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Seamen's Church Institute The design for this mixed-use building formally
defers to the building's historical context and simultaneously contributes
to it by affirming the nautical sensibility of the client (a non-profit
benevolence organization) and the seaport area. The new building incorporates
the restored façade of an 18th-century mercantile structure and
interprets its proportional system and materials across the first flour
floors in a distinctly modern idiom. In contrast, the fifth and sixth
floors, clad in white enameled steel and encircled by decks, metaphorically
assume the character of a ship. The building houses administrative offices,
a navigation training laboratory, social activity spaces, meeting rooms,
an art gallery, legal services offices and an ecumenical chapel. Awards
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