Three ETFE-covered atriums, each with a unique, monumental staircase, intersect a commercial ground-plate, a second-floor creative workspace, and a “Texas-sized” rooftop park while bringing light into the depth of the building. The warehouse is punctured vertically with skylights and atriums and raked horizontally with new passages that establish distinct programmatic thoroughfares. Texas Medical Center/Gensler Architects TMC3 The 37-acre campus recently hit a construction milestone, with the near completion of a six-story, 250,000 square-foot 'Collaborative Building. In this adaptive reuse project transforming one of the city’s civic landmarks, a 500,000-sf warehouse and office building’s solidity and scale are preserved while strategic, surgical interventions break its fortress-like relationship to its context without dismantling the building. Located in the country’s most culturally diverse and rapidly changing city, POST Houston aims to reinvigorate Houston’s downtown neighborhoods with a mixed-use environment combining arts, entertainment, creative workspaces, dining, and retail. But one thing that this intervention cannot be is ignored.”Ĭollaborating Architect Powers Brown Architectureĭesign Team OMA: Jason Long, Salome Nikuradze, Yusef Ali Dennis, Daniel Kendra, Chris Yoon, Laylee Salek, Wesley Leforce, Ekaterina Nuzhdina, Simina Marin, Vincent Parlatore, Vincenzo Damato Powers Brown Architecture: Scott Thompson, Jeanette Shaw, Austin Sandel You might make some friends you might make some enemies.

How do you intervene in a landscape of that scale? You need to be bold you need to be noticed. “Texas has these big landscapes, and this building is its own landscape.

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