(UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

The Dupont Underground, founded by Julian Hunt and Lucrecia Laudi, is now a thriving cultural anchor for Dupont Circle and the District with 25,000 annual visitors.

2025 “Location of the Month”

When the city issued a request for proposals to resurrect the dormant space in 2010, only one group answered the call: Hunt Laudi Studio, a design studio helmed by architects Julian Hunt and Lucrecia Laudi (Maryland Today/UMD, April 03, 2023).

An aerial view of a city square with a modern, curved, green roof structure covering a public gathering area, surrounded by trees, buildings, and cars.

In 2011, as part of the Dupont Underground masterplan, Hunt Laudi Studio proposed capping the Connecticut Avenue underpass to create a public plaza hosting the farmers market. Today, DDOT's $37.8M Connecticut Avenue Streetscape and Deckover, under construction since 2025, is expected to open sometime in 2027, programmed to include a farmers market. Same firm, same block, below and above grade: Dupont Underground (built) and the Dupont “Deckover” (being built).

Site Plan: The former streetcar station consists of two platforms and two sets of tunnels.

1910s - 1940s: Transit and Traffic When Connecticut Avenue was widened in the late 1920s, increased traffic in the neighborhood caused a great deal of congestion in the Circle, making it difficult for pedestrians to get around. In fact, Dupont

1949 - 1962: Open The Dupont Circle Streetcar Station greeted its first riders in November 2, 1949. However, neither the Dupont circle streetcar station, nor the subway system it was designed to plug into were allowed to flourish. While DC'

2000-2010: Rediscovered In the early aughts, Hunt Laudi Studio partner Julian Hunt returned stateside after spending the previous decade living and working in Barcelona, which was a city that had undergone tremendous urban renovations shaped b

Located in the center of the District's distinguished arts institutions, the goal of the ACDU is to transform the abandoned platforms and tunnels of the old Dupont streetcar station into innovatively designed spaces for art exhibition, production,

Proposed Programming: Art and Architecture Installations

Proposed Programming: Performance Events

Photo: Existing Parcel at Q Street and Massachusetts Avenue

Rendered View: Proposed Main Entrance at Q Street and Massachusetts Avenue

Photo: Existing Parcel at Q Street and Connecticut Avenue

Rendered View: Proposed Entry at Q Street and Connecticut Avenue

Photo: Existing Connecticut Avenue Underpass

Rendered View: Proposed Cap Park over Connecticut Avenue Underpass