Glass Wall, Visible Car Ramp Turn ‘Lemon into Lemonade’ 4/25/2005
Local architect Lohan Caprile Goettsch turned a lemon into lemonade not only by filling the space between the lobby and the office floors with an income-earnera 489-vehicle garagebut by expressing the garage ramp as a spiral around the core. Then, LCG wrapped three sides of the lobby with a 335-ft-long, 45-ft-tall cable-supported glass wall, pragmatically marrying architecture and structure.
Even the garage framing, a nine-story steel megatruss, is part camouflage and part architecture: Its chevron web members are expressed.