Owner:

Fannie Mae

Architect:

WDG Architecture, PLLC

General Contractor:

Clark Construction Group

Client:

Fannie Mae

Scope Of Work

Overview

Located at 1100 15th St. NW in the heart of downtown Washington, D.C., the project dubbed Midtown Center is one of the most anticipated development projects in the D.C. metropolitan area. The 865,000 RSF (rentable square feet) office project features two full-height curtainwall office towers separated by a public plaza, which offers clients and pedestrians the opportunity to interact with approximately 50,000 SF of retail. The building serves as Fannie Mae’s new D.C. headquarters, and boasts stunning suspended bridges connecting the East and West office towers. Amenities are consistent with the building’s first-class LEED Gold construction, and include parking, a fitness center, penthouse building conference center and rooftop terrace views that provide sprawling views of downtown Washington, D.C. and its monuments.

According to a November 14 article in the Washington Post by art and architecture critic Philip Kennicott, “Midtown Center is a rare example of urban jazz in what is otherwise a uniformly drab stretch of typical Washington bureaucratic architecture. If this study in resisting the grid is successful and repeated elsewhere, one can imagine entirely new patterns of movement and habitation in the city, with interconnected plazas and alleys overlaid on the otherwise monotonous right angles of old cityscape.”

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