Willoughby Park is a city park in Friendship Heights , an incorporated area on the edge of Washington, D.C. Named after the adjacent Willoughby Condominium Building, it is at the intersection of Willard Ave and Friendship Boulevard. It is served by the Friendship Heights metro and bus station of the Washington Metro , which is located two blocks from the park.
9-470: Designed by Robert (Bob) Good, of Stephenson & Good Landscape Architecture, The park is characterized by its location in the midst of high-rise luxury condominium buildings. While there is some traffic noise, the park is generally quiet with few users. Sharing the intersection is a Chipotle Restaurant, the edge of the Geico Corporate campus, and another park directly across the street. The park
18-967: A career as a sculptor on an on-commission basis for local governments and civic groups across the United States, including in Maryland, Florida, and Washington, DC for the Friends of the National Zoo. Examples of his early work can be seen in Washington Entertainment Magazine Aug/Sept '90 issue and in the American Forests February 1986 issue, p. 38. The artist settled in Maryland in 1984, where he started his three companies between 1995-1998 and worked on numerous regional and national public art and urban design projects, most notably
27-717: A product line under the name of FŌTERA. Steven Weitzman was born in Manhattan, New York, to Martin and Pearl Weitzman. His father, Martin Weitzman, was a multi-disciplinary artist and graphic designer, who worked for the poster design division of the Federal Arts Program under the Workers Progress Administration (WPA). A selection of his posters are in the collection of The Library of Congress, and one, “See America, Welcome to Montana",
36-634: A third tower in this location. In April 2001 the park was renamed and redeveloped by JBG Co. as part of JBG's office and retail project to build the Chase Tower Complex (across the street). In 2009, the park hosted the Capital Bocking USA event, where free lessons were given for walking on stilts. 38°57′43.9″N 77°5′20.4″W / 38.962194°N 77.089000°W / 38.962194; -77.089000 Steven Weitzman (sculptor) Steven Weitzman (born 1952)
45-463: Is an American public artist and designer known for his figurative sculptures, murals, and aesthetic designs for highway and bridge infrastructure projects. Weitzman owns and operates three companies. Weitzman Studios, Inc. was started in 1995 and is through which he creates his public and personal art work, including paintings, prints, drawings and large-scale figurative sculpture. The aesthetic infrastructure design firm, Creative Design Resolutions, Inc.
54-412: Is heavily terraced, and slopes downhill from Friendship Blvd. There are many flights of stairs and ledges. There are many growing trees, a grassy oval, paved brick surface, and benches located throughout the park. There is an iron armillary sphere sculpture that weighs 5,000 pounds with mythological creatures and birds sitting atop sculpted white clouds and black marble. The sculpture by Steven Weitzman
63-595: Is said to be based on ancient ways of reading the universe. In the 19th century, this land was part of the Shoemaker Farm. After the construction of the adjacent Willoughby condo, this land was known as Willoughby Gulch, and consisted of a steep grassy slope leading 40 vertical feet up to the street level from the side of the building. The land had been acquired for the construction of the Willoughby Condominium and plans called for construction of
72-499: Was founded in 1998. Working primarily for Departments of Transportation, the design firm specializes in creating context sensitive solutions, a site-specific and community-oriented approach to transportation-related design that takes into consideration the community values, culture, history and environment of a place. His third company, Creative Form Liners, Inc., also established in 1998, fabricates urethane rubber molds or form liners, as well as full-color concrete and resinous terrazzo,
81-608: Was included in the United States Postal Services’ collection of WPA Poster stamps. Weitzman's father died when he was nine months old. After his death, Weitzman's mother moved the family from New York to West Los Angeles, CA. In 1971, at age nineteen, Weitzman moved to Boulder, Colorado where he embarked on a thirteen-year career as a self-taught graphic designer and illustrator for his own commercial studio. After teaching himself to sculpt and carve wood, Weitzman closed his commercial art practice in 1979 to begin
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