BuildingScape: Playing Favorites
Photo for theggazz.com by Walker DeVille. Click to enlarge
Boulevard Towers, at the nexus of Kanawha Boulevard and Leon Sullivan Way, is one of my favorite buildings in toute la Charleston. It is an exemplary example of how to design a building that looks exquisite from four different directions, yet in four different ways. All the while, it remains a unified whole. There are two signature details. On the western face seen here, it’s the rectangular symmetry of those glassblocks and that delightful zig-zag fire escape. Its inset, yet exposed look recalls the more contempory architectural gesture of showcasing the exoskeleton of a building. See the picture below for the second signature element.
