This six-unit apartment building bridges two kinds of building types and two kinds of architectural vocabulary. It is a new apartment building designed to act like a loft: lots of open space, flexible and bright. Bedrooms and living room, dining room and study can be placed anywhere, unlike the conventional apartment. Kitchen and baths are compressed into a core, leaving all the other space free.
    The property sits astride a dividing line between the warehouse style of 14th Street and the Victorian style of Logan Circle. It addresses both by finding sympathies with the color, scale and rhythm of both, but being slavish to neither. It becomes itself.
    The multi-layered façade that acts as a series of canvasses to these vocabularies, also creates depth and shadow, that shelters the south-facing building from the sun.
    The design jury which granted the project its top award, said:
"One of the boldest projects in this competition... dramatic strength through minimalism... fully sculptural, wonderfully daring."

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