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Main living area of the Waterview
Condominium, with views of Georgetown
and the National Cathedral beyond.

View to a Thrill
View to a Thrill

Arlington Penthouse Offers

Incomparable Vantage

by G. Martin Moeller, Jr., Assoc. AIA

The first thing a visitor to this condominium apartment is likely to views of the city are normally available only from the window seat
notice is the spectacular view of the Washington National of a plane flying into or out of National Airport, and even then,
Cathedral perched atop one of the highest points in the District of only fleetingly.
Columbia. The second through tenth things the visitor notices This apartment’s panoramic vistas are possible because it
might be the Key Bridge, the spires of Georgetown University’s occupies the top floor of a 30-story tower in Arlington, which,
Healy Hall, the Watergate Complex, the Kennedy Center, the Capitol being in Virginia, is not subject to DC’s building height limit. The
dome, the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the mixed-use tower, designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and
Jefferson Memorial, and Memorial Bridge—in short, a substantial completed in 1988, stands near one corner of the clump of high-rises
percentage of DC’s most prominent landmarks. Such expansive forming the Rosslyn business district. The penthouse apartment

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