Wednesday, January 30, 2013
County planners present design guidelines for the Chevy Chase Lake Sector to the county planning board on Thursday, Jan. 31.
Montgomery County planning staff will present design guidelines for the Chevy Chase Lake Sector to the county planning board at the board's weekly meeting on Thursday. Staff planners recommend that the board approve the guidelines and send the guidelines to the county council for approval, according to the meeting's agenda. One of the key issues addressed by the guidelines is making buildings look smaller in the proposed new development (called Town Center East) on the east side of Connecticut Avenue between Chevy Chase Lake Drive and Manor Road, according to the background information for Thursday's work session. To make buildings seem smaller, the guidelines advise: In terms of building materials, the guidelines advise using local red …
Thursday, August 23, 2012
High above Washington, DC, a crocket stone was hoisted into place, marking the formal start of the post-earthquake restoration of the Washington National Cathedral.
It was just a small, carved stone, but it symbolized so much more. Cheers erupted as a newly carved crocket stone was carefully put into place in the southwest pinnacle of Washington National Cathedral's central tower—the "Gloria in Excelsis" tower—on Thursday afternoon, one year after a magnitude 5.8 earthquake shook the region. A pulley hoisted the stone from the roof of the tower to near the top of the pinnacle. With all of Washington, DC, at their feet, stone masons Joe Alonso (the cathedral's head mason) and Sean Callaghan guided the stone into place, then shook hands, 676 feet above sea level (according to cathedral facts). (A crocket is a carved stone—often depicting foliage—that projects from a pinnacle, according to New York …
Thursday, July 26, 2012
County planners suggest the Chevy Chase Lake Sector be developed in an architectural style that reinterprets the traditional, red-brick-and-white-trim look of the mid-Atlantic region.
As debates about building heights, density and floor-to-area ratios for the Chevy Chase Lake Sector are resolved, a new question arises: What will the new buildings actually look like? Over a year ago, the buildings sketched out by the Chevy Chase Land Company's architects were vaguely futuristic. One public meeting attendee called the sketches a "brave new world," Patch reported. The land company ended up scrapping those plans, and drew together a new team to re-envision something more low-rise and residential in character, Patch reported. Since then, the only clue as to what the development—which spans Connecticut Avenue between Manor Road and Chevy Chase Lake Drive—might look like has been issued by the county planning department. …
Monday, April 16, 2012
Kensington resident Jodi Longo works renovating and restoring historic homes in the community.
It took her decades to follow her dream and now Kensington resident Jodi Longo is helping to bring new life to decades-old and historic homes here. “If friends asked me to go out as a teen and my mom had a new Issue of Architectural Digest, I’d say, ‘No, not tonight,’” she said. Even though design has long been her passion, Longo’s first career was working with Amnesty International. It was while on sabbatical from her position there and working as an election judge in the former Yugoslavia that she met her husband of 14 years, Dejam Bujak, who is the one that convinced her to start her own business. It all began eight years ago, when Longo started getting bids to have a porch put on her home on Homewood Parkway and got major sticker …
Ajay Bhatt
8:18 am on Thursday, January 31, 2013
Will they also design the burdensome traffic congestion to be more pleasurable? more ›