The 120 Blondo Building by Randy Brown is the prairie’s response to Santa Monica, a collection of composed fragments located at a busy intersection of two arterial roads. Here, there are law offices arise in modernist relief along a typical suburban street. The project is a response to the surrounding banal office buildings that populate urban areas in cities all over the country. Designed only to be functional and cost-effective, these buildings generally lack even a modicum of design input that might elevate them to the status of positive contributors to the urban landscape.

When commissioned to design offices for a law firm for 120 Blondo Building’s main program, Randy Brown took the opportunity to design a working solution to this suburban blight, and to make people question the quality of their built environment. If a conventional office immediately reveals its size and form, this building’s structural elements are designed to conceal the nature of the area beyond, so that the space unfolds as the visitor moves through it.

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