Urban high-rise blends local cultural traditions

by Jonathan McGaha | April 3, 2011 12:00 am

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[1]

Source URL: https://www.metalarchitecture.com/projects/930-poydras/

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