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WRA
The home of WRA Advertising is a former shoe store built in 1890. Our scope included a complete renovation and tenant improvement project on the interior and a historic renovation of the exterior. Addressing the issue of daylighting was critical to the successful conversion of a long, narrow building — with windows only at the ends — into a healthy office environment. Our solution was to introduce a ‘’lightscoop’ element to collect and redirect daylight from a new clearstory window to the workspaces below. It also serves as a multi-story lobby space connecting all three staff floors. The project had a very limited budget, and economies were achieved through minimizing new wall construction, minimizing new finishes, designing low cost custom furnishings and re-using old where possible.
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![Historical photo](/uploads/2015-09-24/950862026/691465768large.jpg)
![WRA office](/uploads/2015-09-24/731166336/956212669large.jpg)
![WRA lightscoop](/uploads/2015-09-24/1132256177/1158570487large.jpg)
![WRA lightscoop diagram](/uploads/2015-09-24/1265960263/1686642678large.jpg)
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![WRA lightscoop](/uploads/2015-10-02/45496747/2055719150large.jpg)
![WRA lightscoop](/uploads/2015-09-24/1314253776/372163344large.jpg)
Location: Spokane, WA
Contractor: S.G. Morin and Son, Inc.
Office capacity: 60 workstations
Photographer: Julie Marquart
Building area: 11835 sf
Winner
Merit Award – AIA NW and Pacific Region Honor Awards
Merit Award – AIA Honor Awards for Washington Architecture