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CONSTRUCTION / DEVELOPMENT
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Clayco and
HRI Renovating Merchandise Mart
Above:
Clayco and Historic Restoration Inc. have teamed up to renovate
the 120-year-old Merchandise Mart building on Washington Ave. This
design rendering shows how the building should look when it opens
at the end of 2002 for occupants in the loft apartments and lower-level
retail space.
Clayco Construction Co. has begun renovation of the historic Merchandise
Mart building at 1000 Washington Ave. in downtown St. Louis. Historic
Restoration Inc. (HRI) is the developer of the $47 million project,
which will include 213 loft apartments and street-level retail space
when completed later this year.
Known as “The Mart,” the seven-story, 340,000-square-foot building
has been part of St. Louis since 1880. Architect Isaac Taylor designed
the Romanesque Revival Merchandise Mart building, which was central
to the city’s dry goods and clothing industry for more than 100
years. The city designated “The Mart” as a landmark in 1979 and
it has been listed on the National Register of Historic places since
1984 as the “Liggett and Myers/Rice-Stix Building,” after its original
owners, Liggett and Myers Tobacco Co., and its original occupant,
wholesale dry goods company Rice-Stix.
Historic Construction Inc., HRI’s architectural unit is providing
design services for the renovation, while Clayco is providing mechanical,
electrical and plumbing design-build and general construction services.
Renovation of the Merchandise Mart is part of a larger plan for
downtown St. Louis and the Washington Ave. Loft District.
“The Missouri State Historic tax credits have made the restoration
of the Merchandise Mart more affordable,” says Paul Giacoletto,
development project director/HRI. “The tax credits have also enabled
us to give more attention and detail to the architecture in the
buildings. Without such credits it wouldn’t be feasible to be as
historically accurate with the renovation.”
HOK-Designed Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse Earns Two Design
Awards in 2001
Above:
HOK designed the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse, the largest
federal court building. Since opening in 2000, the courthouse has
earned design awards for use of precast concrete and use of terrazzo
flooring.
Two national design awards in 2001 went to the Thomas F. Eagleton
United States Courthouse, designed by the St. Louis office of HOK
(Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum) Inc.
The courthouse was named Best Justice Facility by the Precast/Prestressed
Concrete Institute (PCI) for architectural and engineering excellence,
and creativity and innovation in the use of precast, prestressed
concrete. The building’s exterior features 3,600 precast concrete
exterior panels of varied textures and panel shapes evoking the
qualities of limestone.
The National Terrazzo & Mosaic Association awarded the facility
its 2000 Honor Award for creative excellence in the use of terrazzo,
flooring made of small fragments of colored stone or marble embedded
in cement with a highly polished surface. The courthouse consists
of more than 50,000 square feet of sand cushion terrazzo on 28 floors
in all public entrances and the lobbies to all courtrooms. At the
five-story-high east entrance, the building has 4,800 square feet
of terrazzo with a starburst design in the center of the floor.
With more than one million square feet and 29 stories, the Thomas
F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse is currently the nation’s largest federal
courthouse.
Construction Begins on New Ambulatory Surgery Center at Barnes-Jewish
West
Ceneral contractor S.M. Wilson started construction earlier this
year on a new $5.7 million Ambulatory Surgery Center for Barnes-Jewish
West County Hospital in Creve Coeur. Designed by ACI-Boland, the
16,500-square-foot facility will include two surgical suites and
two procedure rooms. The project is scheduled for completion in
early 2003.
According to hospital President Pat Mohrman, RN, MSN, demand for
outpatient procedures has been growing at a rate of more than 11
percent per year. The new facility is expected to meet current needs
and is designed for accommodating future needs.
Joining Wilson and ACI-Boland on the project are Murphy Co., mechanical
engineer and plumbing; and Guarantee Electric, electrical engineer.
Convention Centers Hotel Complex Opens First Luxury Guest Suite
Above: Renaissance
St. Louis Suites Hotel premieres this month, offering 165 rooms
with this style of accommodations.
Renaissance St. Louis Suites Hotel, scheduled to open this month,
will offer 165 suites at 827 Washington Ave. This is part of the
convention center hotel complex, which also includes the 916-room
Renaissance St. Louis Grand Hotel at 822 Washington. Ave., opening
in 2003.
Located next to America’s Center, the 11th largest convention facility
in the U.S., the new hotel complex will bring 1,081 rooms and more
than 70,000 square feet of function space to downtown St. Louis.
An innovative public-private partnership made the Renaissance Hotel
complex possible. It is expected to boost the convention and meeting
business for downtown and fuel economic development in the area.
UM’s Plant Growth Facility Captures Architectural Award for Cannon
Design
Above:
Repetition and simple form create a lively new look for the area
of the UM campus occupied by the Ernie and Lotti Sears Plant Growth
Facility, which earned an architecture award for designer, Cannon
Design.
Cannon Design’s work on the Ernie and Lotti Sears Plant Growth Facility
has earned the Judges’ Award for Architecture from the St. Louis
Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Construction
Products Council of St. Louis.
Missouri’s leadership in plant sciences was the catalyst for this
new research building on the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus.
The 44,800-square-foot Plant Growth Facility includes greenhouses,
a lab, growth chambers, seed storage coolers and support space.
Located near the campus center, the building’s exterior needed to
harmonize with other buildings, including the University’s neighboring
child development center. Materials and shapes of typical greenhouses
inspired the building’s form. Cannon Design worked closely with
the University on facility requirements, flexibility for future
use, and budget parameters.
The Plant Growth Facility received one of five Architecture Awards
in a field of 32 entries. The awards jury described the design as,
“a straightforward solution that uses the repetitive forms to achieve
an elegant composition. Rather than use architecture to decorate
utility, the designer turns the process around, making a virtue
of this direct expression of function.”
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