BioTech Place
401 East Fifth Street
Winston-Salem NC United States
|
| Status: | built | | Construction Dates | | Began | 1936 | | Finished | 1937 | | Floor Count | 5 | | Basement Floors | 2 |
|  | | Building Uses | | - mixed use | | - education | | - office | | - restaurant | | - retail | | - science | | Structural Types | | - lowrise | | Architectural Style | | - streamline moderne | | - international | | Materials | | - glass | | - steel | | - brick | | - concrete |
|
Description
Original Developer: Libbey Owens Glass Company
Renovation Developer: Wexford Science + Technology
Renovation General Contractor: Whiting Turner
Renovation Architect: Gaudreau, Inc.
Engineer: Faisant Associates, Inc.
Mechanical: Kibart, Inc.
Silver LEED certified
2012 Reconstruction Award: Gold Winner
Part of the Piedmont Triad Research Park in downtown Winston-Salem. The building is the headquarters for Carolina Liquid Chemistries and The Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma.
A $100 million renovation project. The ground floor has a 7,500 square foot four-storey atrium space, a cafe, 120-seat auditorium and a bank branch for Allegacy Federal Credit Union.
Developed after World War I by the Libbey Owens Glass Company as an experiment in building a German style glass building in the United States, the glass cracked soon after construction. James T. Solomon devised a solution to the problem. This is one of the most unusual buildings in downtown Winston-Salem. It is clad in 65,869 original glass blocks, measuring 8” long, 5” high and 4” thick, and once featured rooftop parking on the north wing of the building. The rooftop parking was replaced with solar panels and a skylight.
• Google Search
|
|
| |
|
Login
View Winston-Salem Map Centered on Building
View Full Winston-Salem Map
View Winston-Salem Development Map
View Building on Google Maps