Brian Miller

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Bespoke soundsystem $3,600
Utility $150

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my daytime cafe is dying

(which is a broad term that also encompasses QSR and fast casual - no more specific term has emerged that I’m aware of)

Counter-service restaurant

I should at least do a walk of honor from the intersection of NY Ave/NJ Ave to Howard University Hospital

small brain: the demolition is blatantly illegal

galaxy brain: the award of the demolition contract is blatantly illegal

several beautifully done consultant CYA emails in this piece, the kind you write when you fully expect them to become an exhibit in a lawsuit

flower pot / Josef Hoffmann / 1904
US Tax Court / Victor Lundy / 1974

sometimes a chair gets to show a little leg

kind of surprised Gen Z isn’t more into Vienna considering it’s the city that invented croissants and anxiety

Rustic hotel nestled among trees in a solid granite valley

Native inspired art deco mantelpiece mural over a fireplace

Under the influence of the American Civic Association, the early National Park service developed a niche micro-style of rustic architecture. Yosemite’s Ahwahnee hotel is one of the defining examples, a fun hybrid of arts and crafts details, beaux-arts composition and art deco detailing.

only an hour into walking around Vienna and already feeling like this trip is going to be an all-timer in terms of great lettering and fonts on buildings and signage

GC solicitation slipped another 10 months from the last schedule update

The real issue will become obvious when they get bids - costs have increased substantially since the announcement of the old $92 million estimate getting ‘fully funded’

www.hillrag.com/2025/09/23/1...

We Become Locals By Becoming Regulars San Francisco relies on its many transplants getting to know its restaurants, service workers, and bartenders.

"For me, the way that I became a local is that I first became a regular."

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shoulda been the opposite, as the building effectively tanked the AFAM as an institution (the board’s more to blame here but the design certainly didn’t help)

contemporary restaurant service approach to place setting and clearing has completely destroyed the trope of the character who’s unsure of which utensil to use

that’s the following day in Tenleytown hours

in 1995 as part of my high school AP Journalism class I presented on how the internet was the future of journalism at the Columbia Scholastic Press Association conference - it was NOT a good presentation and I was not a savant and yet i still beat the NYT to setting up a website by a year

my most pedantic annual take is that DC shouldn’t call it Art All Night when it ends at 3am… please just sponsor a couple places to say open until daybreak!

how far we’ve fallen

a new restaurant we designed in Providence - Claudine, just 26 seats in a cloistered dining room, with a lighting approach that emphasizes coves and soft washes

www.rimonthly.com/claudine/

in my mind our penthouse is a spiritual descendant of the Wendy’s sunroom

amenity spaces we designed for a new apartment building in DC, Novel 14th Street - lots of warmth and texture to offset some low ceiling clearances

new multifamily amenity spaces we designed at The Wendy in Arlington VA - high contrast light and dark spaces in a neutral palette taking advantage of great window lines

amenity spaces we designed for a new apartment building in DC, Novel 14th Street - lots of warmth and texture to offset some low ceiling clearances

food and beverages with a logo are currently the leading indicator of a subpar dining experience

it's the cover of the album 90125 by the band yes from 1983 and it's a joke because today is 9/01/25 in american parlance

happy 90125 day

fashion houses were the first to fall and they’ve been the first to retvrn

just as the prophesy foretold

Metro was designed by Harry Weese with a warm material palette: terra cotta, granite, bronze and concrete. Metro used brown paint for the original 1000-series trains because brown is good for concealing rust, but it also because brown fits the color temperature of the system.