In an age of flat business organization and collaborative work environments, the imposing office lobbies of 1980s-era Washington, D.C., feel as dated as big hair. At 1300 Eye Street NW, known as Franklin Square, Hickok Cole transformed the ultimate power-broker lobby into a front door for our time. The existing 22-foot fluted columns, coffered ceiling, and shiny marble floor that could have been extracted from a John Grisham thriller were in fact conceived by Philip Johnson when he designed the 1989 Postmodern building. As Hickok Cole principal Rob Holzbach describes the recent renovation, “The lobby is liberated from its previous inward-facing intensity and now reorients itself to the streetscape.”