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ARLINGTON
Ballston Point, an 11-story office building with a cylinder-shaped tower, received the 2004 Award of Excellence for Best Building, Speculative High Rise, from the Northern Virginia chapter of the National Association of Industrial Office Properties. The $30 million, 268,000-square-foot building serves as a gateway into Rosslyn-Ballston, a trendy, mixed-used development area in Arlington. A key design challenge was working around a tight in-fill at the building’s location at the intersection of Glebe Road and Wilson Boulevard. The solution was an asymmetrical, triangular-shaped building, which creates column space on all floors, while integrating a circular glass element. The wining design team consisted of members from the architectural firm of Davis Carter Scott, with offices in McLean and Washington, D.C., Monument Realty of Washington, D.C., and general contractor G. Davis Construction Corp. of Rockville, Md. One of the building’s major tenants is the AES Corp.

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