south facade 001 - United States Institute of Peace - 2013-09-30 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
south facade 001 - United States Institute of Peace - 2013-09-30 / Tim Evanson
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Looking northwest at the south facade of the United States Institute of Peace building in Washington, D.C., in the United States.The idea of a peace academy similar to a military academy goes back to George Washington. In the 1970s, several grassroots efforts were made to establish a peace academy. President Jimmy Carter finally appointed a commission to examine the idea in 1979. But the idea did not become reality until 1984. President Ronald Reagan wanted the United States to send arms, money, and military advisors to the "contras" fighting the communist government of Nicaragua. The "contras" were linked to far-right groups and death squads, and the proposal was highly controversial. To win acceptance for his plan, Reagan also agreed to a proposal by Senator Jennings Randolph, Mark Hatfield, and Spark Matsunaga and Rep. Dan Glickman to form a national peace academy. The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) was established in 1986.In 1996, Congress transferred a three-acre plot belonging to the former U.S. Naval Observatory Annex at 23rd Street NW and Constitution Avenue NW. After a lengthy process to identify an architect in which 50 architectural firms were asked to submit and 26 did so, the USIP selected Moshe Safdie Architects in 2001. Safdie beat out four other finalists: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Michael Graves and Associates, Polshek Partnership (now Ennead Architects), and Weiss/Manfredi (which withdrew). The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, which has the power to review the aesthetic design of all major federal construction projects, wanted a spectacular building since it and the Lincoln Memorial form a "gateway" to the city for traffice leaving the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge and proceeding east on the ceremonial Constitution Avenue.The building is constructed of reinforced concrete columns and floor slabs. The exterior is composed of precast concrete. It was acid-etched and colored beige to mimic limestone. Steel is used to frame the glass curtain walls, and the 8-inch-thick roof is made of layers of glass set in a steel tube grid. This canopy, now named the Ansary Peace Dove, is covered on the inside by a translucent plastic film.The structure has two large atria. One faces the Lincoln Memorial to the south. It consists of a glass curtain wall 80 feet high which bows slightly outward. From the 11,800 square foot Great Hall, three floors of offices are visible from the through a curved interior glass window-wall that continues the geometric line of the exterior.A smaller atrium with an employee entrance faces 23rd Street NW and the Potomac River to the west. Again, glass interior window-walls allow people to look up and at the three floors of offices. This atrium also acts as a 3,600 square foot food court, and dining tables are scattered throughout it. A simplified companion roof canopy covers this atrium.The USIP building houses administrative offices, a library, an archive, meeting rooms, and a conference center. It includes the 20,000 square foot Global Peacebuilding Center, a public education area that contains touch-screen kiosks, a resource center, and classrooms. A 230-seat auditorium serves as the facility's main communications hub. It offers built-in high-definition teleconferencing. The auditorium's rippled white ceiling and the walls and its backlit wooden grillwork help control the acoustics. A press room next to the auditorium is lined with transparent, acoustically absorbent fabric trimmed in blond wood moldings.The USIP headquarters is LEED-certified. Radiant heating is provided from hot water-bearing tubes in the Portuguese limestone floors. The structure uses high-efficiency condensing boilers and water-conserving plumbing fixtures, and all paints and other finishes were low in volatile organic compounds (VOCs).A three-level underground parking garage provides space for worker automobiles.Ground for the new headquarters was broken in June 2008 and it was completed in March 2011 (but not occupied until October). A quarter of the money for the $186 million structure came from private donations.Because of the large amount of private funding, Safdie had control over the interior and furniture design. All moldings, finishings, furniture, and artwork mimics the structure's overall sense of sleek, gentle curves and squares.The USIP acquired in 2012 two Navy buildings just north of its headquarters. A professional training center for conflict resolution and peacebuilding is planned for this site. |
| 撮影日 | 2013-09-30 08:01:38 |
| 撮影者 | Tim Evanson , Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA |
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| カメラ | NIKON D7100 , NIKON CORPORATION |
| 露出 | 0.004 sec (1/250) |
| 開放F値 | f/8.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 55 mm |