Show UZ3m 8E rryipi MjpPfippB Sunday March 29 1987 The Salt take Tribune Jack Goodman’s city view Architects’ office has unique blend of different influences broad curved sidewalk wall flanking the entrance is warm in hue and tone erasing the severity of the deep dark windows of the central portion of the structure and its twin nicely balanced side wings Unlike its neighbors on this quiet Salt Lake City block the architectural firm's building is only a year or two old — but unlike the massive Governor's Palace Molen's office structure odd though it must appear to some eyes does not obtrude on what remains one of our town's most appealing blocks Its neighbors include one of the town's best approximation of a Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard resihouse dence — the square at 24 S 600 East Recently repainted in gray with dark window shutters and stark white trim this color job has enhanced a very structure Up at the corner where this quiet street intersects busy East South r at 576 E South Temple the almost directly opposite the Temple features an mansion gubernatorial odd cupola topping its peculiarly angled corner This is a building often hailed as one of the most charming on the old thoroughfare once named Brigham Street Also north of Ron Molen's building a nicely refurbished old home at 34 S 600 East is occupied by a law firm whose members have had the great good sense to provide tender loving care for its red brick walls handsome porch and graceful columns details Next door at 40 S 600 East a rather more modest brick home houses law- office building at 50 S 600 East is not large F°t is when viewed from some angles it's overwhelmed by the towerbroad-basechunk of architecing tural geometry just 'round the corner residential behind it — the u ing of the Governor's Palace on East South Temple But the office structure taking center stage on the west side of 600 Fast between South Temple and 100 afSmith is believe a fair unique to Salt Lake City — and an at that The red-bric- k two-stor- y d y d ridge-roofe- arch-fronte- d 1 d Jack Goodman works of its presiding genius Mies van der Rohe Modernism too often laid a chilling hand on the American scene being a style in which glass and steel used in severe geometric s shapes spread from Chicago North tall York's to New Shore apartments cubist Park Avenue office buildings and then from coast to coast arMore recently "progressive chitects have tired of the style and men like Robert Venturi Michael Greaves and Charles Moore turned from the cubist cliches and began givair ing their buildings a more playful dubbed soon was work Their and unfortunately architects being human the have already developed their own cliches If you walk over to 200 East some day down near 400 South next to the plot where Shefski s fender and body shop once stood you can see a remodeling of an office a building rare bird in Salt Lake City "penthouse' The triangular-roofeofatop the tall new Eagle Gate Plaza fice at State and South Temple is another mixed local use of two-stor- y good-lookin- it's home to the architectural firm of Molen lluss Money & Fuller while still another architect Peter Brunjes is credited with the sculpted contemporary figure fiercely holding up the big concrete slab just behind the central archway at the front door The building’s irregularly shaped slanting roof of reddish tile or its equivalent is one supposes reflective of Spanish or Mexican influences The lengthy concrete element fronting the building north and south of the concrete entrance arch is plain unornamented The columns supporting this lengthy slab have the look of poured concrete and due to their banding resemble concrete drain or iewage pipes The bulk of the building is faced in brick The father narrow dark-reupper courses are laid vertically the in a traditionlowjr bricks are laid-ual horizontal pattern This use of IJrick which also is used for a low Designed by Ron Molen Post-Moder- n g d old-time- yer Thomas Blomquist Finally south of the Molen building the three-storhigh much remodelled apartment structure housing Odyssey House fits well with its less socially engaged neighbors although the vacant lot alongside seems a mite neglected despite its juxtaposed basketball stanchion y d p Post-Moder- n But — back to 50 S 600 East I'm not privy to the way members of ar- V‘ chitectural firms meld their viewpoints But I suspect firm members Molen Huss Money and Fuller all had a hand in designing the unique structure now housing their firm disciCould it be these are school who've Modernist the of ples slipped away into the idioms and have even gone a bit beyond0 In any event they've enhanced a pleasant block one that might easily have been ruined if they had followed the example set by the mechanistic stark bare and Governor's Palace round the corner Drawing by Jack Goodman story office of architectural firm building inserted between traditional neighbors Varied roofline concrete archway and sculptural element serve to enhance two- One of the puzzles concerning Mo- len's ediface is of course that centrally located piece of sculpture by Peter Brunjes who in addition to being a competent sculptor is also an architect Is the decorative figure he has conceived at the firm s curved doorway Mayan or Toltec? Or did its style spring forth without any rela tion to South or Central America history? Perhaps Asia? No matter — it fits just as the building it enhances fits in with this blockful of oddly assorted neighbors What is the office building’s style? 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