What Do You Think You're Looking At? #10

A fun illustrated series on the unexpected lives of commercial buildings

Today’s building comes, once again, from the Route 1 corridor in suburban Alexandria, Virginia. This area is undergoing a lot of change, and I’ll be writing about it separately soon. (I just took a day trip up and down here.) This long highway strip is interesting, because its form is practically the archetype of suburban sprawl, yet is also feels quite…