Visitor Centre Interior Design | The Yew Dell Botanical Gardens | Crestwood | Kentucky | de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop

The Yew Dell Botanical Gardens Visitor Center utilizes an existing tobacco barn shell original to the property. Housing a gift shop, visitor reception area, ticket & membership sales, and flexible indoor/outdoor areas for seasonal plant sales, the project design incorporates these various programmatic elements within a simple glass “box” inserted into the original building. A modest material palette of sealed concrete floors, pickled pine siding and insulated tempered glass clearly delineates new construction from existing, while allowing the original barn to be visible within the interior spaces.......more

Museum Interior Design | Guthrie Transportation Museum & Welcome Centre | Kentucky | de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop

The city of Guthrie is a small rural community in southern Kentucky that once played a significant role in the expansion of the country’s transportation network in the early 1900’s through the construction of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad line. After a period of economic decline, the city has recently been the focus of renewal efforts to revive its downtown core. As the first development to be completed within a broader vision plan for the city, the project addresses several overlapping community interests: 1) to structurally stabilize, preserve & rehabilitate two historic brick storefront structures that were in an advanced state of decay and partial collapse, 2) to create a facility to welcome visitors and share the story of Guthrie’s role in the early development of the country’s railroad industry, and 3) to provide a multi-use venue as a place for the community to gather.......more