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  1. Easton Commons

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    Easton Commons is an upscale multifamily apartment project located at the Easton living/shopping/entertainment development. Easton Commons is situated just south of and across a boulevard from Easton’s retail hub, Easton Towne Center. This location makes it an easy walk to the one of the most prominent retail meccas in central Ohio. This proximity is one of the key developmental ingredients that permitted the high level of design detail considerations to be incorporated into Easton Commons’ planning and architecture.

    The complexity of Easton Commons’ site planning requires 42 unique floor plans to solve every possible curve and corner condition present in the project. These plans range from 600 to 1200 sq. ft. divided among choices between first floor flats, with or without attached garages, and second and third floor town homes with detached garages. Entries alternate along the street facades between fluted doric porticos and thick stone recessed archways. The unit interiors further celebrate American traditional design with embellishments like six panel wood doors, high flat ceilings with transom windows, ceramic tile entry floors and arched top double-hung windows.

    David B. Meleca completed this project prior to joining Moody Nolan as the Director of Classical Design.

  2. Old Dublin Mixed Use

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    This 8,800 sq. ft. mixed use building consists of two office suites as well as two privately owned condos. This building utilizes historic materials & details from the surrounding district to uniquely blend the new development into the existing historical neighborhood.

    David B. Meleca completed this project prior to joining Moody Nolan as the Director of Classical Design.

  3. Seton Parish Renovation

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    This addition and renovation project for a 1991 church building is an exercise in transforming a centralized plan layout that negates traditional liturgical orientation into a more suitable place for Catholic worship. The project includes a new Adoration Chapel communicating with a two-sided Tabernacle placed on axis behind the Altar of Sacrifice in the Sanctuary, and a re-facing of the existing interior with iconography rooted in the Church’s sacred art heritage. In seeking to fulfill rather than fight the existing Modern architecture of the building, the design intervention has been envisioned as a modern version of Romanesque precedents – drawing strongly from the primitive forms of early Irish and Italian medieval architecture.

    David B. Meleca completed this project prior to joining Moody Nolan as the Director of Classical Design.

  4. Catholic Parish

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    The design of Saint Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in Leawood, Kansas includes a 1,200 seat sanctuary with a choir loft and parish offices and a large social hall on the lower level. The design is inspired by the Renaissance churches of Rome. The west entrance façade includes a large portico, rose window and volutes flanking the upper story and the church has a traditional cruciform plan.

    David B. Meleca completed this project prior to joining Moody Nolan as the Director of Classical Design.

  5. Parish and School of Religion

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    David B. Meleca designed the final phase of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church Facilities Master Plan. As the centerpiece of the campus, parishioners decided to replace the existing church rather than build an addition. A more classical cruciform layout was also preferred over the existing design. The new church seats 1,200 to 1,400. Construction took just under two years to complete. During construction mass was held in both the existing church and the new Parish Activities Center (which was completed in 2008).

    David B. Meleca completed this project prior to joining Moody Nolan as the Director of Classical Design.