2009 AIANC Design Awards - Park SHops - Honor

Architect: Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee - This 1914 three-story, masonry structure is transformed into a 21st century multi-functional campus building. The existing L-shaped building forms two sides to a new campus plaza. In order to help activate the plaza, two new intersecting public paths were cut through the existing walls and floors to allow pedestrians to circulate easily between the upper and the lower plaza level. To demarcate the paths, new elements were inserted at the ending of each axis. One of the main elements is a glass-enclosed café pavilion located on the south facade, transforming the back of the building into the new main entrance.

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Education

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• Architecture
• Design
• North Carolina