WASHINGTON D.C.
The Center Block of Capitol Crossing stitches together a piece of the city fabric near Union Station that was once divided by Interstate 395 in Washington D.C. A series of publicly accessible landscape spaces serves as the connecting tissue for a mixed-use development including a residential tower, a boutique hotel, and retail space designed by Ennead Architects. The landscape also extends through the buildings and up to the rooftops creating a vertical network of interior and exterior landscape experiences . The landscapes of the Capitol Crossing Center Block each express the unique qualities of the geological transect found in the region beginning with Appalachian Plateau, cutting through the Blue Ridge and Piedmont regions, and ending at the Coastal Plains that surround Washington D.C. The landscape will create a new civic hub of activity in the development and surrounding neighborhoods that will become a destination for residents and visitors of the city.