Carson Looney

  • Project Of The Month

    The Mercado

    Creating the appearance of an old European market building is what the architects at Looney Ricks Kiss were going for when they penned the blueprints for The Mercado, a mixed-use development in Rosemary Beach, Fla., an upscale, neo-traditional town on northwest Florida's gulf coast. They took the idea literally: The word “merado” means “market” in Spanish and Italian.

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    After taking its name from a multilingual dictionary, The Mercado also borrowed the crisp, cool colors one might expect in the West Indies to outfit its interior spaces.