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May 15, 2012 1:06 AMSusan Parrish
 

Southwest waterfront's River Park community turns 50
From: Susan Parrish
To: Housing Knowledge Community
Posted: May 15, 2012 1:06 AM
Subject: Southwest waterfront's River Park community turns 50
Message:

An interesting piece in The Washington Post about a housing community in Southwest Washington designed by architect architect named Charles Goodman.

The barrel-roof townhouses of River Park are Campbell's soup cans, halved the long way, balanced on top of metal cubes two blocks from Southwest Washington's Waterfront Metro station. They are called "houses" - because people live in them, and really, what else could they be called? - but they are architectural punch lines, visual acid trips, the left-behind parts of the secret UFO that docked down by the waterfront half a century ago and then flew away before anyone caught it on camera. Read full article in The Washington Post.

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Susan Parrish
Manager, Knowledge Communities
The American Institute of Architects
Washington DC
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