Photo © Robert Polidori
The social energy in the halls, stairways and small lounges of the new Marriott Hall is low-key, but steady. If there’s one way to describe what the boys are doing in the new addition to the prestigious St. Albans School, it’s mingling.
The 25,000-square-foot expansion of the all-boys school in Northwest Washington has remade the views as you drive up Massachusetts Avenue. Where once there was a hillside campus of independent academic buildings in neo-Gothic style, there is now a tightly woven, unified structure, bound together but not dominated by a Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed three-story addition clad in light-colored Potomac blue stone and glass.