Environmental Services Building

The 18,980 sq. ft. Environmental Services Building houses the Tangipahoa Parish Government’s headquarters for the departments of Building Permitting, Planning, and Environmental Health. The building is subdivided into three main areas which correspond to the three departments. The large volume entry space is flanked on two sides by Building Permitting and Environmental Health and leads visitors to the Planning Department and a large multi-purpose meeting space. The new building is on axis with the existing South Tangipahoa Parish Health Unit which was also designed by Holly and Smith Architects in 1997.

NOPD 4th District Police Station

The project is an 18,600 sq. ft. two-story police headquarters to replace original facilities that are no longer able to service the needs of the community. The building shares a site and material palette with the new NOFD 8^th District Police Station creating a new civic campus for the community. Central to the building’s layout is a large open entrance lobby with an adjacent meeting space connected to a public plaza. These spaces can be used by the community enforcing the mission of Community-Oriented Policing and neighborhood engagement.

Entergy Service Center – Luling

The new Service Center located in Luling, Louisiana provides a modernized facility for the company’s Distribution Department. It consists of open office spaces, a variety of meeting rooms, assembly rooms, and a warehouse, which are all intended for general operation and storm recovery. The office design provides a flexible layout that can be easily modified in the future as plan changes are necessary due to the departments’ growth or redistribution. Hardened rooms capable of withstanding major hurricanes and tornados are provided for use by critical staff during emergency storm events. The site and yard design makes accommodations for various types of vehicle circulation and provides lay down area for the service center operation.

Tangipahoa Consolidated Gravity and Drainage District No. 1 Offices

The new office building for the Tangipahoa Consolidated Gravity and Drainage District No. 1 was inspired by the form and space created by large steel corrugated drain pipe. The building uses a quonset type roof structure typically used for barns and machine shop applications. On the exterior, a cement board rain screen cladding material is used with exposed fasteners. Internal spaces include a large high volume board room meeting space on one end with reception, a break room and offices in the remainder. The building is oriented with broad north and south exposure to minimize solar heat gain.

Franklinton Readiness Center

The 41,321 sq. ft. Readiness Center is located within the Franklinton Industrial Park in Franklinton, La. This project includes the Readiness Center, a Maintenance Building, POV parking and parking for 147 military vehicles. The facility will house 3 full time occupants and 105 part time occupants for a total of 108 soldiers. The hours of operation will consist of administration for 5 days per week with 2 day training assembly 2-3 times per month.

The building is designed to achieve a Silver LEED Certification. The materials consist of concrete block and brick masonry walls with an air space, R-19 rigid board insulation, and membrane water proofing. All glazing is “Blast Rated” as required for the VERY LOW/LOW Threat Assessment. The glazing, as proposed, will be positioned to minimize the penetration of direct sunlight into the space while maximizing the daylighting of those active areas. The glazing system is a curtain wall system with insulated tinted and reflective glass that meets both the ATFP blast resistance and the International Building Code – 2012 large missile (hurricane) projectiles. Polycarbonate glazing is used in the glazed openings of the Assembly Hall. The roofing system is a standing seam metal roof with double folded seams with insulation on a heavy gauge structural steel deck. The roofing system is designed to resist 120 mph winds, Exposure “C”, Importance Factor 1.15, Factor of Safety 2. Exterior Doors consist of insulated galvanized steel doors and frames, aluminum and glass doors and frames and rolling insulated overhead doors, all designed to meet the ATFP Blast Ratings and IBC- 2003 requirements.

The 12.392 acres, accommodates all of the POV and Military Vehicle Parking as well as a flammable material storage building with a control waste storage handling room, the Wash Rack, Fueling Station, and Parking for the Fueling Truck. An oil/water separator is provided to serve the Fueling Truck Pad, the Wash Rack, and the Fueling Station and Tank. A 50kW solar power system was provided and interconnected to the power distribution system. The site storm water management plan was designed for both LEED SS Credits 6.1 & 6.2, Storm water Design – Quantity and Quality Control. The project retains all excess storm water runoff on-site by the design and construction of a bio-retention/detention pond in the northwest portion of the project site.

Gold-level certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)

W.C.C. Claiborne Building

The Claiborne Building program evolved out of the State mandate to consolidate numerous state governmental agencies into a new campus surrounding the 1930’s expressive Capitol building. The design incorporates an eight-story, 476,000 sq. ft. office block, with three atriums to bring natural light into the interior, an 1800 car parking garage and an extensive landscaped promenade connecting to the Capitol Annex. The massing and abstracted ornament of the building relate to the rich Art Deco style of the Louisiana State Capitol. Holly & Smith Architects are responsible for the design of the project for the Joint Venture.

Tangipahoa Parish Tourism Commission Building

Tangipahoa Parish’s geographical footprint is long and narrow. This is because the significant towns of the parish follow the north-south route of the Illinois Central Railroad like a string of pearls. Within each of these small towns there was historically an architectural gem; the train station and/or depot. The Tourism Center’s design was inspired from the spirit of this typology. The Building is located along Interstate 55 in Hammond, Louisiana. Now that the automobile has taken over as the dominant means of transportation (in lieu of the train), I-55 parallels the railroad on a north-south route and is the main artery for Tangipahoa Parish. The Tourism Center contains a large meeting, an interpretive museum space and staff offices. The high volume space in the center contains the interpretive museum and is the main public space for visitors to the building.

Tangipahoa Parish Courthouse Annex

The Tangipahoa Parish Courthouse Annex was designed to accommodate the offices of the Tangipahoa Parish Government. The government requested a new permanent facility that would be up to date but still fit in the rural vernacular in which it was situated. At approximately 10,000 sq. ft. the building layout consists of one large Council Chamber meeting room with office spaces arranged around a central hallway circling this center meeting room. The central council chamber room has high ceilings with clerestory windows allowing natural light into this space. The use of material such as St. Joe brick on the exterior and red oak wood trim on the interior seek to integrate the building with its rural surroundings yet still provide a new interesting facade into the existing city scape of Amite, Louisiana.

Russell B. Long Federal Building and Courthouse

The structure is a significant addition to the city and the gateway to the historic downtown district of Baton Rouge. The site is adjacent to the existing 1932 Art Moderne Federal Courthouse. A large grove of mature oak trees gives character to the site. The new building is designed to respond to the specific goals of the owner; (1) save and incorporate the live oak trees into the design; (2) make reference to the 1932 Courthouse with color, architectural treatment and scale; and (3) provide modern, effective facilities for the United States District Courthouse and Federal Government. Compatibility between the new and old courthouse is achieved by the use of simulated limestone architectural concrete panels with intricate detailing sensitive to the 1932’s limestone detailing. Also, the massing was reduced to relate the existing courthouse by use of the basement areas with below grade gardens.

Offices For Daigle Fisse, P.L.C.

The design goal was to provide an architecture that was conducive to the core values of the firm’s practice. These were to combine the legal skills and litigation experience found in large metropolitan firms with the community values and virtues of a smaller more personal practice. A great majority of design focus was given to the attorney client interaction, as well as business to community interface. This is apparent in the special relationship between the main entry lobby, the entry forecourt and the main conference area.  The entry court, lobby and conference provide a continuous dialogue of space which can be opened to each other for communal gatherings. Several options were studied involving the organization of 5 basic program elements. Lobby and shared auxiliary spaces at center, principal lawyer office wing (north), additional lawyer office wing (south), Conference space and entry court at front.These program elements were also identified in elevation and three dimensional massing. The repetitive rhythm of the bracketed columns reference the wooded rural context. At night the spaces shine like a beacon in the forest.

Offices at River Highland

A master planned professional office park providing space that can be used as a single tenant 4,200 sq. ft. space or as two separate office suites – 1,500 sq. ft. and 2,700 sq. ft. Each suite is designed with a separate reception area, offices, meeting room, baths, storage, kitchen area and convenient parking. An architectural language was developed as a “kit of parts”, which could be manipulated and applied in various combinations to provide a homogeneous design amongst the 11 individual buildings.

Louisiana Army National Guard Readiness Center

The new Readiness Center’s vertical facilities consist of multi-level administrative spaces, assembly areas, training bays and related ancillary spaces. The project consists of a total of 114,891 sq. ft. of enclosed building. The main administration building consists of 97,611 sq. ft. with a separate physical fitness building of 4,788 sq. ft., a maintenance bay of 5,692 sf and an unheated storage facility of 6,589 sq. ft. The buildings were designed using materials, systems equipment and features to obtain the required green building SPiRiT Gold rating. A prefinished aluminum exterior shading device system is used on the southwest and northeast facades to minimize solar gain. All roof water runoff (with the exception of the kitchen) were to be collected with gutters and downspouts that lead to a retention pond feature. The runoff was to be stored and used for site irrigation. The materials were selected for their long life cycle. This building was designed for a 70-year life cycle on materials. H/S was commissioned to provide the initial design concept as well as 35% complete construction documents. These preliminary documents were put out for bid to design-build teams who then completed the documents and construction.

Louisiana Army National Guard Field Maintenance Shop 13

The new Field Maintenance Shop No. 13 is a vehicle maintenance shop for the Louisiana Army Air National Guard. After Hurricane Katrina, the Federal and State government invested over 100 million dollars in the relocation of the aviation and support facilities previously located at the Lakefront Airport in New Orleans. A long term partnering with the City of Hammond and the Hammond Regional Airport made this venture possible. The facility consist of vehicle work bay spaces, assembly areas, training bays and related ancillary spaces for servicing military vehicles at the new North Shore facility. The project consists of a total of 15,764 sf of enclosed building. The buildings have been designed using materials, systems equipment and features to be energy efficient and to obtain the required green building SPiRiT Silver rating. The durable materials used have been selected for their long life cycle and to complement the other buildings on campus. The building was a design build project between H/S Architects and The Lemoine Company. The total construction cost was $11,500,000 and included the utility infrastructure for the entire campus.

Iberville State Office Building

Conceived as one of the brother buildings by the Capitol Park Interpretive Master Plan, the Iberville Building houses the Department of Social Services and forms one half of the new Capitol Park gateway. The 270,000 sq.ft., 9-story office building design is in cooperation with its adjacent gateway brother, the Bienville Building, to complete a group of four buildings facing the Louisiana State Capitol. The gateway concept draws from history in that the exploring brothers, Iberville and Bienville, discovered a gulf route to the mouth of the Mississippi River, the gate to Louisiana. The buildings both incorporate a third-floor roof terrace facing the capitol and a nine-story linear tower element. The elevator shafts are positioned so that exiting the cab provides a profound direct view of the WPA art deco design of the Louisiana state capitol and its expansive formal gardens. The majority of the buildings (including the Iberville) within the capitol park complex reference the forms and details of the WPA art deco influence. Primary materials include precast concrete panels, glass curtain walls, and aluminum wall panels. The tower is detailed with seven protruding curtain elements, serving as illuminated lanterns to contribute to the gateway marking.

Holly & Smith Architects Office Renovation

As a follow-up to the H/S new brand image’s unveiling in 2008, we completed a renovation of our Hammond office’s exterior storefront, lobby, and conference room. Holly & Smith Architects’ main office in Hammond, Louisiana, was first renovated in 1984 when Michael Holly obtained an old building in historic downtown Hammond. At that time, the Hammond Downtown, including our building, was in serious need of repair. H/S’s renovated office was one of the first buildings renovated in what is now, almost 30 years later, a fully renovated historic district.

At the time, the building’s renovated design responded to the popular design focus of Postmodernism. In the past, this approach had served the firm well, but as times have changed, the firm’s design focus has changed. The new storefront entry is a more modern approach that utilizes cutting-edge structural glazing technologies to overcome an unfortunate unavoidable predicament, due-west exposure. The structural glass is composed of 2 layers of 3/8″ thick glass laminated with a PVB interlayer for impact protection, high-performance Low-E, and patterned with 1/8″ horizontal silkscreened frit lines. All of these factors allow a certain degree of transparency while still combatting the harsh due-west sun.

On the interior, a system of similar type glass suspended from above creates a ceiling within the lobby. This ceiling extends out of the front face of the storefront as a glass canopy above the 4” x 9” pivoting entry door. The reception desk has been fully redesigned, utilizing a 3″ thick heart pine top with black bronze facing. Behind the reception desk is a screen wall faced with alternating slats of antique heart pine and sinker cypress. Inserted within the slats are randomly placed slivers of 1″ thick blue acrylic. As a main focus in the lobby, a 52″ touch screen monitor was installed to displays images of H/S work and a touch screen interface to the H/S website.

The conference room has also been renovated to include new lighting, a full-height natural cork display surface, and a new conference table. The new conference table, custom fabricated from clear powder-coated steel and antique heart pine, rotates 90 degrees to allow for varying presentation scenarios.

The new entry spaces of H/S’sH/S’s Hammond office portray the firm’s passionately inspired design focus, which is rooted in a regionally responsive and progressive approach to architecture.

Florida Parishes Bank

The main branch for the Florida Parishes Bank is a 15,000 sq. ft. new building which was conceived as a gateway building to the historic downtown of Hammond, La. It’s sited at the convergence of two main one-way highways that mark the transition from the downtown to the first expanses of urban sprawl. The high profile site warranted the inclusion of a iconic stair tower element which occurs on the axis of the converged highway. The clients desire for a “friendly and welcoming” image prompted the development of variations of familiar brick forms and shingled roofs. The site is heavily landscaped and parking spaces are separated with strips of green. Variations in colored concrete is used to distinguish between drives, spaces and pedestrian areas.

Fidelity Homestead Bank

On the heels of hurricane Katrina, Fidelity Homestead was looking to establish a presence in Hammond, Louisiana. This new branch was envisioned as a flagship location, with spaces programmed for the potential temporary relocation of personnel from New Orleans in the event of disaster.

The form of the building takes on a residential quality, inspired by the core mission of the client: assisting individuals in obtaining and financing a home. It is further influenced by the historic Hammond neighborhood of the Iowa District, filled with traditional, Louisiana vernacular residences. These influences are combined with the specific, programmatic needs of the client to create a highly functional and distinctive facility.

Bill Hood Nissan

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Bill Hood Ford Renovations

Armed Forces Reserve Center & Field Maintenance Shop

The new Armed Forces Reserve Center and Field Maintenance Shop was designed to serve the needs of the Louisiana National Guard Marine and Army Reserve Units located in the Baton Rouge Area as well as functioning as the headquarters for all units of the Louisiana National Guard throughout the state. The Reserve Center portion of the complex houses the Administrative, Storage, and Assembly/Training Spaces for each branch of Service. The Facility Maintenance Shop is also used by all three branches of service. The facility architecture has a rich historic style as seen in various elements such as the cast stone columns, brick arches, and decorative cupolas. The building look reflects traditional Louisiana architecture combined with a hint of contemporary influence.

Albany Plaza Shopping Center

Albany Plaza is a three-tenant shopping center facing the main highway in Albany, Louisiana. It features exposed wood trusses, corrugated metal ceilings, and perforated metal sign bands. By repeating the design elements, material selection, and color palette from Channell Drugstore & Dutchtown Drugstore – two other retail outlets for the same client – a brand identity is established