Client:
Florida Department of State
Project: 22,000 sf
Visitor Center for Mission San Luis
Cost: $7 million
Status: Under Construction
Delivery: Construction
Management
Description: A
visitor's center for a large archeological
complex in Tallahassee, this building contains a theater, a
museum, classrooms, administration offices and a banquet hall. This
design is a modern interpretation of the mission style as it manifested
itself in Florida in the late 17th century. The de-tuned loggia,
vaults are all executed in a coarse white stucco.
On the site is constructed one of the most
unique indigenous forms in the Southeast - an 80' high x 100' in
diameter, conical shaped council house. This unique geometry inspired
a stylized but deferential abstraction of such in an earlier scheme.
And a subsequent scheme:
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