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| Wshington is the city of memorials. Though, unlike many memorials I've seen, for instance in Poland, the ones in DC are really well done. They're not overwhelming, nor kitsch, and do show respect to those they commemorate. Here, a detail of Vietnam Memorial and Washington Monument in the distance. This one is quite big actually, and local zoning laws forbid building higher than the famous obelisk. |
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| DC's Chinatown actually is just a couple of blocks in Downtown Washington. It's less of an ethnic enclave, rather just a restaurant strip. I've caught the shot of this deserted eatery during slow hours after lunch and before dinner time. |
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| The National Portrait Gallery is the part of Smithsonian Institution. It's covered courtyard is probably the most beautiful I've ever seen, including British Museum in London. |
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| One of many postmodern office blocks in Downtown Washington. They have a law in DC that forbids putting up buildings taller than the Washington Memorial. Therefore, many office complexes fill up whole urban blocks and, despite their architectural value, create a kind of unfriendly, empty public spaces. |
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| I started my last brief visit to DC in the tunnels of Capitol's Metro. Postmodern, spacious concrete world under District of Columbia make a great impression on someone used to dirty platforms of NYC Subway or narrow corridors of Paris Metro. |