The theatre that pioneered American regional drama built itself a glass crown on the Potomac. Arena Stage, founded in 1950 by Zelda Fichandler as one of the nation's first resident theatres - the first to transfer a production to Broadway, the first integrated theatre in Washington, and the launching pad for The Great White Hope - anchors the Southwest Waterfront at 1101 6th Street SW inside the Mead Center for American Theater, the 135-million-dollar Bing Thom-designed complex that opened in Oc.....

Purpose-built for Major League Soccer, Audi Field is the home of D.C. United, opened in 2018 in the Buzzard Point area of southwest Washington. The soccer-specific stadium was a landmark project for the club and the city, giving the team a modern, dedicated home after decades of sharing the cavernous RFK Stadium, and helping spur wider redevelopment along the Anacostia waterfront. The stadium holds around twenty thousand spectators in a compact, steeply raked bowl designed to keep fans close to.....

Washington put a championship arena on the grounds of a Victorian asylum, and it worked. CareFirst Arena at 1100 Oak Drive SE opened on 22 September 2018 as the Entertainment and Sports Arena, a 69-million-dollar, 4,200-seat venue on the St. Elizabeths East Campus in Congress Heights - the historic former federal psychiatric hospital grounds east of the Anacostia River - designed by Rossetti and Marshall Moya, owned by the District and operated by Events DC as the anchor of the neighbourhood's l.....

In the historic Capitol Hill neighbourhood of Washington immediately east of the United States Capitol, the Library of Congress is the largest library in the world and one of the most architecturally extraordinary public buildings in the federal capital. The library's permanent collection contains more than 175 million individual catalogued items including 39 million books, 75 million manuscripts, 22 million photographs, 5 million maps, 8 million pieces of sheet music and 7 million sound recordi.....

On the Anacostia River waterfront in the rapidly redeveloping Navy Yard neighbourhood about a mile south-east of the United States Capitol, Nationals Park is the home stadium of the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball and one of the most modern ballparks in the league. The 41,339-seat venue opened on 30 March 2008 at a cost of approximately 693 million dollars, replacing the Nationals' previous interim home at the historic Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium across the Anacostia River. .....

In the heart of Capitol Hill in Washington immediately east of the United States Capitol and immediately north of the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the American federal judiciary and one of the most architecturally distinguished government buildings in the federal capital. The dramatic neoclassical white-marble building was designed by the celebrated American architect Cass Gilbert (the designer of New York's Woolworth Building) and substanti.....

In the south-west quadrant of downtown Washington just three blocks south of the National Mall, the Museum of the Bible is one of the largest private religious museums in the United States and one of the most architecturally distinguished new museums opened in the federal capital during the late 2010s. The dramatic 430,000-square-foot building occupies a converted historic 1923 refrigerated warehouse and opened to the public on 17 November 2017 following a 500-million-dollar private development .....