This year, the Southwest Waterfront's $2 billion, 3.2 million-square-foot Wharf project is expected to deliver its first residential building and office building by the fall of 2017. The residential building will scale 12 stories with 112 units and amenities that will include a rooftop pool and private elevators. The office building will be built on a pier, which is a first for the District. The 28,000-square-foot Class-A office building is designed to achieve LEED Gold Core and Shell certification. It will also include private covered outdoor terraces and a bicycle storage room. The developer of this project is Hoffman-Madison Waterfront.

, the $100 million pavilions will house studios, rehearsal rooms, media-ready classrooms, a traditional lecture hall, cafe, and an outdoor wall for simulcast and video presentations. Architects will also plant 35 ginkgo trees to honor President John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. President. Philanthropist David Rubenstein is partially funding the expansion with a $50 million donation.

Since May 2015, construction has been underway in Capitol Hill for the redevelopment of the vacant Hine Junior High School. Once complete, developer Stanton-Eastbanc will have made 162 residential units, 61,000-square-feet of retail, 150,000-square-feet of office, and underground parking. For Eastern Market, there will also be an area for a flea market.

In early 2017, Sydell Group's new 220-room hotel for Adams Morgan will come with two restaurants, a coffee shop, and an event space. Amenities will include an indoor pool and sauna. Originally, this hotel was a c. 1912-constructed church known as the First Church of Christ.

Expect roughly 92,000 square feet added to the Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC) by 2017. This cultural, education and social services center will finish its third phase next year with a black box theater, the Bishop Walker School for Boys and The Phillips Collection, an expanded clinic run by Children’s National Medical Center, and classrooms and administrative space for Appletree Institute for Education Innovation, Inc.

The first phase of the Camden NoMa project completed in 2013 with one 307,000-square-foot residential tower with 321 units on 60 L Street NE. In 2017, the second phase is expected to complete with a 14-story, 405-unit building totaling 375,000 square feet.

Travis Price, the same architect behind Brookland's shipping container condos, is behind this brand new Shaw project. Once complete by December 2017, it will feature four units, consisting of 12 shipping containers. Each unit will have a front-facing balcony, while the top-level unit will have a private rooftop deck.

Truxton Circle isn't known for its high-end residential units, but soon enough it might be. Developer Ditto Residential plans on completing multi-million dollar condos in the neighborhood next year. Each unit will have three bedrooms, roughly 2,250 square feet of space, and either a private rooftop deck or patio.

For the past few years, the National Building Museum has created summer installations that have included a maze, mini golf, and a beach. This year, the installation will be created by Studio Gang, an architecture and urbanism practice based in Chicago and New York. The installation is expected to open to the public on July 4, 2017 and remain open until Labor Day 2017. There are no further details available yet on what the upcoming installation will entail.