10th & G St Church/Condo Project Pic (Courtesy of Washingtonian’s blog)

Looks like a great architectural design. PN Hoffman will be setting their PR machine on 11.

Looks like the White Album version of MLK Library. Pass.

Are the design plans final? Any links to more pictures and/or plans?

Looks like Jan 21 is the last day for church services… this project is starting to move forward.

Dear God, that thing is horrendous.

it’s NOT going to look like that — haven’t you people ever seen a *model*?

I like the look of the model, its daring, new and different.

I have some idea what it will look like from the model, and I like it. At least it’s not a box with a rounded corner like every other building. I imagine it will be very modern, but nice.

They forgot to add to the design/picture all of the homeless who will be sleeping on the street near the library and outside of the soup kitchen. I can’t wait to see the pictures in the advertising brochure of the soup kitchen depictions.

I have seen plans and detailed renderings of the building. It will be a gleaming, angled glass, steel and concrete structure with colored rails and nice accents. The shape is odd, and really stands out in the DC landscape — it is a nice contrast to the other buildings on the block (post-modern MLK, Gothic Mather, classical St. Patricks).

I live in New York, but in an apartment across the street from a church that serves free breakfast every day to the homeless. I dont feel grossed out at all or compromised at all. You all need to step off your high horse and realize that you arent the only person in the world.

While not a fan of PN Hoffman- too $$ for what you get-, this is a bold design leap from them. I couldn’t imagine living in something like that but I like that they’re taking some much needed design risks. We need to get beyond the concret and glas block with cupola look.

dgarbs,

None of us are on a high horse. However, it is ironic that you, Mr. I’m From New York So I Must Be Right, happen to be pretty high up in the saddle yourself. Perhaps you have something constructive to add?

My “I’m from New York” was only to say that the general idea of homeless coexisting with market-rate renters and buyers is not unique to this project. I am a native of DC, and am in fact thinking of moving back. I just think that a lot of the commenting about this project has been negative, remarking how unlikely it is that people would want to pay money to see homeless people every day. Congrats to the church for being a courageous force for good in a city that all too often (and this happens in NYC just as much) turns their back on the poor in favor of bringing the rich back to downtown. I am also in support of the latter, which is why I am as eager as the next to see how this project works out in the coming years.