This was a repositioning of an existing restaurant and bar. Operationally we were asked to create multiple flexible venue spaces for large and small private social events given its location in central Washington DC. The design team added a new minimalist glass cube atrium, and increase the outdoor seating spaces accommodating functions of 500+ people. There are two entrances. One is accessed through the connecting Hotel Monaco lobby. The second, more dramatic entrance, is through the original arched coach tunnel/ entrance formerly used by the Pony Express to drop and pick up mail. The neoclassical General Post Office building is a National Historic Landmark constructed in 1839 that was the first all-marble building in Washington and patterned after the Roman Temple of Jupiter. The restaurant is located in the former mail sorting pavilion separated by a courtyard from the 4-story hotel. One half the structure is designed by Robert Mills, designer of the Washington Monument while the other was designed by Thomas U Walter, one of the architects for the United States Capital. The building is a national historic landmark and all original architectural elements had to be seen by the public and maintained in its entirety.