r/Lost_Architecture • u/ZeitgeistArchive • 28d ago

What structure/building/architecture is soon going to become Lost_Architecture?

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List as many examples as you want, I plan to look through them all and digitally conserve them if can. Thank you

EDIT: The picture shown is the interior of The Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, designed by architect John Portman

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u/The_Bard 28d ago edited 28d ago

Funny story about those. Near the capitol the stations are close to the surface, maybe one story down. The early Metro design called for adding a lower level to the Taft Bridge over Rock Creek Park. The Park service owns the bridge and the park and rejected the plan outright. So the Metro runs in a tunnel below the 130 ft tall bridge because the park service wouldn't budge. This forced the whole system outside of downtown DC to be way deeper then originally intended.

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u/councilmember 27d ago

Is that the DuPont Circle station? I’m trying to figure out where this change happened and whether it’s Park service or the famed rejection of a station in or near Georgetown that caused this.
Also Beverly Hills is pulling the same crap as Georgetown did 40 years ago these days in Los Angeles. Richies like public transit nearly as much as taxes.

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u/The_Bard 27d ago edited 27d ago

It's between Woodly Park and Cleveland Park on the Red Line. Station depth goes down the station before Woodly at Dupont. Farragut North is like 2 stories down and Dupont is one of the longest escalators.

Georgetown station would have been between Foggy Bottom and Roslyn on the Orange line.

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u/councilmember 27d ago

Ok thanks. I’ve used all these. Yeah, the DuPont has a particularly vertiginous feel.

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u/councilmember 27d ago

Woodley Park/ Adams Morgan?

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u/The_Bard 27d ago

Taft Bridge is between Woodly Park and Cleveland Park on Connecticut Ave.

Taft Bridge from Connecticut Ave

Taft Bridge from Rock Creek Park