Building Tour | WestLawn Office Building @ Bull Street District

2151 Pickens Street,Columbia SC 29201

10 March, 2022

Description

BullStreet Westlawn is a 5-story mass timber hybrid building that will provide office/retail space to the BullStreet District. BullStreet Westlawn is a 5-story mass timber hybrid building that will provide office and retail space to the community of the BullStreet District. There are 5 categories that were drivers in the design of the building: Simplicity | Simple sophisticated composition of a dark weathered barn inspired mass floating above a light-colored animated retail base defined by cast in place concrete board formed walls and glass Nature | Use of mass timber and exposed steel frame structure and expression of natural raw materials at the façade and interior public spaces Play | Variety of retail indoor/outdoor experiences connected to adjacent green space. Outdoor terraces and balconies for office tenants Craft | Rural structures of the Carolina landscape are expressed in cast in place board form concrete “remnant” walls at the retail base and an office box with barn-like articulated façade paneling and joinery. History | The building form responds to the Bullstreet District’s historic roof scape of domes and steeples and provides moments in the façade that frame important views back to the City of Columbia and historic structures on site. ______________________ 1 LU/HSW Lunch will be provided. AIA Columbia Section is a subsidiary of the AIA South Carolina chapter and the national American Institute of Architects.  AIA Columbia has a membership of approximately 220 design professionals and strives to help carry-out the goals of the parent organizations: being the voice of the architectural profession and the resource for its members in the service to society. AIA Columbia is one of six sections of the South Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The South Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects is an association dedicated to providing its members with opportunities to gain knowledge through continuing education, advocate together with one voice for the public’s Health, Safety and Welfare, and become more involved in communities where better places for people can be created. AIA South Carolina (AIA/SC) is a Chapter and statewide component of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) with over 900 members throughout our state.