2022 AIA Award for Public Architecture - Post Architects

AIA Award for Excellence in Public Architecture The 2022

September 2021

Raymond “Skipper” Post, FAIA | Post Architects | Baton Rouge, Louisiana

AIA Award for Excellence in Public Architecture The 2022

September 2021 Raymond “Skipper” Post, FAIA | Post Architects | Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Contents 1.0 Nomination ............................................

2.0 Biography ............................................

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Contributions

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4.0 Exhibits

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Post Architects has built a reputation over the many years for innovative experience design. It has been said, that Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel. Their design team has an incredible intuitive feel for space making and always brings a well-rounded approach understanding that the essence and esthetic of the design need to coexist with the practical and viable. It has been a pleasure to work with the firm over the many years and I look forward to our continued collaboration in the future.

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1. Nomination September 10, 2021 2022 AIA Award for Excellence in Public Architecture The American Institute of Architects 1735 New York Avenue NW Washington, DC 20006-5292 Re: Nomination Letter for Raymond G. Post, FAIA for the AIA Award for Excellence in Public Architecture Dear Jury Chair and Members: During my tenure as Executive Director of AIA Louisiana (1967-2003) I experienced a professional relationship with the applicant as he transitioned from local to state to national AIA and public activism. Being a nominator of Raymond G. “Skipper” Post, FAIA, for the 2022 Award for Public Architecture is an honor and a distinct privilege not comparable to any in my 37 years as the chief executive of AIA Louisiana. I have known and worked with Skipper on hundreds of occasions and hundreds of projects where the service by, and the public respect for, architects were critical issues.

Of many notable examples, I offer this demonstration of service that improved public architecture. Historically the award of public architectural contracts in Louisiana went to politically connected architects. During the 1970’s Skipper and a small group of architects took on the “David vs. Goliath” battle of establishing a merit-based system for awarding these contracts. This effort over ten years and two governors experiences disappointing losses until a final meeting with the governor, which Skipper chaired, resulted in a national model for the public qualifications-based selection and award of architectural contracts.

I have been involved in three generations of architects and have found perhaps 1% who may match Skipper’s qualifications for this award. Looking at his fine architectural work and his representation to the public leaves only inadequate adjectives by which I am left to commend this worthy applicant to you.

Skipper went on in Louisiana to work for years toward a fair and equitable state fee schedule, an effort which was ultimately concluded by others to the satisfaction of the AIA members, and which become a source of establishing fees for private work as well. How does this fit into public architecture? This fee structure allow architects who had been selected through the QBS system to receive adequate fees to perform public work of excellence, in fact enhancing public architectural work.

Skipper has undertaken the role of citizen architect for almost six decades. His service to the public has enhanced the role of architecture for its well-being and the critical importance of the architect in the formation of buildings and spaces for the good of all citizens.

Skipper’s public sector work includes numerous successful projects, most notably a $100M State District Courthouse and a Master Plan for an almost entirely new consolidated state office buildings complex at the Louisiana State Capitol resulting in 1.5M new square feet and $350M of construction cost.

I am extremely pleased to offer this well-deserved nomination.

Sincerely,

Richard C. Thevenot, Honorary AIA Executive Director, AIA Louisiana 1967-2003 AIA Louisiana T(225) 387 5579 521 America Street F(225) 387 2743 Baton Rouge, LA 70802 www.aiala.com

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2. Biography KEY

C/VC (Chair/Vice Chair), BoD (Board of Directors), P (President), AB (Advisory Board), F (Founder), S (Service)

CIVIC SERVICE | 1970-PRESENT INTERNATIONAL C

Beijing International Financial Center, Architect Selection Committee

LOUISIANA P, BoD Arts & Science Center S Arts & Science Center - Volunteer Architect P Architects Licensing Board VC Governor’s Committee, State Selection of Architects F State Selection Board

BATON ROUGE C AIA RUDAT Originator C Greater Plan EBR Steering Cmte.

C City Land Use & Development Plan C, BoD Chamber of Commerce BoD Green BR P, BoD Arts & Humanities Council P Round Table Civic Club P, BoD BR Speech & Hearing Foundation P Rotary Club BoD Greater BR Food Bank VP Civic Beautification Council Committee, Areas and Facilities, Recreation & Parks S, AB Arts Council S Civic Center Plaza Design Committee S Goals Congress of Baton Rouge S Task Force, Quality Education S Cultural Planning Committee S Master Plan Steering Committee

COMMUNITY SERVICE | 1970-PRESENT BoD BoD BoD P, BoD BoD BoD

Lady of Lake Regional Medical Ctr Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Ctr Pennington Biomedical Foundation Salvation Army East BR Camp Fire Girls Council Camp Fire Girls, Pro Bono Architect

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS | 1971-PRESENT 72nd 56th BoD BoD C S P P

President, AIA Chancellor, College of Fellows National AIA Architectural Foundation 3 National Committees 11 National Committees AIA Louisiana AIA Baton Rouge

PROFESSIONAL | 1971-PRESENT AB AB AB S

Texas A&M Deans Advisory Board LSU Deans Advisory Council Southern University NAAB Accreditation, UT Austin

PRACTICE | 1968-2020 F

Post Architects (1968)

AWARDS AIA Louisiana Medal of Honor Baton Rouge Volunteer Activist Award Outstanding Volunteer, Louisiana Art & Science Center Outstanding Alumni, COA, Texas A&M Business Person of the Year: State Capitol Master Plan, Baton Rouge Business Report

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Citizen architect Raymond Post, FAIA, has created transformational civic architecture and public spaces for Baton Rouge.

Across five decades, he has engaged the public to shape enduring connections across the city and its riverfront.”

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2. Biography AWARDS - PROJECTS

2014 AIA Louisiana Honor Award of Merit: Mid City Low Income Residential Development 2014 Good Growth Award: Mid City Gardens Low Income Development, Baton Rouge 2013 AIA Tennessee Award of Excellence in Architecture: Mid City Gardens Low Income Development 2013 AIA Baton Rouge Rose Award:Mid City Gardens Residential Development 2011 AIA Baton Rouge Rose Award: 19th Judicial District Courthouse 2005 AIA Baton Rouge Rose Award: Baton Rouge River Center Expansion 2005 LA Contractor Award of Merit: Baton Rouge River Center Expansion 2004 AIA Baton Rouge Rose Award: Galvez State Office Building 2003 Good Growth Award: Capitol Complex Master Plan, Growth Coalition 2002 AIA LA Honor Award of Merit: Christ the King Catholic Church and Student Center 2001 AIA Baton Rouge Rose Award: Christ the King Catholic Church and Student Ctr. 2000 Best Private Architecture Project: Christ the King Catholic Church & Student Center, LA Contractor 1990 AIA Baton Rouge Rose Award: Jones Creek Regional Library 1990 AIA Baton Rouge Rose Award: BREC Independence Park Recreation Ctr. 1990 AIA LA Honor Award: Jones Creek Regional Library 1989 AIA Baton Rouge Rose Award: St. George Catholic Church Renovation and Addition 1989 AIA Baton Rouge Rose Award: St. Joseph’s Academy Resource Ctr.

1989 AIA Baton Rouge Rose Award: St Joseph’s Academy Activity Ctr. 1987 AIA Baton Rouge Rose Award: Chase (Formerly LNB) Main Office Drive Through 1984 AIA Baton Rouge Rose Award: 4000 Sherwood Office Development 1984 AIA LA Honor Award of Excellence: 4000 Sherwood Office Development 1980 AIA Baton Rouge Rose Award: Cleon Harris Residence 1980 AIA Baton Rouge Rose Award: EMS Metalock Corporation

AWARDS - SERVICE

2002 Business Person of the Year, Baton Rouge Business Report 1997 AIA LA Medal of Honor 1987 Outstanding Architectural Firm, American Subcontractor’s Assoc.

PUBLICATIONS

2017 “Baton Rouge River Center Theatre,” Currents, Baton Rouge Area Foundation 2017 “Rising from decay of neglect: The Capitol Park Master Plan,” BR Business Report 2017 “Game-Changer over 35 years: The Capitol Park Master Plan,” BR Business Report 2017 “City Dock Structures Being Installed in Downtown Baton Rouge,” The Advocate 2017 “Downtown Landmark Has a New Look,” BR Business Report Daily Report 2017 “Performing Arts Theater to Get $18.1M Makeover,” BR Business Report 2017 “Baton Rouge Riverfront Plaza Renovations,” BR Business Report ort: 2015 “‘Iconic’ sculpture planned for riverfront,” BR Business Report Daily Report 2015 “Rendering to Reality: Baton Rouge River

AIA AWARDS

Center PhII,” BR Business Report 2014 “People in Business-Around Louisiana: Post Architects Transition,” The Advocate 2014 “Form Follows Function: St. Joseph’s Academy Art Center,” The Advocate 2014 “Mid City Gardens Low Income Development,” BR Growth Coalition Award Entries 2014 “Firm Focus: 19th JDC,” AIA Baton Rouge 2014 “Award Winning Low Income Residential,” BR Business Report Real Estate 2013 “LSU School of the Coast & Environment,” Cover, LSU Continuing Prof. Development 2011 “19th Judicial District Courthouse,” Cover, BR Business Report 2010 “National Center for State Courts: 19th JDC,” Retrospective of Courthouse Design 2001-2010 2009 “19th Judicial District Courthouse,” Cover, South Central Construction 2009 “On Time: New Courthouse Under Budget,” The Advocate Metro 2008 “Post Architects 40th Anniversary,” South Central Construction 2004 “Build It & They Will Come: Baton Rouge Convention Center,” Cover Story, Tiger Weekly 2003 “Convention Center Adds Exhibition Hall,” Louisiana Contractor 2002 “Raymond Post Named Business Person of the Year,” BR Business Report 2000 “Best Private Architecture Project: Christ the King,” Louisiana Contractor 1997 “First Circuit Court of Appeals,” Cover, Around the Bar, LA Bar Association 1997 “Post Receives Medal of Honor,” Louisiana Contractor

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3. Contributions Impact is a word often used to describe a sudden collision, yet “sudden” and “collision” are presumptions that imply a quick, powerful jolt.

Another definition, “to have an effect,” defines the five-plus decades of the public architectural, service-oriented career of Raymond “Skipper” Post, FAIA. His persistent, overlapping efforts laid the framework for the design and development of the civic identity of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

suburbs. He empowered alignment between the city and state, so they worked as bookends to the downtown between them. He proposed transforming 1,900 acres in the geographic center of Baton Rouge (formerly a small airport) into a new “Central Park” for residents. (Skipper then learned great ideas sometimes succumb to bad politics, when the mayor sold the land to the state other uses.)

Early on, Skipper served two mutually respected roles, one as a volunteer for many causes both in architecture and the community, the other as an architect designing public buildings and spaces. As a citizen on the board of the Camp Fire Girls, his first pro bono design was for a memorial tower for the organization’s camp and the ignition for his passion to work as both a citizen architect and practitioner. The business and civic community quickly recognized that Skipper’s pragmatic process could successfully achieve a myriad of purposes and goals through his gentle, coordinated, betterment-driven approach to every challenge. That recognition transitioned into leadership, where Post intertwined the continuous improvement so essential to public work with beautiful architectural design.

Realizing politics could be rough but refusing to abandon creating an organized plan for growth, Post began a campaign for an expertisebased planning study to shape future civic development. He pursued an AIA R/UDAT (Regional/Urban Design Assistance Team) program for Baton Rouge. The AIA established a team and sent them to the city. Skipper chaired the Steering Committee and oversaw the operation from funding to final planning document publication. His work led to other planning efforts continuing the principles of the R/UDAT recommendations.

The mayor formed “Plan Baton Rouge” to continue the R/UDAT work. Skipper and team members visited areas throughout the parish (county) to explain the concept to citizens and As his work evolved, Post carried forward his garner their feedback. The concept evolved with drive to make things better by promoting this new information, becoming GreaterplanEBR improvements in the public fabric of Baton and eventually a public/private endeavor.

Rouge. He advocated for design that would draw Post’s work ultimately led to a coordinated the public to the powerful Mississippi River, Capitol Complex Master Plan and the renewed placing a proposed convention center downtown, development of downtown Baton Rouge. on the river, instead of its original site in the The vision he advocated for, cultivated and

shepherded has since become reality.

Meanwhile, Post and his firm established a reputation for architectural design and serving the public via civic planning and architecture.

In the design of a new building for LSU on the College of the Coast and Environment campus, Skipper investigated the campus’s original design—based on an extended central quadrangle scheme—and established new axial and rhythmic connectivity between the existing campus and future buildings. The completed administrative building established an architectural aesthetic that has defined the campus and attracted nationwide academic and public leaders as well as students. The Chancellor has made Post’s design the university’s public face. The design also has become a national icon for this LSU academic program keenly focused on finding solutions to today’s most pressing environmental challenges.

Post continued creating significant public work in practice, including the Galvez State Office Building, which established interaction between the public and state via a new conference center; the Pennington Biomedical Research Center Master Plan, designed to foster connection and interaction between the institution and the public; ongoing Louisiana Art and Science Museum projects to answer its quest to attract visitors; and the Russell Long Federal Courthouse with its defined public functions and downtown interface.

3. Contributions Post’s most consequential was a decades-long planning effort for Louisiana to establish a master plan around the State Capitol tower.

State government agencies and departments were spread across Baton Rouge in an array of rented buildings and spaces. Then, property just north of the capitol, across a small lake, became available. Post had an idea—the tower area plan had the potential to grow into a capitol area master plan.

Post began developing a master plan that began with the first tower property, and, in alliance with the state, grew the concept into a campus of interrelated state buildings. The city adopted Post’s vision and more property was purchased, a program of needs and relationships was established, and Post planned the development of some 1,500,000 SF of buildings. The entire process spanned the terms of three governors, bolstered by an economic study by business leaders who predicted outstanding economic advantages from the plan, and the Capitol Complex Master Plan was accepted.

More buildings were planned for their functional connectivity and designed to respect the Capitol Building, while creating what Post considered essential interstitial public space between the buildings, while the majestic original capitol grounds were preserved. The campus’s reconceived south edge became a new threshold between city and state. The plan also included much-needed parking garages integrated into the city fabric to provide parking for state employees

and the public. The garages included ground floor public amenities including restaurants, shops, and health clubs. The final complex, known as Capitol Park, welcomes the public and city and state agencies. The Capitol tower has become a magnet for visitors arriving via riverboats, buses, and cars.

A goal for the Capitol Complex Master Plan’s north end was to open connectivity along a major axis to the city and its governmental center at the south end of downtown. A comprehensive axial arrangement was finally realized when a substantial site owned by the city was dedicated to establishing a new 19th Judicial State District Courthouse. This significant public project provided the final architectural connection through the city’s downtown to state and city government. The highly visible design,

by Post Architects, and its placement amid an active downtown district has activated public interaction at the core of Post’s original master plan. The courthouse’s ground floor is home to an active public street zone including a restaurant and connections to a grand pedestrian boulevard with shade trees and seating options. Public organizations use the building’s top floor law library/judge’s conference room for meetings, which spill out into the vibrant district.

inside two partial spheres, spans 20 feet and is 14 feet tall. It will be illuminated at night with LED lights. The design plays music based on the river’s movement. The sound is controlled by a sensor in the water and played by a computer inside the sculpture. The sensor measures the speed of the river’s current and its height. This information bounces to an antenna that converts it to a sound, allowing the river to “sing.” Visitors can “sing” back to the river, by speaking into one of the spheres or pressing buttons. This pro bono project was a fitting finale to a career of public planning and design that has brought 24/7/365 vibrancy to downtown Baton Rouge and enlivened the banks Mississippi River. The installation’s reflective surfaces attract people from all over, becoming the backdrop of music events, weddings, Weather Channel storm reporting, performance artists and an endless display of creativity by individuals, families, and the public.

Skipper has answered “yes” to every request to serve his city, the public, the AIA, and community organizations. Every undertaking fulfilled his love for creating significant architectural and planning projects that shape a better future for the city of Baton Rouge, for Louisiana, for the profession, and for all.

Skipper’s career concluded with the installation of a curved, embracing metal sculpture—the Baton Rouge Rotary Club Centennial “Sing the River” Sculpture—on the banks of the Mississippi River. The metal artwork features a sphere 11

4. Exhibits EXHIBIT 1 LSU College of the Coast and Environment Post began with a philosophy of connection, drawing together this new building on the campus’s edge into the character and experience of the original campus (dedicated in 1926). With the first buildings planned to encircle multiple campus “quads.” A major axis through the longest quad branched out a few degrees in two directions, with one branch leading to the edge of the new site. Post used the rhythm and pattern of the original quads to folded off a west side branch axis that would establish the new building’s layout. The exterior design reflects the Campus Design Guidelines, which call for new structures to respect original buildings in materials and details.

The building’s labs, a major portion of the College’s functions, were arranged linearly with instructors’ offices along the windowed perimeter and the labs filling the central core. Public administrative functions are set around a monumental rotunda that is now the face of this new College and, because of Chancellor’s enthusiasm for the design, the often-seen public face of LSU. CLIENT | OWNER: SCOPE | COST: ARCHITECT: CDs & CA: COMPLETION DATE:

Louisiana State University 168,000 SF | $20 MM Post Architects Coleman and Partners 2003

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EXHIBIT 2 R/UDAT - AIA As a citizen architect interested in providing professional vision to planning Baton Rouge’s future with little or no civic cost, Post proposed an AIA R/UDAT team, which would bring non-political perspective to assessing the city and making recommendations on its development. The AIA consented, and Post, as Steering Committee chair, assembled a committee of 29 diverse Baton Rouge leaders.

He formed 14 subcommittees of expert leaders in each sub-committee’s specialty including funding, economic resources, diversity, students, printing, transportation, etc.

Roughly 45 individuals participated 24 hours/day for about five days, concluding publishing a final report presented to the city at an open meeting. The 1986 (pre-computer) report was created by hand. Its recommendations served as an incubator and foundation for initiatives such as GreaterPlan EBR, Plan Baton Rouge, the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, and others. These used the report’s themes, which materialized across the city in the redevelopment of downtown, open access to the Mississippi, enhanced development of mid-city, pedestrian friendly systems, and symbiotic city and state relationships.

CLIENT | OWNER: SCOPE | COST: ARCHITECT: COMPLETION DATE:

City of Baton Rouge Master Plan Skipper Post w/AIA R/UDAT Team 1986

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EXHIBIT 3 LOUISIANA CAPITOL COMPLEX MASTER PLAN Decades-long master planning for a centralized state government in Louisiana was designed to serve its citizens for decades. Post assessed the potential for an abandoned regional medical center site and was selected to plan the site and serve as architect for its first building. He promoted the purchase of available property surrounding the Capitol building in anticipation of creating a more efficient government. Multiple agencies were spread across Baton Rouge, mostly in rented spaces. Secretary of Administration, Mark Drennen, established a blue-ribbon committee, which determined Post’s consolidated campus model would financially benefit the state.

Post collaborated with Louisiana Facility Planning’s Roger Magendie to plan over 1-million SF of new buildings for 6,000 occupants. Andres Duany, FAIA, joined the process, to help coordinate downtown development with the state’s work. Post’s design was resoundingly approved, including by architects selected for the resulting construction projects.

Post and Magendie’s team established criteria for new buildings to require contemporary adaptation of the art deco style of the State Capitol building. All major buildings were completed in just over a decade with no variance from Post’s final master plan.

CLIENT | OWNER: SCOPE: ARCHITECT: DATES:

State of Louisiana 155 Acres Post Architects 1980-2015

EXHIBIT 4 19th Judicial District Courthouse The prominent site shares an axial relationship with the Louisiana State Capitol via a major promenade and anchors the south end of downtown Baton Rouge. The site sits slightly off center from the Capitol axis, requiring sensitivity to ensure sweeping views of downtown and the Capitol tower. Offsetting the primary public elevator bank allowed the path of visitors to transition from the elevators to a central corridor for the necessary symmetrical arrangement of two flanking courtrooms and related administrative functions.

During construction, the city’s population increased, as it absorbed those displaced by Katrina. The Court received funds for an additional floor. Post resolved the additional design and systems needs by leading a cautious increase in foundation, structure, mechanical, and other needs.

Fifteen sitting judges and the public have embraced the 19th Judicial District Court’s glassed public spaces, which flood with north light. Lighting within these spaces creates a beacon to Baton Rouge, standing as a southern bookend to the city government complex and its Capitol Complex Master Plan.

CLIENT | OWNER: SCOPE | COST: ARCHITECT: ASSOCIATE ARCHITECT: COMPLETION DATE:

State of Louisiana 300,000 SF | $100 MM Post Architects KPS Group 2011

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The prominent site shares an axial relationship with the Louisiana State Capitol via a major promenade and anchors the south end of downtown Baton Rouge.

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EXHIBIT 5 River Center Convention Center Phase I and II A career-long effort began with a long-ago debate on the new convention center’s location. Post always believed it should be downtown, on the Mississippi’s banks—part of an active, vital civic core. He fought an uphill battle as American suburbia was on the rise and downtowns emptied.

Young Post won his case, but the design went to a more established firm. The resulting brutal-esque Centroplex eventually failed to keep pace with evolving exhibition needs.

A new exhibition hall addition—this time with an established Post Architects at the helm—became the River Center. Phase I re-programming added a 70,000 SF Exhibit Hall with independent, efficient access for convention-goers and back-of-house, with views of the Mississippi, which had been ignored in the earlier design. In Phase II, Post designed a highly visible entry and new amenity spaces. His symbolic “tower” structure sits on axis with a main downtown street, allowing visitors to flow naturally to local eateries and entertainment venues. Post also designed a major refurbishment of the Performing Arts Theatre. A welcoming glass lobby wall tilts toward the river and the historic Old State Capitol.

CLIENT | OWNER: SCOPE | COST: ARCHITECT PHASE I:

City of Baton Rouge 260,000 SF | $49 MM Post Architects | Assoc. Architect LMN

ASSOCIATE PHASE II:

Post Architects

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EXHIBIT 6 Galvez State Office Building One of the Capitol Complex Master Plan’s first state office buildings to be contracted for design and construction to house multiple state agencies and what would become a stand-alone conference center.

Designed to respectfully face the Capitol, Galvez’s northfacing elevator lobbies and adjacent public lobby open to a full height glass atrium with a view of the Capitol tower.

Lofty gallerias allow pedestrian access via weather-protected entrances to the building and to conference center.

Art deco design elements followed the Capitol design guidelines. A large, landscaped area echoes the elegant gardens of the land surrounding the State Capitol.

CLIENT | OWNER: SCOPE | COST: ARCHITECT: COLLABORATORS: COMPLETION DATE:

State of Louisiana 350,000 SF | $37 MM Post Architects Eskew Dumez & Ripple; KPS Group 2004

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EXHIBIT 7 Mid City Gardens Located in a struggling mid-city neighborhood, a community center and garden anchors a 5-building, 60-unit affordable housing development that spans two sites. The master plan effort and design of new buildings replace abandoned, blighted, low-income housing and act as a catalyst for surrounding redevelopment.

The master plan is comprised of six buildings: five residential buildings with multiple unit types and configurations. The public Activity Center is placed on an active street corner anchoring the development, providing its primary public identity. Community input was key to the programming and design of the 13,500 sf, two-story Center, which includes fitness, retail, laundry, meeting and administration spaces around a shared courtyard and an upper-level vegetated green roof.

The LEED Gold Certified project resulted from a 50/50 joint venture between Post Architects with EOA Architects of Nashville, serving a primary designer. The firms’ collaboration was inspired by a shared desire to bring dignified planning and design to a neglected part of Baton Rouge.

CLIENT | OWNER: SCOPE | COST: ARCHITECT: COMPLETION DATE:

Baton Rouge Housing Authority 67,000 SF | $11.9 M JV: Post Architects & EOA Architects 2014

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EXHIBIT 8 Rotary Centennial Sculpture For its 2018 Centennial, the Rotary Club of Baton Rouge wanted to give back to the city. Post was selected to lead the effort—which he did pro bono—of selecting a concept for a sculptural-type installation on the top of the Mississippi River Levee, an epicenter of greenways, biking and walking paths that had grown from Post’s master plan.

Seeking to attract citizens and visitors, Post oversaw a national search to select Sculptor Po Shu Wang from LA and worked with Wang on the design’s structure, fabrication, transportation and installation (in coordination with the Corps of Engineers and the railroad).

Months of high water delayed construction and installation over two years. The polished stainless steel spherical sculpture in three pieces, each one surrounding the others depicting “1 0 0”, was finally placed on site and instantly became a magnet for residents and visitors from across the country. Photographs of the sculpture and its reflections number in the tens of thousands.

CLIENT | OWNER: SCOPE | COST: ARCHITECT: COMPLETION DATE:

City of Baton Rouge Sculpture | $450k Post Architects (pro bono) w/ artist Po Shu Wang 2018

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AIA Award for Excellence in Public Architecture The 2022

September 2021 Raymond “Skipper” Post, FAIA | Post Architects | Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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