3401 St. Charles Ave

Description: New Construction of a 115 unit mixed-use development with ground floor commercial space fronting St. Charles and Louisiana Avenue. 

Previous ARC Recommendations:

Meeting of 12/15/20:

The ARC voted to defer this application for additional review and agreed that the mass of Building B is out of scale with the immediate context.  The ARC made the following recommendations that may help minimize the visual bulk of the structure:

• The single-story elements with roof terraces should be redesigned as courtyards at ground level.

• Extend the building mass down St. Charles to better obscure the parking area.

• 5 stories is an appropriate scale for the St Charles Ave frontage, but the building should step down as it moves away from the corner of St Charles and Louisiana Avenues.

• Consider stepping the top floor back from the building edge to reduce the perceptible building height.

• Reintroduce the depth and texture of the building exterior walls that is present in the original hand drawn renderings.

Context Photos: 

Current Drawings: 

Previous Drawings: