Location: Memphis, Tennessee Architect: Looney Ricks Kiss Architects Burr & Cole had the opportunity to work on the Lexington Condominiums at The Racquet Club of Memphis. This 5 building complex contains high end, luxury residences, and a guard house. Many of these residences have private elevators, garages, and outdoor spaces with terraces or balconies. These structures have CMU shear walls at the garage and wood shear walls above the second floor. ...
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Our Work: Structural Engineering
FedEx Forum Parking Garage & Underground Loading Dock
Location: Memphis, Tennessee This garage and loading dock has approximately 594,000 square feet of space and contains 1472 parking slots. It is a four-story, precast garage. The cast-in-place underground loading dock and parking garage connect to the arena....
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Rhodes College Paul Barret, Jr. Library
Location: Memphis, Tennessee Architect: Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company This state of the art library is 136,000 SF located in the center of Rhodes College Campus. It is surrounded by 100 acres of landscaping and buildings. Paul Barret, Jr. Library is a technology hub containing a theater, complete media production facilities, and a teaching and learning center. The 3 and 4 story library is designed to incorporate many quiet study spaces, areas for computer access, media production, and open areas where students and professors may work together. The entire library is a completely wireless environment. Concrete and steel were used to allow for heavy loads at the stack areas. Reinforced concrete was included to aid in meeting the seismic...
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