Wormley Row

Despite this more empowering scenario for today’s buyers, there are still some areas where price is not negotiable. Take Georgetown. Nearly all realtors agree that Georgetown is the most insulated when it comes real estate in the D.C. area, and there is little chance of receiving a discount on homes in the neighborhood because of its premium location. In other words: it’s best for sellers, worst for buyers.

However, there are some spectacularly exciting projects underway in Georgetown that can not be ignored. Among them is Wormley Row, a group of condos being into a school that was built in 1885.

Bethesda, MD-based Encore Development is constructing the property. Encore is a second generation builder and developer whose clients include the high-end residences at Alban Row in Northwest Washington and the high-rise development the Palisades of Bethesda.

In the late 1800s, Wormley School was named after James Wormley, a Washington entrepreneur who advocated for the education of the city’s Afican American children. The former school building features a stunning historic façade and is being completely rebuilt to house seven condominiums, which are expected to open by May. The project also includes six townhouses scheduled to be constructed on the property by year’s end.

The condos will range in price from around $1.295 million for a one bedroom patio unit to $4.45 million for a duplex on the third floor of the building. The first of the units-a duplex –has already been sold.

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• Last year, Ehrgood, also of Randall Hagner, sold the most expensive home in D.C . history: the 1810 Bowie-Sevier mansion, located in the 3100 block of Q street in Georgetown, which sold for a whopping $25 million.

 

• Listing prices are pure function. A lot of buyers look at price, but it doesn’t mean a thing. You don’t really know where a seller is willing to go until you acturally make an offer.

 

• Another beauty- a new constructed, six-bedroom, seven bathroom home at 7730 Lee ave. in Alexzandia,VA. – was originally priced at 2.45 million by Colwell Banker Residential Brokerage. The price has now been dropped to $1.995 million.

 

• A 20-bedroom, eight-bath brick Colonial at 2900 Rhode Island ave, NE, that once went for nearly $1.5 million is now selling for just slightly above $1 million.

The Dalai Lama’s journey

As China launches a crackdown on Tibet, the Buddhist leader fights for his people’s dignity. An intimate look at his spiritual struggle

by Pico Iyer

Learn a different Language

People who settled in the Shenandoah Valley spoke many different languages. Sometimes they understood each other, but often they did not. So in 1817, the Henkel Press published the ABC und Bilder-Buch (picture-book and ABC), mostly to help people of German desent learn English. But it can also teach German to you today!.

Jex

Smoke curls upward  from a train engine. A women and child stroll down a lane. The town nestles beside the river and upon the hills. All these picturesque images describe the subject matter of the painting of Garner W.Jex (1895-1979) which are on the display in the museum of Shenandoah Valley changing Exhibition Gallery Through May04,2008.

Garner W.Jex :Hapers Ferry Landscapes displays 18 paintings by Washington,D.C, artist Garner W.Jex . From 1920s through 1956, Jex and his fellow artists in the Landscape Club of Washington travelled to town of Hapers Ferry, west Virginia, to look for inpiration and subject matter. Jex’s images captured the beauty of this Shenandoah Valley town longer before tourists discovered it.

john l.heatwole(1948-2006)

Beloved woodcarver and historian, gathered hundreds of folk stories throughout the Virginias. Now, sit back and enjoy as the master storyteller shares his tales in the new book.

john l.heatwole,the world Gatherer

Oral history Interview

by

Carol Maureen DeHart

Rax Rinnekangas

He(born 1954) ia a finnish photographer, filmmaker and writer. In his work,, he asqires to address reality as both a realistic and a  metaphysical quality. His cultural themes are the memory of our past, the light, and the human being in his spirital and phisical space. He has held  nearly 50 priviate exhibitions in findland and aboard, in places such as Berlin and Madrid. he has made several documentary films about visual arts, architecture and modern music. further more, he has published over 30 books: novel, poem, essays, short stories and books on photography Among other prizes, he has been awarded the State Prize for photography and the State Prize for Literature. He has lived in several years in Spain and Germany.

Hues of Europe

Robek

As Robeks, we have developed  a sophisticated brand, and outstanding product line and an effective operating system that provides exceptional business oppertunities for franchisees. And in an era where industries change rapidly, there are a few business segments in which you know where the trends are heading. Clearly, as health issues continue to become more critical and the “Baby Boomer” population ages, the demand for more nutritious alternatives to traditional fast food is rapidly increasing. Robeks fills this niche perfectly with its nutritious, graet tasting smoothies, juices aand delicious healthy lifestyle and providing products with the unique combination of great taste, outstanding nutrition and conveniences.

when you ourchase a Rebeks franchise, you are joining a growing team of industry experts and highly motivated local business owners. We are looking for people who are committed to bring a healthy lifestyle franchise to their community and are passionate about working hard to grow a successful business.

we are looking for people who are:

• highly motivated to succeed.
• Willing to devote their full-time efforts.
• Team players with strong leadership skills
• committed to providing superior custumer service
• Passinate about living and promoting a healthy lifestyle.
• Enthusiastic in promoting the Rebeks brand in their community.

If this is you, take the next step and get in touch with us!

Aldo Rossi rememberd

Aldo Rossi rememberd

Born in Milan on May3,1931.He studied architecture and cinema at Milan Polytechnic. He edited the Italian magzine Casabella in the 1960s and taught architecture in Milan,Venice, Zurich, New YorkCity, and Buenos Aires, cemeting his reputation as both scholar and builder. Since 1986 he ran his practice from office in Milan and Manhatten.He died on September 6 at the age of 66 following injuries sustained in a car crash.

Car accidents figoured prominently in Aldo Rossi’s life and death.An accident in 1971 influenced his design for the Cemetery of Sancataldo in Modena,Italy. After the accident he recalled lying immobillzed in a hospital bed, painfully firming Rossi’s theory of architecture as a sum of distinct elements assembled in a rational framework. This became mass grave with a chimneylike cap- a shockingly frank assessment of the program as a city for the dead.

Rossi remained faithful to the vocabulary of forms he established at Modena, as if in their recombination he would discover something new. He brought this approach to his architecture practice, composed largely of former students working in offices around the world. For each new commission a differrent mix of  collaborators was assembled. The monumental simplicity of Rossi’s designs make them at once obvious and fresh. But it is their air of familiarity that makes them, like Rossi himself, seem even-present and eternal.

Over the years, I’ve visited many of his buildings, including celebrated works like the town hall in Borgoricco,Italy, a family tomb outside Milan, and a hotel in Fukuoka,Japan. There is something so direct and powerfull yet so serene and elusive about Rossi’s buildings that when face to face with one of them, there are no words.

What did Rossi mean to architecture? I think of his own ref;ections on his  buildings, his writings and evocative drawings.” While I may talk about a school, a cemetery, a theater, it is more correct to say that I talk about life, death, imagination.” he wrote. And what did architecture mean to Rossi? He answered that question, too, when he accepted the Prizker Architecture Prize in 1990.”Searching for truth in my profession, I have ended up loving architecture.Maybe it is simple but strange satifaction that makes one love his own profession, So let me call it ‘ cara architecttura’, or in English,’ dear architecture,’ or with your permission,’ darling architecture.’”

Karen Stein

China:three views

As the world turns its attention to China in anticipantion of the summer Olympics in Beijing,the three presents the work of three talented contempary Chinese filmmakers, each with their own challenging perspective on the their nation’s history and politics.

Electric Shadows

From director Xiao Jiang, a bracing new female voice in Chinese cinema, comes this ode to love(and love of movies) that has been compared to Cinema Paradiso.Spanning the Cultural Revolution to the present day, it follows two childhood friends who rediscover one another years later. This is “a lovely, elegant paean to the joy and liberty that films offer”(Hollywood Reporter).

Still Life

In the lastest feature from Jia Zhangke,two characters search for love ones in a town soon to be flooded by the Tree Gorges Dam project. Both a superb visual stylist and a clear-eyed observer of his rapidly changeing country, Jia finds paradoxical beauty in the juxtaposition of one town being demolished to make way for a modern one rising above the flood line.