Lee + Papa and Associates, Inc. (Washington , DC)

The elegant Alban Towers, a Gothic Revival apartment building designed in 1929, visually complements its high profile neighbors, the Washington National Cathedral and St. Alban's School. Subsequently converted to an upscale hotel and later a Georgetown University dormitory, an award winning historic preservation project has restored the apartment building to its original use. Lee + Papa and Associates (LPA) provided comprehensive landscape architectural services as part of the restoration, from schematic design to construction documentation. A 22,000 square foot linear urban rooftop garden park was developed on top of an in-ground parking garage. To create a green buffer between the original seven story historic building and fifteen newl