RKA Welcomes Shelley Sun

Shelley Sun has joined RKA’s Design Staff.  She earned her Bachelor of Architectural Studies and her Masters of Architecture from the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia.  Through her experience in architectural offices in Shanghai, China and Melbourne, Australia, she developed an interest in the synthesis of Architecture and Interior Design.  While she is enthusiastic about Minimalist design, Shelley enjoys traveling and being inspired by various architectural styles (and local cuisines) around the world.

See the Louis Sullivan Building of Newark featured on WOSU now

Rogers Krajnak Architects’ project, The Louis Sullivan Building of Newark, was featured in WOSU-TV’s program “Columbus Neighborhoods!”

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The Louis Sullivan Building of Newark Featured on WOSU

Rogers Krajnak Architects’ project, The Louis Sullivan Building of Newark, will be featured at 8:30 pm on Thursday 03.22.18 in WOSU-TV’s program “Columbus Neighborhoods”.  Tune in Thursday evening or on Sunday at noon!

The Art of Louis Sullivan

As Rogers Krajnak Architects progresses with the preparation of the Construction Documents for the adaptive reuse of one of Sullivan’s Jewel Box Banks, the Louis Sullivan Building of Newark project continues to get more publicity including this article in Hyperallergic – a New York based forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today.

Read the Full Article Here.

Resurrected

RKA is featured in the December 2017 issue of Columbus CEO article about “Old churches find new uses in creative renovations”.  The following is excerpted from that article:

The sheer size of some sanctuaries can make them difficult to repurpose, says Peter Krajnak of the Rogers Krajnak Architects Inc. firm in Downtown Columbus. “The key is to find the right scale for the potential future use,” says Krajnak, a specialist in the design, expansion and renovation of churches. “So many spaces are so cavernous they become difficult to illuminate and to provide proper climate control.” That can make redeveloping a property for residential particularly difficult and expensive.

Krajnak said sanctuaries also are designed to carry sound well. “To create a quiet space can be a challenge,” he says.

Krajnak will not have to figure out how to mitigate that aspect of the sanctuary of the Central Presbyterian Church at 132 S. Third St. as a consultant to performance arts venue operator CAPA. The nonprofit bought the property for $589,000 in June 2013 as a future concert hall.

CAPA, the owner/operator of the venerable Palace Theatre and Ohio Theatre Downtown, bought the property about 19 months after the congregation ceased worshipping in the building, the original use dating back to 1857.

CAPA CEO Chad Whittington says the arts organization has yet to ask designers to put together a detailed plan for the property as it first concentrates on fundraising for the 2018 renovation projects at the Ohio and Palace. “It’s important to have a good plan in place,” Whittington says, comparing the venue to the Southern Theatre restoration and renovation completed in the late 1990s.


The former church will, after eventual renovations, have seating for up to 400. “The structure itself is set up very well for how we operate in the performing arts arena,” Whittington says. “We can take the hall (sanctuary) and freshen it up for use in smaller concerts and recitals.”