The lately completed 612,000-sq.-ft...

The lately completed 612,000-sq.-ft. Fidelity and Guaranty Life Insurance Co headquarters, located outside Baltimore, makes use of eight different originals of glass and a variety of custom details to comprise a contemporary vision of modernist architecture.

"This is a descendant of Mies van der Rohe's plans for an all-glass office building," said Charles Brickbauer, principal of Peterson and Brickbauer Inc., the project's Baltimore-based design architect. "But we've given vitality to Mies' glass driver's seat by using the latest glass technology and exploring variations in