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March 2021 \ BUILDING DIALOGUE \ 81 the north end is a kinetic art installation by Brooklyn-based kinetic artistry group Breakfast. The piece is similar to the Brixels Wall installed recently in New York’s Hudson Yards. Ac- cording to Haltom, it’s the first of its kind in the world. “There will be kinetic devices in the floor that will sense physical presence and respond dynamically to the presence of someone moving close to the sculpture. We’ll have approxi- mately 400 acrylic extrusions that will wave like a wheat field in the wind.” The post-tensioned concrete podium, which houses the parking levels and lobby, supports 20 levels of steel-structured office space that provides internal column-free workspaces and expansive 29,800-sf floor plates, which Haltom says allows for flexible planning modules. Sky Terrace and Amenities The blurring of the line between office and hospitality is probably most obvious on the 11th floor. And according to Haltom, that was by design. “We wanted to take a page out of the hospitality and high- end luxury residential playbook and gang those amenities to- gether and locate them on top of the podium for the benefit of activity and adjacency with each other and those outdoor spaces.” The west side of the 11th floor is office space, while the east side features three distinct spaces that all open onto a sizable Sky Terrace via 110 feet of Nana wall doors: • Fitness center with leading-edge equipment indoors, and outdoor turf lawn for yoga sessions and more. • Indoor/outdoor social lounge with fireplaces, ample seat- ing and a snack bar that disappears into the wooden millwork for after-hours events. More seating, fire pits and manicured garden on the sky terrace. • Conference and prefunction area that can be combined into double space, and a covered porch on the outside terrace. / Block 162 / OPENING ART: Courtesy Brad Nicol | Architectural Photography TOP LEFT: Milled walnut fins on the wall add warmth while columns reach up to the 30-foot ceiling. Courtesy Michelle Meunier Photography TOP RIGHT: The Front Range is reflected in Block 162's blue glass curtain wall. Courtesy Michelle Meunier Photography