The Board is correct that the materiality will be critical. Please, Reatig, tamp down your impulse to do another clown-colored building! <br /><br />Ms. Reatig, I realize that in architecture school, you were inculcated with the belief that your work must be radically different--that if you're not the next Frank Gehry, you're a failure. All I can say is, Get Over It! You're a mature professional, not a student. This project shows promise to move you beyond that academic mindset.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-43729510494869928772012-03-29T09:56:56.158-04:002012-03-29T09:56:56.158-04:00You are right - the link you've posted is the ...You are right - the link you've posted is the report by the historian. It's simply his overview of the project and recommendation to the board. The hearing, which was held on the 22nd gave unanimous approval for the concept and massing. The architects now have approval to develop the architecture and then it will go back to the ANC and to the HPRB. It's a process.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-29709695492623992472012-03-28T14:26:32.345-04:002012-03-28T14:26:32.345-04:00Does this sound like an approval?
Think not.....
...Does this sound like an approval?<br />Think not.....<br /><br />http://lgbt.dc.gov/DC/Planning/Historic+Preservation/About+HPO+&+HPRB/Who+We+Are/Historic+Preservation+Review+Board/Agendas+and+Reports/HPRB,+March+22,+2012/Blagden+Alley+Naylor+Court+HD+-+926+N+Street+NW+-+HPA+12-160<br /><br />They should stop tricking people into believing they have "official" approval to insert their "designs" in that neighborhood.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-30267833035643825682012-03-28T11:44:16.378-04:002012-03-28T11:44:16.378-04:00agreed - suzanne reatig's designs always come ...agreed - suzanne reatig's designs always come out looking like cheap third-world buildings with a "contemporary" flair. Her use of cheap materials is offensive to the neighboring buildings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-60111452263295914122012-03-28T11:34:34.240-04:002012-03-28T11:34:34.240-04:00Suzanne Reatig and her hideous designs are an abso...Suzanne Reatig and her hideous designs are an absolute pox on the Shaw neighborhood. They're like a cheap, second-rate knock-off idea of what daring modern architecture is supposed to look like.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-24609598137570529812012-03-28T09:31:46.113-04:002012-03-28T09:31:46.113-04:00I find it incredibly odd that the HPRB would initi...I find it incredibly odd that the HPRB would initially be positive about this modern design amidst genuinely historic homes when, at the same time, they blast the design and form of the JBG development at Florida & 8th, which is along a street with many modern buildings, across the street from what is arguably the U Street corridor's ugliest building, and just 2 blocks from a Metro station. What a double standard!Critically Urbanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18184976993311486195noreply@blogger.com