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Engineer / Architect: | Pietro Belluschi, Emery Roth and Sons (original);Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (addition) |
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Location: |
100 East Pratt Street Baltimore, MD |
Year Built: | 1973-75; 1991 |
Structural Form: | steel frame with masonry facade, hat truss |
Historical Details: | N/A |
Technical Details: | The 1991 addition is suspended entirely from the hat truss so that load travels up into the truss and then down through the original building; no load is placed on the building below. |
Image Source(s): | Rachel Sangree |
References: | M.E Hayward and F.R. Shivers, Jr., the Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (2004), p. 287. |