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Green Square Parking Deck / Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The Green Square Parking Deck is a nine-level parking structure that is an integral part of the redevelopment of a full city block in the downtown government complex of Raleigh, NC. The development includes the parking deck, a museum, and an office building. The deck was designed to accommodate 900 parking spaces for visitors and employees of the State of North Carolina.

Triangle Brick Headquarters / Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee

Javier Gaete — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Triangle Brick Headquarters is the North American base of operations for the German parent company Röben Tonbaustoffe. The project consists of corporate offices, a product design center, and a uniquely landscaped brick garden. The project has been designed to showcase brick masonry in a range of applications and has been influenced by the architectural legacy of the parent company in Germany.

Lauren Kennedy and Alan Campbell Theatre / Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee

Victoria King — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:00:00 +0000

The Lauren Kennedy and Alan Campbell Theatre establishes a home for a burgeoning theater program at Barton College, a small liberal arts school in eastern North Carolina. Owing to its location on the campus, the theater creates two spaces: one fronts the campus’ iconic chapel, the other works in conjunction with the Fine Arts and Music Building to create an arts quad where theater patrons, actors, and students mingle before and after performances. The shifting asymmetrical wall planes of the building exterior attempt to visually represent the energy and dynamic nature of the theatrical performance. The black box itself is a simple flexible performance and teaching venue allowing great variability in stage and seating configurations. The project addresses both programmatic and spatial complexity on a modest budget.

Imperial Centre Theatre / Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee

Victoria King — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The site for the Imperial Centre Theatre is across an abandoned street from the historically significant Imperial Tobacco Company cigarette factory in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. This site, which has been a city park for the past century, was formerly occupied by a public swimming pool. The Imperial Centre Theatre is linked to the larger complex by an enclosed bridge that spans over the abandoned roadway. This bridge is designed to allow the presence of the historically significant street to be understood while minimizing the impact on the character of the original buildings. The structure and plan alignment of the bridge were derived from the existing overhead gantry previously used for transporting coal to the central boilers. The Imperial Centre Theatre seats 300 people in a surprisingly intimate relation to the stage.

Buildings A, B and D / Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee

Victoria King — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee designed the master plan for Wake Technical Community College’s Northern Wake Campus, the first All-LEED campus in North Carolina and one of the first in the nation. PBC+L developed a planning strategy that layers the site from the outside in so that cars remain isolated along the perimeter, while campus pedestrian pathways engage open space and the lush wetlands of the site’s inner core.

Park Shops Adaptive Reuse / Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee

Victoria King — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

A three-story, 50,000-square-foot classroom and research building at North Carolina State University, with lecture halls, laboratories, advising offices, a television production studio, video editing suites, and an internet café. The L-shaped structure defines a new campus plaza. This project received a 2011 National AIA CAE Facility Design Merit Award.

Bus Shelter / Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee

Victoria King — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Completed in 2007, the bus shelter is a prototype design that has been initially constructed on the Main Campus of Wake Tech Community College. As the College’s enrollment grows and the subsequent demand for public transportation increases, this prototype will be located on all of the current and future campuses. The bus shelter received a 2008 AIA National Small Project Structures Award.

Laurel Park Elementary School / Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee

Victoria King — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Laurel Park Elementary School is a new 900-student school crafted from a renovation of an existing pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Apex, NC. The existing structure was completely gutted leaving only the structural frame, exterior walls with metal panels, roof systems, cooling tower, and boiler. While there were very few existing windows and doors, all were removed and recycled. The lower 7’-0” of metal panels were removed and used to patch areas of the existing facades that were damaged. This 7’-0” datum was replaced with cement panels for durability purposes. New windows were located to provide for optimal daylighting in the classrooms and offices. Car and bus canopies were added to indicate main access to and from the school. On the interior, a new 2nd floor level was fitted inside the warehouse sized spaces. All new interior walls, doors, glazing, and finishes were also added.