Lobby Renovation

Today I have a non-paper craft project to share.  I don't often share my full time job projects on this blog, but here's a glimpse of what I do during the day.   This project is a lobby renovation for a building that used to be a courthouse.  The building was built in the 60's and had a glass front link to another building.  You can see in the before shots that the building on the left had a higher elevation floor level by the ramps within the link.  The biggest issue with this project is that the link is no longer needs to connect up to the building on the left so it was just closed off.  We replaced the glass front and made the lobby a bit deeper.
We turned this space into a two-story seating area for the building on the right which was converted to a multi-tenant office building.  The entrance to the building is set back pretty far from the street and we wanted to design something that would draw people in.  Also, we wanted to reuse the existing solid wood (walnut and mahogany) that would be removed from the old court rooms.  I came up with this wood collage wall which mixes in both the existing walnut and mahogany.  It also incorporates LED lights that can be programmed in many ways such as modifying the colors.   There's a one story area of the lobby to the right of the new two-story space which leads into the tenant spaces and elevator lobby.

Here are some before and after shots...

This is what the link looked like before and after. I didn't get the same exact shot. but you can see how it was one-story ramps to the other building and now a two-story lobby.

The central lobby space before and after...

 The elevators...

and a few more shots outside to show the lights changing color.  You can see the new exterior glass wall which we pulled out a couple of feet to give the lobby a little more space for the new seating area.

and sorry these were just cell phone photos.  I'm going to go back and take better photos with my SLR.
I hope you enjoyed my non paper crafting project.  It's always fun to see the projects come to life after working with them on autocad and paper for months!