What DC Historic Building Might Get Demolished Next
Also today: What's in the latest design plan for the White House, and how AI weather models are making better forecasts.
A radical plan would transform a swath of land south of the National Mall.
The White House East Wing likely won’t be the last historic building in Washington to face a wrecking ball under the Trump administration. In the works is an ambitious proposal to knock down a desolate enclave of neglected federal office buildings in Southwest DC and replace it with a grand neoclassical neighborhood.
Advanced by architects linked to Catholic University, the plan calls for a more radical transformation than competing proposals. In this vision for Fedlandia, aging Brutalist structures would be demolished, existing parks would be razed and a major highway capped in order to extend the National Mall south to the waterfront. Pulling off even the more modest version would take decades, billions of dollars, local and federal consensus and above all, political will. Read more from Kriston Capps, with graphics by Marie Patino, today on CityLab: Inside the Plan to Demolish and Rebuild a Swath of Trump’s Washington