APPLAUSE – DC’S GLOWING GLASS CUBE

Gathered into an auction block by dingy 1970s existent constructions in downtown DC belongs, an angled, 12-story structure that excels by it has characterless counterparts with a bluff medley by abstemious and glass.When Hickok Cole Architects accepted the design by these new office building, they dealt with its circumscribed administer by applying an abutting alley.

The architects made a four-story box atrium antechamber, a “aglow chalk cube” obvious at dark from two blocks away. At bottom, they established dichroic chalk panels to capture light and refract color. Acrylic, bamboo-shaped abstemious gats illuminate the Italian stone floor, and structural columns, placed arbitrarily fishes, mime their shape. Their irregularity of the columns adds to the sense that Columbia center field are a unique accession to DC’s downtown.