Completed in January 2007, the Columbia Residences is a 225-unit, 395,000-square-foot (36,697 m²) luxury condominium building that includes both adaptive use of the historic hospital structure and new construction. The development team, which also included architect Shalom Baranes Associates, worked diligently with neighborhood associations and city historic review to arrive at a thoughtful redevelopment solution. This involved restoring the original hospital structure, demolishing the non-historic remainder of the building, adding two L-shaped wings along the building’s east and west sides, and adding three levels of below-grade parking. The new wings, each of which contains at its base approximately 11,000 square feet (1,022 m²) of street-level retail space, were designed to protect the sight lines of the original building and to complement its unusual Mediterranean architecture.

Developer
High Street Residential/Trammell Crow Company
Washington, DC

Owner
High Street CWH, LLC
Washington, DC

Architect
Shalom Baranes Associates Inc.
Washington, DC

Principal Author(s)
Julie Stern

ULI Awards for Excellence 2007 Finalist