Decorative Exhibition
Decorative Exhibition🏗️"the first glass wall building in the USA"
✂️"It looks like it has been cut in half" (New York Magazine)
☕Coffee shop in back with open gallery
America's first glass curtain wall building appears abruptly truncated after its neighbor was demolished in 1970, leaving a surreal half-facade. The terra cotta exterior shifts from warm ochre to cool blue as the sun moves across Willis Polk's 1917 design.
Historic architecture landmark
First glass curtain wall
Baroque Gothic facade
Color-changing terra cotta
Google
(15)
4.7
Decorative ExhibitionDecorative Exhibition🏗️"the first glass wall building in the USA"
✂️"It looks like it has been cut in half" (New York Magazine)
☕Coffee shop in back with open gallery
America's first glass curtain wall building appears abruptly truncated after its neighbor was demolished in 1970, leaving a surreal half-facade. The terra cotta exterior shifts from warm ochre to cool blue as the sun moves across Willis Polk's 1917 design.
Historic architecture landmark
First glass curtain wall
Baroque Gothic facade
Color-changing terra cotta
Google
(15)
4.7