CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM
Houston, Texas
Client: William F. Stern & Associates
Construction Cost: $1.2M
Project Size: 18,000 square feet
Additions to the existing museum which include a new 680 square foot Education Resource Center, a low retaining wall, a new pond, new concrete seating, new sign/message poles, reworking sidewalk and stairs and replacement/repair of existing sidewalk. Project was featured on the cover of the May 4, 1997 edition of Zest Magazine and in the 9/10 1998 issue of Texas Architect.
photo by Christof Spieler, P.E.
SICARDI GALLERY
Houston, Texas
Client: Brave/Architecture
Construction Cost: $0.75M
Project Size: 5,000 square feet
Two-story gallery with a wood frame and structural slab.
DeSANTOS GALLERY
Houston, Texas
Client: Brave/Architecture
Construction Cost: $0.6M
Project Size: 4,000 square feet
Award-winning, three-story artist's loft and gallery.
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON-MEMORIAL ROOM
Houston, Texas
Client: Murphy Mears Architects
Awards: AIA Houston, Interior Architecture, Honor Award
Publications: AIA PERSPECTIVE, March 1997, Design Awards Program
"Wall of Tears" Memorial tastefully created within the Holocaust Museum to provide a quiet area for reflection.
photo courtesy of Murphy Mears Architects
CLAYTON GENEALOGICAL LIBRARY
Houston, Texas
Client: Glassman Shoemake Maldonado
Awards:
2009 Landmark Award for Historical Renovation,Houston Business Journal
2009 Presients Award, Greater Houston Preservation Alliance
2009 Green Building of America Award, Real Estate Construction Review
2010
Good Brick Award, Greater Houston Preservation Alliance
2010, Finalist, Urban Land Institute
2010, Green Building of America Award, Real Estate and Construction Review
The Clayton Library is a designated Historic Texas Landmark and the fourth largest genealogical library in the country. The project consisted of the main building plus two ancillary buildings which take an entire city block.
photo by Matrix Structural Engineers
R. B. TULLIS LIBRARY
New Caney, Texas
Client: Gingrich Associates Architects, Inc.
Construction Cost: $3.6M
Project Size: 32,000 square feet
New two-story, steel-framed library replacing original library.
LAPORTE COMMUNITY LIBRARY
LaPorte, Texas
Client: Hall Barnum Lucchesi Architects
Construction Cost: $2.0M
Project Size: 26,700 square feet
One-story Library facility with a Meeting Room, Conference Room, 4 Study Rooms, Reading Room, and a Children's Activity Room. The facility is a 23,100 square foot building with a 900 square foot porte-cochere, 900 square foot covered walkway, and 1800 square foot shade structures.