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Garvey Hall

Washington, DC

Catholic University of America Dining Facility

Catholic University’s new Garvey Hall was designed to improve the university’s dining offerings, create a new home for its academic and career counseling, increase the variety of outdoor gathering space, and strengthen pedestrian connections between the academic district and the north student housing facilities. The 350-seat dining hall offers multiple seating options and a variety of dining offerings. The result is an inviting gathering environment that addresses a diverse student body’s growing variety of nutritional, allergen, and food-quality needs.

Garvey Hall embraces a collegiate gothic design language that references the university’s original academic buildings with its precast-concrete assemblies, oversized block, iconic elements such as the central tower, and a balance of formal and informal massing appropriate for its location and orientation. The public spaces reference traditional gathering halls while allowing for a variety of indoor and outdoor seating options for dining, studying, socializing, or fundraising.

The design team worked closely with the dining staff, operator management company, suppliers, students, and administration to assure an efficient flow of materials, variety of storage and staging, productive areas of food preparation, and flexibility for multiple meal types. In the process, Garvey Hall was awarded LEED Silver, a challenging goal for dining facilities, in addition to multiple industry and design awards.

Project Facts

Client:

Catholic University of America

Size :

35,000 sf

Services :

Architecture, Interior Design

Project Partners:

Mueller Associates, MEP

Tadjer Cohen Edelson, Structural

Ricca, Food Service

RK&K, Civil Engineering

Shen Milsom Wilke, AV/IT/Security

Smithgroup/JJR, Landscape Architecture

Mitchell & Co., Graphics/Wayfinding

Steven Winter Associates, LEED

RLB, Cost Estimating

Stroik Lighting Design, Lighting

Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Envelope

Manhattan Construction, Contractor

Sustainability :

LEED Silver

Region:

United States

Studios:

Washington, DC

News

Insights article: “The Power of Architecture and the Promise of Place,” Matthew Bell, Oct. 21, 2025

"New Dining Hall Adds Transcendental Touch to Catholic University Campus," Catholic University Magazine, Spring 2023

"After nearly four years, doors open at Garvey Hall," The Tower (Catholic University student newspaper), Dec. 8, 2022

"Garvey Hall Officially Welcomes the Catholic U. Community," Catholic University, December, 2022

Awards

2025 John Russell Pope Award, Institutional category, Institute of Classical Architecture & Art Washington Mid-Atlantic Chapter

2024 Award of Excellence for Best Institutional Facility, NAIOP DC|MD

2024 Award of Excellence for Design and Manufacturing, Architectural Precast Association Awards for Excellence