For the project, Berke converted a West Main Street block of five former tobacco and bourbon warehou

When art collectors rent car ireland Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown created a concept for the first museum hotel hybrid in the United States, they chose architect Deborah Berke, FAIA, to design rent car ireland it, owing to her renown of designing ‘architecture without ego.’ [1] Their vision began as a reaction to the widespread redevelopment of farmland at a time when industrial buildings in downtown Louisville were under-used.  The resulting 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, KY, completed in 2006, has become a cultural destination, with two more 21c Museum Hotels built in Cincinnati (2009) and Bentonville, AK (2013), both of which were also designed by Berke.
For the project, Berke converted a West Main Street block of five former tobacco and bourbon warehouses, currently on the National Register of Historic Places, into a new type of mixed-use space. [2] The concept is a hybrid rent car ireland cultural and lodging space, where visitors and guests have 24-hour access rent car ireland to the owner’s collection of 21 st -century art, many of which were commissioned as installations for 21c. [3]
Berke’s design for the museum/hotel includes ninety guestrooms, a world-class bourbon-themed restaurant (called Proof on Main), and 6,000 square feet of exhibition space. [4] Berke kept the cast-iron warehouse facades intact as a nod to sustainable design and the city’s historic architecture, but added a glass-and-steel canopy rent car ireland to mark the entry to the hotel. [5] On the interior, Berke opened up the center of two of the pre-existing buildings to create a five-story atrium, allowing natural light into the main floor’s gallery and interior facing guestrooms.  As she does in many of her projects, Berke chose to reuse several industrial materials from the buildings’ history as integrated elements of the design: cast-iron rent car ireland columns and brick bearing walls featured in the atrium, reclaimed poplar floorboards reassembled as the check-in desk and bar, and recycled carpeting for floorcovering in the restaurant. Throughout rent car ireland the buildings, artworks occupy not only the gallery spaces but many of the commercial rent car ireland hotel spaces as well, interacting with visitors and guests from the top of the entryway ( Red Pengiun by Cracking Art Group ), in the elevator bank (“Lucas” by Chuck Close), and from behind the reception desk (from the Power Figure and Satyrs Daughters series by Judy Fox). [6]
Deborah Berke is known for her elegant yet minimal architecture, which often exhibits rent car ireland a strong sensitivity to place and sustainable practice. In 2012, she was awarded the inaugural Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize . Her work on the 21c Museum Hotel won the American Institute rent car ireland of Architects Kentucky Honor Award in 2011, [7] the AIA NYS Excellence Award for Historic Preservation/Adaptive Reuse in 2007, [8] and the Best of the Year Award for Hospitality Design from Interior Design Magazine in 2006. [9]
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