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Windows Restore Hotel Façade Art Deco exterior is updated with windows that reflect the building’s historic character. Part of New Orleans’ South Market District development, the Ace Hotel property combines two historic buildings with a new, four-story structure. Photo: Timothy Hursley Photography. All photos courtesy Winco Windows.
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COMMERCI A L A RCHI T EC T URE
JUNE 2017
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pened in March 2016, Ace Hotel New Orleans has
the corner of Carondelet and Lafayette Streets.
transformed the 1928 Art Deco, nine-story Barnett’s
Part of the city’s South Market District development, the
Furniture building into a 234-room boutique hotel
property combines two historic buildings with a new, four-story
with dining, retail, event, and meeting spaces, plus a rooftop
structure. Architecture firm Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, New Orle-
pool. The 184,000-sq.-ft., mixed-use hotel and retail center is
ans, led the project’s unified design. Guided by the construction
situated in the middle of New Orleans’ Warehouse District at
manager joint venture of Broadmoor LLC, Metairie, LA, and
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