131 Ponce de Leon Avenue
131 Ponce de Leon Avenue, also known as the Gulf Oil Building, is the name of a former building in Midtown Atlanta at the southeast corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Juniper Street, as well as the name of a mixed-use development which incorporates portions of the Pei building's façade, adding 321 apartments and 8,600 square feet (800 m2) of retail space.
The building was architect I. M. Pei's first project, built in 1949,[1] a 50,000 square feet (4,600 m2) two-story "box that invoked the lean rectilinearity of Mies van der Rohe".[2]
The mixed-use development incorporates the entire block bounded by Ponce de Leon Avenue, North Avenue, Piedmont Avenue and Juniper Street, except for St. Paul's church. A joint venture between real estate investment company Sereo Group Inc. and developer Faison Enterprises bought the 2.5-acre (10,000 m2) site in 2012.[3]
In 2008, the block had been proposed for redevelopment as the "Fountain on Ponce" complex, but that project did not go through.[4]
The building was demolished in February 2013,[5] but the Atlanta Preservation Center stated that its understanding that a portion of the façade was to be "resurrected as a shell" and incorporated into the new complex.[6] The demolition involved taking apart the building piece by piece. The front portion of the building was then reconstructed for use as the clubhouse and offices of the mixed use development.[7]
References
- ^ List of I. M. Pei projects on Pei Cobb Freed & Partners website
- ^ I.M. Pei: a profile in American architecture, Carter Wiseman, p.52
- ^ "Faison plans new Ponce de Leon project", Douglas Sams, Atlanta Business Chronicle", Aug 9, 2012
- ^ ""Fountain on Ponce" brochure on Bull Realty website" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-10. Retrieved 2018-12-01.
- ^ Photos of demolition on Architecture Tourist
- ^ "Demolition Underway of Gulf Oil Refining Building", Atlanta Preservation Center, February 2013
- ^ Collin Kelley. "Perspectives In Architecture: A New Life for an Old Building". Atlanta INtown Paper. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
External links
- Photo of Pei building on Skyline Views (blog)
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- List of projects
- 131 Ponce de Leon Avenue (1949)
- Roosevelt Field Mall (1951)
- William L. Slayton House (1960)
- Erieview Plan (1960)
- Town Center East (1960-61)
- Government Center Master Plan (1961)
- University Apartments (1961)
- Cathedral Square of Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul (1962)
- Hale Manoa Dormitory (1962)
- Waterfront Tower (1960s)
- Kips Bay Plaza (1963)
- Luce Memorial Chapel (1963)
- Society Hill Towers (1964)
- MIT Green Building (1964)
- S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications (1964)
- Washington Plaza (1964)
- The Century Towers (1965)
- University Village (1966)
- Mesa Laboratory (1967)
- Des Moines Art Center sculpture wing (1968)
- Everson Museum of Art (1968)
- Cleo Rogers Memorial Library (1969)
- Columbia University Master Plan (1970)
- Sundrome (1970)
- Grave of Robert F. Kennedy (1971)
- I. M. Pei Building (1971)
- Paul Mellon Arts Center (1972)
- Commerce Court West (1973)
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (1973)
- Lamar Building penthouse (1976)
- Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Centre (1976)
- Dallas City Hall (1977)
- National Gallery of Art East Building (1978)
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum (1979)
- One Dallas Center (1979)
- Biltmore Building (1980)
- Museum of Fine Arts West Wing (1981)
- Eskenazi Museum of Art (1982)
- Sunning Plaza (1982)
- Texas Commerce Tower (1982)
- 16th Street Mall, Denver (1982)
- Energy Plaza (1983)
- IBM Somers Office Complex (1984)
- Wiesner Building (1984)
- Raffles City (1986)
- Swissôtel The Stamford (1986)
- Miami Tower (1987)
- Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong) (1989)
- Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center (1989)
- The Gateway (1990)
- The Kirklin Clinic (1992)
- Four Seasons Hotel New York (1993)
- Louvre Pyramid (1993)
- Louvre Inverted Pyramid (1993)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995)
- Buck Institute for Research on Aging (1996)
- Miho Museum (1997)
- Oare Pavilion (2003)
- Deutsches Historisches Museum Zeughaus Wing (2003)
- MUDAM-Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (2006)
- Suzhou Museum New Wings (2006)
- Embassy of China in Washington, D.C. (2006)
- Museum of Islamic Art (2008)
- Macau Science Center (2009)
- Pei Plan (1964)