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Waterfront Botanical Gardens / Perkins&Will

Valeria Silva — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000

The Waterfront Botanical Gardens and Graeser Family Education Center sit on a former landfill site, which had been unusable and closed off to the public for decades. Today it has been redesigned into 23.5 acres of lush, verdant, sustainable public space: the first botanical garden in Louisville. The education center and surrounding trails and gardens provide green space to residents and visitors, while educating the public on topics of conservation and sustainability. There is programming for adults and children, as well as the opportunity for event rentals.

Heatherwick Studio to Revitalize Louisville’s Belvedere in United States

Nour Fakharany — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:30:00 +0000

Heatherwick Studio has unveiled an ambitious vision to transform the Belvedere, a historic elevated riverfront space in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, into a reimagined public park in the United States. The project aims to breathe new life into the site, enhancing its connection to the Ohio River and creating a welcoming environment for both residents and visitors.

Hybrid Home: Humana Reimagines the Workplace for a Post-Pandemic Era

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 07:30:00 +0000

The pandemic has transformed how we work around the world. Companies have quickly rethought traditional workflows to stay connected and focus on the employee experience. Reimagining their workplaces in a holistic way, designers at Louisville-based Humana are working on new workplace models that ensure employee safety and well-being while creating greater flexibility and diverse ways to collaborate.

Louisville Free Public Library Southwest / JRA Architects + MSR

Andreas Luco — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:00:00 +0000

The Louisville Southwest Regional Library is the first of three full-service library facilities strategically positioned in the suburban perimeter of Louisville, Kentucky. A system master plan developed after the city-county governmental merger focused capital investment on these large-scale buildings, which could house an extensive material collection, and offer outlying residents the same level of service and amenities available at the main branch downtown.

Bulleit Frontier Works bar / FAR frohn&rojas

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:00:00 +0000

The Bulleit Frontier Works bar temporarily occupies a series of abandoned spaces, beginning with the historic Sixteenth Street Train Station in Oakland, and continuing with sites in Austin and New York City.

Shigeru Ban Designs Triad of Timber Pyramids for Kentucky Owl Park

Eric Baldwin — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:00:00 +0000

Shigeru Ban Architects have been selected to a new 420-acre campus for the owners of Kentucky Owl Bourbon just south of Louisville, Kentucky. The new project will convert the former Cedar Creek Quarry into a distillery, bottling center, and rickhouses. Working with landscape architects Design Workshop from Denver and Earthscape from Tokyo, the $150 million project will be built with three timber pyramids housing the distillery at the center of the development. The new plans come after Stoli Group purchased the Kentucky Owl brand in 2017.

Owsley Brown II History Center / de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 14:00:00 +0000

Based in Louisville, Kentucky, the Filson Historical Society collects, curates, and archives the rich narrative of the Ohio River Valley region, offering an ambitious range of educational programs and cultural resources that support this focus. After 130 years of collection & operation, the organization outgrew its existing home in the Ferguson Mansion - an historic example of Beaux Arts architecture in the city’s Old Louisville preservation district - and sought to expand and modernize its assets. In doing so, the Filson also identified an opportunity to reflect its role more clearly as an inviting public resource engaging a diverse and broad community – rather than a private entity with exclusive membership.

Pearl Izumi North American Headquarters / ZGF Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 09:00:00 +0000

Expressing the dynamic and elegant simplicity of a modern design “barn,” the new Pearl Izumi North American Corporate Headquarters respects the company’s Japanese heritage, celebrates the natural beauty of Colorado through the seasons, and exemplifies its employees’ passion for outdoor sports.

OMA Designs Food Port for West Louisville

Karissa Rosenfield — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 01:00:00 +0000

OMA has unveiled plans for a mixed-use project that will consolidate facilities for the growing, selling and distribution of food for local farmers in Louisville. A collaboration with the non-profit Seed Capital Kentucky, the 24-acre “Food Port” will transform a former tobacco plant into an “active economic and community hub” that shapes a “new model between consumer and producer.”

Reviving Vacant Buildings: A Tale of Two Cities

Jennifer Whelan — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

A former treasure in Louisville is now nothing more than a storage facility, while a dilapidated office building in Paris has sat empty for months on end. Both of these cities are taking proactive, but wildly different, measures to help the valuable vacant buildings and lots in their jurisdictions find new life. To learn more about each city's potential solution to this global problem, keep reading after the break.

Riverview Park Visitor Service Building I / De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Design Intentions

Video: The Green Wall at The Green Building / (fer) studio

Christopher Henry — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:00:25 +0000

The Green Wall at The Green Building in Louisville, Kentucky is a painting of plants that also cleans the air. “Painted” by Tracey Williams, the Garden Designer that collaborated with (fer) studio, The Green Wall gives visitors a different perspective of plants and their wonderful details.

Video: Wood Reclamation at The Green Building / (fer) studio

Christopher Henry — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:53:08 +0000

The Green Building, designed by (fer) studio, reached a LEED Platinum status through a series of innovative processes. As the first LEED adaptive re-use project in the state of Kentucky they reclaimed much of the building. This video post details the process of re-milling the original building’s structural wood into finished flooring and furniture.

The Green Building / (fer) studio

Kelly Minner — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:01:00 +0000

Based on the idea that sensible architecture emerges between spatial and programmatic relationships, (fer) studio designed the project to instill an experience of place within the surrounding environment. Establishing a design order enabled the sustainable features of the project to fall into place and set up a natural codependency between design and sustainability. The Green Building is the first LEED Platinum project in the city of Louisville and the first LEED certified adaptive re-use project in the state of Kentucky.

Art House / De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop

Kelly Minner — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:30:40 +0000

De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop were challenged with the residential interior renovation of an existing 1970 4,200 sqf home. The owners, a young couple interested in collecting contemporary art, asked the architects to transform the character of the existing interior creating a balanced home and gallery with warmth and neutrality.

Museum Plaza update / REX

Alison Furuto — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:30:09 +0000

Like many large scale projects around the country, REX’s Museum Plaza, in the city of Louisville, Kentucky, had just broken ground and had given light to many dreams for the downtown community when the nation’s financial crisis hit the city. Needless to say, financing came to a standstill and funding for the towers the city had been hoping for was no longer an option. Their current construction loan of $140.5 million, city contributions, bonds and funds already put forth by the team was not enough to proceed in their construction efforts until positive news came their way at the turn of the month. More images and description after the break.