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Shake Your Money Maker
This new lobby design for the Clermont Hotel earned architecture firm G+G $1,000 and a year supply of coffee energy drink
Whynatte.
Interior
designers & architects were awarded lap dances, coffee-style energy drinks and a place in the colorful history of
an Atlanta landmark July 30 during the "Shake Your Moneymaker" party at the Clermont
Lounge. The "Clermont
Hotel Design Competition" began as a marketing program created by in-town
broker Gene Kansas to draw attention to the sale of
the 88,000-square foot cultural icon, The Clermont Hotel. Listing price $6.5
million. Blondie not included.
When the Clermont became threatened with foreclosure, the
competition gained relevance, drawing attention to the fact that Atlanta could lose one of its most
beloved (and infamous!) establishments, the Clermont Lounge - Atlanta's oldest adult club which is located in the hotel's basement.
The attention worked and
the building was given a reprieve from the auction block. Contest participants were
asked to submit designs for the Clermont Hotel's lobby, rooftop or a room.
Whether or not the designs are implemented will be up to the Clermont's eventual new
owners. Gamble & Gamble Architects took first place for its lobby design, and
the top prize: $1,000, a weekend at The Clermont and a year supply of energy drink Whynatte. Runner-up designer Habachy Designs received a PBR Tall Boy and
a lap dance.
From left: Jayme Leffler, event organizer Gene Kansas, Anna Coleman and Scott
Dunbar shaking their moneymakers at the Clermont Lounge.
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Give Me Some Skin
VeenendaalCave's President Ed Cave and Jodi Borges studying plans.
Commercial interior
design firm VeenendaalCave Inc. is "wrapping up" a super-cool project at Technology Park in Norcross. The design firm is collaborating on design and execution of the
Corus 360 world headquarters, redeveloping a 35-year old building with a
fresh new look.
The project, to finish this fall, will transform a
30,000-square-foot office building into
a state-of-the-art data center and corporate office facility. The job includes
re-skinning the property's entire second floor. Designers plan to pursue a LEED Gold certification for the
building, which is intended as a prototype for the reclamation of
older properties at Technology Park. VeenendaalCave's Jodi Borges is project director. Other consultants working on the project with Corus 360's COO
Tom Lowry include: AHA Consulting Engineers, Baker Barrios, BG Capital
Solutions, Sedki & Russ and MACTEC. Choate Construction is the general
contractor.
In-progress Corus 360 building.
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Long Live Lenox Square
Tying one on at Lenox Square are, from left: Michele Meregaglia, assistant mall manager, Lenox
Square; Buckhead "Mayor" Sam Massell; Robin Suggs, area mall manager, Lenox Square; Vivian Noble DuBose, daughter of
Lenox Square founder Ed Noble; and Michelle
Batts, director of marketing & business development, Lenox
Square. A group
of local luminaries joined the early-morning-mall-walker-crowd Aug. 3 during a
50th Anniversary celebration for Lenox
Square. Honorary Buckhead "Mayor" Sam Massell was
joined by Simon Property Group executives (owners of Lenox Square) and Vivian Noble DuBose, daughter of Lenox Square founder Ed Noble, for
mimosas, cupcakes and a ribbon-tying ceremony.
The
ceremony was symbolic of the original ribbon-tying event that accompanied
the opening of the retail mecca on Aug. 3, 1959, and was meant to evoke the "tying
together of the community" - and of Lenox
Square to Buckhead. Lenox has
constructed several large displays in the second-level Bloomingdales wing,
detailing the history of the mall through the years. 
Original Lenox Square ribbon-tying ceremony, Aug. 3, 1959. |
The Rooster Round-up
Circle of Trust Happy Hour: Architecture firm Gensler's Carrie May and Rosalie Capiral, join Circle of Trust
Happy Hour founder Keith Mack of Regent Partners, during the July 30 "Circle" at
W Atlanta Downtown. Type-A Party: John Burgess, CEO of Coca Cola Recycling, was special guest July 30 at Dolce for
the monthly Type-A eco-networking party. More than 200 guests joined hosts Derek
Jacoby and Ryan Hattaway to hear Burgess' remarks.
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