HIGHFIELD HOUSE

HIGHFIELD HOUSE

HIGHFIELD HOUSE Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie
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1962–1964, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. 4000 N. Charles St.

After completing One Charles Center, the renowned modernist designed Highfield House, an elegant apartment building in his signature modern idiom. The fifteen-story tower slab has a reinforced concrete structure sheathed with a sleek glass and steel curtain wall. High-field House’s sophisticated design extended to the garage, plaza, and pool integrated into the site, providing popular suburban amenities with refined urban living. The glass-enclosed two-story lobby is recessed and centered under the main structural block, with terrazzo floors, original furnishings, and marble-sheathed walls around the elevator core. Still a successful residential building, this is one of only two Mies buildings in Maryland.

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