The 10-story limestone and brick building has chamfered corners, two-story-high pilasters and setbacks above the seventh floor.
On Claremont Avenue, a limestone base rises five stories, with the 14 residential floors in gradual setbacks above.
The decision was to fill out the setbacks above the 11th floor and add three stories, two for offices and the top for mechanical equipment.
With the retail space developed, Vornado executives turned their attention to the rest of the building, particularly the upper floors, which had reduced rentable space because of the sharp setbacks, "Above the 15th floor it was mostly core and elevators with little available space," Mr. Roth said.
One of the most contentious issues will involve the massing of the buildings: the height of the bases that rise up from street level and the depth of the setbacks above, which will necessarily reduce overall floor sizes, something no landlord wants to see.
His 12-story International Square building with its inverted setbacks above the Farragut West Washington Metro station, ninth-floor balcony with non-structural columns, interior atrium, and ground level set-back retail concourse opened in November.
In the setback directly above the display will be a map of the world almost 50 feet tall and 150 feet wide.
But where Mies set Seagram's sheer wall back from a plaza, Scutt articulated his façade into a zigzag profile, which added dozens of corner windows and resolved into a terraced setback arrangement above its base, which once housed a piquant little orchard.
Due to the major setbacks mentioned above, the project appeared dead in 2010.
According to Conway, it is "courtesy of Dr. Coleman" that her site shows a slide from Coleman's IFGE lecture namely a reproduction of TMWWBQ's cover with the words "Unfortunate Setbacks" added above it (Conway, 2005b).
