Title: The Eastern at Atlanta Dairies
Location of Proejct: Atlanta, Georgia
Project Completion Date: 09/2021
Firm Name: Perkins and Will
Short Description: As the final piece of the award-winning Atlanta Dairies courtyard, the Eastern had to solve a demanding programmatic challenge while protecting and enhancing the surroundings. The overhangs, arcades, and dramatic stepping on the exterior create amenities for surrounding site, creates a rich, unique, and memorable performance space.
The 2,300-person music venue, one block away from the Atlanta BeltLine, anchors the Atlanta Dairies site and provides a pedestrian-friendly and urban-minded venue. The building uses the unique triangular and sloping topography to accommodate spectators in a surprisingly intimate and dynamic space, while respecting the scale of the existing Atlanta Dairies buildings.
Architect's Statement: The Eastern demonstrates how a purpose-built music venue can be economical and space efficient without being ordinary or turning its back on its surroundings. The unique fan-shaped layout departs from the standard "shoe-box" creates a surprisingly efficient and intimate space, while responding to a challenging site.
• The site is small, triangular, and negotiates a steep topographic change
• The building must respect the scale and character of the smaller adaptive reuse buildings on the Dairies courtyard
• Building acts a gateway and frame to the Dairies courtyard from the south.
• Rooftop performance and event space animates and engages the courtyard.
• An urban site accommodating large pedestrian crowds, and cues.
• Entrances on two levels that respond appropriately to the pedestrian scale of the courtyard and the street scale Flat Shoals Road
As a large purpose-built venue anchoring a sensitive adaptive reuse context, the Eastern creates a vibrant new hub of activity on the Atlanta Dairies site, while respecting the scale and character of the existing project and its architecture.
Just a block from Atlanta's BeltLine, the Eastern will deepen the connection of the Atlanta Dairies with the wider city, providing a magnet for entertainment that is pedestrian and urban-friendly.
Design for equitable communities
The Eastern serves as a truly urban event venue, both as a programmatic and formal anchor for the Atlanta dairies courtyard, as well as a major destination for Atlanta's BeltLine. The venue is built on an abandoned brownfield industrial site, with connections to trails and future transit.
The Eastern at Atlanta Dairies
Category
Design Awards > New Construction & Substantial Renovation
Description
The Eastern at Atlanta Dairies
Atlanta, Georgia
09/2021
Perkins and Will
Winner Status
- Merit
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