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Friendship Archway (Washington, D.C.)
''Friendship Archway'' is a paifang installed at Chinatown (Washington, D.C.), Chinatown, Washington, D.C., United States. It is one of the largest ceremonial arches outside of China. History Planning for an archway began in 1984, to be jointly funded by Washington DC's newly-announced sister city, Beijing. However, the largely anti-communist population of Chinatown, where the archway was to be located, disagreed with the involvement of mainland China and protested. Local architect Alfred H. Liu designed the ''Friendship Archway'' in 1985 after city officials rejected plans for twelve smaller arches to be placed throughout Chinatown, each decorated with one of the Chinese zodiac animals. Liu had previously designed Wah Luck House, a low-income residential high-rise, in 1982 to meet a United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD deadline; that building was designed in three days and constructed in seven weeks. He was also chairman of the Chinatown Development Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Highsmith
Carol McKinney Highsmith (born Carol Louise McKinney on May 18, 1946) is an American photographer and author. Her work documents the landscapes, architecture, and people of the rural and urban United States in a decades-long nationwide study, in progress since the 1980s. Highsmith has donated her photographs to the Library of Congress since 1992, creating a collection of nearly 100,000 images, all of which are in the public domain. Highsmith began her nationwide photography project after extensively photographing the Willard InterContinental Washington, Willard Hotel in the early 1980s for its restoration, a project that introduced her to the works of pioneering 20th-century photojournalist Frances Benjamin Johnston. Highsmith cites Johnston as a major influence on her works, drawing on Johnston's comprehensive architectural and landscape photography of the 1920s and 1930s and her donation of her life's work to the Library of Congress. Since 2010, Highsmith has toured multiple st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
