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Foster + Partners tops South Carolina county building with "crisp edges"
UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has completed an administration building in South Carolina with a winged roof that covers a skybridge.
Located in Greenville, the Greenville County Administration Building contains offices and is part of a wider redevelopment of the county's central square by RocaPoint Partners.
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The building consists of two separate glass volumes conjoined by a winged roof that covers a central walkway and an elevated skybridge connecting the third floor.
"The building will make a significant contribution to Greenville County, acting as a place for local people to meet in serene natural surroundings," said Foster + Partners head of studio Nigel Dancey.
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"The overhanging roof converges to create a shaded plaza, with crisp edges that accentuate the building's unique form."
At its centre, the roof protrudes in a pyramidal canopy, which is made of a series of translucent panels framed with brown metal.
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Colourful, integrated lighting illuminates the central space at night.
A glass curtain wall envelopes each volume. The team states the glass was used to symbolically erase the boundary between the public and the government.
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Inside, offices and "vast" lobby spaces were distributed across the building's four storeys.
Warm-coloured metal was used for accents on the facade, which are a nod to the Greenville County landscape and the brick masonry historically used in the area.
This same warm tone is found in the Corten steel of a veterans memorial that fans out just in front of the building.
The building's interior lobby is a double-height space with lofted walkways that surround glass-enclosed offices. Supporting columns, wrapped in a metallic finish, create distinct visual and physical markers in the space.
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The floors, walls and ceiling were finished in a bright white, contrasted by the dark framing of the glass curtain wall and black furniture in the lobby.
The building faces a public space which will eventually be populated with cafes, restaurants and a fountain, according to the team.
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At its back, a long staircase runs down a slope to meet the surrounding sidewalk.
It will act as a link between surrounding green spaces in Greenville's central square, which includes the linear Falls Park.
Foster + Partners recently revealed designs for a mixed-use development with fluted colonnades for Miami Beach and topped out the new JPMorgan headquarters in New York City.
The photography is by Brandon Stengel