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Our LEGO donation box

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:26:19 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

The LEGO model, sitting at the F Street entrance, serves as the museum's donation box for the duration of our LEGO Architecture: Towering Ambition exhibition (open through September 2011).

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Facade, G Street

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:51:09 -0700

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Facade, 4th street side

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:51:09 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

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Corner of G & 5th St.

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:51:08 -0700

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Busts from fourth floor

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:51:09 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

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5th street entrance & sculpture

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:51:08 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

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LEGO aerial view

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:26:20 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

The National Building Museum's fountain is captured in LEGO. Note the little staff members, museum-goers, and cafe patrons on the first floor!

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LEGO NBM

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:26:17 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

Designed by Clifton D. Chambers and completed by NBM staff members Kristi Cotner and John Bane, all four stories, including the eight huge corinthian columns in the Great Hall, are represented.

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LEGO NBM offices

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:26:19 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

This represents the wing where our Museum Services and Financial offices reside - you can see the tables from Firehook cafe on the first floor at the bottom left.

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LEGO offices

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:26:18 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

Every staff member of the National Building Museum is represented by little LEGO people, including museum director Chase Rynd (pictured at bottom center, sitting at his desk).

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Lauinger Library, Brutalism

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:24:47 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

3700 O Street NW
Brutalism:
Lauinger Library on Georgetown University's campus in Washington, D.C., designed by John Carl Warnecke and completed in 1970.
• Brutalist, yet designed to be contextual with the existing library building
• Granite chips were mixed into the concrete to harmonize with existing building
• Contributes to the striking skyline view from across the Potomac

Photo by Kashuo Bennett

Hubert H. Humphrey HHS Building, Brutalism

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:24:44 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

200 Independence Avenue SW
Brutalism:
The Hubert H. Humphrey Buildling, Health and Human Services, just south of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., designed by Marcel Breuer with Herbert Beckhard and completed in 1977.
• Straddles the highway tunnel over 395, supported entirely by massive corner piers
• The office floors hang from huge trusses in the sloped “attic”
• Like the HUD building, illustrates Breuer’s interest in precast concrete to generate depth, shadow, and detail in the façade

Photo courtsey of the General Services Administration

Robert C. Weaver HUD Building, Brutalism

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:24:40 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

451 7th Street SW
Robert C. Weaver Building, Housing and Urban Development, in the Southwest area of Washington, D.C., designed by Marcel Breuer and completed in 1968.
• One of the first results of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s 1962 “Guiding Principles of Federal Architecture”
• Explores ideas first used in the 1950s in the UNESCO building in Paris
• Continues the early Modernist strategy, first articulated by Le Corbusier of lifting the mass of the building up on pilotis, or piers

Photo courtesy of the General Services Administration

J. Edgar Hoover Building, Brutalism

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:24:48 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

1201 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Brutalism:
J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. Building in the Federal Triangle in Washington, D.C., designed by Charles F. Murphy and completed in 1974.
• Was the first government building constructed on the north side of Pennsylvania Ave.
• Originally designed to house retail at the ground floor
• Concrete, Brutalism's typically prominent material, was cast in reusable metal form-work

Photo courtsey of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Brutalism

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:24:45 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

16th & I Streets NW
Brutalism:
The Third Church of Christ, Scientist, in Farragut in Washington, D.C., designed by I.M. Pei and completed in 1971.
• Currently the center of the debate about mid-century modern architecture
• Octagonal in form, like medieval and early Renaissance baptisteries
• Constructed of poured-in-place concrete
• Difficult and costly to maintain, the church was designated a DC landmark in 2007 amid controversy

Photo by Kashuo Bennett

Franklin School, Gothic Revival

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:56:23 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

Gothic Revival:
The Franklin School in Franklin Square in Washington, D.C., designed by Adolph Cluss and constructed in 1868.
GOTHIC REVIVAL ELEMENTS:
• Arched windows with drip molds
• Turrets
• Tracery in the top of the windows

Renwick Gallery

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:56:17 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

Renwick Gallery near the White House in Washington, D.C., designed by James Renwick and constructed in 1859.

Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building, Gothic Revival

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:56:33 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

900 Jefferson Drive SW
Gothic Revival:
Art & Industries Building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., designed by Shulze with Montgomery Meigs and constructed 1879-1881.
Gothic Revival elements:
• Polychromatic brick
• Corbeled brick cornices at towers
• Polychromatic slate roofs on towers

Smithsonian Castle, Gothic Revival

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:56:14 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

1000 Jefferson Drive SW
Gothic Revival:
The Smithsonian Building (known as “The Castle”) on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., designed by James Renwick and completed in 1855.
Gothic revival elements:
• Arched windows with diamond-shaped panes
• Tripartite grouping of arched windows
• Rose window

Metropolitan AME Church, Gothic Revival

nobody@flickr.com (National Building Museum) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:56:09 -0700

National Building Museum posted a photo:

Gothic Revival:
Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Farragut in Washington, D.C., designed by Samuel G. T. Morsell and constructed in 1886.
GOTHIC REVIVAL ELEMENTS:
• Pointed arch windows in tripartite groupings
• Trefoil & Quatrefoil decoration
• Cantilevered oriel windows