Stripped of their facades and interiors, two 14-story former office buildings and a connecting lobby were transformed into a 435-unit residential complex.
Located within a former big-box department store, the natatorium features an eight-lane 50-meter-long competition pool, and a pair of three-lane 25-yd-long warm-up pools to support a variety of student swimming programs.
The effort to create Washington, DC’s first Net Zero Energy school was a lesson in perseverance, as the project team faced COVID-related material shortages and absenteeism, and permitting delays that shrank the original nearly two-year-long baseline schedule to just sixteen months.
This project involved a significant design challenge: converting three floors in a César Pelli-designed office building with 13-ft floor-to-floor heights and deep steel girders into state-of-the art labs.
The $60-million interchange project was designed to combat traffic congestion, boost safety and enable pedestrians and bicyclists to move more freely along Battlefield Parkway in Leesburg.
The twin spans of the Delaware Memorial Bridge were showing their age by 2018, with more than 1 billion cars and trucks having rolled across their decks since the first span opened in 1952.
The project provides research space for the National Institute on Aging. The design included single-story modular construction with open concept labs to reduce costs and maximize available space on the $33.7-million project.