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2. 80 M Street SE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
When the local office of Columbia Property Trust decided to add
height to an existing seven-story office building dating back to
2001, it found that the structure would need significant reinforcement
to support the extra weight with conventional construction.
But mass timber would permit the addition of three floors without
requiring structural strengthening, reducing costs, enabling
the building to remain occupied during construction, and serving
as a differentiator in the market.
Because this was the city's first mass-timber structure, the
design team worked closely with the local code authority to
show that the building would meet fire and life safety requirements.
The new floors have 16-foot (5 m) slab-to-slab ceiling
heights to maximize natural light. At the eighth floor, the building
recesses to create room for a private terrace. A new aluminum
canopy up top has soffit battens that look like wood, visible from
the street. A rooftop photovoltaic array generates electricity.
Hickok Cole's Washington, D.C., office was the architect and interior
designer for the addition and ground-floor renovation, which
opened in 2022.
3. Ascent MKE
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
Rising 284 feet (87 m) and 25 stories tall, Ascent MKE is the
world's tallest mass-timber structure. Completed in 2022, the
apartment building rests on a five-level parking garage. In the
residential portion, glue-laminated timber columns and beams
and two concrete cores support CLT floors. Local developer
New Land Enterprises chose mass timber to distinguish it in the
market. Each apartment has exposed timber beams, ceilings, and
columns, referencing the look of the city's historic low-rise timber
structures.
Relying on prefabricated timber panels sped construction time
as well, shortening it by three-and-a-half months from an estimated
26 months for concrete. The development team worked
extensively with the municipality to prove the tower's fire safety.
Designed by local firm Korb + Associates Architects, the building
has 259 apartments, ground-floor retail, a fitness center, a twostory
swimming pool area with operable floor-to-ceiling windows,
and a rooftop community space offering views of Lake Michigan
and the city.
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