Textured Tuesday: Warm Brick, Cold Glass

This old building has been restored and re-purposed and is a part 

of the NCAA complex along the Central Canal.

I remember it as having a coat of gray paint 

covering its warm bricks.

When Washington Street was re-routed, the building and 

the old bridge stood neglected for some time before

being made a part of the White River State Park.

I do like the contrast between the red brick and the

smooth blue glass that makes up the J.W. Marriott Hotel

in the background.

For me, this building is the structure that anchors the NCAA 

complex designed by Michael Graves. That is probably because

preserving the building was a requirement of the project, 

but it also meant that red brick was used in the new designs 

that followed, with arcs and curves to echo the windows,

as well as a structure that is broken up into related sections. 

While this seems to be a theme in Graves' work,
the varied colors and shapes of this/these buildings
give it more of a community feel, one made up of several
smaller structures rather than a huge monolith.