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Mid-Century Modern Resource Characteristics
» Usually designed as a “stand-alone” structure
» More internally focused
» Often a single entry
» Less of a connection to the street along the entire
building wall
» Skin of the building (not generally fenestration
patterns) creates a texture, sometimes with vertical
emphasis and sometimes with horizontal emphasis
» Usually a concrete, metal or glass skin
» More “industrial” window and door frames
» Usually a base of 4-6 stories, with an extruded
tower of ten or more stories
Figure 2.10 Former Dayton’s at 411 Cedar Street, ca. 1963
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