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Project: Greencourt Innovation Center,
12358 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, MD

Architects: McInturff Architects
Landscape Architects/Civil Engineers: Stantec
Structural Engineers: 1200 Architectural Engineers PLLC
MEP Engineers: James Posey Associates
Acoustical Consultants: Acoustical Design Collaborative
ADA Consultant: Todd Anderson
Code/Life Safety Consultants: Capitol FPE, LLC
Specifications Consultants: Bethel Specifications Consulting
Contractor: Meridian Construction Co. Inc. Main atrium of the Greencourt Innovation
Center, with second floor conference room
visible at right.

Home is Where
Home is Where

the Innovation Is
the Innovation Is

A Residential Architect Branches

into Commercial Design

by Steven K. Dickens, AIA, LEED AP

The photos are not fooling you. The Greencourt Innovation
Center, by McInturff Architects, is one of the coolest new office
buildings in the Washington area. To be sure, circumstance
allowed for substantial design freedom and effort that few
architects enjoy on any project, especially office buildings. This
is a “boutique” building in the strictest sense of the phrase, but
it lives up to the highest aspiration that that term suggests.
Mark McInturff, FAIA, is well known to ARCHITECTUREDC
readers, primarily for his custom single-family residential
projects, which perennially win Washingtonian and AIA|DC
Chapter awards. The firm has done other project types, however.
“I always say that I’ve done 400 houses and one of everything
else,” joked McInturff. Clients for his brand of inventive,
individualistic, sometimes idiosyncratic design are not limited
to homeowners, but the custom house remains the touchstone.
“[For non-residential projects], we want clients who care
about their spaces as much as they care about their homes,”
McInturff stated.

All photos © Julia Heine/McInturff Architects

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