Services/Phases
of Architectural Service Residential
& Commercial: Waring Architects, LLC is a full-service small architecture firm, founded on July 31, 1994 and based in the historic city of New Orleans, Louisiana. We have broad experience in a complete range of residential and commercial project types. We are equally comfortable with renovations and new construction and our huge range of work speaks for itself. We are actively professionally licensed in Louisiana, Texas, South Carolina, Mississippi and Colorado and we carry an international reciprocity certification with the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards in Washington, DC. Our residential projects cover a complete range from small kitchen and bath restorations to complex additions, full makeovers and multimillion dollar custom luxury homes. Our commercial projects include office buildings, restaurants, bars, prototype clinics, light-industrial projects, stores, apartment complexes, hospitals and manufacturing facilities. We have experience in every classical style of architecture as well as contemporary styles and classical Asian styles. We view every commission as a serious real estate investment vehicle; we believe that what we do should add true extrinsic value immediately to these buildings. We are absolutely committed to communication and client service. I frequently tell my clients and administrative and production team that, "with adequate communication, we can do anything…without it, we cannot do anything right!" By virtue of the city in which we are based, New Orleans, we have hands-on experience with over 300 years of architectural construction techniques and understand thoroughly how to utilize the latest in technology to preserve and restore these structures. Our firm was selected by the Archdiocese of the City of New Orleans to help them restore and preserve the ancient "oven style" tombs in one of New Orleans' famous "Cities of the Dead" cemeteries and to create a prototype manual outlining the proper techniques for executing this kind of work. We're classically trained and have won awards for our historic preservation work. We have decades of work experience in the historic Vieux Carre (French Quarter) of New Orleans. And we were hired to restore a 100 year-old cook shack of a former logging community into a luxury private vacation retreat in a lonely Rocky Mountain pass, 8000 feet above sea level in the Norrie community in central Colorado. We lead the field in cutting edge technical and prototypical work. We recently specified and supervised the installation of the first residential wind turbine electrical generators ever installed in the states of Louisiana and Mississippi on a prototypical project on the wind-blasted Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain. Two neighbors, after seeing the project, retained our firm to install the same units on their property. The Board of Commissioners of the famous Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge, after seeing the newscast, installed their own prototype unit to evaluate the feasibility of rolling wind turbine generators out across the longest bridge in the world. We were recently approached by the think tank developers of a revolutionary hurricane window product and have just completed the installation of $100,000 worth of the WISP Window in a 16,000 square-foot adaptive use makeover of three lowrise structures that were badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina. We are adept at regulatory issue resolution and have experience with every sort of zoning appeal, restrictive covenant, life safety code and regulatory appeal process. We're also comfortable with handicap accessibility design; we currently serve as consultants to the Louisiana Handicap Advocacy Center. We're hopelessly in love with the timeless Jazz that is the City of New Orleans. We are "specialists at being generalists." Our intense passion, our art and poetry and craft, our deliberately intimate search for understanding of our clients, our deep commitment to service, our hope and belief in the infinite potential of what can be brought into existence and our broadly diverse range of work all ultimately inform every project we undertake. Call us and talk to us.
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