This building sat empty, coated in layer upon layer of crusty yellow paint. I often overheard people say it should be torn down as they walked by, and seeing it fully restored on the front is heartening. Now, to be honest, they chopped off the back of the building and combined all the other buildings…
Tag: Facadetomy
Façadetomy, Washington, DC
Update: The buildings behind these façades are now complete. I featured their transformation in this post about the Cupples Warehouses in St. Louis. Washington, DC is the location of a very strange phenomenon: the façadetomy. Essentially what happens is that developers stopped tearing down the entire building and leave the façade hanging precipitously in space…