#postmodernism

Designed in the late 1980’s by the iconic Philip Johnson, the original Franklin Square embodied the theatrical post-modernist style Johnson gravitated towards in the second-half of his career with twenty-foot-tall fluted columns, marble floors, and bronze grill work canopies. Four decades later, the Hickok Cole design team was tasked with modernizing 30,941 SF of public tenant space to restore Franklin Square’s prominent reputation and street presence, while preserving it’s post-modernist character. Garrett Rowland Garrett Rowland A new double-height entrance creates a direct visual connection to Franklin Square Park—the building’s namesake—across the street with a custom glass wall system supp... More