A long list of reputable architecture firms are contributing to a forthcoming, mixed-use development in the city of Houston. The RO is a major project backed by Transwestern Development Company, a local office. It’s being built adjacent to Houston’s River Oaks neighborhood, a historic locale built in the 1920s by William and Michael Hogg known for its gardens and verbose architecture.
The RO is slated for a 17-acre site at the intersection of West Alabama Street and Buffalo Speedway that once housed a research campus for Exxon-Mobil. The master plan, developers said, will essentially extend the qualities that make River Oaks special further into the city, namely its leafy public realm and walkable corridors. The tallest building at The RO will be 28 stories, delivering much needed density to the sprawling metropolis.
Pickard Chilton, a Connecticut office, is the doing the master plan. That firm is also designing office space and multifamily housing for the site.
Since 2016, Boston Valley Terra Cotta has partnered with the University of Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture to host the annual Architectural Ceramics Assemblies Workshop (ACAW). During the weeklong event, eight teams, composed of paired design and engineering firms, collaborate to create facade prototypes using architectural terra-cotta.
Design teams consisted of Eric Parry Architects and FMDC, ZGF and LERA, Pickard Chilton and Magnusson Klemencic Associates, RIOS and ARUP, HGA and Studio NYL, Henning Larsen and Thornton Tomasetti, CO Architects, and Selldorf Architects and Socotec.
New Haven, Connecticut-headquartered global architecture studio Pickard Chilton has announced that it will lead the design of a freeway-abutting, 38-story new office tower in downtown Dallas. Dubbed Field Street Tower, the Hillwood Urban-developed high-rise, at 600 feet, will stand as the tallest office tower to join the skyline of Texas’s third most populous city in 30 years. Per Pickard Chilton, the glass-sheathed structure will serve as a “new centerpiece of the city’s skyline.”
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