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...real estate is breathtaking. Glowing Victorian brass fittings, red oak woodwork and frosted glass set off the Pavilion, a graceful three-level gallery of restaurants and shops in a vast sunlit atrium that rises 215 ft. and has a floor two-thirds the length of a football field. Visible through the distant glass roof, past floors of balconied corridors where 800 federal workers have offices, is a dramatic view: the 315-ft. clock tower that presides loftily over Pennsylvania Avenue. Developer Charles Evans Jr., whose firm also was part of the team that refurbished the nation's oldest covered...
...Post Office not only was neglected, it nearly fell to the wrecker's ball. In 1899, the building's flossy exterior blended well with the theaters, taverns and whorehouses that enlivened the 1 ½-mile esplanade. The atrium design permitted postal inspectors to prowl catwalks, checking up on mail sorters below. But as Government grew more dignified, its architects demanded cool, neoclassic superblocks on the Avenue of the Presidents. To them, the Post Office seemed as out of place as flamboyant Diamond Jim Brady at a state dinner. Abandoned in 1934 by the Post Office Department, the building...
Beginning next spring, the National Park Service will lift visitors up through the atrium in a glass-walled elevator so they can enjoy panoramic views from the top of the tower, the second highest pinnacle in the area after the Washington Monument. Tourists have other amenities to sample in the Pavilion. After two years of negotiations, the Government granted a 55-year lease to the Evans Development Co., which put up an additional $10 million to make space suitable for shops...
...Hyatt Regency Hotel proved particularly vulnerable. A twister, one of a score that gusted up during Alicia's onslaught, blew open the cavernous 30-story atrium, allowing water and wind to swirl inside. The hotel and its seven restaurants were brimming with 1,000 guests, many of them refugees from the hurricane. As some 80 windows shattered, guests were moved into the ballroom, where the hotel provided blankets and baskets of free food. Some 20,000 other evacuees were given sanctuary in 83 Red Cross shelters in the area...
...York City, developers commonly add plazas at the ground level of office towers in return for permission to erect taller skyscrapers. IBM was granted the right to build five extra floors for creating a tree-filled atrium at the foot of its Madison Avenue building. But now the whole zoning program is running into serious problems. Citizen groups complain that some plazas are so poorly designed and maintained that they discourage public use. At the Harley Hotel, which is co-owned by Multimillionaire Harry Helmsley iron spikes were installed in seating areas, which kept people out of the public space...