Given the project’s location in an existing senior housing community, the team safeguarded residents particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 as well as its own staff.
An ambitious plan to transform a 50-year-old, 13-story office building into a 16-story, mixed-use residential development was nearly stymied at the outset when asbestos was discovered in nearly half of the interior walls as well as in the sealant used to glue drywall to columns.
Clad in floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall and veiled with stainless steel architectural metal screening, Washington’s newest trophy office building has close ties with the historic Thaddeus Stevens School next door.
Located in a developing neighborhood, the school offers students, teachers, parents and the community an opportunity to engage in spaces that support education.