Washington DC-based architectural firm Robert Gurney Architect has created the Lorber Tarler Residence. This old row house was built around the turn of the century in the Mount Vernon Square neighborhood of Washington DC, USA. The interior and parts of the exterior facade were transformed in order to create a light-filled, open plan contemporary space. The compartmentalized interior of the existing house was gutted, and the rear façade and porch were removed. Surrounded by buildings on three sides and limited to the existing seventeen foot wide by thirty foot deep footprint, the new floor layout and open plan are intended to provide dynamic interior spaces in sharp contrast to the originally dark, cramped house
