INTELSAT Building

ID: 4806 ~ Source: Nomination Form

This file appears in: INTELSAT Headquarter Building: Completed in 1984, the INTELSAT Headquarter Building evoked “the space-city imagery of Star Wars” through its Modernist architecture.

This file appears in: INTELSAT Headquarter Building: Completed in 1984, the INTELSAT Headquarter Building evoked “the space-city imagery of Star Wars” through its Modernist architecture.

INTELSAT Headquarter Building: Completed in 1984, the INTELSAT Headquarter Building evoked “the space-city imagery of Star Wars” through its Modernist architecture.

By The DC Historic Sites team

“[H]alf way to the Maryland line is a startling apparition: seemingly a huge jeweled fortress with gleaming turrets, set on a wooded hill.” Architecture magazine critic, 1985