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Lobby

LOBBY OF 927 15TH ST
WASHINGTON, DC

This project is a renovation and redesign of an existing office-building lobby. The building was built in 1917

The size of the space —under 300sq. ft.— and the simplicity of the program, allowed us to understand the design in an equally simple way. And to render our solution by focusing on essential architectural ideas—material, form, assembly. We saw the lobby as a porch connecting inside and out. The canopy, which is both roof and ceiling, establishes the spatial connection between the street and the lobby. The ground plane is a cleft stone indicating its origin in the earth but ordered and therefore emblematic of the processes of construction. Finally, the blue of the sky gives way to the blue ceiling that floats above and encloses the assembly.

Awards & Publications

1997 Washington Chapter AIA; Award for Excellence in Interior Architecture

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Offices of Mycom

OFFICES OF MYCOM
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

 

We were hired to design the offices for the Board of Directors of a Malaysian holding company. The array of offices and support spaces were fairly typical of any corporate environment – executive offices, board-room, conference rooms, staff and secretarial areas. Less predictable were those issues that are particular to the Chinese / Malaysian culture. These ranged from the esoteric design guidelines of Feng Shui to the subtle and not so subtle issues of the Malaysian “peerage” system to working with local materials and craftsmen.

Awards & Publications

1997 Virginia Society of Architecture Inform Magazine Award

1996 Washington Chapter AIA; Merit Award Interior Architecture

Interior Design, August 1997, Lead article, “New Design in Asia: Holding Pattern”

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AED Offices

AED OFFICES
WASHINGTON, DC

 

The program was to design the offices for a large non profit organization. This included a standard array of rooms – private offices, staff and clerical work areas, conference and work rooms and support and storage areas. The offices encompassed 125,000 sq.ft. spread over five floors In addition the organization needed a training facility for outside visitors and clients. The training lab was located in a mezzanine area affording the opportunity to clearly articulate a small auditorium area that is bounded by the more prosaic spaces of offices, storage and kitchenette.

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St Ignatius Chapel

ST IGNATIUS CHAPEL

CALCAGNINI CONTEMPLATIVE CENTER, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
CLARKE COUNTY, VA

This Chapel is a component of the Calcagnini Contemplative Center.

Small and intimate, the chapel is intended for groups up to 24. Developing an architecture that imparts a strong and clear spirituality without specific reference to any one religion was at the heart of the design intentions. While Georgetown is a Jesuit university, the make-up of its students and faculty is varied. The chapel needed to serve all religious communities at the school – Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, etc. The design succeeds, avoiding both domesticity and overt religious allusion through its austere palette and simplicity of design.

Conceived as an elemental pavilion, the Chapel’s palette is spare yet rich. The stuccoed masonry walls are perforated with 8” x 8” x 1½” slabs of glass; the floor is poured-in-place stained concrete. Exposed fir framing and cedar boards complete the interior. The roof is galvanized aluminum, typical for the sheds and barns of the region.

Awards & Publications

2014 Faith & Form/IFRAA International Awards Program for Religious Art & Architecture: Honor Award in Religious Architecture

2014 Virginia Society AIA: Honor Award

2014 Interior Design Magazine; Best of Year Awards Honoree

2014 NAIOP Honor Award

2009 Washington Chapter AIA;

Honor Award for Unbuilt Projects

A+A Magazine: Architectural Society of China, April 2015

Southeast Asia Building, 2015

Featured in Architizer, 2014

World Architects, 2014, “Building of the Week.” Featured in “50×50 – 50 States in 50 Weeks.”

Specifier Magazine, 2014, “Peace on Earth” by Sara Smylie

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Calcagnini Contemplative Center

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
CALCAGNINI CONTEMPLATIVE CENTER
CLARKE COUNTY, VA

“Contemplatives in Action.” This phrase captures the essence of Jesuit intent perhaps more than any other. At the heart of Ignatian teachings is the Jesuit tradition of spiritual retreats. The Calcagnini Contemplative Center serves the 20 retreat programs at Georgetown University, the premier Jesuit school in the United States.

Georgetown’s program of retreats is varied; some are religious – covering all faiths represented at the university; many retreats are secular. Historically, the University had rented multiple venues to serve this broad agenda. In 2004, Georgetown purchased land in rural Clarke County, Virginia to build a center to house all its retreats.

Organized about two quads, the Center comprises multiple buildings. The Entry Court, Chapel, Dining Hall, Community Building and an existing, circa 1885, farmhouse, define a public courtyard with westerly views to the mountains and Shenandoah Valley. The cabin ranges center on a smaller and more private court.

This Center serves the core mission of Georgetown University unlike any other facility in the school’s 225-year history.

Awards & Publications

2015 Virginia Society of Architects AIA Merit Award in Architecture

2015 WoodWorks Regional Excellence Award

2014 NAIOP Honor Award

Wood Design & Building, 2015, “Celebrating Excellence in Wood Structures”

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AED Conference Center

AED CONFERENCE CENTER
WASHINGTON, DC

 

Our client, a large Not For Profit organization, leased the top five floors of an existing office building. Beyond the space required for their corporate offices they wanted a conference center that could accommodate 400 people. The central core of the original building was an parking garage which rose from the basement to the roof. Our office was challenged to remove the top six levels of the garage, reconstruct the space and insert the conference center. The specifics of the program included a single space that could accommodate 400 seats, break-out rooms, a catering kitchen, full state-of-the-art audio visual capabilities including translation booths.

Awards & Publications

2000 Virginia Society of Architects
Inform Magazine

1999 Washington Chapter AIA;
Merit Award in Interior Architecture

Inform Architecture+Design in the
Mid -Atlantic, 2000 number 2

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Hodson House

HODSON HOUSE
ANNAPOLIS, MD

Small – just under 500 students on a historic 31-acre campus in Annapolis, MD. – St. John’s College holds
 a significant place in American higher education. Dedicated to a Liberal Arts education with a curriculum built upon The Great Books Program, this school, the 3rd oldest college in the country, offers a rare, possibly unique course of study.

In 2009 our firm, in a joint venture combining Architecture and Landscape Architecture, developed a Comprehensive Master Plan for St. John’s. That study outlined the qualities of the campus, its limitations, and its importance and contributions to the city. It identified and prioritized immediate and future needs and developed a framework for sustainable campus management and growth for the next 25 years. Hodson House is the first building to emerge from that report.

Our design intentions addressed 4 objectives: develop a site plan that affords a gracious campus entry from King William St., design a structure that maintains and works in concert with the small scale/multi-purpose buildings that make up much of the campus, develop a design that is clearly modern but works with and adds to historic Annapolis, and provide needed space for the administrative and academic missions of the school. The program includes offices for Development, Alumni Relations, faculty offices and a seminar /conference room.

Awards & Publications

2015 Maryland AIA Chapter Honor Award

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St. John’s College

ST JOHN’S COLLEGE
ANNAPOLIS, MD

St. John’s College, known for their curriculum based on the canon of “Great Books,” maintains two campuses –one in Santa Fe, NM and a much older one in the heart of Annapolis, MD. In developing their Comprehensive Master Plan for the Annapolis campus we were charged with an array of tasks – surveying the condition of the existing buildings & grounds, assessing current and emerging space utilization needs, and developing a framework of sustainable campus management. The work culminated in a Campus plan that proposes a trajectory of initiatives that guide the school’s growth for the next 25 years. This project was a joint venture with EE&K Architects.

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