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EDITOR: Thank you for including McKinney Place in your "In Progre!>!> .. PAVEX MAKES !>cction of the January February is<,ue or Texas Architect. l appreciate your intere t in the work. A GRAND ENTRANCE The article 1s timely a!> we are currently in the midst of a wonderful controver!>y. David Dillon, architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News, chose McKinney Place as the '>Ubject of a recent maJor aru cle, and almost predictably. David''> treat ment of the building was not totally posi tive. In the fuc, that's followed, we are beginning to get fan letter., disagreeing with Dillon·, assessment. and in which both side,· "blood is up."
John V. N,feler, o· Brien O'Brien N)feler Callaway, Dallas
EDITOR A fnend kindly <,ent me a copy of your review in the January February 1.,,ue of Tew., Architect This wa, the hrst review- a<, far as I know- by a practicing architect, ,o I was mo,t anxious to read it. Halfway through the hr.t column. I wa, already ec,ta11c; by the time I fini,hed reading the review al 11 could do wa, heave an overwhelmed sigh Although I know every word of the book · "by heart ... I almost felt compelled to ,11 down and read 11 all over again . If I am ever a,ked to wnte another book. I hope 1·11 be ble<, ed with the kind of ,up WITH IXCWSIVE EUROPEAN port and encouragement that rve received DESIGNIDCONClffl MYEIS. from the AIA. the member-. of the commit AICHl11CTUUL APPIAL. tee and '>UCh a fine wnter/rev1ewer a, Larry NDlrT-Mllllcllc:anldd .....lllgllaol Good ...... hlndlllPM11IGIII ..... Glw1 ..... pellllllllll Muriel Q11<•.1t McCarthY. bJPAVEl a111horof David R William'>. Pioneer Architect. =n=fllnm. Oallm Dan1 ...1Dr1chbMwllln1Dr1-.alllll COIi, ,auc:an-.....,.,,...,-bulldlng nialffllrC... PAYE> MVII OPAUSIIN, INC. P.O.._ ,1111 Aullln, ,._.,.,_ 11.,.....,. llnAnlllllo, ,._ 1111N1.... 6 Orclo 6 on Reader /nqu ry Card T.·1111 ,\rd111n1 M111 ·J11ne /98.5 Masonry Design Profiles The San Antonio architecture respect for building materials, finn Ford Powell & Carson has for hwnan scale, for roots that go back to 1939, technology, and for the region. when the late and legendary Theirs is an architecture based O'Neil Ford began his Alamo on the value of pennanence, City practice. Since Fords of enduring appeal, of ongoing death in 1982, the finn has suitability for hwnan use. And continued to embrace the same it is an architecture that has philosophy that has shaped always relied heavily upon the their work from the very use of masonry construction as beginning-an attitude of an appropriate fonn of building. In fact, O'Neil Ford used to talk a lot about bricks-how he hung A St. Poul Squan•, c. 190,~IOl«l San Antoni(), li.·"81 around the brickyards as a kid, .,. Centt'r forTrtll\liportation Md Commt•rce sorted the bricks, stacked architect Bartlett Cocke (now Silt-am Moody Plaza, c. I!lft! them, and lugged them around Jones and Kell) produc(..'Ci one (,alvei.ton, lcXM • Trimly l 'niw111ily 1.,brnry, c. 1!17l.l for the masons. He liked the of the finns most notable Son Antonio, Te,cna texture of bricks, their visual works-Trinity University in 'f' Frank l\1urch1"'lll l\1l-morial Towt·r, c. l!M~ wannth and tactile quality. San Antonio. lbe "Miracle of San Antonio, 1l.·iu.t~ I And he liked the sense of lnnity Hill" consists of more scale they impart to buildings. than 40 buildings Conning a kind After all, you could hold one of hilltown on a site reclaimed in your hand from an abandoned limestone So it is that the finn has been quarry. 1nnity is !mown for its both adept and prolific in cohesive geniality, hum1n scale employing brick, as well as and wdl1Tlth- attributes due stone and other indigenous largely to the consistent yet m1sonry materials. A long versatile use of a light pink tenn co!Llboration with orange variegated brick throughout the campus. In other projects, the desired effect has been coolness- as in the pristine white addition to the Fort Worth Museum of Art Or contextual hannony- as in the renovation of San Antonios Crockett! IoteL Or the lasting appeal of classical fonn-as in the brick bov<..'Clo vaults that For more on Masonry Design, have become a t.radem1rk of the finn. contact Gregg Borchelt at 7131629-6949, or write The masonry industry in Texas I~ 0. Box 42QCJ7, salutes Ford Powell & Carson Houston, Texas 77042. for a tradition of excellence and innovation in masonry A TIie f't.-t \\twth Ar1 MUMUm. c. 1971 construction-a tradition that Fort \\orth, TelUII has been nurtured by the A TIie Crodu.•u Uott'I, c. 1!)(19-l!lli:I industry's contractor members San Antonio, 1hu and the fine workmanship of • Moody MNlical l.ibnry Circle 8 on Reader Inquiry Card l'ni~l'nityollCJIU Texas Bricklayers and Ml'Clical Brarv:h at GalYCt&ton, c. m12 Allied Craftsmen • t ' • • :' •' • ' 'I. . . ' ' . . . . ' • . • • ' • ~ • .. \. l,. .., ' \lhan B-valuas go up, so do home values. TemPro insulation sheathing is a TemPro insulation sheathing with add value to your home. 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P.O. lloa 10190 Albuq Circle 23 on Reader lnqu,ry Card NEWS PEOPLE, PROJECTS & PROCEEDINGS Edited by Ray Ydoyaga Lured rn A11s11n after a nmianal rearch, MCC will mo,·e into new building on UT land HIGH-TECH PROJECTS According to John S. Crane ofGolemon employ more than 20,000 workers. But BOOST AUSTIN ECONOMY and Rolfe, the fin,t three levels of the the Austin Chamber of Commerce <,ays building will house researcher!.· offices that the futuristic eclar of the planned Four planned project!. could almo'>t and computer laboratories. Interior spaces research facility was at least partly respon double employment in Aw,tin\ high-tech arc designed to facilitate interaction sible for decisions in 1983 and 1984 by 21 manufacturing and research industrie!> among researcher-,, while providing for companies, representing some 7,000 new over the next decade. and could have <,ecurity and energy efficiency. The jobs. to locate in Austin. Employment in maJor effects on commercial and residen ground floor wi 11 be devoted to administra high-tech manufacturing increased 11.4 tial development in the fast-growing tion. storage. an employee cafeteria, and percent between 1983 and 1984, making it capital city. other services. A four-story skylighted the fastest-growing segment of Austin's The best-known of these four projects is atrium will extend the length of the build job market. being undertaken by Microelectronics and ing: researchers' offices will be oriented MCC is expected to have other indirect Computer Technology Corporation either to the cxtcriororto the atrium. Each effects. Edward J. Bartolo Corporation, a (MCC). A joint venture of 20 companies floor on the building's south side will can national mal I developer. is reportedly con researching the next generation of com tilever over the one below, shading it from sidering opening a new regional mal I near puter technology. MCC was lured to Aus the sun. the MCC site. and several hotel corpora tin after a nationally publici7ed site search. Offering only 400 new jobs. MCC will tions arc reportedly considering properties Constructton will begin soon in northwest have little direct impact on Au!>tin'sjob in the area. With indirect benefits could Austin on MCC's four-level 200,000 market. By comparison. local manufactur come other-unwanted-consequences. square-foot research facility, designed by ing and research facilities of IBM, however. New jobs and increased demand Golemon and Rolfe Associates, Inc., Motorola, Texas lnlitrumcnl'>, Tracor, and in the housing market are welcomed. but Houston. Advanced Micro Devices currently some observer!> question whether area TewI Arc/11/l•ct Ma\' ·J1111t• 1985 LEFT: High Tech ,wh u soft to11clr Site plan of Sch/11mber,:er \Veil Sen-ices b) Howard Bam.1tone & Robert Jackso11 and Associates. l.Ff r fmplm1·e ni[t·terw 1err1Ke mer/00Am11 pede\/rta11 bridge a11d /11//.1 BllO\~ M,> 1 11tl , already among the c11y'<, mo'>t 111\\dcd . \\ ill be able to handle traffic gen ' 11 d hy the ne"" project, And other.. fear th 11 further development an Au-,tan ·., 11, 1111nmcntally ,en,itive northwe,1 quad ' mt "111 irreparably damage recharge 11 "for the city·, water ,upply and con- 111huh.: to killer Oood,, like the one, that I , 1 lated the city an 1981 I "o hrm, be'>lde, MCC are proceedrng \Ith plans for nc"" facilitie, an the north- I All'itin area. The 3M Corporation of ~I P.IUI, ~1tnn., ha., announced that it 111 rdocatc it, admini<,lrative and irch ollice, (along with a number of I I t •ro\, rng manufacturing divi,mn,) 10 11 1111 (her I million ,quarc feet of new I 1 1lrt1cs, to be bui It rn ,everal pha,c., over th ncx1 10 year-.. arc berng dc,igncd by ( RS S1rnne. Inc., Hou,ton. w11hGraeber, S1111111ons and Co" an, Au,tin, a, a,,<,ciatc 11 hrtccts. A ,ccond company, Schlum- I , Arrhu,•,t \1111 •}11111 IIJ,\~ 25 berger Wells Services, Inc., is reportedly proceeding quietJy with a new building in ~j northwest Austin, to be designed by cS Barnstone Architects, Houston, and Robert Jackson Architects, Austin. The largest single project of the four, a new facility for the Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation, is already under con struction at the intersection of Highway 183 and Burleson Road in southeast Aus tin. Praised by neighborhood activists for being "intelligently and sensitively sited,'· and welcomed for its job-generating potential within the neighboring largely Hispanic Montopolis area, the new plant will eventually include some 3 million square feet of manufacturing and design space and employ an estimated 4,000 people. The facility was designed by the Austin office of the California-based Jacobs Architects. It shows remarkable attention to its context and to preserving existing features, including stands of Lockheed Missiles and Space Corpora11011 native trees and hedgerows. A farmhouse at the center of the site was left intact, pro buff-colored siding, were developed. plant, now occupied by an adult drive-in viding references from which the design As with Austin's other new develop movie theater, is reported to be slated for of the plant's exteriors, with their sloping, ments, the Lockheed plant has begun development as an office park-the first notch-cornered standing-seam roofs and generating spin-offs. Land adjacent to the of its kind in an area now devoted mostly Austm . - with p ro b lems now planone .of the growth-related of the city. gumg the northwest part - Joel Warren Barna HOUSTON BUILDS CIVIC PROJECTS With non-residential building in the Hous ton metropolitan area down 17 percent from last year, the Gus S. Wortham Thea ter Center and George R. Brown Conven tion Center projects represent the biggest games in downtown Houston . Construc t ion on the Wortham Theater Center began in early 1984 and ground was broken on the Brown Convention Center in February 1985. Both projects have been widely debated- the theater center for its architecture, and the convention center for its location. Designed by Morris/Aubry Architects, the Wortham Theater Center is located on Wortham TMatu Center. facade the west side or downtown Houston, between the Alley Theater and Buffalo Buffalo-- Ba)ou Alben 'rhoma5 Bayou, facing Pennzoil Place and the Com~ntion Center Republic Bank Building diagonally across .,, Jones Plua. A steel-frame structure cov :,~ ering two blocks and spanning Prairie ..: , C Street, clad in rose-colored granite with 9 colored brick above, the theater center i uses a 90-foot-tall, 50-foot-wide entry r arch, roundels, and rusticated moldings in u I .}rlC an overall abstracted Renaissance Revival effect. Inside, 450,000 square reet of space in seven levels will be used for two theaters (seating 2,300 and I, 100, respec -JL_.J iO o ~ tively). The complex, with its rehean.al spaces and support areas, will house the ~:1 [:JII ., Ho11sto11 Cfric Cemer L.argt lhtattr sec11011 Small theater sertio11 Lt,·el three p/1111 28 Tew., Ard1itef/ May·J1111e 19115 \ ---\ \ I .l The closer you study natural gas heating, the better It looks. Compare costs. Gas is the big winner, not only In fuel usage, but In equipment life and maintenance, too. Natural gas is a proven cllent pleaser. You will Hnd no other heating energy source that even approaches the acceptablllty ofgas. And, Its proven abundance takes the guesswork out ofthe future. The versatility ofgas healing makes it just right for any building, large or small. The strongest supporters ofgas heating are those who know most about it. To know it is to specify it. Energas • Entex • Lone Star Gas Company. Southern Union Gas Company TEXAS ------GAS UTILITIES Circle 29 on Reader lnqu,ry Card Houston Grand Opera, the Houston Ballet Company, and other local groups, and will host travelling productions. Construction costs are estimated at $63 million. Com pletion is due in February 1987. • Specifications The George R. Brown Convention •Project Development Center, at the eastern end of downtown, • Estimating will back up to the 1-59 overpass. While •Construction the Wortham Theater Center will face a thriving cultural and civic enclave, the Brown Convention Center will look out onto an area of downtown that remains largely untouched by the development of the 1970s and early 1980s. A project of the joint venture Convention Center Qrcle 25 on Reader Inquiry Card Architects (Golemon & Rolfe, Associates, Inc. , John S. Chase, FAIA, Inc .• Molina & Associates. 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The exhibit areas, with thei the convention center will be clad in off spaceframe construction and massive white steel panels and glass, with red door trussed columns, are exceptionally high ways and roof air intakes, and blue and open, providing more than four time exposed columns and trusses. The fin,t the space afforded by the Alben Thomas phase will incorporate 500,000 square feet Convention Center, Houston's current of exhibition space, 43 meeting room!., a downtown convention hall. Later phases banquet hall with kitchen and facilities 10 will increase exhibit space by another MILLER serve 3,300, a general assembly area with 820,000 square feet and add two parking seating for 3,600, and complete sound garages to the surface parking planned for BLUEPRINT CO. stage facilities. Bolullo's design plays phase one. 501 West 6th St. refreshingly against type-where most Construction costs for the convention recent convention centers isolate visitors center arc estimated at $175 million. 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Positive but unobtrusive, C,rc/e 34 on Reader Inquiry Card MOONLIGITT TOWERS SUBJECT OF lights were impractical in Austin's hilly CONTROVERSIAL PRESERVATION terrain. Such a system had been used pre EL/ER viously only in Detroit. The Fort Wayne Electric Company constructed 31 cast-and In an effort to protect Austin's fragile wrought-iron towers. each with a 150- Texas Distributors moonlight towers. city leaders are foot-tall triangular spaceframe mounted suggesting radical steps. The remaining on a single 15-foot-tall column of tubular Abilene Wvstom Plumbong Wholesalers towers, favorite Austin symbols located iron and steadied by paired steel guy (II 072 3201 mos1ly in the downtown area. are vulnera wires. The first tower lamps were illumi Aulllll ble to traffic and construction hazards. lntomauoMl &Jpply ol Austltl nated in May. 1985. 1 4152-8873 Some city officials have claimed that the Austin's towers are now unique-all hom Pipe & Supply towers are impossible to main1ain. and the towers in Detroit were eventually 12 41$4-4616 suggest taking them down and recasting demolished. The ci1y maintains 19 of the O.ytown them in a sturdier material. original lowers; the others were casualties Moor115Ul)C)lyCo 1 427·560·1 The towers. designed to illuminate four of hurricanes, high winds, motor-vehicle 0Mumon1 blocks each wi1h a non-glaring light colli!,ions, and other accidents. Moore Supply Co (hence .. moonlight"), date to 1894, when I 832-8429 The city's Historic Landmarl... 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The some question as to whether recent build- - h boom 1s on, and as Texas ings on Congress might not have been bet- J'i I t, 11 .,s oc,ate editor Ray Ydoyaga ter tuned to their surroundings if they had I 111 ''Cl\ ic Identity in the Land of the not been shaped by the city's height and "sprawl at its sprawliest. ·' And it must be 1 I Bid,," the boom,., allowing a new ,etback requirements. acknowledged that efforts to control traffic 11111111) to ,tep out of the ,hadows of But the fallout from some city ordi congestion, particularly in the fast-grow < 1p11ol.md the UT Tower. symbols of nance<, show, that even the most well ing ,outhwest and northwest areas, have 111•\H:rful 111,titutions that have domi- intentroned regulation can have perverse failed. 1 I All!o.llll's economic and cultural life effect,. Witness the city rule. intended to Today's high-tech economic boom in 1110 t of 1he century. prevent UT area homeowner<, from build Austin is hard to figure. Being from I lous I h trength of those institution-, and, ing garage apartment'>, that requires all ton, I think booms arc as ephemeral as I I I cent year!'.. the relative weaknes., of dwelling-, on a property to form a <,ingle $100-per-barrel oi I and the Bank of the 11111 rec nnd manufacturing in Austin continuow, building. This regulation is Southwest· s plan<, to bui Id Murphy/ Jahn' s ll.pl.un 1hc often-complained-of fact credited with the destruction or more '80s obcli'>k. On the one hand, rapid I II lrlllc of architectural note ha<, hap- streetscape in inner-city neighborhoods economic expansion i., stimulating build ,1 here, even over the la!.t few dee- than any other factor. "Saving the ing that promises to combine the best of , 1louston and Dallas were becom Streetscapc," in our Portfolio section, local design with some welcome innova lchrn1ed architectural laboratories. <,how<, how one Austin firm found a low tion. as shown in project'> like Oteri Tis l-louslon and Dallas gol the famous key but inventive '>Olution to thi, dilemma. dale Gayle's 120-l San Antonio and UT I lin ·~. Au~tin got modeMly ,calcd Ctty parking requirements have deter Architecture Dean Hal Box ·s residence. 111 of tned-and-true de-,1gns and lot'> of mined the development or depressing On the other hand , it's also important to tone .md buff brick. Things were a<,phalt lakes like Barton Creek Mall. remember that most of the growth stimu I Some other regulations have had even lated by the current boom b being felt out I h II quiet. and its loss. are worth <,orne more serious deleteriou<, effect'>. while side Au<,tin ·s city limits. in the municipal I llllll llnu,ton. even with it, fla<,hy '>Orne have had no effect at all. utility districts rapidly encircling the city. 111 Im •s, remain-, an alrno<,t featurele-,., Austin intended. through planning and and these area<, are expanding in ways that tlu·rc i, still no there there. and the regulation undertaken in the 1970s, to mock good architecture and urban design. , 111 be -,aid of Dallas. AuMin 1s, at avoid becoming a sprawling mas<, or As the MU Os become part of Austin. they 1 for 1111". a real place, alive year <,narled freeways Houstoni1.ation, as the tran,fom1 the city's way of life. It is hoped 1111d "1th kmd of Barton Springs sum the proces, i'>Called. Ironically, m, Austin that the project, documented in thi-, issue ' 111 " th 11 Dave Braden recalls in hi, developer Robert Barnstone pointed out in of Texas Architect can offer a counter h111111 Building with local materials and speech to the Austin TSA Chapter last weight that will help keep Au<,tin's iden 1lc I hat docsn 't try to overwhelm lhe year. new sections or metropolitan Austin tity intact. 1 •r.iph). though ii may seem a litlle have a population density barely half that Joel Warren Barna I 111 ilhm., for an urbani'>rn here that or Houston or Dallas, and one-fifth that of I ll·\as cities can hope for. Los Angeles. Austin, Bamstone says, is l\r, lmr, 1 M,11· J1111e /985 39 AUSTIN'S HEART: CONGRESS AVENUE TRANSFORMED by Michael McCul/ar The biggest boom since the I f ever there was a dramatic turning point in Lhe town wasn't very prosperous, it also symbolized 1890s is reshaping the heart urban evolution of Austin, it was October 6, a time when downtown was the place lo be for of Texas' symbolic capital 1981. That was Lhe day Lhe city issued wrecking everybody, not just upscale office workers. city. contractor Pee Wee Franks a permit to demolish Is downtown Austin-specifically Congress the old Woolworth store on the northwest comer Avenue-a better place for Woolworth's pass of Congress Avenue and Sixth Street. After Pee ing? Will One American Center and the other Wee had salvaged and sold the last door jamb tall buildings recently built on or planned for the and bathroom fixture, downtown Austin became avenue deliver what they promised? Will Moses a place with a future. Vasquez, who became a millionaire when he The modest two-story dime store, which hap sold his tiny Tamale House on the northwest pened to be sitting on one of the most valuable comer of Congress and First to make way for a comers of the city, was razed to make way for high rise, be truly happy in the suburbs? One American Center, a lavish 32-story, three Like many American cities coming of age in tiered high rise designed by Morris/Aubry Lhe late 19th century, Austin fashioned much of Architects of Houston, the likes of which Austin its commercial self along the lines of Renais had never seen. Completed in the fall of 1984, sance palazzi. inspired by John Ruskin's writ Wool1t·orth Swre. FACING PAGE One American Center dommates the the building towers over a skyline once consid ings on the Venetian Gothic. Commercial """ sk-.lme ered the quaint domain of the Texas Capitol and builders, using local materials, relied on pat UT Tower. ternbooks (and sometimes architects) to provide The contrasts between what was on that comer the styles. The result was an unfettered Victorian and what is are indeed staggering-and eclecticism still evident in such downtown gems encouraging. One American Center strikes a as the Tips Building on Congress (built in 1876) dashing. Post-Modem pose in a city that hasn't and the Driskill Hotel on Sixth ( 1886), both exactly been on the cutting edge ofcontemporary designed by Austin architect Jai.per Preston . architectural expression. The building also nods Clearly. while there was little variation in build respectfully 10 its surroundings, clad as it is in ing height, there was a lot in expression. Elabo limestone and precast veneer with granite trim. rate arches. columns, cornice~. gables, lintels and with a base pa vii ion maintaining the cornice and all manner of molding and ornament added line of hi toric buildings along the avenue. And a rich vanety of detail and texture to downtown there b little question that One American Center facade , which also featured galleries and awn will be an invigorating gain for downtown, with ings to protect pcde!.trians from the clement!.. 40.000 of its 780.000 square feet given over to By the tum of the century, Austin builders retail and parking for a thousand cars. But the innucnced by the great World's Columbian passing of its humble predecessor was a sym Expo!.ition of 1893 began to replace the busy bolic urban event, and not one to be taken too Victorian styles with the clai.i.ical formality of lightly. the Beaux ArtS. Steel-frame skyscrapers, For one thing. the old Woolworth's wasn't a with sinuous An-Nouveau ornament, pioneered bad little building. The store-built in 1942- by the Chicago School, as well as buildings was considered 3 good example of the commer innucnccd by the Paris Exposttio11 International cial Art Deco style of its day. It was little more des Arts Decorarifs er l11dw,1riel/es Modemes. than a horizontal box clad in buff brick, and its also showed up in Austin's skyline over the suc glaring nuorescent interior wasn't exactly ceeding decades . Architectural Digest material. But it was popu Nothing turned architectural style on its head, lar. a functional retail carnival of a space that however, like the International Style. Among its always smelled of popcorn, offering a now-rare more pervasive- and perverse- effects was Lhc Jacksonian democracy of city scale and function. treatment meted out to Austin's ornate 19th-cen If Woolworth's symbolized a time when down- tury facades. In the spirit of "modernization," 40 Tew., Arc/meet Mm•· J1111e /98. beginning in the I930s, most of the commercial storefronts downtown were plastered over to create a blank uniformity, making a palatial edifice like the Tips Building look like a three story Seven-Eleven. As if protected by its blanket of plaster, much of that I 9th-century building stock on Congress Avenue and Sixth Street survived the architec tural clearcutting of urban renewal that took such a toll in other cities in the I950s and '60s. This was due, more than anything else, to the fact that Austin had no commercial boom after World War II to destroy what the commercial boom of the late I800s had created. It's hard to tell by looking at it today, but Austin was a symbolic city by design. When Judge Edwin Waller surveyed the town in 1839, he emphasized views of prominent government buildings, mainly the Capitol of the Republic of Texas. Early Austin architecture was plain but not primitive. Contemporary accounts describe a Scarbrough Building, left, faces lmlt/itfd Building, circa 1910. ------townscape of frame houses, with only a few log i ~ cabins scattered about. Most of the buildings .ii were built along Congress or Pecan (now Sixth) ~ ~ ! Street, which was the highway to Bastrop and -t.... Houston. Occupying the northwest corner of ] Congress and Pecan- which One American c: Center now claims-was Bullock's Hotel, at I first a ramshackle assemblage of cabins but even tually a Mately two-Mory building fronting Con gress with a high, two-story porch-one of the most popular meeting places in town. In 1876 the corner became "Cook's Corner," a three story commercial building and bank with cast iron columns and cornice built by prominent ! Austin contractor Abner Cook, who was respon ..; sible for much of Austin's finest Greek Revival architecture. I By the time Cook's Corner was built, Austin was experiencing its first real boom. The railroad had come in 1871, introducing Austin to such exotic building materials as red brick, but most of ill> commercial buildings would still be built of local masonry. This set the Austin cityscape apart; without further clue, a knowledgeable traveler in the late I800s might have been able Rohinwn-Rmner Bu1/d111g, /983 to tell he was in Austin just by all the buff brick and limestone he saw in the buildings around him. The traveler would also have seen that none of the buildings downtown rose higher than three or four stories, all forming a plateau of building tops bowing to the Capitol, which emerged like a pink-granite hillock in the distance. Most of the new construction that did occur downtown between 1950 and 1980 which can either be dismissed or appreciated as signs of the Robmson-Rosntr Building today, times-paid little attention to Austin's unique rt.fWratwn b1 Micht1el L Pttty 42 Te111I Arcl111ef/ M"1"J1111e /985 th~ CopilOI and views thereof; Congress thcc1ech.1he ,quares; Town Lake; the Xllll\: nnd ,calc of historic buildings. 11 r 111 huildmg-... rn fact. seemed to make 11 I 1111 p,11111 ol l\ti/111,·<1 \1tt1'"Jt111l' /985 43 .. _ Building and the nme-story Littlefield Building. and thus would encourage others to block views Then 10 1924 came the I 0-<,tory Stephen F. Aus of the Capitol. Meanwhile. two other major pro tm I lotel. a blocf... north on Congres'>. and in 1929 jects were announced for Congre!>s A venue. 0.0. Norwood built hi!. I4-Mory Neo-Gothic adding to the broohaha: One American Center Norwood Building at Seventh and Colorado. In and FiN City Centre at Congress and Ninth. the 1960'> and '70'>, taller buildings sprouted in de'>igned by the AuMin firm Holt t Fatter + Scou the city Dobie Mall, the We.,tgate, the banf... ( now Holt+ Fatter and Phil Scoll & Associates). tower.. The pace wa<, <,low enough that the<,e Pressured by the lawsuit and reacting to the project'> drew little opposition. The rucku<, over sudden surge of development intere!>I in down downtown development and the preservation of town Austin, the city council appointed a I7- capitol view<, came later. when the real boom got member Downtown Revitali,ation Task Force, under way . chaired by former UT architecture dean Alan The central point came in November 1982, Taniguchi, which in tum pressured developer'> when all hell broke loose Capital Mortgage by requiring them to present their plans for Banker. announced plans to build it'> I5-<,tory. review 90 days before they could get a buildin peaked-roofed Capitol Center on the southeast permit. The Landmark Commi<,sion. the only comer of Congre'>s and Tenth. designed by the other civic body to which Congres-. Avenue Hou.,ton office ofSf...idmore, Owings and Merrill developers had to submit plans (the avenue is on (and. as it tum., out, a sen'>itive and d1-.11nctive the National Regi'>ter of Historic Places). al!.o addition to the avenue). came up with a liM of design guidelines that all A provision of the city's 1oningordinance. on three of the big new buildings voluntarily the boob ,mce 1931 . prohibits a buildmg from responded to: setbacf...'>. people places. a ri,mg higher than 200 feet in downtown Au<,tin minimum of mirrored gla,.,. unle'>'> It Is set back one foot for every three feet Because of the fight over Capitol views, Aus it mcrea,e<, in height. The provi<,ion had been tin is no longer the architectural free-fire ,one it regularly overridden by vanances. and inter wa<,. The Capitol-views controversy was seuled, preted laxly. Then in 1982 a group calling it'>elf more or less, by an ordinance pas-,ed in August Texan, to Save the Capitol went to court of 1984 establishing "view corridors·' through <,eef...mg tougher enforcement of the setbacf... ordi out the city (there are now 26). In the corridor, nance. The group claimed that the proposed 2 15- structures are limited in height to between 30 h foot Capitol Center wa<,n ' t set bacf... far enough 120 feet, depending on the terrain. A new ,onin 4./ Tt'w.\ Ari h11e,·1 Ma1··J1111e /98 LEFT: Nonwxxi Tower; BELOW AND BOTTOM: Capitol Cemer 1011clred ojfCapi10/-1•iewsjigl11. ••••••••• ••••••••• ••••••••• •••••••••••••••••• ••••••••• 11 1lso d1rcctly addresses Austin's ~ 111d long 1~ nored features. To orient new v 111111 toward the squares. creeks. and ~ 1kc . and to insure its sensitivity toward Avenue and Sixth Street. certain mnes·· have been established, with 1 q111rcmcnts for such things as building th.1ch and parking. and general sug- 1 for landscaping, pedestrian amenities, I lloor rct 111 space and the like. The city 111 I 1took a beautification project that I puttmg in angle parking. wider ilk tree~. and benches from Town Lake C 1p1tol. hoping to relieve the kind of 11 pcde,trian tension that developed in I ,r IIller( ir,t \ h1I lhc C'll) has gouen pickier. however, a I urtrnn design questions still depend on the ol 1hc marketplace and the process of mat I 1 1111011g developers. As former UT h I turc dcan Taniguchi says. it was only a 11 , ol tune ~fore the market foroffice space 111 t ompctilive enough to demand a certain I 11 illchitcctural flair. and developers 111 i.,1\\ y enough to deliver it. "For years." "Au,tin was like some resort town on 1 I 1 here ·s an initial attraction to, say. 11 I 1hcl The first buildings arc tacky. then h II the sei:ond generation occurs, you get I ht IK.ilmn and quality. It just takes time.·· In I d, the second generation of big buildings ,\ lrur,, Mm··J1111e /985 45 ./6 frw.1 Arclt11u1 Mt11··J11m• /985 wall? And One American Center, probably the best of the new downtown high rises so far, also has a bulkiness about it that might have been alleviated either by putting less building on the site (and maintaining the height) or making the towers taller. Architects also missed the mark entirely in trying to "relate" One American to the pink-granite Capitol with a granite trim that I oplc plan:,. ground-floor restau- is more brown than anything else, creating ajar ' I hops But ,ometimes the buildings all ring contrast with its pale limestone skin. h II) 111g too hard to blend in . In their Of the plethora of projects announced for the t , I co11ll'Xtual." the best buildings avenue since One American Center was built, all I h~ ~0111plc111en ting their surroundings, seem to be trying even harder to fit into the Aus I h11, 11110 them. With good intentions, tin mold. But Taniguchi is right; things are look 1111 11 k Con11nission could argue that it is ing up. Although it's hard 10 tell how a finished I 11111KhC cen,1in design constraints on the building will lookjust by looking at a rendering lh III In risk .lily more offensive bank or a picture of a model. one of the most prom I 111 there url risks with constraints as ising projects so far is WolfTower, designed by the American Design Group of Austin and planned for the block between West Second and West Third, on the west side of Congress. It's a , I 1111111otony that re-.ulted from the facade respectful height for the avenue-16 stories 111 111011, ol the '50s. After four years of and although it picks up on the risky limestone 111111 ,1ct1, ity on the avenue, with each with-granite-accents theme of One American t I 111 • touted a, being more Austin-like Center, it also features a distinctively sloped I 1 11 hclore, one almost wishes for some metal roof and the notched comer setbacks of an 1r , 1c11ce ~omething like 10-year-old Art Deco skyscraper. Another welcome addition I , I S,I\ mg,. designed by the Austin to the avenue, from all indications, will be Tram I 1 1k , Borr, Graeber and White and mel Crow's 301 Congress Avenue Building, designed by the San Antonio firm Hylton-Day Associates. A 22-story office tower-clad in ss pinkish-gray granite and blue-gray, non-reflec tive glass-will be set back from Congress t II 111d its ,urroundings. but still one enough 10 allow a three-story. sky-lit lobby and 1rn1 I dr.unatic -.ights downtown is the retail pavilion to front on the avenue and align I II of the C,,ithic spires of St. Mary·s itself wuh a 111ce array or historic storefronts on Ii 11 (designed m part by Nichola'> Clayton the block. t II 111 1884 l in the glass of Fir-.t Federal While most of the upcoming projects show an th increasing regard for the texture and scale of n 1l11ng. 11 is difficult to blend late 20th- Congress Avenue, some do not. One of the moM I u1ld111g materials and techniques with ommous projech announced in recent months is 1th I<>th century. particularly in building the 30-story One Congress Plan,. designed by • I he problem with First City Centre, the I low,ton firm Taylor/ Lundy/ HKS Architects h 111m ti out lo be a rather awkward work of to be a··gateway environment to downtown·· on One Congress Pia a I 1111c, !.tcm, in part from the fact that its the block bounded by First, Second, Bra,os and 11 md 111.ttcriab are direct respon-.es to its Congress. Abiding by the 1931 height ordi 1 'ic.:I had: 57 feet from Congress, the nance, the buildings in the complex more than I II It p~ up and back five levels 10 a 14- 700,000 square feet of office towers-stairstep 1 ,,, r, n !Jenuflection to the Capitol four bad. far enough to allow the tallest to exceed 11111th 1h,11 makes the stance of the building 200 feet. A landscaped pedestrian pla,a al the h II ungmnl) The building is also clad in corner of Congress and First will be nice, but the n "luccocd wall panels. alternating in complex i'> \O massive that its effect on Congress 1111 ti hand· with non-reflective tinted gla<,s. A venue will be more like an unbalanced seesaw. 10 " ) 1-ir-.t City Centre wouldn ·1 have Perhaps the be'>t work on the avenue is being 1 , d rnncd ~,ght belier architecturally-and done by local architects restoring those features I 11 more truly complementary 10 Congress of old Austin to which so many of the new high 1111 11 11 had been ,quee1ed 11gh1er and ri<,es are trying to allude. Irn,pired by the Tax JOO Congress Plaza 1111 II~ SIil' and ,heathed in a glass curtain- Reform Act of 1976 and the Economic Recovery \1 I 11 , I \1111 ·Jmw /985 47 RIGHT ANO FAR RIGHT. Re.1wra- 1itmJ ofthe Tip.1 B111ldm1: hr Bell. Klem and llo/fmm,. 1111d the Robertson 8111/d111g. b1 Rt1ber1 JacAwrr An-f111ec11. eu•mplify 1/w be.st 1.-t>rJ. bemg d1111e "" C1111gre11 BELO\\': Sampson 8111/ding. 11rtf11//1 reJtnred ll\ fl(lrt of One Ameria111 Center c1msm1ctio11: BOTTOM: Sh·li11e from ll'est ofdoll'tlfOll'II 48 Tew.\ Arc/111ect Mt1y·J1111e /9 I 11 I 181, holh ot which provide generous way for bigger, more prestigious ones. 11 for r h,1h1hattng historic properties, The fact is that Woolworth's was the aberra I 1 11 ti.:,ulcs ot many of the avenue's tion at Congress and Sixth, a dime store for the I 11111 • nrc lx·ing rcMored with the disadvantaged, left over from an era of economic II 111m11111 period detail. their insides stagnation. As downtown booms, however, it is I , 111 ,de 10 ~crvc modem purpo es. important to preserve a few vestiges of its former t1 It st ind best Congress A venue fabric- architecturally significant or not- if for 11 " t'i 1h.i1 uf the Tips Building, no other reason than to maintain the variety of 11 , 11 forn1c1 glory in 1981 as the down size, color, detail, fonn, and function that keeps I 111 trt rs for Am,tin ·s Franklin Savings a city rich and vital. Some of the last 19th-cen 11 hy the Au,tm finn Bell, Klein & tury commercial buildings that are still function 11 ,the, .inful restoration was that of ing much as they always have comprise a row of 11 B111ldtng. one of the oldest build modest storefronts on the east side of Congress t\ m1e (huilt in 1859-60), restored between Sixth and Seventh , across the street 11 A111111110 firm Ford, Powell & Carson from One American Center. And they might just I 1rt of the rnnstruction of One Amer- stay that way for a while. Unlike most of the , 1 1 \\ luch 1mm, the Sampson Building commercial properties on the avenue, these 1th 111 t l(w,cnng embrace. And one of small businesses-a haberdashery, a pharmacy, 1 1111 1 •111,ttivc and telling-restora a cleaners , a jewelry store- are owner th ti oft he Vogue shoe shop into a res- occupied, and in spite of some very tempting I \\ door~ down from the Tips Build offers from time to time, no one has any intention I 1h ti ,trcht1cctural appreciation is in a of selling out. I 11 of flux. the 1950s storefront that "We were fortunate," says Harry Schechter, 1 r tlhcr ··mediocre·· Victorian owner and operator of Sweet Cleaners. • 'There 01d111g to architects Robert F. Smith was someone who wanted to buy up the whole 1 \\ as r •,tored as a 1950s storefront. block, but the Hirshfield estate (which owned the property) gave us first refusal." Schechter, who's been at that location for more than 25 11 ol redevelopment in downtown years, can see nothing but good coming from all '"'" on the warehouse district, a 60- this. including what's been going on across the rlh of underutilized land that runs per- street. With the massive white-collar innux. his I I lu the ,t,cnue along the north shore of business is taking off, and there is plenty of room I ~ A.,, Im Congress Avenue, most for expansion in his two-story building, which I II I 011 both ,ides either has historic he says is 100 years old if it's a day. " My chil 1111 11 (\\.hich arc protected to some dren will have a place to make a living," he says. Austill writer Michael McCul/ar, hc1ng Ill a National Register district) "and the value of the property wi 11 only increase. a Texas Architect co11trib11ti11g I 11111 lugh nses. Available build- I f they offered me a million bucks I wouldn't editor. has just finished a bookfor ti d,, rndling, and some real estate sell." Te.1as A&M Press 011 the life and (hct that in spite of a looming office- work of East Texas architect 1111 developers will start tearing down Raiford Stripling, which will be I II 11ll useful office buildings to make published in the fall. CIVIC IDENTITY IN THE LAND OF THE LAID BACK B, Ra_, Ydoyaga V,w cfric monum,nts, Au,tin. a metropolitan area of half-a-million Perhap'> Au,tin ha, been slow in wanting it, clustu,d around historic ,out,. worl., and play, a., if it had yet to notice own civic ,ymbol,; bccau,c, like other capital,. plauis, are remolding Austin that it', the capital of the second largest ,1a1e. and 11 1, an anificial city created by leg1slat1ve fiat, even faster than is the one of author John Megmr('llt/.\ Na1,bi1t', <,ix With no pon. no prcc1ow, mc1at... li11lc oil. and commercial buildi11g boom. · · megac111e., of the future .. A c11y ,1111 governed hule tran~ponalion act1vi1y. Au,t1n had hulc by the Code of the Laidbad. where even the rca,on to CXl'>t other than the fact that 11, lnnd prophet'> of the high-tech future do their power <,capc made II a romantic and idcah,11c ,cuing Im lunching in natur.il-food., re.,taur.ints and dance the capital of what wa<, to be America·, second through the night, in immaculately rc<,torcd Anglo republic. Texa~. founded by Stephen F. downtown warchou,c,. check by Jowl w11h the Au,tin Univcr-.ity ofTe)ta, · 1111t•1·0 11·m·o horde., and the According to legend. Texa, Prc.,ident polye'>ter pnncehngs of the Legislature. Au,tin Mirabeau Lamar. while hunting buffalo in the ha, managed to grow without fo.,ing 11, eccentric fall of 1838. lool.ed around the tiny ,eulemcnt ol way, Waterloo along the Color.ido River and So Jar. exclaimed. "Gentlemen. th1<, ,hould be the .,c.at The legendary hfc.,tyle 1s becoming incrca-. of future empire ··The Comml'l'>aon m charge of ingly vulner.ible Thi, ,tern, from what may be ,electing a pcnnancnt cap11al for the republic a fundamental and arrcvcr.,.blc realignment of heeded Lamar·, recommendation and W.itcrloo power in the capital c11y Au,1in·, economy. wa, an 1839 renamed Au,tin What Austin', long dominated by two rccc.,.,.on-proof pioneer.. found wa, a Medllerrancan-hkc land indu,tne, the ,1a1c go\'cmmcnl and the ,1a1c ,capc of lu.,h • .,ometlmc~ .,,ecp hill,. ,urroundcd Unt\-Cr-.11) i, now in the m1d,1 ol a boom ,1imu by a mmpart of higher hall,. do,en<, of running lated by indu,tnc, l.nown for 1hc1r rollcr-coa"cr creel., w11h bed, and chm, of cream-colored up, and down, high-tech manulactunng and limc,tonc. an abundance of cedarand oak and .a real c,1a1c development. The conn1c1 be1,"ccn wide. clear nver (Colorado, the Spani,h word old and new.., ca,ily vi,iblc on the ,l.)linc The for red. htl\ alway, been a m,.,nomcr) Capitol and the UT Tower. 1r.1d111onal image, of l-:.vcn Au,tin ·, pos1t10n a, the capital wa, tcnu power and beaut) in the city. once could be ,ecn ou, dunng 11, early hi,tory Au,tm wa., at the for mi le, in the hill counll) . The) arc mm frontier of the wc<,t, and ,u,ccpt1ble to Indian occluded from many vantage fXllllh b) of lice auach II wa-. Comanche territory. the home ol tower, Lapan Ap.iche, and Tonl.awa,. a., well a<, a rc!:.!u Au"in11c, bemoan the change!-. brought by lar cro.,,ing of the Cherokee., When the Mcx1 !;.!rll\\.th While the rc,1 ofurbanTcxa-. looh for can, invaded .and conquered San AntonlO in ward to addition, on the'"> line. Au-.tm prefer, 1842. then President Sam I lou,ton moved the 10 protect 11, traditional ambiance The war capitJI to hi\ namcsal.e city Later that year the between the cit)·, cnviromentall\h and develop capital wa, once again moved. to Wa,hington er, 1, he.ued: the d1flcrcncc i, that in Au,tin On The Bra,o, where II ,taycd until a general cnvironmen1ali,1, retain com,1dcrable fXlht1cal electmn rcver\ed the dec1<,1on and made Au,tin clout. Whcrca, in other Texa, c1t1e:-. devclofX!r, the pcm1ancn1 cap11.1l ol the new ,talc in 1845 arc all but unchallenged. in Au,tin dcc..,1on mak although II nearly lo,t to Temple er.. coun the bacl.ing ol cnv1ronmcn1ah,1, and In choo-.ing Au,tin a, the capital. the ,1a1c·, neighborhood acti\-i,1,. c11i1en., had p1dcd a location central to Tcxa, · Though mp1d gro\\.th may mal.c the Cit)·., large,, c111c, It had al,o cho,en a \lmplc. yet 1radit1onah-.h b1liou,. the fXl,itivc ,idc of all the refined city plan a, dc..,.gned by Judge E:.dwin change,., that c1v1c arch11cc1urc "finally emerg Waller, one ol the -.1gner...of the Tcxa, Dl!clara ing from the deep -.hat.low, ol the Capitol and the 110n of Independence UTTU\\.er. Although the plan "a humble one mile- so Tt W\ Ari h11«·1 t Mm 111111 /IJS~ Mark Goodman. Capital lmprov~~nJJ ABOVF.· Sketch ofAus1111 in tire early 1840s. shortly after it was selectetl the cap,wl oftlte republic. I-EFT: The Capitol a11d the UT Toll'tr ltm•e remained poll'erft,I .tymho/.1 i11 tire ci/\. tlt011l(lt rltey are 110w occluded from se,·eral 1•a11lll8I' 1m1111s . TOP: A.r lti81r-rise co1rs1r11c1io11 /1<10111S in Amti11, 1/re 1111ce-domi11a11t symbols become ,•isihle r t Tt'w.1 Ard111ect Mm··J1111t' 1985 51 Rort Dnrs~, RIGHT· The c,rfs lush h,1/s are nm, cm·eted de.-e/opment sites. BELOW. Waller's 1839 plan. BOTTOM· Capital Square square grid with ample streets and alleys, much square, or he might have thought one major plaza of the city's beauty and distinction emanates would detract from the importance of Capitol from Waller's positioning. Bordered on the west Square. For whatever reasons, Waller's by Shoal Creek and on the east by Waller Creek. foresight in allotting pubI ic squares created one of the relentless grid breaks only once for Capitol the first planned public parks in the nation. Square, a central. four-block hilltop area I 0 Austinites, however, never really understood blocks north of the river. Nearly all the north what to do with these spaces. Most remained lit south streets, named after the riven, of Texas, tle more than mounds of grass or municipal park terminate their view on Town Lake. Austin's ing lots for over a century. Capitol Square and grid, throughout the intervening decades, has three of the four public squares still exist; the remained surprisingly faithful to Waller's vision. fifth was traded to the First Baptist Church in In addition to Capitol Square, Waller also exchange for another property. planned four civic squares, one for each quadrant Although it would have seemed logical to con below the Capitol. Waller may have decided to centrate public buildings around Waller's incorporate the squares in Austin, according to squares, the city, until recently, was not con local historian Will Howard, after he toured cerned with tying the symbolic potential of its Mexico in 1831 and admired that country's municipal structures to Waller's plan. Both of plazas. It is not known precisely why Waller the other major players, the state and the univer chose, instead of a single municipal plaza, to sity, had their own turfs to build on. The state leave space for four- although with Capitol built four different capitols in Austin: first, a now Square they form a five-pointed star. Waller demolished dog-trot log cabin; a second that might have been trying to awe visitors coming to burned; a temporary structure to replace the sec the new capital from rural towns, who would ond; and finally, the current and glorious have been accustomed to seeing only a single Capitol, completed in 1888 and designed by 52 Tews Archi11•ct Mar·Jmw 1985 ( Detroit architect E.E. Myers. Placed on the high est point of the square. Myers· Capitol dome-at 309 feet, audaciously taller than the one in Washington-had sole claim to the skyline until TOP to BOTTOM. Go1·ernor's BELOW: Barrie Hall. BOTTOM: Bellmom Hall holds Mansion: Old lnml Office, Texas 1935 when UT built Paul Cret's Main Building 11p Memorial Sradi11m·s ll'esr bleachers. Education Agency: State Highll'a_l and its tower at 307 feet. The Capitol, taking its Department overall shape from the one in D.C .• and Cret's tower. a square shaft terminating in a miniature Greek temple, allude in visual composition to the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol. Along with their definitive symbols, state and university also built other significant structures near the center of their respective campuses. Southwest of Capitol Square and built before it in 1856, the Governor's Mansion is the epitome of the genteel southern Greek Revival style, using pine from Bastrop and native brick made on the shores of the Colorado. The architecture of mas ter builder Abner Cook, who built the Gover nor's Mansion, is synonymous with Austin. much as Nicholas Clayton's is with Galveston. Mo:.t ofhis designi. were borrowed from pattern books published in the 1820s. He built dozens of buildings in the city, nine of which survive as regional landmarks. including the Neil-Cochran House and Woodlawn. On the i:.outheast end of Capitol Square along Eleventh Street is a group of three structures in a gamut of styles forming the only interesting assemblage of state buildings in the city. Conrad Stremme •s Old Land Office of 1857 has a quirky facade that Austinites would grow to love if they could see it through the surrounding oaks, with crenellated twin pediments and rounded window openings. Across the street, the Texas Education With too few exceptions, however, construc Agency building by Atlee Ayers is a handsome tion following the '60s in both the Capitol com Neo-Classical building built in 1918. Made of plex and the UT campu!. favored dismal red brick and stone, it has one of the few colorful monoliths. poorly sited and out of step with the facades among Mate government buildings. The ambitious plans of the city's enlightened plan 1933 State Highway Building, by Adams & ners. The exceptions for the university are its Adams. one block south of Ayers' building. is sport palaces and the LBJ Library. Both the 1972 typical of New Deal federalism in its chunkiness Bellmont Hall addition to Texas Memorial and Art Deco details. Stadium, by Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, On the UT campus, one of the best buildings and the 1975 Disch-Falk.Field, by Mam1on - Battle Hall. the former main library building Mok. are memorable structures. Bellmont Hall , designed in 1910 by Cass Gilbert- is also one of with its Memorial stadium bleachers. is immense the oldest. Designed in Italian Renaissance style by almost any standard; to its designers' credit, and based on McKim, Mead and White's Boston it uses size in a form that looks brutal .:ind Central Library. the building is a subtle tour de brawny. yet not unpleasant. Where Memorial force of arched openings, decorated soffit!., and Stadium evokes the image of a fullback, Disch terra-cotta accents on its limestone facade. Both Falk's bleachers allude to the graceful moves of Cret's and Gilbert's work on the central portion an airborne left fielder. seeming to noat in the air of the campus, including its overall plan, left an on diagonal I-beams. enduring legacy that was copied until the I 960s. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's once-derided Cret's South and West Malls for the University LBJ Library. east of Disch-Falk across 1-35. has are some of the best public !>paces in the city; aged well. The siting of the 1971 building has they distinguish the campus from most of the always been praised, and. with the rise of Post nation's other land-grant colleges. modernism, the monumental stature of the com- frtt11 Ardllft•cr M111··Jt111e 1985 53 Franlt. loll Md/,r LEFT: Disch-Fall.. 1-idd. Bf LOW: LBJ Library. ! l :i plex has come back into favor. Its white traver tine facing, seen from a distance, has the same reflective quality and hue as Austin's native limestone. and its ode-to-Pharaoh massing seems appropriate for the repository of the papers of a larger-than-life LBJ. Considering this assemblage of noteworthy buildings. it is discouraging to realize that both the university and the state government have built moMly abominable work. Even worse. the land connecting the two institutions south of the tower and north of the Capitol is alienating to the pedestrian and unsightly from the vantage of a car. bespeaking mostly missed opportunity. In a -.how of power. each institution has ignored the grid and built superblock behemoths. creating a virtual no-man's land that is deserted promptly at dusk. The lack of aesthetic:,, has been further emphasized by the failure of a smooth transition between Waller's downtown grid, oriented to the northem,t. and the university's grid. oriented to Om·;,/1 the north . University Avenue, which start, ju:,,t Capitol, leading to an allee of oaks lining both below the picturesque South Mall and is on a sides of Congress. At the far north end of the diagonal to the Capitol. should have been avenue, two rectangular terraced plazas would extended beyond what is now Martin Luther ,it above underground parking garages. If built, King Boulevard. Thi, corridor could have the plaza and corridors would be welcome steps bndged the two grids and been as potentially toward making the area green and hospitable. exciting and symbolic as Washington's Pennsyl Congress south of the Capitol has already been vania Avenue. At present, the major connec beautified, not by the state government but by a tion is North Congress. which begins at the collaboration between the city. Downtown Aus capitol and terminates with a view of a vast UT tin Partners, and the Austin AIA chapter. The ABOVE CENTER: BAV'I design for parking lot and a gargantuan dormitory. unofficial parade field of the state, the avenue Nor1h Co11gre.u A1•e111II':AIJOVJ-;: The state, however. has apparently decided now has a street ambiance in keeping with its Prm,mpe a/Cm1gre.1.1 A1•t•1111e f11r111111re that it's time to rectify some of the damage. ceremonial functions. Granite pavers and oaks Blad. Atkim,on Yemooy. the trend1,etting Aus line the 20-foot wide sidewalks for six of the ten tin firm well known for its urban design projects, blocks stretching to the river. Although added as at the commission of the Texas Sesquicentennial a compromi,c. angle parking on the .,treet was Commission has come up with a scheme for reduced to incorporate islands. Street furniture, Congress A venue north of the Capitol. BA V selected by Allen McCree of the Austin chapter. envisions an oval-shaped reflective pool near the is complementary to the relaxed formality of the 54 Tew\ Ard111ec1 M111'·J1111e/985 avenue. with eight-foot-long benches that have backs and seats of vertical banding evocative of j tum-of-the-century design. Details for the trash i receptacles and planters-which at one ton are expected to be theft proof-are borrowed from the stars and ovals on Capitol Square's ornate fence. McCree hopes to solicit donations that would eventually pay for enough furniture to line the street. Numerous groups have also pitched in to make the avenue more attractive. including the city traffic department, which plans on replacing today's traffic lights with more com pact darl,-green units. Even the avenue·s new Christmas decorations-colorful banners selected in a competition sponsored by Women in Architecture-capture the spirit of the holi days without subjecting Congress to a canopy of gaudy tin!>el. Neighboring Sixth Street eaM of Congress ha!>n 't been given nearly the co!>metic allention that Congress has received, though it more realistically function!> a!> Austin's main street. Now widely acclaimed ( denounced?) a'> a Texas club and store owners. As it stands now. even on TOP U,fT· Sntlr Street 1111pm1·,•111,•1111 d1•.111111t•d II.I' /)111•1tl version of New Orleam,' Bourbon Street, Sixth non-holiday weekends the sidewalks arc not Grael,er, TOP RIG/fT: ltm--me Haw il>, after San Antonio's Riverwalk. probably the wide enough to accommodate the throngs that Si uh Street mJw/rm a l11g/r-r,u C1111- most active pedestrian corridor in the state. spill out into bumper-to-bumper traffic. 11ress A 1·,•1111e /a111/111ar~ 111 011e A11lt'r- Improvements recently approved by voters will 1etm C,•111er. ABOVI:.: A gl,mpu of Though some of the tum-of-the-century facades Siu/,-s m11co11.1 .11r,•e1 /if,• have been commendably restored. and area com allow widening of the sidewalks to fonn brick merce has been revived, critics charge that the cornered polyps. Additional changes will bring street's <,eedy vitality has abo been new kiosks and more attractive lighting, re-pave whitewashed, that there are too many expem,ive alleys to encourage commercial uses. and plant shop!>, and way too many fem bars. Despite such new trees. cavils. Sixth Street is '>till the center of nightlife One of Waller's original squares and the and the gathering '>pol for the city's numerous closest open -.pace near Sixth, Brush Square on cclebrations-Austinitc., close Sixth Street to 5th Street, has been used for years as a rooncss traffic for massive parties not only on tradllional allic to ::.tore the city's memorabilia. O'Henry's holidays but also for Halloween, Mardi Gra-.. house was relocated here. as was a superan Camaval. and St. Patrick's Day. E:.fforts to tum nuated train. Nearly half of the remaining block the bustling corridor into a pedestrian mall on 1<, occupied by a large, working fire <,talion. It's weekend., have been adamantly denounced by a pity the !>quare has not been used as an open-air Tew.\ Artl111a1 M111 ·Jww /9.'(5 55 Da\1J8tovls market for Sixth Street vendors in much the same § way that a block of Twenty-third Street in the 1 university area has been turned into the Renais- "' sance Market. Facing the square's north side is the marvelous. though much neglected, Anson Jones State Office Building. One of the few examples of the Streamline Modeme style in Austin, the block-long facade designed in 1928 by W. E. Ketchum is badly in need of renova tion. The remaining three sides of Brush Square contain mostly warehouses, which will no doubt become clubs as Sixth Street fever contaminates Fifth. Trol'I.\ Co11III)' Co11r1ho11se Amon Jones lmildmg More successful as a public space is the i rehabilitated Waller Creek, another Austin chap ~ terproject. headed by by Thomas Shefelman. A ~ mixture of cascading steps, meandering walks and high-tech tunnels. the section of Waller Creek that traverses Sixth serves as a tranquil promenade in one of the city's densest sections. The city launched a campaign during the bicen tennial to clean and rework the creeks and extend the hike-and-bike-trail system, which has become one of the nation· s largest. Symphony Square. six blocks north on Waller Creek. wa!i finished in 1978. after nearly a dec ade of restoration work on six tum-of-the century houses. The 350-scat amphitheater is separated Woller Creek 1111prc11·eme111.1 A11st111 History Cemer. BELOW: Main Library from the stage by Waller Creek and surrounded by six late- I 9th-century homes. Typical of Aus !. tin. this scenic and emphatically non-highbrow -1' selling is also the headquarters and official per- 1 formance place of the Austin Symphony. Mo!it of the cast !iide of downtown. except for the four area!> of Sixth Street, Waller Creek. Brush Square, and Symphony Square-is being rapidly developed with, unfortunately, some of the city'!> worst commercial architecture. The future of the area we tofCongressdown town holds more promi!ie. Wooldridge Park, one of two public squares west of Congress. has been On the the south side of the square. appear ances are better. The Austin History Center, the S\mplum\' Sq11ore the center of two public institutions for decades. The park has avoided collecting unused objects former main library by I lugo Kuehne Sr.. ha!> a like those in Brush Square; instead the bowl block-long Italian Renaissance facade that forms shaped lawn has been left open, with a central the focus of the square. One of the best of the bandstand nearly ten feet below street level. It· s city's public !itructures. Kuehne 's library had its a romantic and pleasant landscape, though not as interiors renovated by Bell, Klein and Hoffman inviting as a nat plane would be in this urban set last year, and its exterior will soon be renovated ting. Facing the park are Travis County office by Walker. Freedman and Doty. On the same buildings and the city's library complex. The block and directly behind Kuehnc's library. the Page Brothen,' New Deal Art Deco Travis County new main library built in 1979 is a gentle modem Courthouse is !>triking in a masculine way. The design by Jessen Associates. Inc .• lacking only county government, recently on a building binge, belier integration with its older neighbor. A would be wise to invest in a master plan that parking lot separates the old from the new, and, would address the county complcx's proximity to though long and thin, it beckons for use as a the square. Certainly the multi-story county park- plaza like the one integrating Houston's Central ing garage on the west side of the square is not in Library with the neighboring Julia ldcson keeping with its public setting. building. 56 Tew., Archiu•o Ma1'·J1111e /985 Vorth , 1e1< ,,J Cm Hall Cample, /,n11ww G/11r,11 (\I hnm• /11'11) ·------·· J. !.m,1h ,,, " oj ('111 Ila/I Comp/~, C111 Ila/I wuthj"nulr IAI/IIIUJ Glorw ( 1< heme lllll') Hr11uhl/f I'm! I -'''1"'"' Glt1rt<1 Art Sd11)(1/ lr11n \1,/111r,1 M111 •J1111r/'185 57 Surrounding Republic Square in the quadrant tainly VRSB, with associate architects, Renfro of the city '>Outhwest of Wooldridge Park i'> a 20- and Steinbomcr, arc avoiding the forced !>lylistic block area on which a number of civic project<, experiments that have marred Vcnturi'i,, earlier will center. Now that Au,tin i'> emerging a<, a city work<,. in it, own right, city leader., seem to want a piece Laguna Gloria will continue 10 operate its of the ,ymbol ic imagery so far found only in the facility on Lake Au,tin but use it to display older Capitol and the UT Tower. In addition to public works, allowing the new downtown facility 10 building'>, the city is collaborating with a local concentrate on 20th-century art . An educational developer in an ambitiou, urban de.,ign under complex was added at the Lake Austin site two ! taking that will soon tran<,form the area into a years ago. Built from Renfro & Stcinbomcr·s J mixture of city office.,, hotel'>, public ,pacci,, winning entry in a local competition, the Neo retail shops and mu,eum,. Manneri-.t educational wing fih in beautifully Serving a'> a precedent for public building in with the Italianate villa of 1916. Its tiny the area I'> the UT Sy<,tcm Admin"trallon I lead two ,tory buildings, in mauve and beige, have quarter.., one of few multi-block center., in exaggerated window and door openings that downtown Austin. Two complementary tum-of make the buildmg, seem larger than they really thc-century limc!>tonc building., and one ,tarkly arc an architectural trick Venturi would love. modem skyscrupcr in white concrete cncloi,c a The new downtown Laguna Gloria will have fountain plaLa at Sixth and Colorado. 0. Henry the uddcd benefit of a Republic Square rede Hall, a three ,tory Italian Rcnai.,,ancc building signed to enhance its public programs. The com,tmcted by Abner Cook of cut limc,tone in ,quarc i, the site of Auction Oaki,, where Judge UT Sy.rtem Heodqiwrttrs 1881 , served a, the US Po,t Oflicc and Federal Waller in 1819 sold off the first parcel, of land in Court., Building until a newer [)(l'>I office in Nco the new capital. In 1976 the Lion'!> Club and Cla\s1cal ,tyle (now Claudia Taylor John.,on architect Chartier Newton re,cued the square llall) wa, built aero.,., the ,trect by Jame, Knox from life a, a parking lot and planted numerous Taylor in 1914 and renovated Brook,. Ban, hvc oak,. For the Texas Sesquicentennial, the Graeber & White in 1970 After renovating thc<,c Chamberot Commerce has commb.,ioncd Aus two <,tnicture,, UT commb'>1oncd Jc,,en tin 's Richurd,on-Ycrdoorn to rework the park A'>'>OCiatc, to design a tcn-<,tory Admini!.tration for new u,cll . Under Richardson Verdoorn's Building. The no non,cn,e rc!>ult i, one of Au, plan the 'iquarc will become a hybrid of ,orh, its tin ', mo,t graciou, Moderni,1 high ri<,c,, ,erving romantic land.,capc preserved, while a large a, a hospitable foil for it, more elaborate and hi., plant ne'11cd among trees is incorporated. The tone ne1ghbon,. Although the three buildmg, pla,a area facing the mu,cum will have colorful enclo<,c u plca.,~1111 corner pla,a w11h a large foun paving depicting in abstrnct fonn Waller'll con tain, the space d<>e'>n't seem i<.olated Imm traffic . ccpt of the Capitol and four public llquarc,. Other than the propo,cd city· hall complex, the Adjoining th 1, area will be a series of gras, ticn, mo'>t important c1v1c pmJect underway,., the new intended for Ul>C a, an amphitheater ( making Laguna Gloria Art mw,cum. 11·., obviou, that Austin's filth outdoor performance area. after Venturi Rauch & Scott Brown took a good look Symphony Square, Auditorium Shores, Fiesta at the UT Sy.,tem buildmg and borrowed dctt.11" Garden,, and the private concert grounds, The 1'1111rtlr 'itrt·rt l<'t1rrho111n. cm11·rrtetl from it'> 0 . Henry Hall, a, well a., learn mg from Meadow,.) The 200 year old Auction Oab, u• \Im 1Jrt111t1 Kuehne·., Library and Battle llall. Unable to vandal11cd in recent years. will be protected by compete in height with high ri.,e., that will even a walled mound. A concession <,land will be di'> tually surround ii... Republic Square ,11e, YRSB crctcly nc,tlcd underneath a large bcrmcd area. de,igned the mu,eum with nul',ing ,imilar to Serving a, a focu<, for the square, the mandatory Kuehne', a block long low ,calc facade that water clement will be in the form of a water wall directly faces the ,quare. VRSB b still relining near the northern end of the site Live oaks plan the design and ha, presented two ,cparate tcd during the bicentennial will be moved to a .,chcmc,. Both schemes, with a !>Cric, of -.even mir,ery during construction, then moved buck . arches and tiled <,tar-, on the facade, di'>play a Two block, ,outhca,1 of the museum"' the llite manncmt rc,pc>n,c to Battle llall', arche'> and of Au,tin', long awaited city hall. After a dee tcrra cotta detailing. If YRSB ·, final de,1gn fol ade of d"'cussmn over whether to build a mu111c - low, 11, predece,sor,. no doubt Au,1in will get a 1pal center, the city finally held ,evcral design building rooted in the Aw.tin vernacular. compctit1on, the lir.,t wm, the subJcct of so Unlike many of VRSB'., building'>, the fiN much controver,y that the re),ults were simply \Chemc was almtN un1vcr-,ally liked: Au,tin vot ignored . The winncrofthc final competition wa, er.. overwhelmingly upprovcd fund., ,hortly after Black Atkinson Ycrnooy . BAV', dc.,ign calb YRSB rclca,cd the preliminary dc"gn. Ccr for a clu,ter of !>ix buildings, to be built in stage!'t; 5H fr1111 Att lut,•u Mt1\" lt1111• /'l.'15 first up will be City Hall. Without making much year-old offices at Fourth and Coloracto (Texas reference to either the Capitol or the Tower, Architect Nov-Dec 1983) provide a magnet for BA V's City Hall will become a landmark forthe new construction that has kept the flavor of the city not through size-its highest roof only area. Sinclair Black, a pioneer in lhe warehouse reaches 120 feet-but for its elegant Mediterra district, built in an area that at the time contained nean architecture and its collection of plazas, Ii11Ie of public interest. Now, Founh and Col walks, pedestrian tunnell>. fountains and trees orado is surrounded by innovative architecture that should make it a center of pedestrian activ serving a variety of tenants, including night ity. By the look of the drawing , each element in clubs. shops. antiques stores. restaurants. hair City Hall center works beautifully, from the stylists, live theater, and corporate headquaners. inviting series of axially-linked open spaces to Ironically it is the public projects coming to the the proud massing of the capped central tower district lhat may escalate real eMate prices and and its cascading wings. destroy this diversity. Besides the giant city-hall The proposed city-hall square will be a depar complex and Laguna Gloria An Mm,eum, two ture from others in the city. Sunken and possible additional civic projects may signal a embraced on four sides by stoas, the square will quick end to mixed use. The site of a near-obso- likely evoke the image of Rockefeller Plaza. A lete electrical plant to the west of the present City { grand staircase will lead from lhe plaza to a Hall is being investigated for use as a civic or i to crosswalk and into the City Council's chambers. convention center. In addition, the city's plan- 0 The stoas, designed to screen the square from ning depanment has proposed to couple First Q; traffic on busy First Street, will incorporate retail and Third streets to form an east-west space and restaurants. As its main feature. the thoroughfare. pl:ua will contain 16 mature cypress trees. each City leaders. under pressure from Austin's up to 60 feet tall. large contingent of environmentally conscious Although the setting of the city-hall complex citizens, have placed stringent controls on was carefully thought out to make it the major growth outside the downtown zone. The city's loop 360 Bridge feature on Town Lake when viewed from the new high-tech industries, concentrated around south, the half blod. immediately nonh of the Loop 360, are constructing their offices and propeny was not owned by the city. It was laboratories at tree-top height, with a minimum assumed that high rbes would eventually hide the of impermeable cover, in compliance with the nonh approach to the municipal building. As it toughest zoning regulations in the -.tale. So far, turned out. however, the developer of the city these ordinances have helped to create little of hall complex and the major landowner in the dis architectural interest, but arc credited by some trict, the Watson-Casey Companies, for the half with saving the hills from destructively high block nonh of City Hall commissioned BA V to den'>ity development. design two more buildings compatible with the West of the city among the hills, claiming the complex·s architecture. These two towers will landscape as the lyrical symbol of the emerging sandwich yet another plaza in a monumental civic identity, is the Loop 360 Bridge over Lake space, while maintaining height and mas<,ing Austin. Built by the Texm, Depanment of High that allows for the predominance of the City ways and Public Tram,ponation, m collaboration Hall. with Chanier Newton for the Austin Chapter, the Ao,, pan of an innovative financing package for bridge in the few years since its construction has the seven-building complex, the city traded con become a favorite of photographers and tourish. struction and lease rights to city-owned lakefront It b popular not only because of the way its clean propeny to Watson-Casey m exchange for build tense arch plays off the surrounding limestone ing City Hall. Owning twelve of the twenty cliffs, but because it is the first monument that block\ in the Republic Square district, Wat!-.On proclaims Austin as something ebe besides a Casey ha., committed it'>elfto an anful marketing capital and a college town. The bridge is and development strategy. Besides donating a optimi-.m made real, a sign of hope that growth quaner block to Laguna Gloria for the nev. can be managed and the city's delicate environ mu<,eum. Wat.,on-Ca<,ey also commissioned an ment preserved. It is the welcoming arch. the analy-.i, of the area by Dem,e Scott-Brown. She gateway to still-virgin hills amidst a boom that called for development of a tree Imed path along threatens their purity. Even with the emergence Third Street. modeled a her La Rambla in Bar of the new civic identity downtown, much celona: Wat-.on-Ca-.ey ha, agreed 10 build it. remains to be done in the core of the city to pro- A-. proof that the area·., most common current tect an equally endangered urban vitality. building type. the warehou,e. ha-, not been for gollcn in lavor of the ,i..y,crapcr. BA v·, ,ix- frw, Ard111,·, t Mt/\ •)11111• /985 59 UPDATED SIXTH-STREET PIONEER By Jim Steeh• In 1968, when Austin architect townhou<,e space, The full-width night. Graeber ba, in,talled dou David Graeber renovated a dere vaulted skylight give, the new ble-paned window1,, with eight lict commercial building at 410 space a more sub,tantial rela11on inches of dead space between l:.a\l Sixth Street. he spari.cd the ,h1p to the bu,thng urban env1 each pane. in the upsta1r.. master tr.imfonnauon of a decaying ronment outside, yet assure, bedroom 1,pace that face, Sixth area. Texas Arcl11tect featured Graeber of the after-live privacy Street. Two-foot-th1cl.. brick Graeber's townhou,e conver.ion he CrJVe\. walls arc sufficient 10 deaden in a 1969 a111de that pra1\t.' 6() Trw1 Arcl111e11 M111 •J1111t /1/SS LEFT: L1n11g r<>om 1/,011 ~ 1q1wrt·d pla11e.1 ,ife'1rli<"r re11orn1u111 . CES TER · A ped11t1t'llfl'd glmlt'll-111 t1/>t'11i11,: In, /111/11111ft11he Pu/1111,111 '' /..11,he11 BFIO\~ S1t1h-S1ru1 e/,.,·u11,m u11d urd1ed .1hhi:l11 TRANSITION 1890s-1980s By Jim Steel_\ Phmogroplo b\ R Grri Hurslr-.. /,1< Trammell Cr""'' f si 1-.f/(ln' h11i/d111g at 327 Con.~rt·n pml'ideI" trt111si1im1 befl<'tell 11.1 1n•ll-11rop11rt111111•tl 111'1g/rlmr.1 ,md 11 /rig/, ri.11• plm111t•tlfor th1• /111'.1 .,0111/r,•11.11 comrr 62 Tt•1t11 Art /111,•n Mt1\'·J11111• 19H5 LEFT Renmated Mt A·ean Etferf & Ct,. fonult'. CFVTFR 81111J.. /abhy In recent )Cal"', a fev. ou~tanding heights on Congre s and to bov. treatments. facade-. along Congrei.s Avenue 10 the avenue·s older occupants The First National Bank in PROJECT 327 Co11gren A1·e1111e ha,e been rehab1htated. but too v.ith their more earthbound terior on the ground floor pre!.ents ARCHITECT:Be//. Klem & man) , aluablc pani. of the profiles and finishes. The result 1s an odd contraSI 10 the more HcifJma11 Architects 11, cnuc·-. tum-of-the-century a six-story (read as five-Mory) thoughtfully conceived elttenor. CLIENT Trammell Cro11 profile ha\C heen di-.carded and steel-frame. bnck-veneer struc Man) nev. or renovated bank, Comp«nv much ol the ncv. com,truction has ture with 40.000 <.quare feet of U) to look old and sohd. usmg COl\'TRACTOR: Fulshear Co11- Jl,lld scant allention to the hii,toric rental space." hich blends nicel) polished marble and nchly s1r11crio11 Co . Hou.Hon fahncofthe a,enue Zoning laws v.1th adJacent histonc buildings. grained v.oods; this bank :,.eem!. CONSCLTANTS: 8mm 11ml de\clopcr enlightenment are Ornament and organization of inspired b) a remodeling ,1yle £11i:111cer111i:. Im • A11.11111 fortunate!) turning the~ trends the nev. structure'sCongrei.s Av unleashed m the 1960s. The (MEPJ: Harnes Whaley oround. Recent office behemoths enue and Fourth Street facades rambling floorplan p1voL, on a Assocwtes. Inc .. Ho11sro11 on the u, cnue at le:bt incorporate were based on the standard model central check-v.nung table. un (1tr11cr11ral J ,tcp hacks to ad.nov.ledge their for early sky.,crapers. with clear easily poi..ed below an overbear oldcr neighbor.· three- and four tripan,te d1v1sion, of base. n-.e. ing brass chandelier Woven-reed SIO') facade-.. And most all nev. and cornice 1lie corner clock wallpaper adds to the kni.chy '60, construction has begun 10 utilize tov.er. a fa"orite 19th-centur) atmoi.phere. v.cll detailed nati\e materiab for device. anchors the two facade<, The architect and client clearly cxtcnonem-er.... and public-area and punctuates a repetlll\e cor intended 10 acknov.ledge adjacent finishes. nice pattern. Fane) brick v.ork in 19th-century buildings w11hou1 Ille lov. er blocks of Congress. rusticated cour.,mg of dark u011, competing v.11h them in detail or fn>ntmg a former v.arehou,e d1<,- establi,hes the building ba-.e te,ture. But they have been 1mt v.crc ignored m the 197(}, two stories d,-.gui-.ed as one 10 caught by an unre,olved tension ind earl) 198(},, v.h1le frenzied launch a .,enical rh) thm of pila, between the strength of the hori construction locu-.ed up the a., ter.. between bays. Four le\.eh of zontal floor definition. dictated c1111c tov.ord the Capitol. That" "mdov. band!> above the basc by modern cunain-wall con,truc changing. The Trammell Crov. \trongly horizontal and not tion. and the 1rad111on of vertical Cornpan) and other.. last )ear re- adequately ~ftencd b) 100-i.ubtle ornament By compan,on. the torcd the tacade, on buildings mullions-are faced "1th lighter adJ3cent buildings. "1th their fl,mkmgboth-.1de,ofthe ,trcet in brick and accented with darker carved de1a1h and 1e,1ured facing the 'l(X) block. including the Mc hntels and !.ill!.. The cornice 1s a materials. ,k111fully emphasize Kc,m. I-tiers & Co. \tructure. fine example of" hat bricklayer.. vertical ornament over monoton lh1s 1897 \etcr,m i, faced v.ith are ~1111 capable of crcaung: 11s ou, hon1on1al floor rcpct111on run1tc, bnck, -.and,tone. and corbel table marche, around the The JU>ttapo,111on remind, u~ that pu.:s~d-mctal detail\ m the finest bu1ld1ng as final confirmation of the hl\toric fabric ol Congrc,, tr 1,h11on ol lat.:-180(h vertical mtent The building·, Avenue cannot be ea\lly dupli crnft\m:msh1r. and Trammell bhnd ,outh and east walh. v.m cated Cnm sens1mel) cleaned and re dowle,, becau..e of fire codei.. paired 11i. thrcc-,tor) edifice. carry horizontal banding around \\ h1lc planning a -.etback high the ,tructure 10 texture the bare rt!ie to\\t'r lllr the <,outhea.,, corner brick surfaces. of the hluck. Trammell Crov. Emphammg the prestige of comm1,s1oncd Au,tm architects corner office\, the top four leveh Hell, Klem & Hortman to design m the tov.er ba) each feature an a lov.-n~ olhce building for the open porch A horizontal frame" 11onhca,1 corner. AdJacent 10 the carried from the windov. bands re torcd McKean, Eiler- & Co. acro,s the porch ba)., 10 form a la ,u.Jc, the ncv. hu1ldin~ at :l27 -.afety rail. v.ith glaJing below ( ongrci.s v. as mtcndcd ll<>th to the rail to the bricl. ,ill that acknm1.lc,lgc ncv. bu1ld1ng ma1chc, the windov.-bay 7,., II Ari h11r, I \1111 J1111r /9S5 63 EAST MEETS WEST ON SHOAL CREEK By Joel Warren Barna Level and featurele!>s by Austin standards, the light-induslrial dis trict at the northern end of Aus tin's Shoal Creek Boulevard is lined with low-priced single-story office blocks and concrete-walled warehouses. Says one Austin ar chitect: " It's like a little slice of southwest Houston." The Alben Shen , Inc. head quarters at 8723 Shoal Creek, a 4,200-!>quare-foot wood-frame building designed by AuMin ar chitect J.H. Eccleston Johnston, Jr., ii. different. Like its utilitarian neighbor~. the Shen building is made with low-cost material!>. But Johnston has combined these materials with a slightly wacky exuberance, enlivening the local contex1 rather than yielding to it: the Shen building stands out like a rhinestone on a platter of hex nuts. Alben Shen wanted the new officei. 10 help organite hb rapidly growing residential and commercial development com panies. In addition, to help estab lish a new business identity. Shen asked for a high-vbibility office that would combine clement\ of commercial and residential design, and would acknowledge the oriental heritage he sharei. with many of hb client\. These effects had to be accomplished within a program consirained first by limited finances and then by ci1y requiremenls for s1rect acccs, and extensive flood-control pond ing at the site. Johnston gave Shen a facade 1hat combines references to Ca/<1r ~111d1 mu/ C11/H1l11.1 JIIJIJ/t'It rnlmrul merJler Tew.1 ArC'l111eu Ma\'·)11111' /985 Slk!n ·s heritage and his busi terior trim is made of a warm-col nc-,-.e-.. producing a surprising ored .. residential" oak that ellcct: ..1t·s eastern and western coexists uneasily with cold mar ,ind in between, a Marco Polo ble tiles and metal balusters. Drop huilding. ·' Johnston says. '"Or ceilings, beige carpet. and tex mu)be a middle-eastern barber tured white wallboard all conflict hop ... the metaphors of the grand I lorizontal bands of beige and e ntrance, the atrium. and the tan brick are divided in a stutter theatrical lighting. ing horizontal rhythm by courses At its best, however, ul darker iron-spotted brick. A Johnston's design shows that fun hand of buff-colored stucco dips can be had while making a use hclo\.\. the tops of the aluminum able building within a limited pro lrumed windows. The panem re gram. '"It's meant to work uncon c.ill, traditional decoration in sciously, with nothing academic Chinc,e country town~. John~ton about the references, oriental or say-.. At the ,rune time, he mod otherwise... Johnston says. For cll-d the dccorauon panly on the Albert Shen it means a kind of tlat colored brickwork of Santa landmark perking up one of Aus lana No\ella. Pisa's Italian tin "s few drab neighborhoods. Gothic cathedral. O1hcr decoration draws more Murble-faced p,1/ar 1/ll't'.\ 11 1mse "f mo1i tr,m \1d111r, 1 M,11 •/11111 /(JS~ 65 COMMERCIAL SCALE REVEALED By Joel Warren Barna The four-level office building at warm brick and pink mortar exterior, sti II flow into each other 1204 San Antonio, by Austin emphasize the brick facades as a gracefully. And, although the architects Oteri T isdale Gayle, single field of color. The metal racquetball court could have used tends to shock those encountering cladding of the "new'' building is more soundproofing or less-vig it for the first time. In a city where painted a milky metallic gray that orous players, the naturally lit contcxtualism is an all-but picks up color from the sky on areas around the atrium have a sanctified concept, 1204 San bright days. The interrelationship quiet, professional character, in Antonio draws on a high-tech of the half-structures is confirmed keeping with the intent of the ModemiM vocabulary, acknow by the treatment of windows on the architects and the business of the ledging not the present but the east and weM: they are set into the tenants. 1204 San Antonio. even future of its neighborhood. plane of the "new" building though it departs agressively from A few bloch west of the under full-header brick beams its current surroundings, shares Capitol, the area has some of without the usual steel lintel. many of the values that have Austin's best late- I 9th and early- The imagery is not insisted made the neighborhood one of 20th century frame houses. In the upon, however, since not only AuMin's most attractive. last decade most of the houses the brick is cut away: the "new" have been converted from resi structure steps back from the PROJECT: Office Building at dences 10 offices for lawyers, lob northeast and northwcM comers 1204 San Amo11io byists, and other!>. Project at the same pace at which the ARCHITECT: Oteri Tisdale architect Jim Susman and partner brick recedes. This and the orien Gayle in-charge Jack Tisdale :,ay they tation toward southbound traffic CLIENT: Ricardi11 Co111pa11y saw the area ai.suming a more work to keep the building from CONTRACTOR: Metrotech commercial scale ai. the older looming up in the direction from Co11stmctio11, Inc . buildings were replaced; they which most people approach. CONSULTANTS: Jose!. designed 1204 San Antonio to fit Inside, an east-weM circulation Guerra Stmcwra/ Engineers the emerging neighborhood. corridor is lit through the skylight (structural): Burr £11gi11eeri11g. A city ordinance requires one of a small central atrium, provid Inc. (M£P) parking space for every 300 ing a str0ng axii, for the building. square feet of'"conditioned" rent A i,ervicc core, tightly organized able space. Working within that againM the south-facing brick constraint, Susman came up with wall of the "old" building, is a building that layers two stories divided from rental i.pace massed of every-inch-counts office space on thenorthcm '"new" side. Exo on two Mories of parking, yet he tic features-a two-story racquet managed to avoid making a build ball court on the third level, along ing on stilts. The column grid that with men's and women· s dressing allowi, parking access from both rooms and a spa-were requested north and eaM evolved into the by the client. Walls for the entries blocky rhythm of the facades. to the dressing rooms and i,pa are Dealing with parking-space limits made of translucent gla,, brick, aho led to the distinctive comer which allows natural light into ,tep bach. what could have been a dark 1204 San Antonio makes a vi, comer. Walb are paneled or ual pun on the character of the finbhed in white textured gypsum neighborhood. It', two buildingi. board. Floors arc carpeted, in one: The "old" brick-clad except in the oak-floored elevator building recede!> to expose the landing!> at the eai.tem end of '"new" metal-clad Mructure levels three and four. underneath. Facade textures Spaces, allhough organized to underscore the image. Soft-edged match the message of the 66 7hm Ard1i1ec1 Ma1"J1111e /985 Glass-ll'alled spa and dressing rooms / 1,11 \1, /111111 M111 ·111111· /9H5 67 I - PRESERVING THE STREETSCAPE By Joel Warren Barna Prei.ervation Square Con Pearl and T wenty-first Streets in along with a number of large dominiums, a project of The Ar West Campus. Individually the oaks. chitects' Office Corporation of buildings were of li11le signifi "We decided to put our egos on Austin, provides a temporary cance, but together they made up hold and take a soft approach to truce in the ballles over growth an imponant pan of the neighbor the problem," says David Wark. and preservation in one of the hood fabric. Bechtol 1.ought a "Nothing stands out over the capital city' 1, most rapidly chang way to preserve the houses and existing Mructures." ing neighborhoods. :.till increase density enough to Most parking is concentrated As late a:. five years ago. many have a money-making project. in the landscaped central court. residents of the WeM Campus Project designer David Wark With the project's restrained area near the University ofTexa1, and panner-in-charge Charles palelle of colors and materiah were former students who had Fisk came up with a solution that and the unobtrusiveness of the stayed on, held by an attachment increased the number of rental new additions and parking, the 10 the neighborhood's quiet at unit:. from 12 10 38 and nearly impact of the greatly increased mosphere and low rents. But Aus tripled the project's rental space, den:.ity is minimized. Stanley tin's booming high-tech economy and at the same time reinforced Haas of Dallas, one of the judges and low unemployment rate have rather than assaulted the neigh who gave the Preservation Square drawn a new generation of im borhood's best feature!> . Condominiums one of the Austin migrant1.-decidedly more up The five exi1.ting hou<,ei, were chapter's 1984 design awards, !,Cale-who have 1,11mula1ed de given new roofa. new white trim. says, "With this design they actu mand for close-in housing. Land and new coats of stucco or paint ally left the streetscape belier than value1. have incrca1.ed '>leeply and ranging from a deep tobacco color they found it." dictated more intense develop 10 pale yellow. Inside, their ment of West Campus and other floorplan:. were left largely the PROJECT: Preserva1io11 Square inner-city area.,. ,ame except that au ic spaces were Condo111i11i11111s In manyca1.es greater intensity exposed and finished as lofts and ARCHITECT: The Archi1ec1s' meant tearing out whole blocks vaulted ceilingi.. I lardwood Office Corporation ofhouse1. and replacing them with floon, and interior decorative CLIENT: Roy Bech1of monolithic apanment and town trim, duplicable only at much CONSULTANT ; £11gfe111a11 house proJects. A city ordinance greater COM, were pre~erved. Engineers, Inc. (.wmc111raf) abo contributed to thi, proces1,: "The developer got a 101 for his CONTRACTOR: Robbie Bech1of mtended 10 di<,courage homeown money from saving the old build Co11.11ruc1io11 e~ from building garage apan ing:.," :.ay'> David Wark. menl'>. the ordmance required all Five new townhouse structures mulu-family dwelling on a prop were added, connecting the five eny 10 be in one continuou-, build existing buildings around a cen ing. The qualitie'> that made a tral counyard. Development in neighborhood a11rac1ive were two pha-,es allowed construction often lo\! 10 the proces'>. as vari of two :.eparate building1.. The ety gave way 10 ,ameness at a new sections were clad in mason scale antagonisuc 10 the old ite detailed like clapboard, and strcel<,Capc. painted a quiet khaki with white Prc1.ervation Square Con trim. Roof lines, chimneys and dominiums demon:.trate:. that in wood-framed windows were tem,e development doesn't lead matched 10 the scale used in the inevitably to neighborhood de existing houses. And, in what b wuction. Developer Roy Bechtol perhaps the most pleasing touch, had purchased five 70-year-old the new sections were placed un multi-family hou:.es. covering as-,umingly behind the existing most of a block at the corner of houses, preserving the weetline, 68 7ew.\ Arc/titl'CI Ml11·· J1111c• 1985 PM11•1raph1 b, R Cr Srthacb and rooftinu wrrr momtamrd A111e1 o/thr rnmni: hll11re1 hUt' /11111/l(•t/ II\ /oj/ 1/1<1< I'\ f'/a11 h11,/d1n11 ,n n,"pho.H'f olfn,.edcnmtructi()n ofthncnn11nun11s structurrsormmd thr cnurt'\'Ord 69 1, A11J Ire'"'" I Mm •)11111 /CJ.'15 HOUSE FOR HAL AND EDEN BOX By Jim Steely In the last century British ar 2111 Highgrove Terrace with the great hall, or opened through The plan radiates from the cen chitect Sir John Soane overhauled numerous allusions to architec large doors to augment the enter tral hall, but the entry foyer is the his London abode at No. 13 Lin tural monuments. And in the taining capacity of the central true pivot for traffic in this house. coln"s Inn Fields to renect a spirit of Soane, Box and his wife space. The master bedroom in the East-wing upper bedrooms for lifetime fascination with the Eden have furnished their digs southwest comer enjoys intimacy the children arc reached by a stair world's historic buildings and with artifacts and architectural in this arrangement, yet its ex way to the left; a huge antique their details. In much the same details collected over a lifetime. terior comer walls are turned by hall tree beckons the newcomer fashion, Hal Box, Austin ar Box·s house has a clear re glass panels and casement win to continue straight along the chitect and dean of the University gional character; at the same time dows, virtually opening the room entry-door axis; a textured portal of Texas at Austin School of Ar it incorporates major elements to the outdoors. The breakfaM at right unfolds into the main hall. chitecture. h~ built his home at inspired by such diverse sources nook in the southeast comer is The hall's vast space is paved as the Pazzi Chapel in Florence similarly a visual bridge from in with Italian tile, furnished with and the Morgan Library in New side to outside. lively shapes, and forested with York City. Quarry-faced and Eden Box's real estate office shopping-mall-size trees and smooth-cut limestone from local occupies the west wing upstairs, stack upon stack of books in re bedrocks, wooden trims, and reached by a spiral Maircase and cessed shelves. Generous natural moldings of fine craftsmanship, balcony juxtaposed against the lighting enters through sunburM and Central Texas· ubiquitous bookshelves, recalling the Mor windows at the north and south but practical metal roof confirm gan Library, and an exterior stair Box's appreciation of regional wrapping around the house's design development. northwest side. The site is well worth such at An oblique wing from the tention: the house nestles in a sec northeast comer for garage and luded bend of Johnson Creek's utility space aligns the plan with west branch in Austin, sharing a its lot, el>lablishing entry ele long-abandoned limestone quarry ments that face the cul-de-sac. The /1()11.ft' 11es1/ei ,mum,: tall 1ree.1 111 1111 ahmu/aned quarn site with tall old trees. Box'!> re Visitors are attracted from the sponse 10 the sue as well as his parking court to a "propylacum" treatment of materials clearly or formal entryway through two shows the innuence of Harwell pylons in the stone facade wall. Hamilton Harris-one of Box's The enclosed inner court (formed favorite architects. by a wall built between the Box's An enormous great room old house and the new, after the with a centered oculus 32 feet old house was sold), provides a above the noor-straddlcs the "Greek effect," according to north-south axis; the east-west Box: the principal elements of axis cro\scs below the oculus and structure and site simultaneously defines two public areas in the present themselves and draw the plan's "transepts," nanking the viewer forward. Past the gate, great room . Standing below the concrete pillars with spiral cast oculus, a viewer may rum to be ing patterns support a walkway hold the site's beauty from all awning, leading to the main four cardinal directions. Bed entry: Here the last four columns rooms, kitchen, utility room, and assume a formal posture and sup other auxiliary spaces are neatly port a lattice-work canopy fram tucked into the reentrant angles ing the front door. The canopy's of this basically Byzantine plan. A-B-A pattern and central round The radiating configuration is arch mimic proportions from the quite nexible. Dining and office cloister facade of Brunelleschi's modules can be closed off from Pazzi Chapel. 70 Tews Arehitecr May·J1111e /985 as 200 visitors and hosted a fash ion show, a children's choir, and baroque concens. At Christmas a 12-foot tree and 24 family mem bers easily shared the house on Highgrove Terrace. Such ex !rnvagances were never possible in the row house surrounding Lincoln's Inn Field,. PROJECT: Hal 80\ Residence ARCHITECT AND CLIENT I ft for cntcnaining. The Hal Bm II !I. h:I\C made \Ure the1rTcxa, CONTRACTOR CtrarCa/dwe/1 q111valc111 1s large enough for Construction. Inc t in le s than a year they rved dinncl", for as many ABO~/ !i1t11mmfmmfmalradsw 1 , r lmhur, I ~fen ·J11ne 19,'15 71 11 TEXANS NAMED AIA FELLOWS Elel'e11 Texas architects will be among 85 AJA statewide and national recognition. A graduate members nationwide ad1·a11ced to the Institute' s of UT Austin and MIT, Bailey has won seven College of Fellows June JO at the AJA national TSA design awards including a First Honor convention in San Francisco. Fellowship is a Award in 1976, a Distinguished Building Award lifetime honor conferred on members of JO in 1984 from the Chicago Chapter, and the Texas years' good standing wl,o l,a1•e made a signifi Library Association's Library Project of the cant contribution to the adwmcement of Year Award. Bailey is the Houston Chapter's architecwre. Wit/, the exception of the Gold 1985 president and has served as Chapter Director Medal, Fellowship is tl,e J,ighest honor the AJA tor and Commissioner of Professional Develop can bestow on any member. Texas Architect ment. He is a TSA Insurance Benefit Trustee Roben £. Allen pays tribwe to these architects with the following and chaired the design jury of the TSA program sketches of their exemplary careers. "Creating Tomorrow's Heritage." In addition, Bailey actively carries his professional commit ment into the community by serving on various I ROBERT E. ALLEN, FAIA boards and speaking on behalf of the profession. I The Allen Buie Partnership Longview WAYNE BELL, FAIA Numerous design awards have been earned by Bell, Kl ein & Hoffman. UT Austin graduate Robert E. Allen in his 25- Architects and Restoration Consultants, Inc. year career. He has won three design awards Austin from TSA, including a First Honor Award in Ray 8. Bailey 1977. Other awards have brought him national Early in his career, Wayne Bell confronted the recognition; his design for a private residence scarcity of reliable information, technology, was selected by Architecwral Record for 1982 materials, and professional guidelines for histor Record Houses. Noted for his sen itive handling ical preservation. With the important contribu of the landscape, Allen has inspired greater con tions he has made in each of these areas, Bel I has cern for preservation of the natural site among come to personify the historical preservation designers, developers, and builders. Allen is a movement in Austin, and, to a large extent, the former Northeast Texas Chapter president and state of Texas. A graduate of UT Austin, Bell has served on five TSA Planning Committees in organized and erved as Director of the Office of the last 10 years. He chaired the TSA Student the National Register for the Texas Historical Chapter Liaison Committee in 1978 and has been Commission, and organized and served as Chief Wayne Bell a member of two TSA Design Awards of the Historic Sites and Restoration Branch of Committees. the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission. The firm founded by Bell 11 years ago specializes in restoration and adaptive-reuse projects. The firm's work for Franklin Savings and Loan RAY B. BAILEY, FAJA Association has won 12 regional and national Ray B. Bailey Architects, Inc. awards, including three President's Awards Houston from the National Trust for I listoric Preserva tion. Bell's restoration of the Winedale Histori Technological expertise, sensitivity to old struc cal Center has been widely emulated. As Direc tures, and designs that respond to the client's tor of Winedale, Bell administers programs that program with a clearly expressed concept and a include a summer institute sponsored by the His well-organized plan have brought Ray B. Bailey toric Buildings Survey, one of only two such 72 Tewj Architect May·J1me 1985 programs m the country. Bell rs a professor in designed and built the first-ever drive-in theaters the lff Au,tm School of Archttecture and is in both Texas and Oklahoma. Drrrctor of the UT Historic Preservation Pro gr,rm. A frequent speakerto the public, Bell has helped to 1•enerate widespread interest in C. RICHARD EVERETT. FAIA prcscnation . Century Development Corporation Houston l JACK M CORGAN. FAIA < or •,m A ,ociates Architects (retired) C. Richard Everett I>ill.is RI CHARD F. FLOYD, FAIA Ri chard F Floyd, Consultant B mrung 1~ 1938, after he left O1.lahoma State Houston l 111vcrs1ty and during his 42-ycar career, Jack M ( org,m ha-. been an important force for ,er In concentrating his auention on the science of \ 1 to the profe -.,on and for improving construction during h.., 30-year architectur.il r hrtecturnl pracuce. A., TSA prc.,1dcn1 ',lartmg practice, Richard F Floyd ha, helped establish 111 1950, Corgan initiated the President's Chapter a local, national. and international presence for \ 1 11a1wn program that ,., creducd with pulling architect<, rn a busines, environment traditionally ti t 1k' l'hap1en,mtoacohercntorgan11at1on. dominated by general contractor, and construc C111 • 111 led the tranc,fonnation ofTSA into an tion managers. Within the framework of ,tan Richard F Floyd 1 r 1m1,.1tmn w11h a strong focus on professional dard AIA ,crvices and fees , Floyd has developed 1111,s and service to the profes,mn and to the constructron-,ervice guideline, for profe-.-.1onal puhhc Cor1•an has been honored numerou, practice and applied them on over $4-bilhon 11111 !. I k ",,., awarded honorary membership in worth of construction throughout the world. 1c x11:o's Socredad de Arquttectos Mexrcanoc, while drrectmg con,1ruc11on-c,ervicc efforts for lot hrs roh in <1rgan111ng an mtematlonal con all con<,truction projects undertal.en by •rc~s of architect!> to work on major planning Neuhaus + Taylor (later JD/International) and problernli .1long the border. Corgan wac, one of in private con,ulting pr.ictice. A graduate of Rice th first l'c,a, architects to have a multr-<,tate University. Floyd .., currently Profe. sional Pro p1,1c11cr and to special11c in a building type Jeer Manager for Heritage Pla,a, a 50-!.tory nm, 1c theater, He was architect-of-record for oflicc development under con,truction in 111 ire than '75 movie theaters In addition, he llou..ron. l\r hllr(I \fm ·Junr /985 73 ROBERT D. GARLAND, FAIA 8. CARROLL THARP, FAIA Garland and Hilles, AJA, Architects Koetter, Tharp and Cowell (Retired) El Paso Montgomery A strong conviction that regional considerations 8. Carroll Tharp, who worked at the beginning should influence design has prevailed in Robert of his architectural career with Ri chard Neutra D. Garland's architectural practice. The results and Weldon Beckett, practiced in Texas from of that conviction show in mo t of El Paso's 1948 until his retirement in 1982, all but one of recent major public buildings. which were those years with the partnership Koetter & Tharp designed by his firm. Garland's work is also (later Koetter, Tharp and Cowell). In the early Robert D. Garland national and international in scope: he is the rec years Tharp's firm designed mostly residences. ognized design leader of more than 70 flight Their practice expanded to include hospitals, simulator facilities in North America and schools, churches, and commercial buildings, Europe. Garland's designs have earned 17 major as Houston became a center of new construction awards. including an Industrial Building Design in the early 1950 . Well-known projects Award from the Hayward, California, Chamber designed by Tharp's firm include Tallowood of Commerce, and the Conquistador Award, El Baptist Church and Memorial High School in Paso's highest honor for public service. He has Houston, the psychiatric hospital addition at the served with distinction in TSA and El Paso Chap University of Texas Medical Branch in Galves ter offices. ton, and Trinity Lutheran Church in Dallas. In 1972, Tharp's firm, in a joint venture with Caudi II Rowlett & Scou and Neuhaus+ Taylor, BarnM t,/()(,re designed the Hyatt Regency Hotel and the adja cent 1100 Milam Building in Houston, followed BARRY M. MOORE, FAIA by the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Office Building Barry Moore Architects, Inc. in Indianapolis. During his practice Tharp served Houston on the Committee on Historic Resources at the national, state and local levels, and has con Barry M. Moore. in his 19-year architectural tinued since his retirement; he will chair TSA 's practice. has won honors from the profession Committee on Historic Resources in 1986. and in his community for service and for design and preservation worl... that brings innovative approaches to the context of existing buildings. He b a graduate of the Univer<;ity of Pennsyl THOMAS E. WOODWARD, FAIA 8 Carmi/ Tharp vania. where he wa<, awarded the Shenk-Wood Woodward & Associates, Inc. man Traveling Fellowship in Architecture. and Dallas of the Univer.ity of California at Berl...eley. Moore·., firm ha, won 16 awards for design. In practice since 1962, Thoma-, E. Woodward intenor design. and land<,cape architecture. ha!-. been responsible for the design of a variety including Merit and Interiors Honor Awards of commercial. resort, residential, financial, and from TSA and three commendations from the restoration projects throughout Texas and the Houston Municipal Arts Commission. Recent Southwest. Nine of the 15 local, Mate, and prize-winning proJects include the Orange Show national architectural-design award!> won by Restoration and the High School for Performing Woodward's firm have been for adaptive reuse and V1<,ual Art, in Hou<,ton, and the MajeMic and re!>lorations of historic structures. His work Tlwmcu F W"odll'ard Theatre Renovation in San Antonio. Moore was on the Katy Railroad Building in Dallas helped Houston Chapter president in 1983. He partici spearhead the creation of the West End HiMoric pates in many civic and cultural organi,ations. District. which brought new life to a neglected including the Rice De'>ign Alliance and the area and helped to save many historic buildings. Orange Show Foundation. of ~hich he is a In Fort Worth, Woodward restored the Stock founding member. Hou!>ton·s Miller Theatre yards Exchange Building, a landmark building Advi,ory Board. and the Texas Pioneer Arts in an area rich in historical importance. Recent Foundation. project<, include the restoration of the two-block Sundance Square area of downtown Fort Worth, which includes buildings in Richardsonian, Moorish, Art Deco, Victorian, and French Revi val styles. Thi!, work has prei.erved an important part of Texas history. 74 Tt•tai ArC'lllll'CI Ma~··Jlmt' 1985 FEET-INCHES-SIXTEENTHS ENGINEERING CALCULATOR WITH DECIMAL AND METRIC NEWS , continued from page 36 BOYD CALCULATOR COMPANY HOUSTON ARCHITECTS RECEIVE 6620 LDZIER STREET FIRST REMODELING AWARDS HOUSTON, TEXAS 77021 (713) 747-7574 Outside Texas call ton free Four commercial and two residential 1-800-231-9920 re modeling projects in Houston won MONEY BACK GUARANTEE IF NOT SATISFIED AFTER TWO WEEKS. awards in the 1985 First Awards for Inno ACTUAL SIZE: 3¼ by 51,~ by 3/8 vation in Re modeling, a competition spon sored annually by the First National Bank tJ DRICTe,IAl'l7Fm ,oe ..,_IISJl8'GRITIM1D~15l(MIQrolO NOICl"l!fflOClllsmJAlll!IElWIIHRS A00110N"'°a.amocro.CAMEAS ~~ of West University Place. Jurors for the 2J DACr"'-""lC4TO ..... INMAIIIIIC*TMVMMI.MTY Unicorn Theatre; Rey de la Reza . Westgle n Atrium Office Building; Edgecomb & Associates. 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El Centro College; Jane Yang; Jeff Zubik. &11:t•X•>I-W Texas Tech Universit y has announced a new graduate program in Architectural Preservation and History. Because of Texas Tech's location in the Southwest and proximity to Mexico, New Mexico and Arizona, the emphasis of the program will be on the history and preservation of architecture in arid and semi-arid regions. For additional information, contact Dr. E.S. Sasser, Texas Tech University, Box 4140, Lubbock 79409, (806) 742-3 136. Dr. Charles W. Moore. holder of the O'Neil Ford Centennial Chair in Architec ture at UT Austin , has been named one of five recipients of distinguished professor awards presented by the American Col legiate Schools of Architecture. 80 Tews Ard1i1ec1 M"y ·J1111e 1985 At Tribble & Stephens, ~ dodt celebrate signing construction contracts. We celebrate starting newr partnerships. Not that we've got any er in a team approach to ers and tenants. thing against contracts. make sure our clients get It 's those partnerships It's a formality for ev the most for their con we think are really worth ery job we start. It's ju t struction dollar. With ac celebrating. They're the that we don't believe we curate bidding. And ones that've gotten us re got to be one of the sun performance that con is peat and referral work belt's largest open-shop tently finishes on or that amounts to 75 % of commercial building con ahead of schedule. our business. tractors by just going af With an attitude that If you'd like to learn ter pieces of paper called ays yes, we construct more about our partner contracts. buildings, but we also ship attitude toward busi At Tribble & tephens, build partnerships. ness, call us. Better yet, we decided nearly 20 Lasting part- send for one of years ago we would take nerships. With our brochures. time to judge what we our clients, And find out work on, and w ho we their architects, why contracts are work with. As day-to-day engineers, just incidental to partners. Working togeth- bankers, brok- what we celebrate. Tiu.• Partnership Builders OFFICES IN HOUSTON, DALLAS, SAN ANTONIO AND AUSTIN, TEXAS, ANO ORLANDO, FLORIDA Corporate O/1,ce 10610 Hadd1ngton Drive, Houston. Texas 77043 FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL: KENT LEIGHTON (512) 349-4426 Circle 82 on Reader Inquiry Card Landscape Design Awards competition. What's the open to landscape architects, landscape contractor<,, designers and student:>. For difference additional information. contact the LDA Foundation, PO Box 25277. Tempe, AZ between a Early May: Houston Chapter Young 85282. (800) 352-1985. Architects Forum tasl-.. force meeting. For June 28: Deadline for :>ubmissions and roof window additional information. contact Matt Starr entl) fees in TSA ·s annual Design Awards at Ray Bailey Architects. Inc .. (713) 524- competition. For more information. con and a skylight? 2155 or the Houston Chapter office at tact Susan Owens at TSA, (512) 478- (713) 520-8125. 7386. May 16: "Suspended Animation: August 2: Deadline for receipt of ,ub Photographs of Houston Architecture.·· missiom, in TSA Energy Award<, Program. an exhibit featuring contemporary and his For add1t1onal information. contact torical photographs. will open in 1600 Energy Committee Chairman Robert Smith in Cullen Center. Houston. For Batho. (713) 531-7007. additional information. contact Chns Thayer. (713) 526-2292. June 4: Deadline for entry fom1s and entry fees in the TSA Energy Awards Pro gram. For additional information, contact ModclTPS top Model VS vcnulatmg Energy Committee Chairman Robert hung roof window ,J..ylight Batho, (713) 531-7007. Good, Haas & Fulton Architects ha, he difference i, Mr.ughtforward. A June 6: Public Utility Comm1ss1on moved to 300 LTV Center. 2001 Ross roof window open, and pivot, ,o Energy Efficiency Division Workshop Ave LB 132. Dalla, 75201. (214) 979- T both gla,, ,urface, can be cleaned from9a.m. to4p.m. at We,1TexasState 0028. from in'>ide. A ,1-..ylight doc, not pivol for University Activity Center. Room 202, Richard L. Hart , Architect, Inc., ha-. cleaning. Of cour,,e, there 1, a difference Canyon. Co-,pon,ored by the PUC-EED. moved to 1330 E. Yandell, El Paso 79902. in quality and value among manufacturer'>. But, a ,imple compari,on of feature,, qual- TSA and ho,t univer,ities, this 1s fir-.1 in a (915) 544-1162. 11y and price will ,how you why VELUX. ,cries of <,eminars entitled 811ildingfor Britten L. Perkin, and Thoma, C. with 44 year, of expcriefl(.:e and cmfh Energy Efficiency; The Nor-in-the-Red O,trow,ki have been named a,,ociate, of man,hip, i-. the world leader. School Ho1ue. Additional seminars will be EDI Architects/Planners, Hou,ton. In addition to our four di,tinctive June 13 at Pan American University. Edu William E:. . Merrill and John A. model,. Vl:.LUX provide, prec1.,ion cation Building. Room 119. Edinburg; Rhebergen have been promoted to ,enior engineered prefabricated na,hing'> to make June 18 at UT Tyler. University Center, a,,ociate, and proJeCt manager, at Crain/ installa1ion ea,y and weathertight. We allto Room 134. Tyler; June 21 at UT El Paso, Anderson, Inc., Architecb. offer quid. delivery and a full mnge of op Student Union Bldg.; and June 26 at Gensler and Associates/Arc hitects, tional acce,,orie, and gla,ing,. Find out more, write for our free 24- North Texa, State University, Dept. of 1 lou,ton, ha, appointed Adele Howell. page full color brochure, ..The Complete Public School Administration. Denton. Nancy Kendall and Alan Re..,nicl-.. a, senior Guide to RoofWindow, and Sl-..ylight,:· June 2 1: Deadline forentric, in the a"ociate, New a,sociate, include John Fifth Annual Builder', Choice Design and Fogart). L) nn Langston. Nancy Mile,. Planning Award-. competition. The com Donna Moran and Charle, Shore,. petition i, open to builders. archuect:>, Carter/Larsen Design Associates ha, The world leader planner,. de,1gner,, and developer,, For moved to 50 I Scarbrough Bldg . Sixth and in roof windows and skylights. additional information, contact 8111/der Congre,,. Au,un 7870 I . (512) 472-4700 maga11ne at (202) 737-0717. Ruben A,kana,e. chairman of the board FRE£ 24 f!.IFCfull June 23-25: "Land<,cape De,1gn." a of Tangent Oil and Ga, Co .• ha, been color bro1:hun: three-day course ,pon,ored by The Idea named to the board of director<, of the Bani-.. m cooperation with OhlO State Uni Falick/Kl ein Partnership, I lou,1on. ver<,ity. will be pre<,ented at Dalla<,· Shera MJol th" wupon Wc"II Donald Laugh1er and Bruce Crock ford ,end }OU • I rte rnr,y of ton Grand Hotel. "Advanced Landscape have Joined the finn a, vice pre'>ident, th" hr,><:hure JnJ J rmcc De:>ign," the second cour<,e in the -.enc,. E:.d\\-ard E. Ju',1 ha, formed Edward l"t 1Nothon 24 huu" will expand on the sk1lb taught m the fir,t Ju<,t Associates,., fim1 ,pcciali,ing in air cour<,e and will be offered at the -.ame loca port and airline facili11e'>. Office'> are at NJmC tion on June 27-29. For addiuonal infor 6451 S1efoni. Dalla-. 75225, (214) 373- mation, contact Stephanie Bond at The 1239. Idea Bani-.., PO Box 23994. Tempe, AZ Jame, B. Polkinghorn. Robert R. Cline, Cuy State 85282, (800) 621-1136. Jr . and Robert A. Gu) have announced VI-LUX AMI RICA INC June 28: Deadline for entne'> in USA the reorgan11at1on of Polkinghorn. Chap- 10610-105 Nc,..kork St ~------·Dalla,, TX 75220 TA 0585 Tna.s Archlltct Ma\'·J1111t /985 Circle 83 on Reader Inquiry Card 83 man. Cline. Guy to Polkinghorn Lubbock. has announced the firm's name Leland K. Turner has joined the Hous Architects. Offices remain at 1101-A change to AC Associates. ton firm Wm. T. Cannady & Associates Capital of Texas Highway South. Suite Jack Hemphill, Inc. has relocated to as project director. 240. Austin 78746, (5 12) 327-9290. 3100 Monticello Ave., Suite 755. Dallas Jeffrey Brown, Craig Reynolds and Hermon Lloyd and Arthur Jones have 75205. Mark Watford have formed Brown announced a change of firm name to Lloyd James M. Davis has announced the for Reynolds Walford Architects with Jones Fillpot Associates. mation of James M. Davis Architects, offices at Muse Air Centre. 3535 Travis Milton Babbitt has founded the firm 8344 E. R.L.Thornton Frwy .. Suite 320. St.. Suite 250. Dallas 75204, (214) 528- Milton Babbitt & Partners, Inc., 205 N. Dallas 75228. (214) 321-6004. 8704. Presa. San Antonio 78205, (5 12) 224- John Bowley has been named partner in The El Paso firm Carroll. DuSang. Han 6904. David Green has been named part charge of architecture of Cloud Design, & Rand has changed its name to Carroll, ner in the firm. Inc., Houston. DuSang and Rand . Richard L. Han has James A. Wit on has been promoted to Solar Design Consultants, Inc., Dallas, resumed his private practice. DuSang and vice president of Foster + Meier has changed its name to Quantum Group Rand will continue as principal partners Architects, Inc., Dallas. Architects and Engineers, Inc. Offices and Carroll will remain a consultant and D. Jeffre> Waters has announced the are at 2550 Walnut Hill Lane. Suite 250, active professional member. formation of Space Professionals, 3000 Dallas 75229, (2 14) 350-2306. Randy Wallenstein has been named Post Oak Blvd .. Suite 1630. Houston Kenneth Pear..on and Arturo Ronquillo head of interior design for the Austin firm 77056. (713) 960-8826. have been named associates in the firm White, Dolce & Barr. William J. Par..ons has been named an George Staten + Associates, Inc., El associate of Pate & Associates, Midland. Paso. 1985 HANDBOOK ERRATA Hail) A. Golemon, president and chair RTKL Associates, Inc. has announced Stephen J. Smith of the Dallas firm man of Colemon & Rolfe Associates, the opening of a Washington D.C. office. Stephen Smith Architect is a full member Inc., has been elected chairman of the 30 International and Raleigh Cycles rather than an associate member. Texa., Hi'>torical Commission. (Malaysia) Bhd. have announced the Fran!. H. Sherwood of CRS Sirrine, The Austin Group Architects ha pro establi hment of a jointly owned com Inc.,Fort Worth, was listed incorrectly as mored Karol Keib to marketing manager. pany, 3D/I (MaJa)sia) Sdn . Bhd ., with a member of the Aus1in chapter ra1her than A1che on. Cartwright & Associates, headquaners in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia. the Fort Worth Chapter. WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN ... This may be the most important card you t) ~p,.~ ~su \.)~ \ ofl.O Qrcle 84 on Reader lnqu ry Card Tews Archllect Ma,··June 1985 Pella gives classic beauty a brand new outlook. With Pella Custom Glazing Systems, and is energy tight. And Pella's design, fabrication and installation the face might be out of the past, exdusive design features, like Pella throughout Texas. To see the differ but the efficiency is there for Clad maintenance free exterior ence Pella can make in your next the future. frames and panels, assure you a renovation, call: Pella custom makes all of its Pella Glazing System will weather window systems to be an exact fit time as gracefully as the building Houston(713) 895-7150 • From the smallest casement wrth you're specifying tt for. Dallas ~ Pella's built~n Rolscreen• to Monu On projects of commercial or (214) 647-4321 • mental windows, Pella provides institutional complexity and scale, San Antonio you with everything you need to Pella offers ardlitectural services, (512) 735-2030 insure your renovation looks right technical assistance, special Only Pella offers It all. Circle 85 on Reader Inquiry Card :R,OET. .A~ES COOK: Ryan + Henry Architects, 2211 South Interregional, Suite 308, Austin 78741, should be listed under Austin Firms. Aaron del Pozo, 1902 Larchmont Dr., Austin 78704, is a full member rather than an associate member. ETA Associates, 1825 Fonview Road, Architectural Photography Suite 107. Austin 78704. should be listed under Austin Firms. Lei L. Medford Associates, 1415 Studio 634-7196 2608 Irving Blvd. Dallas, Texas 75207 Howard Dr., Tyler 7570 I, should be listed Circle 71 on Reader Inquiry Card under Nonheast Texas Firms. Mark G. Anderson, Architects Developers Contractors, 7200 Quaker. Suite 41, Lubbock 79424. should be listed under Lubbock Firms. Carl H. Tune Associates, Inc. , 3308 Oak Grove, Dallas 75204, should be listed under Dallas Firms. Micro Mode, Inc. of San Antonio, which spcciali,es in A/E software, offers /111egrated Acco1111ti11g Software, micro computer-based accounting software for architects and engineers. In addition, Micro M ode Inc. offers Preliminary Cost Estimate and Income Property Analysis, two new packages designed by Ken Rehler. president of the San Antonio chap ter. 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NATIONAL TERRAZZO ANO MOSAIC ASSOCIATION, INC. #4~ PO Box 45707 Exchange Park Station 31 66 DES PLAINES AVENUE, SUITE 15, DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS 60018 Dallas Texas 75245 ILLINOIS (312) 635-n44 TOLL FREE (800) 323-9736 214 272-8084 88 Qrcle 88 on Reader Inquiry CaJd Tew-. Arcl111ec·1 Ma1··June 1985 TREATY OAK SQUARE, AUSTIN, OTERI , TISDALE. GAYLE This $10 million office-relail con dominium development by Carter lnve,t ments is sited near downtown in the boom ing West Sixth Street corridor one or Austin's "urban neighborhood," that includes homes, condominium,. retail and offices. Surrounded by existing cottages and storefront facades, the large project is broken into several buildings of compalt ble architecture. Sem,itively sited to address the building line or nearby stores, the project's mall directly front', Sixth with parking in the rear. Building, wmp around courtyards and path, with views of nearby Treaty Oak, the 600-year-old tree recog m1ed a, the site where Stephen F. Au,tin ,1gned treaties with Indians. Pha-,e I is scheduled for completion in August. Trear,, Olli< Square Moving? Let us know 4-6 weeks in ad- vance so you won't miss any copies of TA Please include a copy of the old label. Attach Label MESA WEST, AUSTIN. taposi1ton with the ,quare cut Au'llin ARQUITECTONICA, HOUSTON stone. Redd1<,h round-masonry column'> support the second floor, which is cantile vered to communicate the free-floating New Address: The ,econd of Pnncipium·., office and effect. Bernardo Fort-Brescia. principal of Name retail developments by Arquitecton1ca (the Arquitecton1ca, say!. he wanted to exploit Company fir<,t i, in Hou<,ton), Austin'!> Mesa West: the use of native stone, a traditional load Address Better Home and Living Center\ will bearing material. by u<,ing it on cantile attempt to attract tenant<, providing pro vered wall, to make them appear to float 111 City Stale Zip ducl't and services related to personal liv 1-pace. Located in an area of strip centers ing and working '>pace A thin hori,ontal developed in the '70'> in northwest Ausltn, Mall To: ,lab of lime,tonc floats above two cur Mesa WcM 1<, cheduled to open in the Texas Architect vilinear free-form volume, of teal-green spring. 1400 Norwood Tower <,tucco and gla,,. Square windows with Austin, Texas 78701 Arquitectonica and Prinicipium also arc the firrn'1, trademark red mullion, appear working on an Austin townhou'>c project. randomly and irregularly in juxta 90 Tnm Ard111ett MIi\ June /9115 litches just love new phone systems. But they hate Southwestern Bell/ISi- information Systems Integrators. Our telecommunication systems consultants can help you create a glitch-free system perfect for your needs. Affordable today, updateable tomorrow. Unlike other telecommunications consultants, the recommendations we make concern the features and capabilities you need, not the supplier you should use. 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The structure explores classical Roman vocabulary, and uses traditional Ofjict' buildin~ Mediterranean linkages and spaces such as ection of three lower floors with heavy Scheduled for completion in summer colonades, atrium and plazas. The build appearing massing, and the more gla1ed 1986. ing is divided into two parts: a carved-out top two floors that look airy and light. RIDER HOUSE, ROLLINGWOOD; CLOVIS HEIMSATH, FAYETTEVILLE As with much of the firm's work, the Rider House reflects the Texas regional vernacu lar. Red1scovenng the much-admired and rare tradition of Octagon houses, the Rider hou<;e will be built in native stone with quoin details and capped with an elaborate hipped and gabled roof. Sited in an Austin ,uburb of custom homes, the house is R,der HmHe <,chcduled for completion in 1985. 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Glasbord-P and Fire-X Glasbord are Look for the ~ / , colored !~read on the bock® available in eight USDA-accepted ~ 11 s your assurance colors, standard sizes and in extra / you hove G/asbord frp long lengths for seamless installations. / panels FOR MORE INFORMATION AND SAMPLES CONTACT: Southwest Vault Builders, Inc. 126 Oregon Avenue • Dallas, Texas 75203 214/ 948-1431 Circle 93 an Reader lnqu,ry Card THREE PROJ I CTS. AUSTll'IJ AND GON/'.Al IS. l ARR\ SPI 0, \ND \SSOCI i\Tl 5 The Tu,can) Located in a fine. in,to\\n rc,idential di, trict. th" J 1-untt apanmcnt project a,pires to incrca'>I! den,uy and allude to 1he area ·s fine Italian Renaissance pubhc and rc!'li · dcnual building, Grouped around a coun )atd and ,urrounded by deep. open log- gia,. the Robcn Bam,tone developmcnl Thr Tuscan> u,c, ma,onry load-bearing wall,. with a preca,1 concrete ,panning ')'tern Ba,c and third floor opening, on the hookend and trim arc of local!) quarried limc,tone ponion, of the facude Scheduled for com judiciou,ly u,ed ,o a, 10 be onl) ,lightly pletion in June. more e,pcm,ive than bncl.. Upper two tloor-. arc a ,11riegated hull hricl.. and the roof i, 1erra·cotta colored tile. A scne-. of I I I I drtail Jrom jr,t':r ~,.. un sr, ,,,.,/ m,J 1l11,J h,e frie,e, will be located between -.ccond p .... ,. / .alr -\1111111 flm,1r l al..e Au,tin I lou...c hut over 220 feet long. The villa i, a m1uo and dmmg in a pala110 all hnled with Stted on Au,1in', fahled und Meepl) co,m of the ""'Ii:,,..., Tu,can .. ,ocabulal) bcnncd interior pathwa>, £-,tenor wall, ,lopcd Mt . Bonnell o-.erh)(ll.:ing Lale e,tahh,hcd in Au,tin b) I redend; Mann. arc limc,tone in plane. ,awn and ,pht-facc Au,tin. thi,, ilia of h,e ,mall pa"ilion, i, C"a" G1lben. Ruben Leon Wh11e. and fini,he, Scheduled Im completion in Sep ,1rung along a ndge to minimi,e damage Paul C"ret. Each ol the pa\lhon, hou,c, tcmber IO 1he hnl\!,tone ,uh,tra1a. The hu1lding, related function,: hath in a hapti,11)/cal are le,, 1han :?.5 leet wide in mo,t pl,1ce,. darium: bcdroo1m in ,imple hut,: lh ing Gon,ale, C1v1c Center Gon1-:llc,. in 5outh-Centr.ll Texa,. ha, an unu,ual cruciform town plan that John Rep, ha, called an ingeniou, ,ariant to the cla"ic Texa, grid. The ,itc for the civic center i, at the intcr..ect1on ol the I 9th-cen tury plan and the more recent highway onented development. Echoing the town plan, the double axe, of 1he center form a cnw, \1o,able panition, ,cpar..ite out ,malier volumes for function, lil.:e theater. meeting,. and ,tock ,how,. The image of the building i, al,o integrated with it, function,. pan barn. pan church. pan puh hc build mg. The design ha, been appnl\:cd by the Cit) and await, funding. fru11 ,\re hilt"< I \l,n •Ju11t• /Y~f 198-5 TEXJ\S 1\HCIIITECTLTHE FOR IIEALTII DESIGN AWARDS - The TEXAS SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS PURPOSE This program ms been created to pro The other pages shall include photographs (m color or in cooperation with the mote public interest 1n health-related arch1ledure. and to black and v.il1le) sufficient Jo clearly show the proiect. both recogmze excellence 1n design This 1s the inauguration of inside and oul. with no more than two images per page TEXAS HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION a program v.tuch WIii be repeated rNery lwo years is issuing a Plans and drawings reduced to av.· x 11" sufl1c1en1 to ELIGIBILITY AND AUTHORSHIP fully desCl1be lhe pro)ed must also be included North Any completed architectural or interior architecture pro)ed shall be 1nd1caled on all plans A graphic scale should be CALL v.11h a maior health-related ctlflWlenl located in Texas. included on all drawings or designed by a Texas firm 1s eligible Pro)eds must have Rendenngs will nol be accepled as a subsl1lule lor been completed with an occupancy perrml dated prior to photographs ol lhe actual proiect bul may be included 1I FOR June 1, 1985 and cannol have been completed prior to the enlrant !eels they provide useful add1honal inlormalion January 1. 1980 Any proiect may be subiect to d1squahhcat1on at the ENTRIES All ent11es meach category shall be protects designed sole d1scret,on of the 1ury, 1I 1I feels the subm1ss1on does by TSA members Entries are eligible even though the nol completely or accurately desCl1be lhe pro1ec1 subrmtting arch1ted or interior designer may not be the Finally. the concealed ident1hcat1on lorm (provided in sole participant 1n the design All part1C1panls substan the su0011ss,on requirements packet). v.il1ch will include tially cont11buting to the design must be given lull credit the 1denhty ol the architect. owner. consultants. locahon. tor lhetr role as part of the su0011ss,on and a person lo nol1ly. will be placed 1n a sealed envelope with no extenor marking and will be taped 1ns1de anolher CATEGORIES Awards may be given in any or acetale sleeve al the back of the binder The entrant's all of the follov.1ng categones A single protect may 1denhhcat1on shall nol be rrNealed 1n any way on the be entered in more than one category upon payment of binder or within the submission separate entry lees · HOSPITAL DESIGN: to include any type ol AWARDS AND AWARD WINNERS acute care or 1npa11en1 care pro)eds located in a h0sp1tal. The winners will be nohhed ,n September Certificates or the design of a h0sp1tal will be sent to the designers and owners ol lhe · MEDICAL SPECIALTY DESIGN: v.1n111ng pro1ects co1nc1dent wilh lhe Texas Society of Architects Annual meeting 1n For1 Worth m October to 1nchlde pro)eds v.1lh a veiy specialized focus. such as ped1at11c. psychiat11c. research. or medical technology To delray display and publicity costs. the winners will designs be assessed $250 for each award v.1nning pro1ec1 and · LONG TERM CARI: to include nursing must submit 12 copies ol an 8 x 10" black and v.il1te glossy horres. skilled or handicapped extended care tac1lilies. photo ol the proiecl. no later than October 20. 1985 housing for the retarded and the like W1nneis will prepare 40 x 40" boards lo be exh1b1ted al · OUTPATIENT CARI: to include proiects the 1986 TSA and THA meelings. and inlormahon will be w 1h no overnight beds. such as phyStcian·s 0H1ces. sur released to home lown newspapers and publications The gicenters. 1mag1ng centers. dimes. HMO's and suburban award winners WIii be published 1n Texas Architect maga prnnary care centers zine in the Spring of 1986 · INTERIORS: lo include any health related protect ENTRY FIi An entry fee ol S100 1s required lor v.nose pnoopal locus 1s the design of interior space, each pro)ed submitted Su0011ss1on of one pro1ec1 in two graphics and lurn1sh1ngs calegones requ,res an entry lee for each category in v.il1ch · HEALTH AND WELLNESS: lo include the proiect 1s submitted Fees must be postmarked no any prevenlivc medicine facthty health clubs. aerobics later than June 20 Checks or money orders shall be centers athlelic dubs and other pro1ects whose p11nc1ple made payable to the Texas Society of Architects. t 400 focus 1s the maintenance ol health Norwood Tower Austin. Texas 78701 No enlry lee will be SUBMISSION Upon payment ol an entry tee refunded (SlOO lproJed) postmarked no later than June 20. 1985. SCHIDUU each entrant will receive a packet with the su0011ss,on June 20 Entry lees must be postmarked requuements and a data sheet to be returned with the August 20 Subm1ss1ons musl be postmarked su0011ss,on All necessary forms will be provided September Jury review nohhcahoo of winners The data sheet will ask for information relating to pro1- October 20 Publicity photos and assessment checks ed program. schedule. cost and square loolage It will be duealTSA returned in a three nng binder containing no more than October 31 Announcement ol winners to co1nc1de with 14 other SW x 11· pages of information on the pro1ect. 1n TSA Annual Meeting d('.lr acetate sleeves {uSlng only the front ol each page) A narrative. desCl1b1ng the problem and 1ls solution. will be lim: ted to one ol those pages. uS1ng normal single spaced typing {no photo reduction) with at least 1· margins Circle 95 on Reader Inquiry Card - r----I 1 . -----[-EXHIBITION OF I I I I I -_ RCHITECTURE FOR - r-- -- ___ _; I I I L ]HEALTH I I I I I I .. _ :DALLAS _L______,=.:: .\ ______J CONVENTION I CENTER I I I I I - L------1 DALLAS I I JUNE 3-5, 1985 Texas Hospital Association in cooperation with the Texas Society of Architects and the American Hospital Association. For rules and entry forms contact: Gerry Starnes, Director, Convention Exhibits P.O. Box 15587, Austin, Texas 78761 , 512 / 453-7204 Clfcle 96 on Reader Jnqu,ry Card NOW AVAILABLE! 1985 TSA HANDBOOK • The only roster of Texas architecture firms • The only roster of members of the Texas Society of Architects-85% of the state's registered architects • Complete listings by city and region contains the firm name, architect's name, mailing address and phone number Order your copy by sending a check for $45 to: Texas Society of Architects, 1400 198S HANDBOOK Norwood Tower, Austin , Texas 78736. TEXAS Scx:lETYo/ ARCHITECTS INDEX OF ADVERTISERS Architex1 Bookstore ...... 76 Archi1ec1ure for Health ...... 95 Association Adminis1rators & Consultan1s . 84 Assurance Services ...... 78 Barren Industries ...... 89 Baxter Construction Co...... 30 _J_ Ben Tex Construc1ion Corp...... 80 Attention All 1985 Bowman and Moreno Tile ...... !BC Exam Candidates. Boyd Calcula1or Company ...... 76 Rob1. Ames Cook ...... 86 Hugh Cunningham ...... 77 Dean Lumber Company ...... • . . . 33 D'Hanis Clay Products ...... IFC Elgin-Butler Brick Co...... 3 Eljer Plumbingware ...... 34-35 Engineered Components, Inc...... 79 J.C. Evan\ Cons1ruc1ion Co...... 4 Featherlite Building Products Corp ...... 75 Great Southern Supply ...... • ...... 38 Whether you arc planning to Herc arc highlights of tbe two Gyp Cre1e/Brekke O1s1...... 12 NCARB's Ull ~ t9ft,$Aff"h'1"'1 R<("-lrllOOO E•• aA utklill H•ndbOOk I• pt11bli•M!d t,y thf' Pavex Concrete Paver, ...... 6 ...., .....1C'HftCilOfArchltc<'tU,.I ac(t:t- 1r•tt0111 ...Nb ...... w.iio.wpt o -4..-ttU PaveMone ...... 32 totditltwry Pella Products ...... 85 h)'.,.,1t ....,, 1M' 1ac1udrd • 1th Ol"lkr .,.4,.,...._..,...,,...-ttpeNI l:"don-.ot 6d1w, , • .....,, VOLUME QUANTITY TOTAL C. Selzer & Son, ...... BC Simplex ProduCI\ Oiv1,ion ...... 15 e $60.00 Set of two Volumes Sixth Floor/Contract Design ...... 20 21 Volume l (covering Divisions A.B.CJ $45.00 Solaroll Shade & Shuner ...... 2 Southwest Vauh Builder,. Inc ...... 93 $25.00 Volume 2 (covering Divisions D lhru I) Southwcs1em Bell Telephone ...... 14 Price lnl"ludcs UPS postage Total Southwestern Bell Telecom ...... 91 Name ______Sou1hwcst Terrauo Assoc ...... 88 The Spec Solution ...... 30 S1endig Intema1ional . . • • ...... 8 l Addtt'i!I ------Stewart ·s ...... • . . . . • . . 98 City ______.-..:s:..:ta.::.,;;,;e;__t _ _ _z;;,.1:;.p ______Tempgla~s Southern ...... 3 l Temple Eastex ...... •.. . . 10 Make checks payable 10: NCARB Texa~ Ga, Utili1ies ...... 29 Texas Masonry lns1itute ...... 8- 9 Mail order rorm along w/check 10: Thoro Sys1em Product, . . . . • ...... 36 37 -- TEXAS SOC IETY OF ARCHITECTS Tribble & Stephens ...... 82 1400 Nonrnod Tower Austin, Texas 78701 Velux America. Inc ...... 83 512/478-7386 Wallpapers, Inc...... 86 Won-Door Corp...... • ...... • . . 26- 27 DAVE HRADl:;\; :\tl'Sl~(,S OFFER UP AN OCCASIONAL PRAYER I knew II was bound to happen. I of the Southwest, and Scholz's 0 I.new it a long ume ago. wa} back Beer Garden, )OU re luck) 1fyou in m) youth. when I brought m) onl) boom! LEADING CONTRACT DEALERS for bride to Deep Edd) on the banks The boom Maned when the) of the Colorado. and began double-decl..ed 1-35, making it COMMERCIAL and HEALTH/SCIENCE INTERIORS opum1sucally- 1he ,tud) of easier for more people to get in arch11ec1ure I knew II w~ sure to and through. and built MoPac. happen because m) Dad told me which made II easier to get Representing f ine fun1 ish ings by about that song the) sang dunng around. The boom ""as noticed the first World War: .. Ho"' ·re ""hen the White House moved to HERMAN MILLER OFFICE SYSTEMS You Gonna Keep ·em Do"'n On the Pedemale, and LBJ and Lad) The Fann After The) ·ve Seen Bird held coun. Once you see HERMAN MILLER Paree·>.. Au sun. you want to stay forever HEALTH / SCIENCE SYSTEMS o place as beauuful. wonder Boom! KIMBALL • ARTEC • GUNLOCKE • GF ful. folk}. funk). and manelous And thus II came to pas~ that a, Au,tin ""as in the Fantastic ""hile the cny planned not THE Fon1es could ever hope to remain UNIVERSITY became one of the a secret Pretty soon the "'ord world clas,. co-eds ""em topless would teal and It would BOOAf' at Banon·'>. the ight Ha""k Ho"" could the world resist a moved awa) from the Fon) Acre~ hill countr) ,o....,n with a lake right (where do you get a Size Royal in the middle of it ""ith ab,olutel) the,e da}s'~). remnants of the h1p 1101hi11g around it'? How could the p1e movement sold Pal..1stani world, once let in. re 1st huevos Je....,elr, on the street off the Drag, ranchero, for breakfa-.1 at C"co· s South Congre" became JUnl.. Baker)? How could anyone who cit). the LBJ L1bral) auracted ever had a hamburger at Din) ,cholar\ and poh11c1an,. Mount Manin·, do an)thing but Kum Bonnell sprouted affluence, Wal BacJ..·> ler Creel.. ,uffered urban de,ign, How could Cl/I\ developer see the Cit) Council became the the vie"' off the top of Mount poliucal equivalent of the Bonnell ....,i,hout going into -.ome T1msw, and the Attorne) General l..ind of frenz) about building \pee became funnier than the Gover hou,e, for doctor.. and la....,)er.? nor and the Legl\lature Yea. ver Ho"" could you ever dive into ily. beloved. the mult11ude com Banon Spring, on an Augu,t eth from miles around and 11 afternoon ""1thout wanung to la)eth bacl.. And Boom' and offering complete services of ,pend the re,1 of )Our hfe in that We can't be again'1 boom, ""onderful place·>Surel). if there becau-.e ""e are pan of the pro Facility Planning • Product Procurement i-. a heaven. it mu,1 be a lot like ces, There are -.1111 ve,uge, of Total Installation Au"in ....,a, in the '40,. tho,e things remembered and It wa, ine\ltable that thi, place loved. and we do go back Shed Used Furniture Disposal offunn) governor.. funnier legl'i no tear.. for tho<,e ""ho live in Ciontract Labor Services lator., Z1lker Parl... Hamilton·, Boomto""n Au,11n-bu1 do offer Pool. and .. Hool.. 'em Hom,·· up an occa<.1onal prayer for their ""ould eventual!) get Its of ,hare future! I" of the homogeniuuon of America Soonerorlater, 11..new, Co11mbt111111( edaor Dare Bradt·11 Stewart: Contract Interiors the) would run a high""a) is prindpal i11 the Dallm firm St.ewart OfCice Supply Compall) Inc through fa) Barue, · farm, Willie Dahl Bradt'n PTM IOI South Lamar Strret/ Nebon ""ould get famous. Darrell Dallas Texllt! 75202 ""ould retire, and John Henr) Faull.. ""ould make it big on Hee Ha"" When }Ou've got orange 214 747 8581 ,1ree1 ,1gn,. an orange ,o....,er. or,mge blood, anificial moon Ctrcle 98 on Reader Inquiry Card light. the Hom,. the Sho....,band 98 Tnm Arc/111n1 MO\ ·lime /985 Office Building Lobby Bologna, Italy, with Fiandre Ceramic Granite·"' UNEQUALLED technical and aesthetic Qualities make Fiandre ceramic Granite·· an ideal solution for walls or floors. outstanding for high visibility areas sub ject to continuous wear. Available polished or unpolished in a harmonious range of colors, this fine porcelain stone ware has extraordinary strength, durability, abrasion and acid resistance. Absolutely frost-proof. Look for Fiandre·s VERSATILES in airports, banks, office buildings, and Industrial facilities. BOWMAN TILE SUPPLY MORENO BRICK & TILE Houston, Texas (713) 462-2358/462-1390 Dallas, Texas 75212 • (2141638,7127 TX Walls 1-800-392 9801 Dallas • Amarillo • El Paso Houston • San Antonio • Corpus Christi • Austin Lubbock • Midland/Odessa CASJELLARANO AMORE CERMICt-1: St)(\ etr.. 50 on RNdlf' Inquiry Cw Gl R BURSON, FAIA Since 1978. when C. Richard Everett became Burson&. Cox Architects, Inc. company president. Houston-based Century I >,ilia, Development Corporation has won more than 30 Rodger Burson architectur.il and landscape design awards, In 20 )Car, of architectural pracuce. Rodger Bur including live TSA Honor Award,. Specializing son h.,, earned a reputation as a leader in the field m mixed-use developments, oflice buildings, of l11stori, preservation and design. Testaments hotels, and high-rise condominiums. Century to Im, ahiht) include the Texas Schoolbool. Development under l:.verett's leadership has n posrtol). Cumberland High School, the Dal become one of the country's be<,t-known real !.,. . l,, 1..cgal Center, and Old City Park . Burson e,tate development, construction, marketing, 111ploy innovative design techniques while and management companies. A gr.iduatc of Rice 111J111tn1 in, the integnty of origmal structures. Universny and the University of California at -· I{ cent proJccts include the restoration of the Berkeley, Everett ha, been active in civic organi- ( I xns ( ovcmor·s Mansion and the Tarrant 1ations seeking to improve the quality of life in Jack M . Corgan ( ount) C, urthouse Hrs lirrn ha'> won 17 de!-.rgn Houston. Everett charred the steering committee '" irds m ,late and local competition. He hm, that formed Central Houston. Inc., a group plan h Id omen m the Dallas Chapter, is a member ning and promoting llouston'l> central business , f th Dallas County Heritage Society. and i, a d1<,trict. He serve!-. on the Executive Planning fo1111cr mcmller of the Dalla'> County Hrstonc Group of Center Houston. a group forrnrng and ( omm1s~1on He has also worl.cd as a consultant implementing a downtown ma<,ter plan . Everett 111 restoration for adaptive reu,e and has had is a frequent ,peal.er locally and nationally on \ ori.:s featured m numerous bool.s and journals. real estate development. integr.1ted-facili11es design, and management issues.