Mutlifamily Executive Awards
Adaptive Reuse: Grand Winner

AIA | Northern Virginia Chapter Design Awards
Historic Architecture: Award of Merit

The Kanawha is a completely restored contributing historic apartment building located within the Georgetown Historic District. It was one of the earliest purpose-built apartment buildings in Georgetown, originally built in 1901. The Kanawha maintains, restores, and increases urban housing in an established historic district of the Nation’s Capital.

AIA | DC Chapter Design Awards
Award in Historic Resources/Preservation

AIA | Northern Virginia Chapter Design Awards
Historic Architecture: Award of Merit

Lambda Alpha International GW Chapter Awards
Outstanding Project Under 200,000 SF

Through significant renovation and adaptive use, historic Carver Hall is repurposed from World War II dormitory housing for government workers to 63 modern apartments at below market rent. Designed by noted architect Hilyard Robinson and located in a walkable, transit-rich neighborhood, the project preserves the streetscape and building exterior, retaining a significant historic icon in the community.

AIA | Northern Virginia Chapter Design Awards
Historic Architecture: Award of Merit

By assembling 3 historically significant buildings, 508 K Street, NW demonstrates sound preservation planning and collaboration among the developer, preservationists, the DC Historic Preservation Office, and the B|HA team. Located at the intersection of Sixth and K Streets, NW in the heart of the Mount Vernon Triangle district, the project combines and reconstructs a 1920s Lord Baltimore Filling Station, a 1940s Hodges Sandwich Shop, and a 1950s mid-century modern Waffle Shop into a single entity, revitalizing the previously underutilized corner site.

AIA | DC Washingtonian Residential Design Awards
Multifamily Housing

Lambda Alpha International GW Chapter Awards
Outstanding Project Under 200,000 SF

Built in 1942 to house War Department workers, Slowe Hall then served as a Howard University dorm for more than six decades. The building was named in honor of Lucy Diggs Slowe, a woman of many “firsts.” She was Howard’s first female Dean, the first African American to win a national title in any sport (tennis), an organizer and first principal of DC’s first Black middle school and one of the 16 founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha, among her many other accomplishments.

AIA | Northern Virginia Chapter Design Awards
Commercial Architecture: Award of Merit

Montgomery County Affordable Housing Design Awards
Honorable Mention

The Aldea is a mixed-use residential project located on H Street, NE, one of Washington, DC’s most historically vibrant and rapidly changing neighborhoods, and the only one served by a streetcar today. In 1968, this area was one of the 3 hardest-hit corridors, suffering catastrophic damage during the riots in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

AIA | DC Chapter Design Awards
Juror’s Citation for Change

Park + Ford – two out-of-date 14-story office buildings originally constructed in the 1980s – are adapted and converted to market-rate residences. The high-rises are transformed with new exterior windows, transformation of a connector building, and updated building systems with 435 residential units, parking and a complement of amenities.