Blockbusters and Heroes

McPherson Square occupies a one point six-acre city block in downtown Washington, defined by K Street to the north, I Street to the south, and Fifteenth Street to the west and east. Laid out as part of Pierre Charles L'Enfant's seventeen…

Constitution Hall is a Neoclassical structure faced in Alabama limestone, located at seventeen seventy-six D Street Northwest. It was designed by architect John Russell Pope and opened in nineteen twenty-nine as a purpose-built venue for…

The Lincoln Memorial rises as a massive neoclassical temple of white Colorado Yule marble at the western end of the National Mall. Designed by architect Henry Bacon and modeled after the Parthenon in Athens, the structure features…

A vast, open stretch of grass and gravel paths creates the National Mall. In the film Transformers: Dark of the Moon, this long corridor functions as a high-speed track. Director Michael Bay used the open space to stage a sequence where…

The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center is distinguished by a massive, wedge-shaped footprint that occupies eleven acres of the Federal Triangle. It sits along Pennsylvania Avenue as the final piece of a development plan…

The Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden is a sunken, below-ground landscape situated between the museum building and the National Mall. It features paved walkways, lawns, and tiered concrete walls that hold bronze and steel sculptures by artists…

The intersection of Maryland Avenue and Third Street Southwest marks a transition point within the federal office district, sitting just south of the National Mall. The area is defined by the large-scale, modern office blocks that…

The United States Capitol features a massive cast-iron dome and a white marble facade that defines the skyline. During the production of Wonder Woman Nineteen Eighty-Four, filmmakers utilized the Capitol grounds to ground the story in a…