All the architectural integrity of a Fairfax County McMansion. They did the architect no favor by putting it right next to a building which got the proportions right and relies on real stonework and at least a few decent architectural details.

The vinyl siding and gutters add that 1990s look.

How do older buildings handle this? I don’t see the downspouts on the old building.

They left off a story.

that said i LOVE LOVE LOVE those artist spaces. brookland has such a great feel.

PoP, you should have rung the doorbell and asked to see the chapel. The altarpiece or reredos is just astonishingly beautiful.

The Dominican House of Studies, btw, is not part of Catholic Unversity. It’s formal title is the “Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception.” The word “Pontifical” means that it is authorized or accredited to grant academic degrees in sacred studies by the Holy See. Many of the seminaries around Catholic University, like St. Paul’s College (Paulist) on 4th Street, are also separate academic institutions from CUA. They are, in this sense, different from, say, Oxford and Cambridge, which have Catholic seminaries as private halls of studies within the University e.g., Blackfriars or Greyfriars. The Theological College next door to the Dominican House is, however, a part of CUA. It is operated by the Society of St. Sulpice.

Paging Howard Roark! Victoriam has a question for you.

Thanks for the link not telling – but the original sketch doesn’t look all that better.

If you’re going modern – especially as an addition to a traditional building – then go modern – as the Corcoran design. http://www.arcspace.com/architects/gehry/corcoran/

And I’m not sure I’d want to listen to Howard Roark very long, he always seemed insufferable, even at the peak of my adolescent Ayn Rand phase. Didn’t he blow up his building because they put balconies on it? I kind of like balconies.

“hardly tell it is new”?? It looks Photoshopped, for chrissake!