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View of 1000 F Street, NW, with renovated historic structure
at the corner and new building wrapping around it.

All photos © Mary Parker Architectural Photography

Slipped Right In
Slipped Right In

Shalom Baranes Inserts a New Building

into a Narrow F Street Site

by Ronald O’Rourke

Designing a new office building for Washington’s Project: 1000 F Street, NW,
established downtown area can sometimes require slipping
Washington, DC
a new structure into a tight spot between existing older
buildings. That was especially the case for 1000 F Street, a Architects: Shalom Baranes Associates
new office tower designed by Shalom Baranes Associates Landscape Architects/Civil Engineers: Dewberry
(SBA) that is carefully fitted into a narrow, L-shaped plot Structural Engineers: Tadjer-Cohen-Edelson Associates
MEP Engineers: Girard Engineering
surrounding a two-story historic commercial structure at
Geotechnical Engineers: ECS
the corner of 10th and F streets, NW. SBA’s design for Fire Protection Engineers: JENSEN HUGHES
the new building pays close attention to its surrounding Architectural Lighting Consultants: Coventry Lighting
architectural context while making efficient use of its Historic Materials Consultants: Aeon Preservation Services
limited footprint. Architectural Historians: EHT Traceries
Contractor: DAVIS Construction
The 11-story building, with about 7,000 square feet of
retail space and 85,000 square feet of office space, employs
massing that mediates the differing heights of adjoining “A higher and [a] lower volume frame the historic
buildings, as well as external materials—particularly building, with extensive outdoor terrace spaces at roof
terracotta panels—that complement the new building’s levels and setbacks,” SBA said. “The massing scheme
masonry-clad neighbors. The existing commercial structure uses the compact vertical site as an asset. The upper
at the corner was renovated on the inside and integrated volume anchors the corner, pinwheeling down in height
into the project. to scale with the surrounding variety.”

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