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State presents Executive Office Building concept to Historic District review board; subcommittee appointment deferred
Summary
State representatives and architects presented a three‑story Executive Office Building concept for the state capitol complex, seeking design guidance and a subcommittee to work with state staff; board members raised concerns about demolition, window detailing and how the design would
Jennifer Jenkins, an attorney with Jenkins Gavin, told the Historic Districts Review Board that the state is restarting the design phase for the proposed Executive Office Building on the state capitol complex and was seeking the board’s consultation and a small subcommittee to review details. The presentation Wednesday included an architecture team from FBT Architects and Anna Silva, cabinet secretary for the New Mexico General Services Department.
The project team described a three‑story, approximately 265,000‑square‑foot office building with an underground parking garage sized for roughly 660 cars and a site slope of about 11 feet between the Capitol and Galisteo Street. Ted Grama of FBT Architects said the design aims to respond to adjacent territorial revival buildings with stepped massing, plazas and rooftop decks; Art Tatum detailed material choices such as stucco, deep‑set windows and brick coping intended to reference territorial…
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