Hammes HQ sports Jeffersonian-style design.
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I’m one of the readers who barked the loudest when the initial design was unveiled. The subsequent changes have made a difference. However, while I’m still not especially fond of the current design, I have to say that the (apparently) darker brown brick makes a real difference to my eye. Not sure if it is just the light, but I prefer it to the lighter red brick portrayed in the renderings. The brown seems to me to be more urban, less suburban.
It’s great to see at least one nice building built on Water Street north of McKinley.
What part of the Jeffersonian legacy does Hammes emulate. Seems to be an oxymoron no matter how you cut that cake.
It’s still a “work in progress”, but at the moment, looking at it from the sides, it appears to be a parking structure with an attached office building. Good neighbor for MSOE’s parking structure with an attached soccer pitch.
I’m hopeful the super-sized parking structure is for the proposed north building as well.
Architectural equivalent of Muzak
Noting that the design is partly by Virginia-based DGP Architects, and having just been to DC and seen what the Dulles corridor has become in the last decade, the design is not surprising to me at all. The Dulles corridor has indeed become a tribute to gawdawful suburban “creative” office park architecture.
Got to admit that I a not a fan of bland attempts at classicism with modern materials and massing. Just go modern and fun or be a bit more studious about fitting the style to the area. Since that area is pretty devoid of period architecture–though wouldn’t it have been nice if they could have picked up something like the bay windows on the AJ Bomber’s building kitty corner to the SW?–they could have done something more adventurous.
It actually looks much better than the rendering released.