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Press: Lofts and art space take shape, while going green
Purple flowers on the green roof at the Fay Street Lofts and The Warehouse Studios aren’t the only thing starting to bloom this spring over at the old Diggs building, formerly a meatpacking plant.
Don Shrubshell photo
By ANNIE NELSON of the Tribune’s staff
Published Sunday, April 13, 2008
Columbia’s second warehouse art studio space is a project of founder Stephanie Lyons and local architect Brian Pape, and it will differ from the Orr Street Studios by offering live-in loft spaces, as well as open studio memberships, or access for artists to work space for a $99 a month membership fee. Warehouse Studios also will offer private studios similar to Orr Street Studios, Lyons said.
On the south side of the building - the commercial side that will hold retail space, classrooms, a gallery, private studios and open studio space - dividing walls have been built, drywall is going up, sprinklers are in and the oak staircase leading to the second floor is installed.
Nice picture: Pape and his sedum roof
By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
Published Monday, April 14, 2008
Columbia has its first green roof. Stephanie Lyons and Brian Pape are remodeling the old Diggs Packing plant into artists’ studios and loft apartments. Atop the roof, sedum is growing.
Architect Pape has designed all the green elements he can come up with into the building, but surely the most intriguing is the live plants on the roof.
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URBAN ARCHAEOLOGIST: Brian Pape's Stubborn Streak
By Mike Martin
In restoring the old Diggs meat-packing plant on Fay and Hinkson Streets in the North Central Village, architect Brian Pape has faced down his decades-long careers' subbornest project.
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Green grows the new roof in a city first
Sedum spruces up redeveloped mule barn.
By KAT HUGHES of the Tribune’s staff
Published Thursday, November 1, 2007
Parker Eshelman photo
Below, Eric Wesbury, left, and other workers install a LiveRoof system on top of the former Wright Brothers’ Mule Barn, which Columbia architect Brian Pape is redeveloping as the Warehouse Studios and Fay Street Lofts. The workers mount containers of sedum plants, above, on a reinforced roof that are intended to help cool the building and reduce runoff.
Four-hundred-fifty boxes filled with sprigs of red, yellow and green plants made history yesterday when a crane lifted them on top of the former Wright Brothers’ Mule Barn, making it Columbia’s first commercial building to boast a living green roof.
The green roof installation was architect Brian Pape’s latest effort to redevelop the historic building with environmentally friendly features. The building at the corner of Hinkson Avenue and Fay Street, which Pape bought last year, will achieve another first.
When completed at the end of the year, it will become the first commercial structure in Columbia to earn Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification.