ArchitectureAtlanta · Open for events and exhibitions
Jennifer Bonner turns a century-old Atlanta warehouse into the Loop arts space
A former building-supplies warehouse on Georgia Tech land becomes studios, exhibitions and performances, lit in pink, purple and green.
Georgia Tech bought this seven-acre site from Randall Brothers, a building-supplies firm there since 1885, and plans a Creative Quarter with academic buildings, student housing and a hotel. Most of the old buildings came down, but one century-old warehouse survived and is now Loop, an event, exhibition and studio space run by the Atlanta arts organisation Goat Farm for a three-year stint. The architect, Jennifer Bonner, says it is the first building on the campus designed by a woman.
A temporary tenancy called for a light touch. Seventeen artists' studios sit within the column grid along the two long sides, leaving the middle free for shows, installations and performances. A translucent loop of metallic flame-retardant curtain can be drawn, shifted or taken down to divide the room, and forty custom planter carts double as ornament and movable partitions.
The lighting does the showing off. Working with Pablo Gnecco of Studio Studio, Bonner ran LED strips up the columns and along the whole facade, which she likens to Dan Flavin "on steroids", in shades from pink to green that can hold steady or pulse.
So far it has hosted dance, AI and video game art, and Georgia Tech's laptop orchestra. Worth checking Goat Farm's programme for an evening event.
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