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DC Courthouses - Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners
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DC Courthouses


DC Courthouses: 410EStreet NW Ext04
Since 2003, BBB has built out a master plan for the DC Courts campus on historic Judiciary Square, one of the original open spaces defined by Pierre L’Enfant’s 1790 Plan of the City of Washington.

BBB’s work began with the restoration and expansion of the Historic DC Courthouse at 430 E Street NW, completed in 2009 and now housing the Court of Appeals, and continued with site improvements—the replacement of all surface parking with an underground parking garage, the restoration of the historic Darlington Memorial Fountain and park, and new perimeter security—and the LEED Gold restoration and modification of 410 E Street NW in 2012.

The latest project, the C Street Addition to the H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse, located at 501 C Street NW, is a contemporary, LEED Platinum-certified facility that includes six new state-of-the-art courtrooms, 18 associate judges’ chambers, a new Chief Judge’s suite, staff offices, a childcare center, administrative support areas, holding spaces, and public space. Today, the 21-year stewardship effort to preserve and modernize the buildings surrounding Judiciary Square and meet DC Courts’s current and projected future needs has now been largely completed.