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Night view of the entry court.

Photo © Maxwell MacKenzie Architectural Photographer Photo © Maxwell MacKenzie Architectural Photographer

them down, expecting to build a single larger building Project: 5333 Connecticut Avenue, NW,
there. Cafritz began to prepare for a Planned Unit
Washington, DC
Development—a zoning process intended to encourage
higher-quality projects by allowing some flexibility in Architects: Eric Colbert & Associates, PC
height and density regulations. Those initial plans did Canopy Design Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
not proceed, and the site sat empty until a few years ago, Interior Designer (Public Spaces): Jo Fleming
Landscape Architects: Parker Rodriguez; Arentz Landscape Architects
when the Cafritz organization hired Eric Colbert &
Lighting Designers: MCLA
Associates to design a matter-of-right project—one Structural Engineers: Structura
requiring no zoning variances—for the same site. MEP Engineers: Summit Engineering
“Connecticut Avenue is like an architectural history Civil Engineers: VIKA Capitol
book,” said Eric Colbert, AIA. “[It’s] a chronological Building Enclosure Consultants: SGH
Contractor: Grunley Construction Company
record of evolving styles over the last 100 years. Our
attitude was: ‘What can we add that is a statement of the
next style you can experience as you head out from DC?’”

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