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What could be the region's tallest building now features a ‘SkyGarden’ — and more changes for The View at Tysons

The View at Tysons has a new look, a revised mix of uses and a host of new arts and cultural amenities baked in, but its anchor remains what would be the region’s tallest building — now with a “garden in the sky.”

Vienna-based Clemente Development Co. has made major changes to its application for the planned 3 million-square-foot, $1.3 billion project adjacent to the Spring Hill Metro station. With the $26 million acquisition of 8590 Leesburg Pike earlier this year, the development footprint has grown to 8.35 acres, a full block fronting Leesburg Pike between Tyco and Spring Hill roads, which allowed the team behind The View at Tysons to both expand and intensify the vision.

Dominating The View, still, is the 600-foot-tall “Iconic Tower,” which has been “redesigned as a sleeker, even more striking building,” according to the new application filed by attorney Antonio Calabrese of DLA Piper LLP. Originally planned as a combination of condo, hotel and retail, the Gensler-designed tower, sited essentially adjacent to the Metro entrance, is now proposed as a 921,000-square-foot office building topped by a 27,000-square-foot “quasi-public atrium and rooftop garden.” Transwestern is handling leasing for The View.

The glass-walled “SkyGarden,” as it is currently called, is to occupy the top 120 vertical feet of the tower, “providing unmatched 360-degree views” and creating the sense of “truly being in a garden in the sky.” That amenity alone is expected to cost upward of $50 million, per the statement of justification.

The Iconic Tower, if approved, would rise high above the region’s second tallest building, Capital One’s nearly finished 470-foot-tall Tysons headquarters.

The biggest change to the overall development is the mix. The View was originally slated to be predominantly residential, but by flipping the tower to office, the ratio is now 47.5 percent office, 38 percent residential, 10 percent hotel, 3 percent retail and 2 percent public facilities and arts uses. The project would include one building that combines hotel and condominiums, two office buildings, and two more residential buildings.