Urban high-rise blends local cultural traditions
Posted
04/4/2011
Located in the New Orleans business
district, 930 Poydras is an urban, high-rise
residential apartment complex with ground-level retail spaces for
added amenities and an improved streetscape. The inspiration for
the facility's design came in part from the European, African and
Caribbean traditions that have blended together over the years in
creating New Orleans' culture. The architects, New Orleans-based
EskewDumezRipple, looked to the city's French Quarter for
inspiration to develop a sense of community among residents and to
reinterpret the notion of a shared, yet private domain.
An eight-story parking garage was built above the street-level
retail space and the ninth floor of the 21-story apartment building
is used as a consolidated space for resident amenities and social
activities, including a pool deck. The 462,000-square-foot building
includes 8,700 square feet of retail space.
CENTRIA, Moon Township, Pa., supplied 34,446 square feet of
22/26-gauge Formawall Dimension Series vertical and horizontal wall
panels in Blue Gray with an embossed Sundance AM coating and
Formavue FV400 windows.
The Formawall Dimension Series are Cradle to Cradle Silver
certified. Gibbs Construction LLC, New Orleans, was the general
contractor, and F.L. Crane & Sons, Fulton, Miss., was the
dealer/installer.
CENTRIA, www.centria.com