Project Type: Historical Renovation

This historical renovation hosts the headquarters of Spartan Invest, Alabama Rental Property, and Green Rock in the heart of downtown Birmingham. Originally built in 1889 as a hardware store, the three-level building is a qualified historic building complete with original hardwood floors and masonry.

The intent of the design was to celebrate the building’s character, highlight its beauty and illuminate the utilitarian space through skylights and windows.

Ram Tool consolidated their offices into the historic Hill Building, the original office building in the Continental Gin Development.

The building is composed of the original main concrete structure with steel and concrete wings added decades apart. The exterior walls were cleaned and new multi-paned insulated windows were installed.

This renovation of the first floor of the Historic John Hand building, on the Heaviest Corner on Earth, housed the original headquarters for Birmingham’s high-tech startup, Shipt.

CCR adapted the Alabama white marble and terrazzo remnants into a highly collaborative and open workspace.

A Birmingham event space featuring 20,000 square feet of open warehouse, polished concrete floors, skylights and an exposed steel mezzanine.

Haven shares its building with Dataperk, a Birmingham tech firm.

The design features a bar area with a pressed tin ceiling, custom restrooms with nods to the building’s automotive past and a large open space ideal for any event.

The project is an adaptive reuse of a 1924 building (and 1946 addition) that originally housed the Mack Truck dealership and service center into a new headquarters office for the owner’s computer technology company, Dataperk.

The character of the building was retained to comply with the requirements for historic tax credits.

The design features reused components and materials such as shipping containers to create interior space, discarded barn siding and reclaimed Birmingham street trees which were milled and kiln dried on site.

Originally developed by Robert Jemison Jr. for the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce headquarters, The Jemison Building opened in 1908.

The original stained glass dome was preserved along with its natural aging patina, and new rectilinear offices and reception areas fill the space with open ceilings and glass walls.

Additional support offices and meeting spaces adjoin the large, internal light well which provides natural light throughout the office space.

The challenge of this project was to provide the law practice with all of the requirements of the firm while keeping the open feeling of the warehouse.

This was accomplished by implementing skylights, glass floor openings, clerestory windows at the top of the corridor walls and full height glass steel walls.

Shannon Waltchack’s office, part of the Railroad Square renovation, was a grass-roots collaboration between owner, architect, contractor and local artisans to reuse an existing structure, recycle materials, and create an innovative working environment all while maintaining a strict budget.

Existing masonry and flooring were preserved and recycled wood siding from old barns was used to clad walls, a reception desk and ceilings in part.