tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post3996573266015631852..comments2024-03-25T18:50:15.135-04:00Comments on DCmud - The Urban Real Estate Digest of Washington DC: Contee Co. Redevelops 25 Acres around Prince George's Plaza MetroKenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295461340042242438noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-9539717296929318572012-07-05T17:48:20.301-04:002012-07-05T17:48:20.301-04:00In the same place since 1995? We competed against ...In the same place since 1995? We competed against 4 international teams for a project in Nanjing, China and recently won - thoughtful planning and great design made us # 1.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-27721203101927979912012-06-15T07:24:37.669-04:002012-06-15T07:24:37.669-04:00@ previous Anonymous: Modernism is historicism. ...@ previous Anonymous: Modernism is historicism. This "global city" status is a joke meant to scare people into thinking if they don't keep erecting piles of glass and concrete they are some how provintial.<br /><br />Let me ask you this, how come Paris, Rome, and London haven't destroyed their historicist city center's for this stuff you call avant-guard? Becasue it's soulless and inhumane. Not to say that some of those guys you now claim have improved don't do some spiffy stuff now and then, but most of it is re-cycled 1950's modernism.<br /><br />Look at the scathing comments that popped up with the new library by that London phony. You keep singing that 1920's Bauhaus mantra, becasue fewer and fewer people buy the canard that to be hip you have to look like a ice cube. Give me decoration, give me love!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-69559260695926872392012-06-14T22:22:13.975-04:002012-06-14T22:22:13.975-04:00@previous Anonymous: There's no grudge. And ...@previous Anonymous: There's no grudge. And the agenda is to help (in a very small way) move Washington toward 'global city' status. <br /><br />A decade or two ago, most DC architects, including all of those you name, were in a similar place to Lessard: the avant-garde of the rear-garde, I used to say, doing projects with varying degrees of historicism and often questionable construction quality. To some degree, it was the times. But all of these firms have moved on, improved. Their portfolios still have duds of course, but overall architectural and construction quality is way up. I just don't see that with Lessard. It seems that they are in the same place as they were in 1995. <br /><br />One hopes that negative criticism might spur positive change, like for instance when DCMUD posted on Lessard's development at Rhode Island Metro and a score of scathing comments (none from me, by the way) popped up almost immediately. And no defenders! But I don't know Mr. Lessard personally or professionally: perhaps such criticism is ineffective.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-91647932450671535222012-06-14T12:54:37.000-04:002012-06-14T12:54:37.000-04:00@ the last Anonymous with a grudge against Lessard...@ the last Anonymous with a grudge against Lessard.<br /><br />Suppose you are right. The who, in your opinion, is the best local Lessard's competition? Baranes? Bonstra? Colbert? Esocoff? Please share your opinion. No agenda, I am just curious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-77919809066567223922012-06-14T12:33:53.940-04:002012-06-14T12:33:53.940-04:00It's great to see development finally coming t...It's great to see development finally coming to--beginning to create critical mass at?--a P.G. County Metro station. The radical imbalance of growth in the metro area (toward the west) has become a problem and this is a small step in the right direction.<br /><br />Also, the architecture looks fairly decent, at least considering that the developer is using one of the worst architects in the area, Lessard, known for their race-to-the-bottom standards of both architectural aesthetics and construction quality. Lessard is also a leader in having a huge gap between the renderings and the finished product, so any optimism must be contained.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-45053863482094878812012-06-14T08:07:01.783-04:002012-06-14T08:07:01.783-04:00Hopefully they can build housing that attracts UMD...Hopefully they can build housing that attracts UMD faculty so they can live closer to work.Behradnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-26881059235068119072012-06-13T23:06:20.780-04:002012-06-13T23:06:20.780-04:00Now they just need to tackle the mall itself, all ...Now they just need to tackle the mall itself, all the surrounding seas of parking, and the horrific 1960s office builds (i.e. 95% of the PG Plaza area) and they'll be all set...minus the fact the new residential construction from last decade is still mostly vacant....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-989181344916470342012-06-13T21:40:24.409-04:002012-06-13T21:40:24.409-04:00Just one word comes to mind... Unbelievable.
I w...Just one word comes to mind... Unbelievable. <br /><br />I would have never thought the entire area surrounding the mall would be reconstructed. Talk about being able to correct the mistakes of the past.Sivadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-24645423567820625362012-06-13T17:56:54.183-04:002012-06-13T17:56:54.183-04:00Lessard Design is an architecture and planning fir...Lessard Design is an architecture and planning firm, not a developer.HesterGoodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04965635719602802722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-14088098758779758822012-06-13T15:46:49.737-04:002012-06-13T15:46:49.737-04:00Thanks, JD. I was wondering what the heck the 2nd ...Thanks, JD. I was wondering what the heck the 2nd photo was, if not the mall.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22305958.post-50856512527728800772012-06-13T14:57:02.604-04:002012-06-13T14:57:02.604-04:00This is actually Prince George's Plaza, not We...This is actually Prince George's Plaza, not West Hyattsville.J.D. Hammondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02140366778731511022noreply@blogger.com