http://dcmetrocentric.com New Buildings, Construction, Destruction, Planning, Real Estate, and Gossip as it happens in the Nation's Capital Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:36:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Your weekly chance to take a stab at real estate appraisal. Submit your guesses in the comments and closest guess gets the PriceChecker crown for the week. This weeks PriceChecker is a newly renovated Colonial in the Palisades NW. Being in such a tony neighborhood, it take a lot to ... http://dcmetrocentric.com/2010/03/12/pricechecker-palisades/ Best Open Houses: Dupont Circle and Columbia Heights In this week's edition of Best Open Houses, we feature a one-bedroom condo in Dupont Circle with plenty of natural light and a parking space and a three-bedroom row house in Columbia Heights that has a rentable in-law suite. Read the rest of this ... http://dcmetrocentric.com/2010/03/12/latest-from-urbanturf-114/ Historical photos don't have to be black and white to be cool right? In this photo from 1968 looking out over Foggy Bottom towards the Potomac and Georgetown, there are all sorts of interesting things. Most fascinating to us though is the Kennedy Center which was under construction, surrounded by ... http://dcmetrocentric.com/2010/03/11/foggy-bottom-1968/ If there is any group out there that should be able to get a Green Roof right, it is the people at the American Society of Landscape Architects, and that is just what they have done at their headquarters building on Eye Street NW. From the looks of it, the ... http://dcmetrocentric.com/2010/03/11/render-vs-reality-green-roof/ Lately we have been getting requests for an open thread for people to discuss whatever is on their minds, so we figured we would give it a try and see how it goes. Like these buildings along the 2000th block of 9th street NW, this post is empty but ready ... http://dcmetrocentric.com/2010/03/10/open-for-discusion/ The famous Subway/Delhi Dhaba building along Wilson Blvd in Arlington has seemingly grown up over night. We noticed over the last few months workers have added an additional two stories on top of the building. Considering every other block in this area has a curb to curb 5 story or ... http://dcmetrocentric.com/2010/03/10/pop-up-along-wilson-blvd/ Check out the new residential portion of the great looking planned DancePlace project that we talked about last year. The idea is to provide affordable, rental live/work studios for working artists. There are a planned 41 units in the design by Hickok Cole architects (who are the same people that designed ... http://dcmetrocentric.com/2010/03/09/artists-residence-space-in-ne/ As you can see, the newly finished glass tetris jewelbox down by the White House is all finished up and tenants have already started moving into the second and third floors. Unfortunately, we noticed that the building takes on a completely different look once a floor is occupied and the ... http://dcmetrocentric.com/2010/03/09/a-blinding-effect/ Best New Listings: Logan Circle and AU Park This week's Best New Listings include a four-bedroom top floor condo in Logan Circle and a three-bedroom colonial with a screened porch in AU Park. Read the rest of this entry on UrbanTurf.com » http://dcmetrocentric.com/2010/03/09/latest-from-urbanturf-113/ Another update of more planned activity along MLK Blvd in SE, this time it's on the Matthews Memorial Terrace and a community services building on the 2600th block. According to the District's website, proposals were turned in at the end of last month and they are "supposed" to be breaking ... http://dcmetrocentric.com/2010/03/08/matthews-memorial-terrace/ The little project going up at 2345 MLK ave has been getting a lot of attention now that construction is underway. There has been a lot of speculation of how the exterior is going to look, but now the banner up at the site (pictured) can put all that speculation ... http://dcmetrocentric.com/2010/03/08/2345-mlk-looking-good/ Gallery Place - Don't tell the area around Verizon Center that billboards aren't allowed in DC, new plans for five story 8 feet wide electronic billboards understandably have some opposition. [PQLiving] Golden Triangle - Judging the IMF Building at 1924 Pennsylvania Ave in all its glassy glory! All we have to ... http://dcmetrocentric.com/2010/03/06/linked-weekend-edition-3/ Warning... the following floor plan is a little gratuitous. This duplex in Cathedral Heights takes the entire top floor with over 9,500 square feet. There are seven bedrooms, 15 foot ceilings, a media room... there is even a "drawing room." With a floorplan like this you would expect possibly some interesting ... http://dcmetrocentric.com/2010/03/05/floorplanism-cathedral-heights/ When we first saw this colorful shot from MV Jantzen in Georgetown, we thought... could this be some new art installation, or cool architectural detail we had never seen before? But alas on closer examination it is just a well framed shot with great lighting of a knockoff purse vendor. ... http://dcmetrocentric.com/2010/03/05/great-shots-a-colorful-block/ Looks like the prime corner space of the newly finished west side of Courthouse plaza finally has secured a restaurant. During the early phases of this project the space was going to be a second location of the Southern standby Georgia Browns, but that didn't work out. Now it looks ... http://dcmetrocentric.com/2010/03/04/courthouse-space-finally-leased/