Located near the Southwest Waterfront District in Washington, D.C., The Kiley, a new eight-story residential building, offers 315 units, ranging from studios up to 3 bedrooms and duplexes on the ground floor, amenity spaces, a rooftop fitness center, swimming pool, large roof terraces and below-grade parking for 300 cars.
Nestled among historic landmarks, the building sits right across from the original Capitol Park Towers, a nine-story Modernist apartment building designed by Chloethiel Woodard Smith. Built in 1962 within the larger Capitol Park development, the project integrates many unique Mid-century modern design elements such as the use of terra cotta screen tiles, lattice patterned facades, distinctive concrete vaulted roofs for parking structure and whimsical sculptures throughout the site.
Best known for its park-like setting, the north courtyard features a Modernist landscape design by Dan Kiley. The new building's north and south facades have been carefully composed to reinterpret the original building's tripartite composition and reinforce Kiley's geometrically arranged landscape.
The 600-ft long facades, clad entirely in an architectural precast concrete skeleton, create a six-part organization punctuated by stacked sets of recessed balconies. The details in the precast panels that resemble inset terra cotta tiles pay homage to the original building's dominating architectural expression and its articulation provides visual rhythm.