Michael Tribble, FAIA, RIBA is vice-chairman of the firm of LS3P ASSOCIATES LTD. with offices in Charlotte, NC and Charleston, SC. During his 30-year professional career, Mike has provided design leadership as partner in LS3P, TBA² Architects and Clark Tribble Harris & Li Architects.

Crestar Riverview Center

This six-story Bank Operations Center, located across the James River from the central business district of Richmond, Virginia, includes: a 1,300-car underground parking structure; a 460,000 SF office building; and a garden plaza on top of a portion of the underground parking. The office building, housing the Consumer Finance Operations for Crestar, occupies a two-block site overlooking the falls of the James River and reflects the bank's desire to combine several existing operations into a single structure that provides limited public access to a secure site and building.

These goals, along with the site topography, generated two extensive ground floor levels. The underground level accommodates general delivery services, a large mail center, entrances for the below-grade parking, and employee access from the Mortgage Building into the cylinder. The main ground level provides visitor parking at the garden plaza.Public access into the building is through a main, secure entrance at the cylinder, opening into a double-height lobby which includes elevators from parking, a guard station, and main building elevators. The main ground floor circulation is a two-story gallery connecting the cylinder to facilities such as the 500-person cafeteria, general training, and exercise areas. Elevator cores located at the cylinder and near the entrance to the cafeteria anticipate and encourage the flow of employees to and from these amenities through both the Gallery and the Courtyard.