Durham City Hall Annex
Surface 678 teamed with RND Architects to give the Durham City Hall Annex and Council Chambers Plaza a more visually appealing exterior. The annex plaza creates a more easily navigable exterior for visitors. The plazas were revitalized to enable large events, providing seatwalls, planting enhancements, code-compliant handrails, and cable guardrails.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum
Founded in 1902 by Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Palmer Memorial Institute trans formed the lives of more than 2,000 African American students as a private preparatory school. Today, the campus provides the setting where visitors can explore this unique environment where boys and girls lived and learned during the greater part of the 20th century. […]
Duke University Medical Campus Interprofessional Education & Care
The Duke University Medical Campus Interprofessional Education & Care project is a multistory, $41 million, 100,000 GSF education building sited in between the current School of Nursing and the Division of Abdominal Transplant Surgery, with a pedestrian bridge connecting the new School of Nursing program areas with the old building. Surface 678 is providing landscape […]
UNC NPHC Legacy Plaza
Surface 678’s conceptual design for the National Pan-Hellenic Council Legacy Plaza emphasizes the important history and legacy of the Divine Nine Greek Organizations while providing a public gathering space. Located within the Student and Academic Services Buildings Plaza, the garden consists of a raised circular platform scaled to accommodate imprompt, small meetings or planned, large […]
Anacostia Neighborhood Library
The site design for the new library in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, DC embraces the urban fabric, site topography, and existing trees to create an idiosyncratic response. The stadium seating along Good Hope Road creates opportunities for informal gathering while also providing the building with a plynth from which building program may be brought […]
Airborne & Special Operations Museum
Surface 678 created a distinctive design for a 50,000 square foot, $15 million national military museum building designed by architects Calloway Johnson Moore West within the three block, downtown Fayetteville site. The plan combines urban streetscape and internal open spaces of varying scales to provide the Museum a setting that is capable of receiving over […]
Venable Warehouse
Employees and visitors pass from the parking lot through a reforested “pocosin green wedge” that Venable warehouse is a long cherished piece of Durham history that was originally established in 1907 as a tobacco manufacturing company and renovated into urban laboratory space in the early 2000s. The expansion of the original project forms an “L” […]
Cherry Hospital
Surface 678 designed the pedestrian access and plazas, parking areas, on-grade and on-structure courtyards, and a stormwater management system for a 320-bed state psychiatric hospital. Employees and visitors pass from the parking lot through a reforested “pocosin green wedge” that creates a campus setting for the 390,000 square-foot building and helps to diminish its scale […]
UNC Charlotte Stormwater Master Plan
Surface 678 is leading the preparation of a regional stormwater master plan for UNC Charlotte and developing an implementation plan for restoring watershed function to Toby Creek. Goals include preservatin of the prime building areas on campus by integrating Best Management Practices (BMPs) into the campus footprint, evaluation of the potential feasibility of redeveloping existing […]