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Bespoke Living
Bespoke Living

Exceptional Houses

and Apartments Earn Accolades

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

Vapor House, as seen from the pool deck. All photos © Paul Warchol
Seven commodious residential projects, including single-family About eight years ago, David Jameson, FAIA, was on vacation
houses, condominium apartments, and an unusual two-family with his family when he received a heart-sinking call from his
house, received AIA|DC Chapter Awards or Washingtonian neighbor. A tree had crashed through the roof of Jameson’s house.
Residential Design Awards in 2018. Architect David Jameson, It proved to be a total loss.
FAIA, was the big winner this year, earning four awards. These The destruction of the house was a tragedy not only for
included three projects previously published in ARCHITECTUREDC, Jameson’s family, but also for those who admire classic modern
plus the architect’s own house, presented here for the first time. architecture. The original house was designed by Charles Goodman,
the seminal mid-20th-century Washington architect famous for his
Washingtonian Merit Award work on the Hollin Hills development in Northern Virginia, the River
Park urban renewal development in Southwest DC, and several
Vapor House individual modern landmarks. The house included an addition
Bethesda, MD that was among the earliest projects by George Hartman and
Warren Cox, whose firm Hartman-Cox Architects went on to win
David Jameson Architect the national AIA Architecture Firm Award in 1988.
Lighting Designer: David Tozer Jameson felt a strong attachment to the property, and decided to
Structural Engineers: Linton Engineering, LLC build anew on the same site. Since the original house’s completion
MEP Engineers: Foley Mechanical Inc. in the 1940s, substantial trees had grown up around it. Jameson was
General Contractor: Ally DC eager to preserve as much of that mature landscape as possible, and
therefore situated the new structure to align as closely as possible
with the footprint of the original house plus the addition.

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