Perched on Maryland’s Potomac River directly across from historic Mount Vernon, the Mount Vernon View House by Wiedemann Architects embraces its extraordinary setting while preserving the treasured view shed. The design team balanced the client’s desire for…
Cinder Villa by KUBE Architecture is a true modern fairytale. It tells the story of a young couple eager to start their family. They discovered a charming cottage in Washington DC’s historic Georgetown neighborhood. However, the fire…
PERCH House, designed by KUBE Architecture, sits on a steeply sloped site, framed at the back by a high retaining wall and offering sweeping views of trees and the city beyond. With their first child born during…
A renovation of a 3,900 SF, two-level apartment on Dupont Circle, the existing space was a lesson in the challenges of converting DC’s Commercial office inventory for residential use
This home is part of a co-housing community in rural Virginia and is located on a steeply sloping site with distant mountain views. This modern farmhouse retreat is a modern interpretation of the traditional white clapboard farmhouse…
Lyon Park, in Arlington, Virginia is an “urban village” near Washington, DC. Most of the houses in this established neighborhood were constructed in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The houses vary in style, ranging from small single-story bungalows…
Located in Glen Echo, Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC, this new house is sited on a sloping, wooded lot with distant views of the Potomac River. The Mohican Hills House is positioned to preserve a majority…
Hawks Nest is a home and studio for a sculptor from Paris who was drawn to the site, an abandoned limestone quarry, with its sweeping views of the Potomac River. Located in Falling Waters, West Virginia, this…
In this interior alteration project, the architect and new owner pushed the amenities to the forefront by reducing the program (4 bedrooms to 3), moving the kitchen (so as not to block the view of the river…
