Magazine Street Residence

The design of the residence is centered on creating a place of quiet contemplation and repose in a city filled with excess and revelry. It is a contemporary intervention in the heart of the city. The original 1854 facade still stands as the only remnant of a fire which occurred over 20 years ago. The house is a simple parti of a cast-in-place concrete box, set back from a monumental weathered steel sculpture wall. The steel forms the backdrop for the interior of the house informing the relationship between inside and out, natural light and shadow.

Trahan Architects, an award-winning firm led by Victor F. “Trey” Trahan, FAIA, has received international acclaim for work that is at once intensely personal, historically grounded and aesthetically sublime. Trahan Architects’ projects share a high level of technological sophistication and innovation coupled with a sense of quiet and experiential beauty. Combined with the firm’s research into emerging materials and construction methods, Trahan Architects’ projects feel simultaneously rooted and contemporary.