Midtown Multi-Service Center
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- The challenge for the Patrick K. Hardesty Midtown Multi Service Center: place a community and police facility on a corner of a regional park with floodplain issues. The solution: create a "land form" which diverts the water around the building and directs it to a regional detention basin on the adjacent municipal golf course. A simple, flexible, utilitarian building is juxtaposed with the arroyo wall composed of shotcrete, masonry and Cor-ten steel defining the boundary between public and secured functions. Police functions are screened by the arroyo wall while the community function is represented by the lantern like public meeting room protruding through the wall. Police vehicles park within the area secured behind the arroyo wall. Public parking and a recycling collection center occupy the public portion of the site east of the arroyo. The public accesses the facility by the ridge or ramp, which meet at the entry porch, carved into the arroyo wall.
Architekton: Design Architect + GLHN Architects & Engineers: Executive Architect
Studio Team
Rebecca Barone
Douglas Brown
Carlos Carrasquillo
John Kane
Christopher Kelly
Gregory Lambright
Mark Roddy
Joseph Salvatore
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- Project Team
Owner: City of Tucson
Design Architect: Architekton
Executive Architect: GLHN Architects and Engineers, Inc.
Structural: Turner Structural Engineering
Electrical/Mechanical/Civil: GLHN Architects and Engineers, Inc.
Landscape: McGann and Associates
Environmental Graphics: Thinking Caps
Furnishings: Bene Harrison Interior Design and Planning
Justice: The SGS Group
Artist: Santa Theresa Tile Works
Contractor: Concord General Contracting Awards
2007 AZRE + AIA Arizona Chapter Arizona's 150 Greatest
Architectural Achievements
2004 AIA Western Mountain Region Merit Award
2004 AIA Arizona Merit Award
2004 AIA Southern Arizona Chapter Merit Award
2004 Southwest Contractor, Best Public Project Over $5 MillionPublications
July 2006, ish, "Arizona Steel: Patrick K. Hardesty Midtown Multi-Service Center"
February 2006, OFARCH, "Arizona Steel-Patrick K. Hardesty Midtown Multi-Service Center"
November/December 2004, Sources + Design, "AIA Arizona Design Winners-Farmer Studios + City of Tucson Patrick K. Hardesty Midtown Multi-Service Center
January 2004, Southwest Contractor, "A Statement in Steel-Service Center Creates New Architectural Vocabulary"
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- Grand Canyon University Recreation Center
- Casa Grande Public Safety Facility
- Arizona Science Center Entry Modifications
- CGCC Ironwood Hall
- Civic Space Shade Canopies
- Desert Foothills Family YMCA
- Tempe Center for the Arts
- Fulton Center: ASU Foundation
- Ross Farnsworth - East Valley YMCA
- California Valley Solar Ranch
- CGCC Student Center
- Grand Canyon University Master Planning + Programming
- Grand Canyon University College of Education
- Communiversity @ Surprise
- Surprise Public Safety Facility
- Peoria Rio Vista Recreation Center
- METRO Light Rail Stations
- Tumbleweed Recreation Center
- Midtown Multi-Service Center
- Coolidge Police Station
- South Tempe Police Substation
- ASU Institute of Religion
- SCC Fitness & Wellness Center
- Southwest Valley Regional YMCA
- Ahwatukee Foothills Family YMCA
- Westside Multi-Generational Center
- Escalante Multi-Generational Center
- Pecos Community Center
- Groundwater Treatment Facility
- SkySong 3
- Architekton Studio
- On Auk Mor
- Jewelry by Gauthiér
- Wells Fargo
- Bank of America: Tempe Main
- Six Degrees
- Lakes Residence
- Private Residence
- X-cel Energy Solar Facility
- Fifth and Mill
- Farmer Studios
- [OVER]fill
- community
- commercial
- residential
- mixed-use