Description

The Historic Hurt Building at 50 Hurt Plaza in Atlanta is full of early century beauty that the client requested we preserve throughout this renovation project. During the preconstruction phase, Cornerstone engaged vendors to investigate and evaluate the historical conditions and finishes that existed beneath much of the main lobby and base building common area. Through Cornerstone’s extensive knowledge of working in the 104-year-old building, we worked with the designer and engineers on design changes in a major portion of the project area, to achieve the architect’s vision for the main lobby and the new amenity floor. The phased project required strategic logistics planning due to the occupied nature of the building. Work in the lobby required our team to temporarily shut down tenant entries and re-route patrons to alternate ADA entries. Updates in the lobby included rework of plaster ceilings and modifications to create an open-to-structure floating cloud element. The client and the designer asked us to remove the old column surrounds to expose the 104-year-old steel columns. Cornerstone worked with the municipality to provide an alternative fire proofing method that would allow the column details to remain exposed per the designer’s vision.