More from the architect of the Schaefer Tower
June 20, 2008
J. Robert Hillier, of the Princeton, N.J.-based architecture firm RMJM Hillier, spoke to The Daily Record about some of his thinking when he designed the William Donald Schaefer Tower (then called the Merritt Tower) in the 1980s. He was nice enough to send us some pictures to illustrate his points.
You can also check out some other buildings his firm has done here.
At top is a picture of a South Korean building with “slash” windows. It’s more recent than the Schaefer Tower, but Hillier said he explored this concept early in the planning process for the Baltimore building.
Bottom left is a building called the Unistructure Hillier designed at Bryant University in Rhode Island. He said this, along with a brown, mirrored home he designed in Princeton, helped lead up to his use of reflective glass at the Schaefer tower.
There was a slowdown in skyscraper construction into the 1990s, so Hillier said the Schaefer Tower was the last he designed until he began work on the LVMH Moet Hennessy – Louis Vuitton building in 1996.
He said the Schaefer Tower, at least at street level, has elements of the Postmodern style of architecture, using classical elements such as columns in the front, but in a new way.
“People were kind of deferring to older architecture with designs that were reminiscent of the old architecture, but not actually direct copies,” Hillier said.
ANDY ROSEN, Business Writer
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