L'Enfant Plaza station
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L'Enfant Plaza station is an intermodal transit station complex located at L'Enfant Plaza in the Southwest Federal Center neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It consists of an underground Washington Metro rapid transit station and an elevated Virginia Railway Express commuter rail station.
Intersecting vaults above the Yellow Line and Green Line platforms looking south.
The VRE platform, which opened in 1992
The 7th Street head house of the Metro station visually echoes the arched roof of the underground station
L'Enfant Plaza
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L'Enfant Plaza is a complex of four commercial buildings grouped around a large plaza in the Southwest section of Washington, D.C., United States. Immediately below the plaza and the buildings is La Promenade shopping mall.
L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C. in 2011; the glass pyramid, installed in the late 1990s, was removed two years later, in 2013.
The United States Capitol in the Southwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. in July 1939
William Zeckendorf in 1952; he proposed naming the buildings after Pierre Charles L'Enfant
I. M. Pei, the architect who designed the master plan and overall look of L'Enfant Promenade and Plaza