| Hillcrest Bank Kansas City, Missouri |
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The Hillcrest Bank and Office Building was designed as the signature entry building for a series of future office structures. The three-story structure, which includes 700,000 square feet, serves to house a bank and to provide for high quality rental office space. The impact of this penetration generates an explosion of color, an angled red marble plane, a yellow column, and a blue canopy grid which leads the eye and the visitor into the two-story entrance lobby. In order to withdraw from the blatant competition among neighboring commercial development, the building is conceived in the simplest of forms, a black, minimalist monolith, with state-of-the-art, no joint, four-side butt glazed detailing. The affect was conceived as an image elegant as a tuxedo and enigmatic as Darth Vadar. |
| The heroic scale of the stone and the colored elements is echoed by the huge stainless steel figure which dances provocatively at the end of the stone embankment, subtly inviting attention to the multi-colored entrance to her mysterious glossy black home. ruins of an ancient civilization. |  |
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