For a century, the block at 222 M Street NE hummed with electrical current — Central Armature Works, one of Washington's industrial anchors, rewound motors and fabricated components here until the city's NoMa neighborhood began its long transformation. That charged history now runs quietly beneath The Morrow Washington DC, a 12-story, LEED-certified hotel that arrived in 2022 with 203 rooms and a design brief split between two studios of notably different temperaments. Shalom Baranes Associates gave the building its composed exterior — pale stone cladding, generous glazing, and blonde wood panels flanking the entrance that carry something of the neighborhood's industrial memory without literalizing it. Inside, INC Architecture & Design handled the public areas, and the restaurant is where their hand is most legible: circular banquettes in olive velvet, layered ring ceilings with recessed illumination, and brass pendant lights combine into a room that feels more like a supper club than a hotel dining room. Rottet Studio took the guest rooms in a cooler, more contemplative direction — bleached oak floors, fluted case goods in dark-stained wood, headboards in layered blue and putty tones, and moon-phase artwork that stitches a quiet celestial thread through each space. The bar doubles down on deep indigo, herringbone oak, and a dark marble counter that anchors the room against its curtained windows. The split authorship could have fragmented the experience, but the two studios share enough formal vocabulary — curved forms, fluted surfaces, a preference for layered blues — to hold it together.

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