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We live our lives in a variety of places – places we shop, places we eat, places we relax, and of course the places we call home. These are places people spend their time by choice, not necessity, and we design them to be comfortable, innovative and dynamic spaces that will enhance the lives of those who occupy them, whether for an hour, an afternoon or the rest of their lives.

GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER -

SCIQUARIUM EXPANSION
Greensboro Science Center – SciQuarium Expansion

Housing a science museum, zoo and aquarium, the Greensboro Science Center is one of the state’s premier facilities, attracting over 375,000 visitors each year. The SciQuarium, North Carolina's first center-of-state aquarium, is one of the most popular areas in the Science Center, allowing visitors to engage with animal keepers and educators to learn about various types of animals and fish, as well as the science of animal care, husbandry and water quality management. Lindsey Architecture worked with the Science Center to provide project management and the design for this addition to the SciQuarium, the Wiseman Aquarium Expansion. This 5,000 sf expansion adds to the primary aquarium component of the Center, housing roughly 20 exhibit tanks in the area open to the public. The behind-the-scenes spaces represent an even more complex part of the aquarium, one that supports the necessary equipment needed to maintain the tanks and the exhibits. The nature of the project required a great deal of collaboration among the full project team – the design team, Greensboro Science Center staff, the City of Greensboro and the construction team – to ensure a functional and enjoyable space for visitors to experience. Lindsey Architecture also planned carefully and worked as efficiently as possible with the team to ensure adherence to the budget.

Since this addition to the SciQuarium is located at the public front to the Center, another important part of the expansion involved designing a new “face” to the building. From an aesthetic point of view, the new expansion works seamlessly with an earlier major expansion, blending in while also adding a distinctive flair and a clear statement as the first architectural element people experience when approaching the Center.

Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
Size (sq. ft.): 5,080
Year Completed: 2016

Team:
Calyx Engineers & Consultants
Westcott, Small and Associates
Engineered Designs, Inc.
Samet Corporation
Tryon Village
Tryon Village Shopping Center

Rod Lindsey served as Project Architect and Manager for Tryon Village, a 48,000 sf retail center in Cary, North Carolina, a rapidly growing area in the Research Triangle region. The retail center, anchored by a Walgreen’s Pharmacy and a Harris Teeter grocery store, is part of a much larger mixed-use development in Cary, which features residential, retail and office environments.

While each tenant in the center maintains its own unique visual identity, the overall design of the center represents a current trend in retail development to create shopping areas that feel like an extension of the surrounding residential area. To achieve this, the center enhances the user experience by creating a streetscape environment through the use of extra-wide sidewalks, artwork, attractive landscaping, comfortable benches for sitting, and pedestrian lighting. This approach moves the experience away from visiting a “strip mall” and creates a retail lifestyle center that serves as a destination for more than just shopping, allowing visitors to enjoy an afternoon walk or a conversation under the stars.

Location: Cary, North Carolina
Size (sq. ft.): 48,000
Year Completed: 2006
Cook Out
Cook Out

Lindsey Architecture has partnered with Cook Out Restaurants since 2012. As one of the fastest-growing restaurant chains in the southeast, Cook Out boasts dozens of locations in eight states and is constantly opening new restaurants. Many of these new restaurants are existing facilities that must be redesigned to reflect the Cook Out brand and customer experience. These renovations require the restaurant to utilize Cook Out’s prototypical design, which contains a number of items and materials mandated for every location and must often be adjusted to fit the existing space available. This means our team has to be both flexible and creative in the design of each individual location. The restaurants must maintain a recognizable aesthetic, yet be unique to the market they serve. Such factors as traffic flow, parking, and the surrounding architecture are routine considerations in our work with Cook Out.

Location: Throughout The Southeast
Size (sq. ft.): Varies
Year Completed: 2012 – Present
Setliff Tiny House
Setliff Tiny House

One of the more unique – and fun – projects that Lindsey Architecture has taken on was designing a “tiny house” for a Raleigh couple to use as a weekend home in a rural area near Saxapahaw, North Carolina. The finished house, though only 450 sf, contains a main room, master bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and loft bedroom for the couple’s two sons. The house was featured in an episode of the TV show “Tiny House Nation,” which chronicles the growing tiny house movement.

Creating a comfortable and functional living space of less than 500 sf required the house to be thoughtfully and cleverly designed, optimizing the use of space. Because the interior space was so limited but the surrounding area so large (the house sits on 10 acres of woodlands), we wanted to try and blur the line between inside and outside. We did this by installing an aluminum garage door that opens the main room onto the back porch, which wraps around the side of the house and is nearly as large as the house itself. We also used a 20-foot cantilevered roof over a large porch to create the feeling that the house is larger than it actually is. The result is a living space customized to fit the lifestyle of a busy family – one which provides maximum living space while preserving privacy.

Location: Saxapahaw, North Carolina
Size (sq. ft.): 450
Year Completed: 2015

Team: Paul Joseph Custom
Happy Boxes Storage Facilities
Happy Boxes Storage Facilities

Suburban Management, based in Virginia, is a leading provider of self-storage solutions. They operate under the name Happy Boxes along the east coast of the US. Lindsey Architecture has designed multiple storage facilities for the company. Unlike more commonplace single-story facilities, the Happy Boxes facilities are three stories, offering indoor, climate-controlled units and catering to a more upscale consumer who wants to store items of value that could be damaged by high temperatures or humidity. Located in both commercial and residential areas, Happy Boxes are designed to be both attractive and to blend in, the goal being that someone passing by may not even realize they are looking at a storage facility. This is accomplished by giving the exterior a look similar to that of a large-scale office building, using modern materials and contemporary styling.

From a construction standpoint, the Happy Boxes storage facilities are both economical and efficient to build. They use the storage units themselves as the building’s structural system, making them similar to a pre-engineered metal building. The units form the basis of the structure, and the exterior is designed to surround them using whatever materials or style best fits the location.

Location: Various
Size (sq. ft.): Varies
Year To Be Completed: On-going

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Greensboro Science Center – SciQuarium Expansion

Tryon Village Shopping Center

Cook Out

Setliff Tiny House

Happy Boxes Storage Facilities