Visitors looking up from the base of the Glendale Federal Savings Building see light streaming through the fifty-two rainbow-patterned glass of a dalle da verre cornice, cantilevered nine-and-a-half feet from the top of the ten-story building.
When J. Paul Getty opened his Getty Villa in 1974—making his collection of Classical artworks available to the public—he felt certain the building should evoke a Classical design. The reviews were mixed.
With its mirrored-glass facade seemingly blending into the sky, this remarkable corporate headquarters is in fact anchored by sculptured granite buttresses that root it firmly to the earth.