Washington Office Building with Vedic Architecture!

[Guest guest]

Namaste:

 

This special news item in today's Washington Post is quite

interesting. It is quite ironic that in Delhi, the builders want to

follow the Western architectural designs and features where as in the

West, they want to go back to the Vedic times and follow the

environmentally and spiritually friendly architectural designs and

features.

 

regards,

 

Ram Chandran

 

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Tower II Planned With The Maharishi in Mind

Developer Aims to Build Healthful Workplace

By Mark Chediak

Washington Post Staff Writer

Monday, June 20, 2005; Page D01

(The entire article can be read at the URL:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-

dyn/content/article/2005/06/19/AR2005061900819.html)

 

"Commercial office buildings are usually all about square footage,

parking lots and maybe some marble in the lobby. But developer

Jeffrey S. Abramson says his new building in Rockville will also

offer a terrace called a vastu and an interior open space called a

brahmasthan.

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"All measurements of Tower II, interior and exterior, are

proportionally designed to mirror the geometry, or architecture, of

the universe," according to a brochure for the building.

The pamphlet says the main entrance is to face east, a central

component of Vedic architecture that allows a structure "to capture

the early morning sun for the greatest benefits to the health and the

vitality of the occupants." A "mathematically determined vastu," or

terrace, is to surround the building.

Inside, the center of the building is to have the brahmasthan,

a "silent core or nucleus," outlined in marble on every floor.

Abramson's company is building Tower II in partnership with Lerner

Enterprises, another Bethesda developer. Architecture firm Kishimoto,

Gordon, Dalaya PC of McLean designed the building in consultation

with Maharishi Global Construction LLC, a Vedic design firm based in

Fairfield, Iowa, where hundreds of the maharishi's followers have

settled.

Jonathan Lipman, chief architect at Maharishi Global Construction and

the Vedic consultant on the Tower II project, said his firm has

worked on designs for hundreds of homes and nearly a dozen office

buildings based on a system the maharishi developed about 15 years

ago. He said the system uses mathematical formulas drawn from "the

eternal laws of nature and nature's architecture."

Abramson said Tower Cos. and Lerner Enterprises is to occupy one-

third of the Vedic building. The remaining space has yet to be leased.

Next to the new office building, Tower plans to develop an eco-

friendly hotel with a resort and spa featuring some Vedic elements."

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