PROJECT Ten Light
LOCATION Baltimore, Maryland, US
PROJECT COMPLETION DATE 5/2/2016
ARCHITECT BCT Architects, LLC
ASSOCIATED ARCHITECT
OWNER/CLIENT Metropolitan Baltimore, LLC
CONTRACTOR / CONSTRUCTION MANAGER Halle Companies
PHOTOGRAPHER Alain Jaramillo / John Cole / Negar Tabibian
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN TEAM Bryce Turner, FAIA, Principal; Janet Reynolds, AIA, Project Manager; Paul Evenson, AIA, Chris Holler, AIA, Jennifer Geczi, Brooke Morgan, Emily Turner
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT
Baltimore’s most iconic high-rise, as recognized by many of her citizens, was first a financial headquarters building known as the Baltimore Trust Building, then Maryland National Bank, and today as Ten Light. Located in the heart of downtown Baltimore, Ten Light is a majestic, Art Deco high-rise tower that was first completed in 1929. At 509 feet tall, the structure was once the tallest building in the United States south of New York City and remains the second tallest in Baltimore City today. Its brick and limestone exterior features Romanesque carvings and a prominent gold and copper-clad mansard roof. The three-story banking hall with decorative floors, metalwork, and murals is the largest of its kind in the country. The transformation of this iconic 492,000 SF tower has resulted in 419 market rate apartments and a variety of resident amenity spaces designed for millennials and urban dwellers. Ten Light also includes a 42,000 SF Under Armour Performance Center comprised of a fitness center, salon, spa, café and retail store, all which connect the building to the street and provide the downtown community with once lacking, amenity-rich opportunities. The design team’s goals were twofold: combine the old and new by celebrating the building’s history and modernizing it for today’s market; and, adapt the building for multi-family residential and retail, with a pedestrian-friendly streetscape that would be the catalyst for redevelopment of the office-focused surroundings. The existing building has impressive high-rise views of Baltimore, numerous historic features, and many ‘found’ spaces that all became important pieces of the transformation of Ten Light. Given the building’s history, size and complexity, it was important to the design team to determine the best location for each program element to highlight the building’s features, while knitting the overall building together into a cohesive community. The solution involved finding a creative location for each program element while retaining the building’s original fabric. In order to provide a required second stair on the upper 14 floors, a double-helix stair shaft was designed to fit within a modified structure that once held a single stair. The building’s original smoke stack was converted into a trash and recycling chute. An obsolete 15,000 gallon water tank on the 22nd floor was modified to create a roof-top pool. With a new building mechanical system, the old 22nd floor mechanical fan room was transformed into a skyline lounge with extraordinary city views. The main bank vault, with a 3’- thick perimeter and a 30-ton door, was cleaned out and stripped down to its raw steel walls to become a vault lounge. Historic wood paneled rooms on multiple floors were restored and converted into resident and tenant spaces. Under-utilized basement spaces were transformed into an indoor dog park, dog grooming area, and bike and resident storage. Ten Light represents the largest multi-family project completed in downtown Baltimore in the last thirty years; and, as a catalyst, has spurred additional urban redevelopment and brought much needed retail and fitness options to Baltimore’s Central Business District.
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IMAGE CAPTIONS & CREDITS
IMAGE 1 Ten Light_High Res Tumbnail.jpg, Ten Light, Copyright © 2016 Negar Tabibian
IMAGE 2 Ten Light_High Res Ext.jpg, Ten Light, Copyright © 2016 Negar Tabibian
IMAGE 3 Ten Light_High Res Int.jpg, Under Armour Performance Center - Great Hall, Copyright © 2016 Alain Jaramillo
IMAGE 4 Ten Light_Under Armour Retail.jpg, Under Armour Performance Center - Retail Entrance, Copyright © 2016 Alain Jaramillo
IMAGE 5 Ten Light_ 22nd Floor Skyline Lounge.jpg, Ten Light - 22nd Floor Skyline Lounge, Copyright © 2016 Alain Jaramillo
IMAGE 6 Ten Light_Residential Apartment.jpg, Ten Light Residential Apartment, Copyright © 2016 John Cole Photography
IMAGE 7 Ten Light_Residential Entrance.jpg, Ten Light Residential Entrance, Copyright © 2016 Alain Jaramillo
IMAGE 8 Ten Light_Under Armour Vault.jpg, Under Armour Performance Center - Vault Lounge, Copyright © 2016 Alain Jaramillo
Ten Light
Category
State > AIA Maryland > Mixed-Use Development (AIA Maryland)
Winner Status
- Citation Award
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