1620 L Street is a high-rise building in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 The building rises 12 floors

Storey

A storey or story is any level part of a building that could be used by people...

 and 157 feet (48 m) in height. The building was designed by architectural firm Smith, Segreti, Tepper, McMahon & Harned and was completed in 1989. As of July 2008, the structure stands as the 24th-tallest building in the city, tied in rank with 1111 19th Street

1111 19th Street

1111 19th Street is a high-rise building in Washington, D.C. The building rises 12 floors and in height. The building was designed by architectural firm Heery International and was completed in 1979...

, 1333 H Street

1333 H Street

1333 H Street is a high-rise building in Washington, D.C. The building rises 12 floors and in height. It was completed in 1982. As of July 2008, the structure stands as the 24th-tallest building in the city, tied in rank with 1620 L Street, 1010 Mass, 1000 Connecticut Avenue, the Republic...

, 1000 Connecticut Avenue

1000 Connecticut Avenue

1000 Connecticut Avenue will be a high-rise skyscraper building located in the United States capital of Washington, D.C.. This building will replace a previous one, built in 1956, that was demolished in the winter of 2007...

, the Republic Building

Republic Building (Washington, D.C.)

The Republic Building is a high-rise building in Washington, D.C. The building rises 13 floors and in height. It was designed by architectural firm Smith McMahon Architects, and was completed in 1991...

, 1010 Mass

1010 Mass

1010 Mass is a high-rise building in Washington, D.C. The building rises 15 floors and in height. The building was designed by architectural firm Esocoff & Associates and was completed in 2007, making it one of the most recently constructed high-rises in the city...

, the Army and Navy Club Building

Army and Navy Club Building

The Army and Navy Club Building is a high-rise building in Washington, D.C. The building rises 12 floors and in height. The building was designed by architectural firm Shalom Baranes Associates PC and was completed in 1987...

 and the The Watergate Hotel and Office Building

Watergate complex

The Watergate complex is a group of five buildings next to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. in the United States. The site contains an office building, three apartment buildings, and a hotel-office building...

. 1620 L Street is an example of postmodern architecture

Postmodern architecture

Postmodern architecture began as an international style the first examples of which are generally cited as being from the 1950s, but did not become a movement until the late 1970s and continues to influence present-day architecture...

, and has a glass

Glass

Glass is an amorphous solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent.The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of about 75% silica plus Na2O, CaO, and several minor additives...

 and granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

 facade

Facade

A facade or façade is generally one exterior side of a building, usually, but not always, the front. The word comes from the French language, literally meaning "frontage" or "face"....

. It is composed almost entirely of office space, with 512000 square feet (47,566.4 m²) of commercial area; the three basement

Basement

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 levels are used as parking space

Parking space

A parking space is a location that is designated for parking, either paved or unpaved.Parking spaces can be in a parking garage, in a parking lot or on a city street. It is usually designated by a white-paint-on-tar rectangle indicated by three lines at the top, left and right of the designated area...

, containing a 126-spot parking garage. The street level floor is used for commercial retailing

Retailing

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