Case Study
Arcade-Wright Building
PROJECT PROFILE WJE www.wje.com Arcade-Wright Building Facade Condition Assessment and Repair Design | St. Louis, MO CLIENT Dominium BACKGROUND The historic Arcade-Wright building was initially constructed in two stages beginning in 1906 with the eighteen-story Wright building and completed by the addition of the sixteen-story Arcade building in 1918. The resulting Arcade-Wright building occupies half of a city block in downtown St. Louis and was the tallest concrete structure in the world at the time of its completion. Featuring a two-story axial shopping arcade and multiple floors of office space above, the Arcade-Wright building was a well- known landmark of