Location: Atlanta, GA
Role: Architecture Intern
Firm: Milton Pate Architects, Architect of Record with Robert Stern
Status: Completed May 2008
Client: City Centre Properties, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts
The project consists of a 42-story tower with 127 hotel rooms and 45 3,000- to 10,600-square-foot residences. There are three Garden Villas facing an English Garden courtyard adjacent to the full-service, luxury hotel with restaurant, bar, and spa.
The building is a poured-in-place concrete structure with precast and castone skin and punched aluminum and thermal window openings. The parking levels are conventionally reinforced concrete. The hotel levels up through level 14 are post-tension reinforced concrete, then on level 15, there is a unique transfer truss system that’s literally the size of some bridge steel you see on roadways. This was to transfer column loads from the narrower portions of the building to the wider portions of the building. So, there are structural steel girders introduced into a concrete frame to transfer the load of the weight of the narrower building above down to the wider building columns below. Then, above level 15, where the condos are, conventional reinforced concrete was used.
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