Perspective
The Case for D.C.'s Flat Skyline
Some Washingtonians complain that the city’s height limit has resulted in lookalike, boxy buildings. But creativity can emerge from constraint, a West Coast critic argues.
Farragut Square in Washington, D.C., is one of many crossroads in the nation’s capital where, architecturally, all bets are off.
A stone office building from 1926 with neo-Gothic airs is flanked by a perfunctory punched-window office building from 1963 and a relatively sleek metal-clad model of recent vintage. Across the way, there’s a heavy-looking concrete crate at one corner, an icy blue cube at another.