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Florida Avenue galleries in West Palm Beach

Project Details

£3m to £4.99M

Alteration to existing property

Practice

Jflemay Architecture and Design

Jflemay Architecture and Design, Cromwell Place Co-Working , 4 Cromwell Place , London , SW7 2JE , United Kingdom

The galleries are situated at 2404-2414 Florida Avenue in the leafy neighbourhood of Sunshine Park, 800 metres south of the Norton Museum of Art. The building was formerly a warehouse and is located along the Florida East Coast Railroad which carries the Brightline inter-city trains. The southernmost gallery, Kristin Hjellegjerde, approached us in November 2021 to design their entrance. Our scope gradually grew to designing their interior and the building’s exterior along with the Florida-based architects Song and Associates. Jflemay acted as designer on this project, providing 2d and 3d design, visualisation and virtual reality services to the owner Bruce Gendelman and the tenant Kristin Hjellegjerde. Measuring 137 by 30 metres (450 by 100 feet), the building had double-height garage doors, no wheelchair access and was dilapidated. It was used as a bicycle repair shop, a flower delivery depot and a storehouse for the Palm Beach Opera. We proposed to replace the garage doors with six entrances in three pairs, covered with aluminium canopies and connected via a concrete walkway to an accessible ramp. The white stucco, round stairs and curved canopies all contribute to give the project an Art Deco feel reminiscent of the style commonly found in Palm Beach and Miami. In Kristin Hjellegjerde’s gallery we added six clerestory windows, tall white walls and a mezzanine. We asked the contractor to polish the existing slab and leave it unsealed. We designed curved cabinets in ash wood to add warmth to the monastic interior.