West End Square 50 brings much-needed public amenities into the West End neighborhood of Washington, DC. Three distinct programs - a two story squash club, affordable residential housing, and new fire station for Engine Company No.1 - are situated in clearly articulated stacked volumes that push and pull the otherwise consistent street wall, creating more engagement and activity. The building’s main public spaces are shaped between the ground-level fire station and the upper residential volume, in a two-story glass box occupied by the squash club and a public terrace overlooking M Street.
