This is something you don’t see everyday: there’s what looks like a small condo building going in at Sherman and Lamont that is… unusual. It kind of looks like a bunch of blocks stacked on top of each other, or like some kind of strange modern architecture. Martin Austermuhle of WAMU jokingly called it “plywood brutalism.”
What’s also odd is there aren’t any windows, and it’s just plywood. Presumably they’ll cut them out soon. The city’s permit system says “New 3 floor + cellar and mezzanine – 2 unit flat on vacant lot in an R4 zoning district.” Looks like 4 stories to me. Here’s a Park View DC article about the lot from a few years ago.
It’s also two stories higher than the surrounding buildings. It’s something.
