At Museums, Parking Is Nearly Extinct; Smithsonian Keeps Lots for EmployeesStephen C. Fehr
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parking availability (notably, the parking lot is right at the village, a short walk to the lifts) and road conditions, and maps in your hand. You
Koolhaas is polite but seems eager to escape. After a cup of coffee, we excuse ourselves and begin to navigate our way through the hall’s cavernous rooms. Occasionally, he stops to draw my attention to an architectural feature: the moody ambience, for instance, of an auditorium clad i...
“Wood, rubber, plastics,” Hugh Herr recited when I visited him in Cambridge earlier this year. “At the time of my accident, that was the reality. There were foot-ankle systems, but there was no computational intelligence. And a lot of key technological capabilities were not in place, ...
I also asked our helpful virtual Librarian Deb about the collection priorities and differences between the LOC, the National Archives, and the Smithsonian since it wasn’t clear to me where the collection development for one ended and the other began. She said the three collections have the foll...
The way was pretty clear for a while and then there were more Border Patrol cars than direction signs and suddenly we knew we had lost it. We U-turned into the parking lot of El Paso’s grand old railroad station. Polly urged Doug to seek directions; he just couldn’t find a way to...
Zoolights at the Smithsonians National Zoo in Washington DC Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images Zoolights at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington DC The Smithsonian National Zoo's Zoolights experience isn't just a light show. Don't get us wrong, there are plenty of...
A Smithsonian Institution report of July 13 and 14, 1880, said: “It is safe to say that there is probably no other cave in the world more completely and profusely decorated with stalactite and stalagmite ornamentation than that of Luray.” If you look closely at the photo above you will ...
“If we are really going to make changes to our cities, get rid of parking lots, we need selfdrive cars,” he says. Google's prototypes have covered over a million kilometers on the road. They have also had to deal with unexpected situations, such as a child driving a toy car in ...