Amid nondescript office buildings, small strip shops, coffee shops, banks and restaurants, the Holocaust Memorial Center commands attention.  Everything about the 50,000 sf structure evokes powerful emotions.  The gray and blue striping on the second story reminds visitors of the camp clothing Holocaust prisoners were forced to wear.  The cables criss-crossing the exterior brick represent concentration camp fencing.  Even the shaggy greenery around the perimeter is reminiscent of the meadow grass that flourished near the camps.  All of this uncomfortable imagery is deliberate to convey the great destructive force of intolerance.  Juxtaposed against these images of pain is the rounded enclosure for the International Institute of the Righteous.  The only soft form in the building and the only white color in the composition, the ellipse attempts to express the purity and the elusiveness of altruism.  Six white glass pyramids, fifteen feet in height, serve as skylights by day.  Illuminated flames by night, they pay homage to the six million Jewish lives lost.