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This project is one of several that defined Rand Elliott Architects’ early work in the 1990s. Widely celebrated, it was a boldly original – and literal — take on the client’s line of business — Tilt-up construction. The reating, in effect, an architectural celebration of the client’s construction process. The inventiveness and resourcefulness seen in the raw materials and techniques add impact and demonstrate the concept’s ingenious, low-cost result.
Its striking elegance led the noted architecture critic, David Dillon, to choose the McNitt project on the cover of the monograph he wrote on Rand Elliott’s early architecture.
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“Let the building be a living illustration of the client’s concrete panel construction process” – Rand Elliott
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Scope: 7,800 SF office building on a 13,500 SF site
Site Concept: Construct the largest possible owner-occupied office building on an existing 100′ x 135′ industrial zoned property.
Architectural Concept: The owner is a commercial contractor with special expertise in precast concrete panel construction. REA’s goal was to “Let the building be a living illustration of the client’s concrete panel construction process” (i.e., Tilt-Up construction). The honesty of panel construction is shown in various “expressions:”
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Awards & Media
1999 National Honor Award for Architecture, American Institute of Architects also Regional Merit and State Chapter Awards
1999 IDEA Environments Gold Award, BUSINESS WEEK magazine-ARCHITECTURE RECORD Award;
Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute Design Award;
INTERIORS Magazine Big “I” Award.
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