"Chase Marshall has done it again. Fire Station NO.6 is another striking structure, presenting a forceful new image of public service in the recovering landscape of Judge Perez Drive in Chalmette. It utilizes the same material vocabulary as the Fire Station NO. 2 by the same designers that we reviewed last year.
This "kit of parts" approach to all the new St. Bernard stations in working well, allowing some continuity while each station is singular with respect to its specific program and site strategy. We see the corrugated steel and the flat steel panels juxtaposed with large areas of glass, small operable windows and the warm clear finished cedar that marks the residential zone of the firefighters. The massing is unmistakable, a box for in-habitation superimposed on a box for the apparatus......it is a strong, simple and yet lyrical structure." - John Kingman, New Orleans Magazine