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Jan 25, 2005
Examining Architecture
Kriston Capps over at Grammar.police takes a look at two very different pieces of District architecture, the Italian Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue and the Mies van der Rohe-designed Martin Luther King Jr. library downtown. The Italian Embassy has always been a favorite of this DCist, sort of Florentine villa-meets-George Lucas fantasy type of deal, if such an architectural intersection is permitted. Then there’s the central library, which Capps doesn’t think is well suited to be…