Project Details
- Project Name
- Eastern Market Row House
- Location
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WA ,United States
- Project Types
- Light Commercial
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Shared by
- Editor
- Consultants
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General Contractor: Leigh Mailloux,Anice Hoachlander/HD Photo.
- Project Status
- Built
- Style
- Modern
Project Description
2006 RADA
Architectural Design Detail / Grand
The glass volume in this Washington, D.C., row house immediately calls to mind the famous quip that God is in the details. Indeed. “This wouldn't be nearly as successful if not detailed in this way,” said one judge.
The clients, who found themselves in possession of a dark row house, asked David Jameson, AIA, to bring light to the space. Jameson soon determined that large glass openings would prove inadequate, so he devised this elegant riff on a Japanese lantern instead. He incised the brick façade and installed a steel grid as the structural frame for glass panels. For the interior, he cantilevered mahogany boards to serve as a clever shelving solution.
“It's a distilled project,” Jameson says. “There's not a lot going on.” But the details, the judges noted, “transform the entire house.”
