Join us for our next installment of Cocktails and Conversations on Wednesday, June 7 at the new East 9 at Pickwick Plaza hosted by Helix Architecture + Design and Wallace Engineers.
About East 9 at Pickwick Plaza
The Historic Pickwick Plaza Hotel, built in 1930, was a signature landmark of downtown Kansas City. A frequent retreat of President Harry S. Truman during the 1950’s, the building was later reconfigured into low-income housing and eventually closed and abandoned. Helix led a development team through a massive transformation effort to convert the complex into market rate housing units. Using a detailed model created from historic documents, Helix studied a series of possible layouts and eventually proposed a 260-unit scheme comprising mostly one-bedroom and studio units.
The Historic Pickwick apartments incorporate a list of amenities to make it market competitive. Large, historic windows maximize natural daylighting, reducing the need for artificial lighting in the units. Other available amenities include bike parking, storage, and roof decks in select units. To keep consistency with the original character of the building and bring vibrance to the surrounding area, Helix introduced street-side retail space.
About Helix Architecture + Design
Helix Architecture + Design is an integrated architecture and interior design firm located in Kansas City’s Crossroads Arts District. Over the last 25 years our firm’s portfolio of work has centered on academic, corporate, civic, cultural, development and hospitality projects throughout the greater Kansas City area.
Our team blurs the edges of architecture and interior design to create thoughtful spaces for those who will inhabit them. Together we have designed and created some of the largest projects in our region, as well as some of the more intimate pockets of goodness.
We are a studio environment with a genuine passion for discovery and an unwavering belief that great design can change people’s lives for the better. Our personal commitment to remain connected to every project we create means we will never be the biggest, but our clients will always get our best.
About Wallace Engineers
Wallace Engineering is a structural and civil consulting firm founded in 1981 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has grown to include offices in Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Denver, Atlanta and Chicago. Our staff of over 150 people represent personnel registered as Professional Engineers in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Islands, and British Columbia, Canada.
Our clients require technical expertise, engineering excellence, solutions to problems and ways to communicate our thoughts to those charged with constructing them. Wallace Engineering believes that our role in the profession and in people’s lives is to find a way to integrate what we need to do and find a creative way to do it. We also believe that we owe them a way to make the process fun, creative, flexible and timely while maintaining the highest degree of quality.
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