Perkins+Will+Salvador Dali
A view from the new Perkins+Will office at the High Museum: Someone's looking back.
Perkins+Will architects Bruce McEvoy and Paula Vaughan took me on the layman’s tour just before Thanksgiving of what may be Atlanta’s most significant renovation of the year.
Their firm’s new building, directly across from the High Museum, used to be an early 1980s oddity with a glass facade that stair-stepped between concrete supports. Not only was that western face an invitation to solar frying, but the building’s Peachtree Street presence was basically a wide, cobblestone driveway into a parking deck that occupied the first floor.
After a gut job so thorough that the building’s tracking Platinum for LEED Building Design and Construction, those two bizarre features have become strengths. Check out the photo tour and my article about it on GreenBuildingChronicle.com.
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johnnyurban on
Thu, 9th Dec 2010 4:22 pm
Do you know if the firm will be offering any tours of the building? I would love to see it up close! Also, super psyched about MODA getting a better location!
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