ARNG Elevator Lobbies
Custom Private Waterfront Residence, VA Beach
This beautiful new shingle-style waterfront home is designed to take advantage of panoramic views out to the Lynnhaven Bay. The site formerly housed an old summer retreat getaway, complete with an outdoor fireplace building, trails down to canoe docks, and an oyster house for shucking the day’s catch. The new house bends to look over the water that surrounds the peninsula, and reuses the foundations of the old buildings, giving the fireplace and oyster shack new purpose. The main house connects to a guest suite and fitness room over the garage, stepping down through a covered breezeway. Features include a below-grade wine cellar, hand-crafted spiral stairs, a vaulted Great Room with a bridge above, and two masonry fireplaces. The pool house is on-axis with the pool, affording views through to the water.
Renovations to Scope Arena
New pods for concessions and restrooms open to both the interior and exterior concourse and plaza.
Rendering of concourse showing new restroom/concession pods that bridge between the interior and exterior.
Start of Phase 2
Come join us for the dedication of The Plot, and start of phase 2
429 Granby Street
When Grow Interactive renovated their new office at 427 Granby Street in 2010, they performed one of the finest renovations the street has seen in recent years. At that time, Mel and Thom were still with other firms, and Peter was building their butcher block furniture out of his Granby Street workshop. This collaboration brings together a metric ton of mutual respect and great friendships while promising to do something tremendous for downtown Norfolk: the front portion of this new space will be designed as the premier gathering place in Downtown Norfolk for some lucky entrepreneur to use to launch a brand new business.
The 429 property has been vacant for many years and will be thoroughly gutted and rebuilt with offices and workspace for Grow in the rear, and a restaurant, complete with rooftop dining, occupying the front. The goal for the restaurant is to push the boundaries of facade permeability and customer-pedestrian interactivity in downtown.
Studies and the design process are ongoing, but we promise that this will be a space that helps to redefine Granby Street.
Goats!
Jay Ford, of Shine and Rise Farms, was kind enough to bring his two baby goats by the WPA office, to the delight of everyone around. Sonny and Judy entertained the WPA staff, other tenants in the Monticello Arcade, and passersby on the street. This is why we love downtown!
See more pictures below.
Monticello Place – Version 4
The Monticello Place project continues! Based on responses to the original studies for this property, the Downtown Norfolk Council asked WPA to come up with a design for one tenant to occupy the entire ground floor and the basement. Individual vendor stalls line the storefront windows along Monticello Place providing an ever-changing scene for pedestrians walking by on this soon-to-be very active street that connects MacArthur Center mall with Granby Street and the future Urban Outfitters.
The basement becomes a multi-purpose space with stadium seating, retail areas, a performance space, and storage.
The design livens up the corner of Monticello and Market making for a more inviting conduit between the two main shopping areas in downtown. Decorative elements climb the exterior walls drawing the eyes of eager customers to the new entrance.
The PLOT – Containers in Downtown!
The PLOT construction is well underway now that the containers have arrived and been erected on site. Many thanks to Maersk Lines for coming through with some beautiful containers for this project! This was a critical first step so that the site work can get underway. It was an exciting three days of hoisting, welding, and filling the containers to be sure they are in a stable position. In addition to being an abstraction of the tower that we hope to see built on this site in the near future, these upright containers will serve as a visual anchor for the corner of the PLOT as well as the mounting location for much of the signage telling passersby that this is a place for them and how it came to be that way. Now that the containers are out of the way, the rest of the site is being graded, sawn, excavated, and replanted. There should be some great volunteer opportunities to build benches, paint planters, and plant plants starting at the beginning of May.
Satya Yoga Signage
WPA’s sign for Satya Yoga was installed this week. We’re very proud of this sign and especially of the way that the stainless steel and teak wood blend in with Historic Freemason. The laser-cut stainless bracket spells out “Satya” in Sanskrit and is designed to be reminiscent of the Victorian brackets found on nearby buildings. The teak wood will naturally age to a dignified gray in time.
