<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Cityscape</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/columns/cityscape?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><description>Cityscape</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Georgetown Riverfront Building Mirrors an Industrial Evolution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48628-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48628-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Few areas of the city have changed as much in the past three decades as the highly visible slice of steep terrain in Georgetown between the C&#38;O Canal and the Whitehurst Freeway. Because the transformation has been so gradual, however  --  so year by year and piece by piece  --  it is sometimes easy to forget how dramatic and thorough it has been.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Architects Honor A Man of Grand Designs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17717-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17717-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Santiago Calatrava defies classification.<br>He is an architect who has transformed our awareness of engineering, giving memorable form to its functions of making structures stable and holding them up.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Building That Has Toronto Looking Up]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56535-2004Dec10.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56535-2004Dec10.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TORONTO -- Okay, here's the report: The "flying rectangle" on McCaul Street, aka the Sharp Centre for Design of the Ontario College of Art and Design, is every bit as astonishing and delightful in real life as it appears in photographs.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clinton Library Builds Bridges]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15694-2004Nov26.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15694-2004Nov26.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Never mind the snide comparisons to mobile homes and boxcars. The Clinton Library's  complex of buildings and their sculpted landscape setting together comprise a splendid, smart and lasting work of art.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture That Blends In And Stands Out]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64059-2004Nov19.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64059-2004Nov19.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[NEW YORK -- Nothing better becomes the latest version of the Museum of Modern Art than a leisurely stroll through its galleries and public spaces.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throwing the Skyline a Curve]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55820-2004Oct22.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55820-2004Oct22.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ This column is about an exception to an unhappy rule -- a splendid new residential tower at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue with H and Fourth streets NW, one of those made-in-Washington triangular sites.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Washingtons, Under One Roof]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19025-2004Oct8.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19025-2004Oct8.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Washington show is back at last at the National Building Museum.  "Washington: Symbol and City" reopens in a new and improved version after three years of downtime.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building Museum Loses Top Curator]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60697-2004Sep3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60697-2004Sep3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Howard Decker, the knowledgeable, affable chief curator at the National Building Museum for the past four years, abruptly resigned this week. His last day at the museum was yesterday.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Fitting Building For the Building Blocks of Life]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60764-2004Sep3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60764-2004Sep3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It was the colored glass wall that got my attention. An architect sent me a picture of it during construction early this year, and I was hooked.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Champion of Urbane Renewal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20352-2004Aug20.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20352-2004Aug20.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ He was sometimes referred to as a "Medici of the Midwest," and the town that he helped put on the map was sometimes called the "Athens of the Prairie."]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularizing Poplar Point]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53651-2004Jul15.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53651-2004Jul15.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em> Last in a five-part series</em><br>Poplar Point. Ask any taxi driver to take you there, ask any longtime Washington resident where it is, ask almost <em>any</em>body. Chances are good, you'll draw a blank.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betting Big on Near Southeast]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50584-2004Jul14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50584-2004Jul14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em>  Fourth in a five-part series</em><br>Optimists have said it for decades: The time is coming soon for the Near Southeast. But then, year after year, nothing happened.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Vision for the Southwest]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48148-2004Jul13.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48148-2004Jul13.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em>  Third in a five-part series</em><br>The Southwest waterfront is one of the few places in Washington where the city busily engages the water's edge.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming Clean About the Future]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45499-2004Jul12.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45499-2004Jul12.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em>  Second in a five-part series</em><br> Rowers who walk the short, narrow pathway to the Anacostia Community Boathouse, passing by the chain-link compound of the  D.C. Street and Alley Cleaning Division, don't even see the sign anymore. But a first-time visitor can't help taking notice.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ripple Effect]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43465-2004Jul11.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43465-2004Jul11.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An $8 billion development plan promises payoffs far beyond the high-water mark for D.C.'s Anacostia River.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the Building Museum, Concrete Exemplars]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53813-2004Jun18.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53813-2004Jun18.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Steel-reinforced concrete, one of the quintessential building materials of 20th-century architecture, acquired a bad name in the United States during the second half of the century. And for good reason.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buildings With a Feeling of Belonging]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46833-2004May21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46833-2004May21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Traveling to Hale County, Ala., to see the Rural Studio's modest yet magical works of architecture in their home settings would be the ideal choice. A trip to the National Building Museum is the next best thing.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mandarin Hotel Steps Into the Past]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28440-2004May14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28440-2004May14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Like it or not -- and for me it's mostly not -- Washington has a new architectural gateway in the form of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming in Three Dimensions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A729-2004Apr9.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A729-2004Apr9.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[MoMA's excellent traveling exhibition of paper architecture leads both eye and mind on a merry adventure at the National Building Museum.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Nice to Come Home To]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13890-2004Feb27.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13890-2004Feb27.html?nav=rss_style/columns/cityscape</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 9:10:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Several powerful statements make quiet appearances at the beginning of a new exhibition on affordable housing at the National Building Museum.]]></description><author> Benjamin Forgey</author></item></channel></rss>