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What Do You Think You're Looking At? #10

A fun illustrated series on the unexpected lives of commercial buildings

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Addison Del Mastro
Jun 09, 2021
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Today’s building comes, once again, from the Route 1 corridor in suburban Alexandria, Virginia. This area is undergoing a lot of change, and I’ll be writing about it separately soon. (I just took a day trip up and down here.) This long highway strip is interesting, because its form is practically the archetype of suburban sprawl, yet is also feels quite…

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