A sustainable urban theme is expressed throughout The Brewery, a seven-block LEED Platinum Neighborhood Development that – with help from Kapur – renovated the prominent and historic Pabst Brewery manufacturing campus in downtown Milwaukee.
Entering its early planning stages in 2007, Kapur contributed to the designs for the new Block 4 & 6 Parking Structures, as well as the corresponding improvements to the development’s roadways, storm sewers, and sidewalks.
Kapur also provided LiDAR scanning and BIM modeling for various architects throughout the project because of how many of the buildings had been renovated, including:
New facilities Kapur contributed to include:
Many concepts within this urban oasis are unique to the project, using materials from our historic industrial past. Selected site elements include rusting wire mesh screens and bollards within the parking lot, the steel and granite gabion wall, and formed concrete snow benches and retaining walls.
Numerous bioswales throughout the neighborhood capture parking lot, sidewalk, and roadway runoff, preventing infiltration and migration of contaminants. The plantings added to the neighborhood were chosen for urban tolerance and to introduce year-round color in contrast to the stark metal and brick.
Within Zilber Park is an ice wall setting the backdrop for a bronze statue of the development’s visionary – Joseph Zilber.
