300 New Jersey Avenue

摘要

Maureen moran, whose studio, MCLA, counts among the four largest lighting consultancies in the nation's capital, can design an office for a Washington attorney in her sleep. "Coves, everything concealed," she describes without a moment's hesitation. "[D.C.] law firms like dark wood, but it looks great only under halogen." Which, she adds, is difficult to use due to increasingly stringent sustainability mandates. Against this white-shoe experience, Moran was admittedly incredulous when Dennis Austin, a project architect at the London-based Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), began to describe a project they would be collaborating on in D.C. As Austin sketched the design, she recalls, she couldn't help wondering if the project would really pass muster in Washington.