Oh, you've got room for one more non-mall building...
Presenting the Markel Building!
This beauty popped up on my Facebook feed because I follow the Atlas Obscura on there. And, according to Atlas Obscura this building was inspired by the baked potato that architect Haig Jamgochian was served at the American Institute of Architects dinner in 1962.
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“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.” -- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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