Almost 100 years after it opened, the historic Recreation Pier in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood was purchased in 2014 with the goal of restoring the head house and pier and converting it into a luxury hotel.
New College House is the first “purpose-built” college house on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus and its first new student-housing building in more than 40 years.
When the American Enterprise Institute purchased 1789 Massachusetts Ave. on Washington, D.C.’s Embassy Row in 2013, the National Historic Landmark was 12,000 sq ft too small for the institute’s needs.
The project team renovated part of the roof area above the Children’s National Medical Center’s clinical laboratory in Washington, D.C., to create a healing garden where young patients can safely enjoy being outside.
The 23-story Central National Bank building, Richmond’s only Art Deco building, according to the project team, was converted into a mixed-use redevelopment in the city’s central business district.
Delivered under a design-build contract, this project in an outer suburb of Washington, D.C., needed to be completed within 21 months after the contract award so that the Montgomery County Public Schools and the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission could occupy the facilities.
The new U.S. Diplomacy Center houses the nation’s first museum dedicated exclusively to the practice of U.S. diplomacy and also serves as the new public entrance and screening area for the U.S. Dept. of State headquarters.
With several climate-controlled buildings and animal enclosures, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s more than 3,000-acre site had a large monthly electric bill.