Real estate developer Robert E. Simon Jr. was an idealist. In the 1960’s, he bought nearly 7,000 acres of Virginia farmland and founded the planned community of Reston, an integrated, affordable garden city 20 miles west of Washington. That vision informed the public spaces of JW Marriott Reston Station, a 243-key hotel and 94-unit residential condominium occupying a new building by Nunzio Marc DeSantis Architects. EDG Architecture and Design‘s 200,000-square-foot scope sought to evoke Reston’s small-town sensibility and its connection to nature with interiors that feel intimate and approachable yet city-suburb sophisticated.
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The hotel entrance sets the tone with plastered fin walls that dematerialize the end of the lobby and catch light and shadow throughout the day. Conceived as a civic gathering space, the Simon restaurant creates a sense of history with walnut paneling, a vaulted metallic plaster ceiling, and a museumlike gallery displaying a collection of arrowheads. The adjacent oval-shape bar layers bronze mirror and oak for a dynamic interplay of light and reflection. Throughout, the palette favors materials that appear worked by hand, alluding to Reston’s agrarian roots, such as visible joinery and textured stone. But modern accents, like a lounge’s swooping brass chandelier by Milan studio Morghen, keep the vibe firmly urbane.
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