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Multi-Family Affair
Multi-Family Affair

High Design for Apartment

and Mixed-Use Projects by Peter James, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

The apartment tower at 880 P Street, NW, as seen from the corner of 9th and P streets. Photo © Maxwell MacKenzie Architectural Photographer
Merit Award in Architecture/ The L-shaped apartment tower at 880 P Street, NW, is the final puzzle
Washingtonian Merit Award for Multi-Family Housing piece in the CityMarket at O redevelopment. The ambitious plan
to redevelop the Shaw site, anchored by the formerly abandoned,
880 P Street, NW Victorian-era O Street Market, first hatched in 2001. Phase 1—with
Washington, DC a new grocery store, market-rate apartment buildings, a hotel, and
affordable housing for seniors—opened in 2014. In its master plan
Shalom Baranes Associates and subsequent building designs for the site, Shalom Baranes
Associates (SBA) created a flexible yet cohesive design language.
Interior Designers: Cecconi Simone
Designed as a sibling, not a clone, of SBA’s Phase 1 buildings
Landscape Architects: LEA | SIRI
at CityMarket, the LEED Gold-certified 880 P Street’s crisp exterior
Structural Engineers: Tadjer-Cohen-Edelson Associates
contrasts custom white brick with black metal panels and curtain wall
MEP Engineers: Girard Engineering
framing. The building’s west façade is sculpted into five vertical
Civil Engineers: Wiles Mensch Corporation
bays separated by brick “party walls,” a nod to the massing and
General Contractor: Clark Construction Group
rhythm of the traditional row houses facing the building across 9th
Street. Vertical fins integrated into the curtainwall system help
shade the west-facing glass and enhance privacy for the apartment
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