JBG Smith's 8001 Woodmont development is claiming its place in the downtown Bethesda skyline. A checkerboard light feature at the top of the building was lit for the first time last night. The development replaced the 7900 Wisconsin Avenue office building. Some lower-level units are also now lit at night, and their interiors are under construction.
Odd that this was never shown on any of the renderings.
ReplyDeleteSeriously? Lighting up the HVAC/elevator tower in a cheap Battenberg hatch is supposed to appease the public?
ReplyDelete"Ooooh, look, Harold, it's art."
Reminds me of that great line in Amadeus, when Antonio Salieri tells Mozart his concerto has “Too many notes”.
ReplyDeleteThe glass curtain wall facade of this project has about eight random ideas, patterns and forms, none of which line up. Tiny little useless sunshades. Big metal boxes on the facade with trapezoid shaped panels for no reason. The project uses flat brick walls, curving brick walls, a sloping top wall on the curving brick, brick with stripes with stone banding on the ends, mirrored ceilings, curving mirrored ceilings, metal cages with trees, metal cages without trees, rustic stone cladding, slots in the rustic stone cladding for lights..but yet it still needs something! Something cool and unexpected...
How about a glowing checkerboard of light at the top, (poorly executed where you can see the LED light sources from the street), yeah thats the ticket!.
Way too many notes.
Light pollution is very bad for birds and bugs (and humans!). I wish they would turn them off. https://www.darksky.org/
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