The upper floors of this mixed-used office and residental tower fracture the lower punched-window wall into fracture the lower punched-window wall into faceted galss cubes. This intelligent solution to the problem of how to scale back the mass of a skyscrper begins with small balconies, continues through an exposure of the fram in concrete piers and beams, and culminates with distended window surfaces at the penthouse level.
655 Montgomery Street Building (1984)
Kaplan, McLaughlin & Diaz