City Crescent | WDG: Architecture, Planning, Interiors

100 M Street Washington, DC	Opus East / Skanska	Completed 2009	12 story, 225,000-sf office building with 15,000-sf of retail and restaurant space.
1000 Connecticut Avenue Washington, DC	1000 Connecticut Associates	2012	12-story, 385,000 square-foot Class-A office building.
1015 Half Street Washington, DC	Opus East / Skanska	Completed 2011	10 story building with 380,000-sf of office space, 20,000-sf retail, and 3 levels below grade parking.
1600 Tysons Blvd Washington, DC	Lerner Enterprises	2002	13-story, 360,000-sf office building with 6-level structured parking garage.
1601 K Street Washington, DC	The JBG Companies	Completed 2006	Class-A, 276,000-sf, 11-story office building with two levels of below grade parking for 150 cars. Site includes a fitness center, and roof terraces on the 9th and 11th floors.
1602 L Street Washington, DC	The JBG Companies	Completed 2007	Nine-story, 52,300-square-foot, Class-A building in the heart of Washington DC's Business District.
1700 K Street Washington, DC	1700 K Street Associates	Completed 2006	12 story, 369,000-sf Trophy-Class office building.
1919 M Street Washington, DC	Vornado		8-story, 312,300-sf office building with 4 levels of below grade parking.
1999 K Street Washington, DC	Vornado	Completed 2009	12-story, 285,000-sf office building with 6,757-sf of ground floor retail space, and four levels below-grade parking.
20 M Street Washington, DC	Lerner Enterprises	Completed 2006	10-story, 200,000-sf structure.
2099 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC	Kaempfer Company	Completed 2001	12-story, 265,000-sf office building with four levels of below-grade parking for 130 vehicles.
2101 L Street Washington, DC	Vornado	Completed 2008	350,000-sf, 10-story, class A office building with 25,000-sf retail and 3-levels below-grade parking.
2400 San Jacinto Dallas, TX	Spire Realty Group	In Progress	21-story building with 14 floors Class A office space, and retail and lobby space at the street level. Two levels below-grade parking garage, 7 levels above-grade parking, and 5 levels above-grade residential flats.
2500 Ross Avenue Dallas, TX	Spire Realty Group	In Progress	26-story, 372 ft tower. 19 floors totaling 590,000-sf Class A office space, 6-story glass atrium, 8th floor garden terrace, 6 levels above-grade parking, 18,000-sf retail and lobby space at street level.
4501 Fairfax Drive Arlington, VA	Transwestern Highland Group	Completed 2001	9-story class-A office building.
8515 Georgia Avenue Silver Spring, MD	Foulger-Pratt Companies, The Peterson Companies	Completed 2005	Class A office building with 11 floors. 150,000 sf office space over one level of ground floor retail space, and two levels of parking above the retail.
Arlington Gateway Office Building Arlington, VA	The JBG Companies	Completed 2006	Part of a 3.7 acre mixed-use development in Arlington's Ballston Corridor, the office building is 12 stories, and 350,000 square feet of Class-A office space.
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Churchill Office Tower Dallas, TX	MJS Resources	Completed	12 story 260,000 office building, 8 levels of parking, 19,000 SF commercial retail
City Crescent Baltimore, MD	City Crescent LLC		350,000-sf office building that met specific GSA requirements and the Baltimore Architectural Review Board. Recieved an American Institute of Architects/Washington Chapter Merit Award for Excellence in Architecture.
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Spire City Place Ft. Worth, TX	Spire Realty Group	Completed	Renovation of existing office tower and 15,000 sf of retail at street level, and parking garage.
Tompkins Builder Headquarters Washington, DC	Tompkins Builders		Interior Design for a 25,000-sf office space.

City Crescent

Baltimore, MD

CLIENT
City Crescent LLC

SERVICES
Architecture

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Program

350,000-sf office building that met specific GSA requirements and the Baltimore Architectural Review Board. Recieved an American Institute of Architects/Washington Chapter Merit Award for Excellence in Architecture.

Description

City Crescent’s design was inspired by the historic character of its Baltimore neighborhood, which features a remarkable array of nineteenth-century buildings, formerly housing textile plants, sewing shops, and factories. These buildings are characterized by masonry construction with large expanses of glass, pressed metal decoration, and expressed structural connections. Applying a comparably high level of detail, City Crescent’s design employs compatible materials, a range of polychromatic masonry and precast concrete, with highly textured painted ceramic polymer panels offering decorative relief.

The project overcomes unique design challenges. The primary façade facing Baltimore Avenue is separated from vehicular access by light rail tracks. Redwood Street directly intersects the mid-point of the building from the east. These potential design deficiencies are transformed into amenities with the inclusion of a continuous two level pedestrian arcade paralleling the tracks along Baltimore Avenue, and an east -west tunnel extending Redwood west to the tracks, highlighted by a two-story archway. At the intersection of arcade and tunnel is placed a light rail station. The level of detail within this pedestrian realm is remarkable, featuring a series of cable suspended custom down and up-lights, rhythmic projecting bays, ornate metal work above and decorative paving below.

The project, located in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor development area, required the approval of its architectural review board. As the first new project in this old industrial zone, the board sought a distinguished design that would set the character and design standard for future development. In addition, these goals had to be balanced against economic factors, its viability dependent upon being awarded a cost sensitive GSA lease. The building was occupied by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, Secret Service and Small Business Administration. Exhaustive cost/benefit evaluations of all materials and building systems allowed both design and budgetary goals to be realized.

The project has received numerous awards, including The American Institute of Architects/Washington Chapter Merit Award for Excellence in Architecture.