The Newseum building by James Polshek adds vitality and a sense of time and place to a street that, like so many important streets in the nation's capital, had been devoid of movement and three-dimensional massing.
A museum about news, the aptly named Newseum moved from across the Potomac River, in Arlington, Virginia, where it had outgrown its space. Its parent organization, the Freedom Forum, sought a location more heavily frequented by tourists.
