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Flint RiverQuarium

Albany, Ga.
Antoine Predock Architect

After torrential floods, Albany, Georgia, reinvents itself with a centerpiece by Antoine Predock: a RiverQuarium celebrating local aquatic culture


Photo © Timothy Hursley

By Sarah Amelar

The site’s at one of those weird crossroads where Smalltown, U.S.A., meets a powerful natural system,” says architect Antoine Predock, FAIA, of his recently completed Flint RiverQuarium, a building that mediates between the city of Albany, Georgia, and the abundant water flowing through it. The curious juxtaposition of modest urbanism with undisturbed aquatic ecology has played an essential role in this town of not quite 100,000 people, 85 miles north of Tallahassee, Florida—even as the relationship between municipality and river fluctuated over time.

An asset and occasionally a source of ruin, the Flint River originally attracted the area’s native Creek Indians, who settled along its banks. In 1836, the same 350-mile-long water course inspired Nelson Tift to launch a river freight business here, founding the city, which he named after the then-bustling trade center of Albany, New York. But low water and sandbars ultimately impeded steamboat navigation, and by the turn of the last century, this southwestern Georgia town had switched its cargo traffic from river to rail. Though years later such heavy-hitting companies as Proctor & Gamble, M & M/Mars, and Merck set up manufacturing centers in the small city (and still operate there), the river remained largely ignored, escaping the abuse suffered by so many other waterways. Then, in 1994, a disastrous 500-year flood, and in 1998, a torrential 100-year flood, surged into Albany, turning local attention back toward the Flint.

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the People

Owner
Albany Tomorrow, Incorporated
RiverFront Resource Center
125 Pine Avenue, 2nd Floor, Suite 200
Albany, GA 31701
229/430-3910
229/430-3926
Thomas C. Chatmon, Jr., CEO/President

Design Architect
Antoine Predock Architect PC
300 12th Street NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102
Phone: 505/843-7390
Fax: 505/243-6254
www.predock.com

Design Principal:
Antoine Predock, FAIA

Executive Senior Associate:
Sam Sterling, AIA

Senior Associate:
Geoffrey Beebe, AIA

Associate:
Stuart Blakely

Project Team:
Jarrod Arellano, Dean Cowdrey, Donald Dudley, Jr., Treveston Elliott, Melanie Shelor, Andrea Wilson, Andrea Lenardin-Madden

Exhibit Designer
Lyons/Zaremba
4 Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Boston, MA 02109
617/248-0970
617/248-0994 (fax)
www.lyonszaremba.com

Design Team:
Richard Lyons, Frank Zaremba, AIA, James Wertheimer, Micheal Shackelford, Amy Merrill

Architect of Record
RBK Architects
1771 E. 9th Avenue
Tampa, FL 33605
813/247-5223
813/224-9158 (fax)
www.rbk-arch.com

Design Team:
Chris Bell, AIA, Geno Knowles, Gary Jacquette, AIA, Mike Webb, Greg Wehling

Engineer(s)
Structural Engineer:
Master Consulting Engineers
2907 W. Bay to Bay Boulevard, Suite 201
Tampa, FL 33629
813/835-4885
813/835-5526 (fax)
Armando Castellon, PE

Mechanical/Electrical Engineer:
Carastro & Associates
2609 W. DeLeon Street
Tampa, FL 33609
813/874-9494
813/874-9794
www.carastro.com

Civil Engineer:
Keck & Wood
2588 North Slappey Boulevard, Suite C
Albany, GA 31701
229/435-4843
229/435-7534 (fax)
Bruce Maples
www.keckwood.com

Consultant(s)
Project Management Consultant to ATI:
CMS (Construction Management Services)
Simon Foster

General Contractor
Holder Construction Company
116 Flint Avenue
Albany, GA 31701
229/432-6900
Don Langston, Project Manager
www.holderconstruction.com

Photographer(s)
Timothy Hursley/The Arkansas Office
1911 West Markham
Little Rock, AR 72205
501/372-0640
501/372-3366 (fax)

the Products

Exterior Cladding
Masonry:
Honed and roughback finish, Leuders Limestone, monolithic blacks and 4” thick veneer. Manufacturer: Mezger Enterprises, Inc. www.mezger.com

Metal/glass curtain wall:
Structural glass curtain walls Manufacturer: ISG (Innovative Structural Glass) www.structuralglass.com

Concrete:
Integrally colored/sandblasted pre-cast concrete Manufacturer: Gate Pre-Cast www.gateprecast.com

Cast-in-place concrete with as-cast finish from MDO:
Plywood Formwork – Holder Construction, Inc. www.holderconstruction.com

Wood:
Rift-cut white oak – doors and casework

EIFS, ACM, or other:
Cementitious stucco Installer: European Construction

Roofing
Built-up roofing:
Hypalon membrane roof Manufacturer: JP Stevens www.stevensroofing.com

“Water Steps”: Hall Fountains www.hallfountains.com

 

 
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