The Mequon-Thiensville Gateway offers a beautiful riverfront community space between the Towns of Mequon and Thiensville. This project acts as an entry point to the neighborhood at the center of both communities — the “Mequon-Thiensville Town Center District”.
This 30,000 square foot project transformed a former Save-a-Lot grocery store into a senior activity center, complete with a café, activity room, studio, game room, and more. Uptown Social offers a variety of fitness programs, from Square Dancing to Tai Chi, in the new fitness area. The renovated building also includes an activity studio, game room, admin area, and café to serve the community and their visitors.
This 68,000 square foot, 2-story project created 9 new classroom spaces as well as a new art room, cafeteria, storage area, and main entrance for the High School. Students can find a new wood, metals, transportation, and robotics lab as part of this addition, and more space was also created for the front offices, kitchen, and district offices.
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Featuring a beam of steel recovered from the North Tower of the World Trade Center as its center piece, this beautiful memorial honors those that were lost on 9/11/2001 - including Kewaskum Graduate, Andrea Lyn Haberman - as well as those who were a part of the operations that took place after the events of 9/11 at Ground Zero.
For “History of the Steel” that holds significance to so many, please visit the Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial Website at https://www.wisconsin911memorial.com/.
This 1-story addition added storage space to this Waukesha Fire Station. The addition included two separate storage areas, including one with a rear garage door that opens to a new asphalt drive behind the building connecting it to the existing driveway.
A newly created public space in the heart of Mequon including many local favorite food vendors in one convenient location! A stand alone restaurant tops the site off with something to offer for everyone. Unique aspects of this project include adaptive re-use of existing industrial style buildings for commercial restaurant and retail spaces. Emphasis on the existing detailed brickwork and existing exposed structural steel trusses in the Public Market were keys to a successful project.
The Thiensville Comfort Station provides much needed facility upgrades and improvements to this expansive community park. The use of natural stone and brick compliments the natural setting along the Milwaukee River while the use of masonry and curved precast lintels provide durability and interest to stand the test of time.
The Cedar Creek Park Band Shell replaces an existing 50 year old band shell in an effort to improve Cedar Creek Park. The new stage features a cantilevered slab that is supported in part by the existing band shell foundations as-well-as the new glulam column moment frame featured at the front of the stage. The exposed glulam roof joist and beam structure combines architectural aesthetics with structural purpose.
This project expanded the rear of the school to create a large cafeteria, art classroom with kiln, and ample storage spaces for the art and music classrooms as well as the kitchen. A new vestibule connects the cafeteria with the existing gymnasium. Along with this expansion, this project also included a remodel of the main entrance giving Westlawn Elementary a new “face” in the community.
These two elementary schools were given large, identical additions to their existing buildings. The expansion created a large gymnasium as well as new spaces for art, music, special education, and 4K classrooms. The new construction also adds a new kitchen space and office/security space for the school staff.
