Photo by Ann Wormer.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- New designs for the proposed condo at M and Pennsylvania look pretty much like the last ones, and are still not very attractive.
- The former Cappella Hotel is now the most valuable hotel in DC.
The Georgetown Metropolitan 
I still don’t understand why such an uninspired condo design continues to be pushed for such a prominent location, other than the desire to have a starchitect put up something in DC. If you intend to build something which has no relationship to the buildings around it, then at least do something striking, rather than what could pass for a 1960’s college dormitory done on the cheap.
This design apparently can never be tweaked enough to be acceptable. It is aesthetically hideous, remains hulking and over-dimensioned, and adds zero value to the surrounding structures and spaces. In fact, it crowds and diminished them. I would say that even if it weren’t being proposed to serve as the gateway structure to a historic district. It has no place in Georgetown. Start over!