Eisenhower East Designs
14 07 2008Remember that colorful Master Plan of Eisenhower East we showed you a few weeks ago? Well we got some fancy renderings to show you what the projects going to look like in 3D when the massive retail, housing, and commercial development is all finished up!
Pictured above is what is tentatively being called Block 9 and is in direct proximity to the Eisenhower metro station. The buildings will include a hotel and commercial offices, as well as street level retail obviously. With the Carlyle development and Old Town right around the corner, that neck of the woods sure is getting awfully urban!
Seeing that above ground metro in the rendering makes us wish they would put that thing underground! A very nice interactive map with a million more sketches and renderings can be found here.
It is fine above ground, saved 100’s millions of dollars. A few hundred feet to the south you would have had to deal with a very expensive tunneling portion under Cameron run and 495; plus the Huntington station is on a hill and you would have had a rather steep incline to the rail yard just to the west.
Yeah, nothing wrong with it the way it is.
This is a very nice development. I hope it doesn’t get scaled down or anything like that. If the real thing has as much glass as the drawings show, it could end up having some of the best architectural diversity and aesthetically pleasing highrises in Northern Virginia. Right now, it is mainly brick. But, later in the future, an area like Rosslyn could end up improving a lot when it rebuilds and possibly re-fascades.
Glad to see there will be higher density around what must be an incredibly under utilized metro station in Eisenhower Ave.
Good website by Hoffman with the virtual tours.
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