spatial vocabulary. Where Quincy's corridors channeled movement through compression and release, here the architecture abandons restraint entirely—the ceiling plane lifts away from the walls as if the structure itself is exhaling, and the exposed steel framing reads less as skeleton than as sculpture, each beam a deliberate gesture against the limestone that anchors the lower volumes to earth. This is the moment the estate declares its full modernist ambition, the point where material honesty and spatial drama converge in a single unbroken gesture that carries the eye outward through floor-to-ceiling glass toward the wooded ridgeline beyond. The effect is one of radical transparency, a room that refuses to distinguish between interior shelter and exterior landscape, and it is precisely this dissolution of boundaries that prepares the viewer for what Richmond will deliver when the plan pivots once more and the southern wing begins its long, deliberate reach toward the