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Old Posted Oct 10, 2006, 7:22 PM
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the real thing, from Cushman, in 1940:



this is all gone, isn't it?

LMich: that Knapp building reminds me a lot of one of my favorite overlooked buildings in DC, the Hecht warehouse on New York Avenue. Possibly the most full realized use of glass block in architecture, in my opinion (with the exception of Renzo Piano's Hermes store in Tokyo):





sorry for the crappy pics. DC actually has a lot of 1930s architecture, probably because FDR's expansion of the government provided jobs.
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