Below Washington DC's Dupont Circle, and some of the Capital's most prestigious real estate, a hidden world lies waiting to be rediscovered:
In cold, pitch-black tunnels strewn with garbage, spider webs and half-empty bottles of liquor lie 100,000 square feet of white-tiled space left behind in 1962, after the last streetcar cleared the Dupont Circle trolley station. Trolley tracks line the crescent-shaped concrete tunnels. The trolley-shaped facades of the short-lived Dupont Down Under food court, which failed miserably in 1996, fill one of the former station platforms.
This is where architect Julian Hunt envisions a series of hip galleries
called Dupont Underground, where up to 1,500 people at a time would
take in avant-garde art shows and exhibits of experimental
architecture. Museum-quality lighting would fill curved hallways, and a
sophisticated ventilation system would keep the humidity to art gallery
standards....The proposal, promoted by a group of artists and architects called the Arts Coalition for Dupont Underground,
is the latest pitch for reopening the trolley station abandoned beneath
one of the city's most expensive and colorful neighborhoods.
More.
Great Space.
Reminds me of an derelict building we used for a guerilla type exhibition a couple of years back in Australia
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Posted by: Fernando | 02/17/2010 at 11:17