Washington Square

WASHINGTON SQUARE

LOCATION
Chicago, Illinois

CLIENT
Horwitz & Company

ORIGINAL ARCHITECT
Joseph C. Llewellyn

ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION DATE
1910

STATISTICS
6 Stories
96 Parking Spaces
28,000 SF Retail/Commercial
200,000 GSF

In its conversion to a first class office building, the eastern façade of the antiquated warehouse is entirely reconstructed. Translucent capitals crown over-scaled masonry columns on a field of blue-green glass as the building’s orientation shifts towards Chicago’s Loop. Directly adjacent, a three-level addition contains retail and parking. A translation of the original structure, its skin replicates perimeter rhythm and masonry as an arcade. The entry procession commences through a colonnade of stone and lighted glass block columns. Passing through the cross axis of a skylight galleria demarcating old and new, one ascends to the centralized lobby. The composition of masonry stone, terrazzo, brass and glass presents historical familiarity and yet enticing surprise.

AWARDS
International Illumination Design Award, Edwin F. Guth Memorial Award of Excellence, Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)
Honor Award, National Association of Industrial and Office Properties Design Awards

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