Monday, 28 September 2009

Renderings for 300 K Street NW

The new Mount Vernon Place Master Plan outlines more specific details on the proposed office buildings along K Street. The most drastic shift in the new master plan is the facade change for the 300 K Street from a office building. Originally depicted with masonry that complemented the styles of the adjacent condominiums of the new plans show a floor-to-ceiling glass look.

New rendering of 300 K Street; Click to enlarge.

Original rendering of 300 K Street; Click to enlarge.

The building will have approximately 10,141 SF of ground floor retail space with 11'6" ceiling heights slab to slab.

First floor plate for 300 K Street; Click to enlarge.

As you can see from the drawing above a lobby entrance is planned at the center of the K Street frontage with retail space on either side flowing back along the 3rd and 4th street frontages.

Up Next: A closer look at 400 K Street

Renderings courtesy of www.mountvernonplace.com

5 comments:

PQS said...

Nice to see that website finally updated. It hadn't changed in many years.

Sean Hennessey said...

all theses maxed out flat topped buildings are killing our cityscape.
look at these sightlines in noma:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scenicartisan/3919573395/

i do wish there was more room and inclination for variances of rooflines.

IMGoph said...

and i wish that everyone wasn't jumping on the ceiling-to-floor glass look all at once.

at least someday we'll be able to point at them and say "that building was built 2007-2012 (or so)"

and a lobby just kills the block. smaller entrance space, more retail!

Anonymous said...

Seems to have become fashionable to say that you don't like the glass walled office buildings.

I don't follow. I actually like them. Could there be some more variety? Probably.

Chris Loos said...

I agree with IMGoph. The all glass look is getting stale quickly. I wish more developers would choose designs that mix colors materials: glass, masonry, wood, metal, etc. If I was shown that rendering of #300 K Street out of context, I couldn't differentiate it from the hundreds of similar, existing buildings all over downtown.