Two of the other bloggers, Architect Design and Things That Inspire have written recently about steel windows, so this morning at breakfast I noticed the building across the street had steel windows.
This is actually an old building on the 200+ year old campus of the University of Maryland’s professional schools. The have retained the original façade on the first two levels and then added a parking garage above it, which you can see in the upper right of the image above. This is sort of the opposite of what usually happens: the street level changes, but the upper floors stay the same.
I love the Palladian-style arches with the pebbled glass, the basket-weave brickwork and the details on this building.
The basket-weave brickwork is something else.
ReplyDeleteVery cool to see them used in such an old buiding!
ReplyDeleteNow the whole country is looking for them. That's a good thing. We pass so much great design without noticing. We're more likely to notice the not so great design.
ReplyDeleteWhat's wonderful is that they worked around that beautiful building instead of "modernizing" it.
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