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Rendering of project for Parcel 42. Courtesy of Ditto Residential

upper floors back from the older buildings and shapes the new
façade with a tower on one side and a folded-glass plane on the
other, so as to softly frame or shelter the historic structures.
As a building that combines modestly scaled, brick-clad
historic structures with a glassy new residential tower, PGN’s
project can be viewed as a microcosm of the changes now taking
place in Shaw, making it a fitting end to this snapshot of a
rapidly developing part of Washington.

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