Biotech Place
401 East Fifth Street
Winston-Salem NC United States
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| Status: | | | Construction Dates | | Began | 1936 | | Finished | 1937 | | Floor Count | 5 | | Basement Floors | 2 |
|  | | Building Uses | | - mixed use | | - conference | | - education | | - office | | - restaurant | | - retail | | - science | | Structural Types | | - highrise | | - atrium |
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Description
Original Developer: Libbey Owens Glass Company
Renovation Developer: Wexford Science + Technology
Renovation General Contractor: Whiting Turner
Renovation Architect: Gaudreau, Inc.
Building Owner: BioMed Realty Trust
Engineer: Faisant Associates, Inc.
Mechanical: Kibart, Inc.
Gold LEED certified
2012 Reconstruction Award: Gold Winner.
Voted by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as one of the Nation's Top 10 Most Remarkable Preservation Wins of 2012.
Winner of the 2013 American Council of Engineering Companies “Outstanding Project Award.”
Winner of the Association of Builders and Contractors, “Excellence in Construction Eagle Award 2012”
Winner of Building Design and Construction's “2012 Reconstruction Award - Gold Honors Winner.”
Winner of the International Downtown Association Achievement Award.
Winner of the Construction Owners Association of America “2012 Project Leadership - Silver Award.”
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 with a large video screen, used as part of the building's conference center; Café Brioche Dorée; a 120-seat auditorium that is also part of the conference center; and a bank branch for Allegacy Federal Credit Union.
The building's conference center regularly hosts research and technology and arts events. Vice President Joe Biden also spoke in the conference center.
Developed by the Libbey Owens Glass Company as an experiment in building a German style glass block building in the United States, the glass cracked soon after construction. James T. Solomon devised a solution to the problem. The building has tall floors, around 15 feet or more in height. 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 a skylight over the atrium.
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