Hewitt-Trussville High School
When DesignAlabama published Davis Architects renderings and plans for the new Hewitt-Trussville High School (Spring/Summer 2007), it was all black-and-white renderings and plans. Opened last October, the school has sprung to life rich in texture and color. It has a formal, civic front and a more relaxed side fronting the headwaters of the Cahaba River in northeast metropolitan Birmingham.
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Back to top Grand Hotel Pavilion
The general manager of the Marriott Grand Hotel, David Clark, is not the only one who loves the pavilion designed by Fairhope-based Walcott Adams Verneuille Architects as part of the hotel’s grand pool replacement opened in May 2002. “That whole area has been wildly successful,” he says. “The building draws you from a distance, and once you get in there, it’s casual and relaxing. You can look down on the pool and out to the bay. We’ve now surrounded it with misters that can drop the temperature by 10 degrees in the heat of the summer.”
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Back to top Davidson Center, Huntsville
You just can’t miss it from I-565 in Huntsville: the new Davidson Center for Space Exploration. There’s the familiar model of the Saturn V rocket outside, but stretched out and visible behind vast expanses of glass is one of the few Saturn V rockets left in the U.S., a dramatic gateway to the city’s U.S. Space & Rocket Center. The official opening was January 31, 2008, the exact 50th anniversary of the first U.S. rocket launch, the Redstone Rocket.
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