The Lighting Practice teamed with Ayers Saint Gross to design the second I-95 Travel Plaza in Maryland. TLP designed the interior and exterior lighting for the new travel plaza. TLP’s goal was to accentuate the circular architecture of the building and create an inviting environment for travelers. The building features large windows and multiple sky lights. TLP’s lighting design maximizes available daylight and supplements where necessary with subtle recessed fluorescent light fixtures. TLP wanted to enhance the space without taking away from the aesthetic impact of the ceiling. Chesapeake House features a wood, curved, sweeping roof, which was designed to reflect the bow of boats.
New Chesapeake House Rest Stop Everything Old One Wasn’t « CBS Baltimore
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — If you’re going to head north for the Labor Day weekend, be sure to stop at the new Chesapeake House rest stop.
As Mike Schuh explains, the Baltimore design team sought to make sure motorists know they are in Maryland.
Remember this place? What a dump. The state thought so too and got rid of the dark and dirty Chesapeake House. Now there is a new house in the old one’s shadow.
“A lot of thought. A lot of really hard work went into this,” said Donny Ankri, Ayers Saint Gross Architects.
It shows. From a garden isolated from vehicles:
“I think that’s again one of the most fundamental ideas to the whole project is that we wanted to make a large, warm wooden ceiling,” said Murali Ramaswami, Ayers Saint Gross Architects.
…To a ceiling that resembles the bow of a boat on the bay. The rest stop is very simple on the outside and everything the old one wasn’t.
“We wanted to save the impact for what they are coming in for,” said Ramaswami.
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