Bio:

The Great designer, Lauren is a native Memphian and has worked in LRK’s Memphis office since 2013. Her experience includes concept design, project design and construction administration for adaptive reuse, mixed-use, and multi-family projects. Lauren strives to understand the needs of LRK clients first; and then responds by providing design solutions that combine creativity, efficiency and cost effectiveness.

​

How did you first learn about architecture and when did you decide that built environment profession was an area of interest for you?

My 9th grade geometry teacher taught a lesson on scale and tasked us with drawing a floor plan of our dream home. I had always been interested in drawing and art and this assignment introduced me to archi- tecture as a career.

​

What do you do?

I help design buildings that not only revitalize com- munities but create spaces that are about the people (the inhabitants, the visitors) as much as they are about the physical structures themselves.

​

What excites you in the work you do?

I love being able to take an idea, a statement, a phrase from a client and help to creatively create the physical manifestation of those ideas & dreams.

 

Who or what inspires you professionally?

Being creative is what I love and that inspires me. Also, working with youth and being able to tell the next generation, especially those that look like I do, that they can also be architects, designers, contractors, etc. inspires me.

​

What is your proudest professional accomplishment or achievement?

Having the opportunity to be a part of the design team for Crosstown and bringing what was thought of as an “old, abandoned eye-sore,” back to life, all while creating the largest LEED Platinum Certified historic adaptive reuse project in the world.

​

Featured Project Name: 

Crosstown Concourse

 

Featured Project Location: 

Memphis, TN

​

Featured Project Completion Date: 

August 2017

​

Role in Featured Project: 

Project designer, construction administration

 

Featured Project Description:

Crosstown Concourse is a 10-story “vertical urban village” that integrates residential, commercial, retail, health and wellness, arts and culture, and education. The design weaves a purposeful collection of diverse tenants and varied uses into a precedent-setting mixed-use community. Crosstown Concourse received LEED CS Platinum certification and is the largest historic adaptive reuse LEED Platinum certified project in the world.

 

Photography Credit:

03 - Aerial Innovations; 04 - LRK & Jamie Harmon; 09 & 14 - Ken West Photography; 06 - McGinn Photography

​