Word: brise
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apartments that were cut out to the top of the building, where they command a better view and higher prices. The blue grid on the south side of the building adds not only color but also shade, in the manner of Le Corbusier's famous brise-soleil, or sun baffle. "If you try to be different," says Fort-Brescia, "be sure that it functions right. My father was a developer. We know better than to fool around with costs and construction schedules...
...politely between the clumsily classical Everett Dirksen Senate Office Building and the Federal and Queen Anne-style Sewall-Belmont House and garden, headquarters of the venerable National Woman's Party. The Hart Building's classically well-ordered, box-construction windows, reminiscent of Le Corbusier's famous brise-soleils, or sun screens, harmonize with the forest of Roman columns that flourishes on Capitol Hill. Most important, of the six congressional office palaces built in the 20th century, this is the first to make 20th century functional sense...