St. Louis Conversion Captures LEED Gold

摘要

In its quest for new offices, Cannon Design wanted something unique - an opportunity to flex its design muscle, and a place to reinvent how it practices. And St. Louis' Power House delivered. The 19,000-square-foot landmark, constructed in 1928, once provided coal-fired heat. The property, marked by tall, arched windows, stood empty since 1980. "It had lots of people's hearts, but no one could figure out what to do with it," comments Thomas Bergmann, Cannon Design's project principal. Bergmann likens the job to building a ship in a bottle. An interior 3-story gallery was formed by constructing two partial levels. Those, combined with two existing floors and a roottop pentnouse, yielded 32,000 square feet of space. New floors were set back from the windows to maintain the sense of transparency and volume of the original building.