
This three-story building is wrapped on two sides by a full-height portico carried on flared, attenuated, stucco-covered steel columns that mimic Gothic stone-vaulted construction. Behind and between the columns, walls are either gray-veined marble or full-height aluminum-framed windows. The New Formalist design was modeled on Minoru Yamasaki’s Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company building (1965) in Minneapolis but perhaps has more resonance here in a locale where white-columned porticos have long been an architectural staple.