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.
The work in question is a new 10-story office mid-rise and an atrium that connects it to the adjacent six-story Acacia Building — a 1935 structure designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon that was expanded in 1953 and is now largely occupied by the respected law firm Jones Day. Commissioned in 2004 by Chevy Chase, Maryland–based developer the JBG Companies, this is RSHP’s first commercial office in the United States.
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