Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza

Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza

Silver Spring, Maryland

Project Size: 44,555 square feet(building)
44,024 square feet (plaza)

Value Classification: Over $20m

Owner: Montgomery County

Architect: Machado and Silvetti Associates

Project Description:

This multi-use facility, designed by internationally recognized Machado and Silvetti Associates, was constructed with the utmost detail. Amenities include multi-media resource and meeting rooms, a great room with the capacity for 800 people, an art gallery, open air courtyard, ice rink, office spaces and the Round House Theatre. Notable elements in the building are fritted glass used for climate control, natural stone and bamboo floors, a high efficiency HVAC system that has magnetic bearings to reduce electricity consumption and Ipe wood that is used in its natural condition without sealant or treatment. Costello self performed site work, underground utilities, site and building concrete and some carpentry.

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