From top to bottom this photo is filled with incredible detail. And then I look at the sky blue vinyl siding on my house and sigh…
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Obviously the building above still has a ways to go before it is finished but I thought is was wild how large the expansion is. You can see the size of the original building in blue. Hard to predict at the moment but do you think this large an expansion/Pop up and out is gonna work? It is located on 11th Street, NW just south of Florida Ave.
And a couple blocks further south on 11th you’ll find this building that we’ve been tracking. Honestly, I keep changing my mind on this one, sometimes I dig it sometimes not so much. It is interesting to note how this section of 11th some surrounding streets have attracted so many modern designs.
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There are a couple of blocks in South East, not too far from Eastern Market, that has a wild new development. A friend of mine said that she believes it is a mixed income development.
Does anyone know the story behind these homes? The pictures don’t do them great justice, but I thought it looked awesome.
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We’ve judged the restaurant founding farmers located at 1924 Pennsylvania Ave, NW but the building itself (IMF HQ) is worth judging. People, including myself, have pretty strong opinions about many new glass buildings. I think this one looks pretty sweet. What do you think – thumbs up or down?
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Clearly this was built in the last few years. It looks like it could be a new condo. Not too bad for a dorm, yeah? It’s South Hall located at 2135 F Street, NW. Thumbs up or down?
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I thought these were two cool examples from GW University. Above is from the Marvin Center:
I think the glass part looks fantastic and actually blends a bit with the concrete part. What do you guys think?
And not too far away is a pretty seemless brick extension:
The front part of the brick building above houses the GW Tonic.
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The new United States Institute of Peace building is located at Constitution Avenue and 23rd Street, NW. You can learn more about the architect and building here. I happened to have passed this weekend and was blown away because I hadn’t been in that area in ages. What do you think of the design of the building?
Here’s a rendering:
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The great one above is located, of course, in the Forest Hills neighborhood. And a reader writes in about the Petworth Bungalow below:
“Thought you might be interested in this renovation that is going on! Since moving into the 300 block of Rock Creek Church Road, we learned that this single family, detached bugalow has been empty for a while and has been the ugly one on the block. Rumor has it that it was to be a boarding house for troubled girls, but the organizer ran out of funds. It has since been picked up by “We Buy Ugly Houses.” I spoke with the manager of their DC properties and he said it would be a beauty! Originally, the owners talked about demo-ing and trying to build a monster house. They decided against it as it was already quite sizable and they were ablet o avoid major changes to the permits (apparently, when they bought the place it came with approved plans!) Once done, it will be a 5 bedroom, 4.5 house with finished space over 3500 square feet! It was painted last week and is looking quite nice with new windows, a new roof and a new porch. This will be one to keep an eye on for a pulse on prices in the neighborhood!”
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This unusual home is being built near all the great houses of the day I’ve been showing in Forest Hills.
I’m super intrigued by the walkway:
Pretty wild, yeah? The project is being done by Travis Price Architects. I’ll be sure to update when it’s completed.
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This is a pretty good looking building at 3417 Massachusetts Ave, NW. Anyone know what is housed here? What do you think of the building itself – thumbs up or down?
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This is the house we looked at back in September located by Rock Creek Drive and Woodland Drive in the Woodland-Normanstone neighborhood. The architect is Michael Marshall. Here’s what it looked like in September. You digging the progress?
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We took a brief look at this building before it was completed in March. I think it looks amazing now. Do you guys like the style?
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“Dear PoP,
If you haven’t seen it, check out the new pop-up on the Unit Block of T St NW. I think the house number is 68. It is the most architecturally sympathetic pop-up I have ever seen. Indeed, I pointed it out to a few friends today and it took them a few minutes to actually see it – that is how sympathetic it is. It looks like there is still work being done on the house at this point – would be interesting to see what the inside looks like!”
I’ll keep my eyes peeled to see if it goes on the market for a peek at some inside photos. What do you guys think of the pop up?
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Ed. Note: Michael Kiefer from GreenDCRealty will be contributing a monthly column about various aspects of real estate in DC.
GreenSpur Inc.one of Washington’s exciting new green developers recently took on quite possibly one of the more challenging adaptive reuse projects I have seen in years in an effort to demonstrate that “carbon neutral” construction is possible at all levels, even with a dilapidated pre Civil War era home. This adaptive reuse home at 19 4Th St NE being just blocks from the Nation’s Capitol was to be emblematic of the challenges GreenSpur Inc was looking for, however rebuilding of it was the easy part, the real challenges didn’t come about until the layers of DCRA began to unfold.
As most are familiar dealing with local government agencies in large city there are the normal hurdles that one must overcome to get projects up and running and with DCRA the District’s building regulation department is no different, that is until you start proposing elements of sustainability and historical preservation. Preserving the historic makeup of Washington is something we all want to see and be a part of but we seem to be caught in the midst of some conflicts when it comes to proposing some really exciting opportunities to reducing a buildings total life-cycle impact on the environment. DCRA’s primary focus is to make sure that buildings are constructed properly however their knowledge of some fairly mainstream technologies such as geothermal HVAC systems presented this group with a few more challenges.
Greenspur’s president Mark Turner is no stranger to the DC permitting process, he previously worked as Vice President of Construction for Abdo Development. Personally I was surprised when I heard that it took over 6 months, just to acquire a building permit when all you hear is that the Mayor’s office is seeking to find ways of expanding green development and green collar jobs here in the Nation’s Capitol. After acquiring the building permits DCRA proceeded to shut this firms job down twice for lack of permits, which as anyone who has ever attempted to build something in DC knows being shut down does nothing but cost time and money. From my discussions with Turner he mentioned that DCRA finally acknowledged that the proper permits had already been obtained and that it was an internal issue within their department that caused the delay.
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A few commenters mentioned some sweet houses from Forest Hills that overlook the park. Here are just a couple that I thought were super cool. I love the lines on the one above.
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