downtown

fairlie-poplar from the south, one day last week --- i love the old first federal building (1964) just left of center --- of it, the aia guide sez

It is supported by six giant pentagonal columns . . . with post-tensioned beams spanning its column-free interior. The exposed curved faces of the deep spandrel beams that ring each floor alternate with ribbon windows in grey-tinted glass. The elevator service tower toward the rear is partly of poured concrete to stiffen the structure.

well, all-righty then, although he shoulda mentioned the vaguely pagodaesque nature of the design