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MASTER PLANNING

OFFICE - MIXED-USE

HOSPITALITY

MULTIFAMILY - MIXED-USE & SENIOR LIVING

OUR APPROACH

MUNOZ ALBIN ARCHITECTS

In charge of the design of the project and will generate all the basic and detailed ideas to creatively formulate an architectural solution to the program, site realities, budget, city, client, and manager expectations.

ARCHITECTURE PLANNING

ARCHITECTURE PLANNING

Assist in the understanding, interpretation, and forecast of all applicable code regulations and will contribute with experience of construction methodology used locally.

ARCHITECT OF RECORD

INTERIOR DESIGN

Project

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MID-RISE AND LOW-RISE TYPOLOGIES

master planning

LEVY PARK MASTER PLAN

Master Plan - Levy Park (Completed)

Residential - Avenue Grove (Completed)

Office and Retail - Kirby Grove (Completed)

Office and Retail - Kirby Grove 2 (2025)

Houston, Texas

Client Levy Park Conservancy Midway

Master Plan OJB

Munoz Albin Architects

Park Design OJB

Completion 2016

Levy Park was once hidden away in Houston’s Upper Kirby neighborhood in need of renovation. As the neighborhood’s only public green space, it was important that Levy Park become accessible and densely programmed with a focus on multi-use spaces. Munoz + Albin and OJB Landscape Architecture transformed the 5.9 acres into an urban park that leverages environmental and social sustainability practices and serves as a premiere destination for the region.

The project involved master planning the site for an urban park, an office building, and a multifamily project. Existing land parcels were swapped and re-platted to achieve the overall program, conciliating sometimes conflicting public and private interests. The Levy Park project responds very closely to the immediate context and program and includes unique planning solutions that are tied to the site, program, and the new buildings.

The project’s components – park, office building, and multifamily – completely transformed the area into a world-class urban public space. Levy Park has become a center of community activity for the area, achieved through the careful positioning of the buildings and their massing to promote sunlight, as well as the intense programming of the park and the integration of an extensive children’s area, two activity lawns, a performance pavilion, dog park, community garden (urban harvest), and promenade. A renovated streetscape provides an inviting environment and strengthens pedestrian and vehicular connectivity to the park, while the promenade, lined with trees, food trucks, game carts, and moveable furniture, circles the park and creates synergy and connections among the various spaces.

Class A office space with extensive retail use, residential space, and dining

amenities were integrated on two of the park’s corners to provide complementary amenities for park patrons. The buildings’ pedestrian access were carefully placed to enhance park activation, and both the office and multifamily buildings maintain a continuous high level of occupancy. The lower levels of the office building contain double height collaborative loft office spaces and a trading floor, with tree canopy views and a strong visual relationship to the park. The multifamily building, with interior public spaces designed by team member MaRS, has an articulated massing towards the park, affording park views to a large percentage of units. Amenity spaces were located on top of the garage podium looking at the park.

Levy Park was a close collaboration between the City of Houston, Upper Kirby Management District, and Midway Companies. The project was highly complex, and our team played a key role from project inception through delivery. The team engaged in extensive programming studies and community workshops to ensure that the community was heard and their needs were accommodated.

The park design was planned around the centrally located children’s garden, which has an ADA

accessible tree house platform that spans across legacy live oaks, which were preserved and relocated on site and create a canopy that reduces the site’s temperatures by an estimated ten degrees. Additional sustainable features include 3.3 acres of permeable surface, locally sourced materials, and a rain garden and community garden, both of which have capabilities to harvest and reuse storm water. The office building was awarded LEED Gold status.

Project quality was an ongoing process that began with a clear project definition. Our team maintained strict control of budget and quality through all phases of the project, starting at Conceptual Design through to construction.

TECHNOLOGY PARK MASTER PLAN

Office Buildings and Retail Mixed-Use

Confidential

Client Hines

Size

Area: 20 Acres

13 Buildings

4 Phases

Total Area: 9,550,000 SF

Retail: 295,000 SF

Completion

2021 (Study)

The Technology Park Master Plan is an ambitious development plan for a new technology hub workplace. The project will create a new sustainable urban district that capitalizes on its proximity to a lake and other adjacent tech-based commerce. This multi-phase development will benefit from its proximity to the lake with its sweeping views and natural attributes. The development will provide an exceptional lifestyle work environment, along with daily conveniences and retail opportunities contributing to a vibrant expanding community and tech sector growth.

The development will incorporate the newest thinking in tech park design. Reliability of power, robust infrastructure, data security, and mechanical systems are all part of the hidden infrastructure that will set this development apart from its predecessors. The development’s team has the added benefit and understanding of international standards and marketplace demand to better design buildings that suit a wider range of users and future tenants.

The master plan exercise culminated in a 550-page report and movie. The expansive report covers topics like site analysis, design approach, landscape strategies, development strategies, parking strategies, tower design and floor plates, traffic analysis, MEP and utility distribution, civil reports, and sustainability concepts.

LAKE

CITYCENTRE EXPANSION

Office Towers, Multifamily, and Retail Mixed-Use

Houston, Texas

Client Midway

Architect of Record

Kirksey Architects

Size

325,600 SF

Completion

Partially completed 2022

Midway, owners of the CityCentre Development, acquired the last block of the old Town and Country office and mall in 2016. The development, located north of central CityCentre, attracts top-tier corporations to its revitalized mixed-use development. We have several completed projects in the area with Midway, so when Marathon Oil approached us to recommend an amenity-rich spot to relocate their headquarters, CityCentre was one of our top suggestions. The neighborhood is an urban oasis that is sophisticated and well planned, as well as a very attractive place to work. Marathon Oil was very concerned with workforce retention and work life balance, and for this reason they selected to relocate there.

The master plan divided up the block into four parcels. One parcel was dedicated to a communal park space that could be shared between Marathon Oil’s office building and the CityCentre Six office building. Both buildings would position their lobbies off the park. This park would join the larger master plan of CityCentre northward. Almost the entire ground floor under the CityCentre Six tower is dedicated to retail.

The retail fronts and patios spill out onto the landscaped plaza under cover of a protected colonnade. The main entrance is at the center point of the building and its entrance sequence flows through two sets of colossal V-shaped columns. Two office level terraces also open toward the plaza.

The remaining parcel is slated for another podium style office building or multifamily building in the coming years.

CALGARY MIXED-USE COMPLEX

Multifamily, Fitness, Grocer, and Retail Mixed-Use

Calgary, Canada

Client Hines / MATCO

Size

Residential Units: 501

Retail: 58,400 SF²

Completion 2016 Study

An imperative component of the building composition of this mixed-use residential, retail, and public realm complex is the public plaza on the west near Westbrook Station. The overall massing of the project embraces and cradles the public plaza. The building on the south shifts direction as it passes over a pedestrian zone to acknowledge the presence and position of the train station.

The three residential buildings fold over the podium connecting the mass with the public realm. The principal retail component in the project is a medium-size supermarket, prominent of the lateral street of project.

MIXED USE MASTER PLAN

Office, Multifamily, Hotel, and Retail Mixed-Use

Confidential

Size 17.5 Acres

9 Buildings Office, Residential, Retail, Hotel, and Park Space

2 Million SF Rentable

Completion 2020 (Study)

This comprehensive redevelopment master plan consists of multiple phased office buildings, hotel, multifamily buildings, central retail area, and park space.

MCNAIR PLAZA MASTER PLAN

Office Tower, Multifamily, Hotel, Condo, and Retail Mixed-Use

Houston, Texas

Client Patrinely

Size

Residential Units: 320

Condominium Units: 80

Hotel Keys: 250

Office Area: 400,000 SF

Retail Area: 19,500 SF

Parking: 2400 Cars

Completion 2016 (Study)

The design team was challenged with creating a master plan that incorporates a unique urban space that sensibly connects retail, office, hotel, and multifamily components with civic/community exhibition space. The master plan also includes a central plaza to serve as a major civic and community exhibition space and park area. The site of the McNair Plaza Master Plan is the gateway to the Uptown Galleria area of Houston, where there is a significant leap in the quality of the urban space and feeling of the neighborhood as you travel north on Post Oak Boulevard.

Our master plan design was selected through a design competition against other leading architectural firms. We created a vision with the public in mind and an eye toward the future. At the heart of our project is a bold and dynamic public plaza, which is as important as the architectural design of the buildings. All of the lobbies for the various building and retail spaces are directly connected to the plaza, which is the lifeblood of the whole development. This design endeavors to become an iconic destination filled with people and vivacity – the central unifying area from which future buildings will rise.

CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS CAMPUS

Office Towers, Multifamily, Hotel, Condo, and Retail Mixed-Use

Confidential Location

Client Confidential

Size

Office Area: 400,000 SF

Hotel Keys: 250

Residential Units: 400

Retail Area: 40,000 SF

Completion

2017 (Study)

Adjacent to an existing lake and highway in a Midwestern city in the United States, this master plan accommodates a corporate campus, as well a series of mixed-use buildings to create a community of live-work-play.

The components include corporate headquarters buildings, additional speculative office buildings, hotel, conference center, fitness center, retail/venue pavilion, and multifamily buildings – all organized around a central park adjacent to the water. The hotel and conference center, along with the park, will create a sense of place and destination. The corporate buildings will face the lake and part of the public side of the project.

INDIANAPOLIS MASTER PLAN

Office Buildings, Senior Living, Hotel, Multifamily, and Retail Mixed-Use

Carmel, Indiana

Client Hines

Size

Area: 78.48 Acres

Office: 715,000 SF

Multifamily Units: 1,400

Senior Living Units: 200

Retail: 120,000 SF

Hotel: 164,000 SF

Completion 2021 (Study)

CNO Financial Group is headquartered in Carmel, a suburb of Indianapolis. The master plan included all of the contiguous land that they own and operate, an irregular shaped parcel of 78.48 acres. In its current state, the land is broken into three large parcels with low density office buildings surrounded by open air parking lots and water detention ponds. The master plan is a study of the potential parcellation, utilization, and organization of the land and roadways. Many options were developed and studied over the course of the master planning process. The master plan is centered around the notion that CNO will potentially build a new headquarters building. Locating the optimal site for this office building, in conjunction with plazas and other uses like multifamily and retail zones, was paramount. Also, considerations for growth and the selling off of land were part of the study.

The master plan design aimed to create something special, a community centered around pedestrian flow and use. The design separates vehicular and pedestrian uses with perimeter roadways and internal park spaces and greenways. The buildings are intended to open themselves toward communal parks. When the parks are aggregated over time, a series of trails and waterways will combine into two main axis ways. The combination of retail offerings and coexisting use groups of multifamily and office would reduce parking demands. The master plan, if ever fully realized, will become a destination and novel urban model for Indianapolis.

OLD MARKET EAST OMAHA MASTER PLAN

Office Tower, Multifamily, Hotel, Condo, and Retail Mixed-Use

Omaha, Nebraska

Client Hines

Conagra

Size

Residential Units: 1,000+

Hotel Keys: 200

Condo Units: 250

Office: 360,000 SF

Retail: 85,000 SF

Completion

Partially Completed 2020

The project is located on the current Conagra Campus next to Conagra Lake in the Heartland of the Americas Park. The site lies east of the Old Market area, an active retail and restaurant region with distinctive architectural and urban character. As is the case in many urban areas with well-defined architectural character, the Old Market area has become a fashionable area in Omaha with intense pedestrian, restaurant, and bar activity.

The master plan capitalizes on the success of the area and further enhances the urban experience by creating an extension of the Old Market with a new destination to provide urban views of the lake and fountain. The master plan design will also improve the connection to the park.

The current campus was designed as a suburban development with isolated buildings in a parklike setting, which prevented integration with the city west of the campus. The new master plan proposes a continuation of the city grid to allow for urban integration with the Old Market area.

HILTON EMBASSY SUITES

PUNE OFFICE PARK MASTER PLAN

Office Buildings, Bio-Diversity Park, Hotel, and Retail Mixed-Use

Pune, India

Client Hines

Size

42.5 Acres

Total Area: 4,550,000 SF

14 Buildings

4 Phases

Completion

2021 (Study)

India is experiencing a technology boom and Pune is at the center of that rapid development. The master plan’s main objective is to build multiple office buildings on this irregular shaped site. A beautiful and natural creek bed runs through the site where a central bio reserve, accessible to the public, will be the centerpiece of the development. The master plan included the protection of the creek’s banks and flora. Vehicular access needed to be thoughtful and well placed not to interfere with the natural beauty of the site.

The design can be broken into three clusters of buildings. The main cluster is a ring of office buildings with the bio reserve at its core. An oval shaped elevated platform connects these towers perched on the ridges, like a bowl. All the views face inward with direct connection to the walkway, hovering in the tree canopies. There are multiple connection points where the oval links up to trails and walking paths below. The layout and placement of buildings protected 90% of the designated trees in the bioreserve. A project goal is to double or triple the existing canopy with indigenous trees over the entire site as phases are built.

In addition to the massive amount of office space, the site lends itself to hotel functions and conferencing.

CREEK BED

PARKING

RETAIL

RETAIL & LOBBY

CENTRAL BIO RESERVE

CLONLIFFE MASTER PLAN

Office Buildings, Multifamily, and Retail Mixed-Use

Dublin - Drumcondra, Ireland

Client Hines

Size

Total Area: 2,110,000 SF (196,000 m)

11 Buildings

4 Phases

Completion

2020 (Study)

The grounds of the manor house for the Archbishop and Clonliffe College Seminary at the edge of central Dublin was being studied through a master plan to include three different density levels of multifamily use.

The master plan was required to preserve the manor house and chapel, two sports fields, and wooded areas within the boundaries of the site. Keeping with the existing axial relationships found in the existing building layout and site, we located roads and proposed multifamily buildings. In an effort to maximize density while respecting the pastoral beauty, we clustered the building together tightly. The arrival sequences of the project were of great importance to the client and the flanking of these boulevard entrances were intended to give a sense of grandeur and importance.

KATY FREEWAY MIXED-USE

Office Buildings and Retail Mixed-Use

Houston, Texas

Client Sepmarke

(Study)

This master plan project proposes four mixed-use buildings in and around a center plaza that is designed as a destination point with retail, food, and beverage offerings. Adjacent to a high-volume freeway, the project creates a place away from the road and orients the buildings to allow for maximum highway exposure.

With limited zoning height, the building components will offer Class A type office space that captures the views of a green creek on the south side. Two restaurant pavilions will complete the activation of the center, along with pedestrian and bike trails connected to the residential neighborhoods around it.

The building orientation and scale of the envelope treatment is sensitive to the scale and texture of the neighborhood.

CORPORATE CAMPUS ENERGY CORRIDOR MASTER PLAN

Office Buildings, Multifamily, and Retail Mixed-Use

Houston, Texas

Client CORE

Size

13.6 Acres

1,000,000 SF

Completion 2013 (Study)

The CORE Master Plan is the response to an office program need of 1 million square feet on a privileged 13.6-acre site. Located at the heart of Houston’s Energy corridor, the site is next to the Addicks Howell Preserve containing 13,000 acres of protected green areas with parks, trails, and a golf course. Our response was to place four office buildings, corresponding parking areas, and a multifamily project on a site that would best capture the connection to neighboring green space while providing a corporate environment that is up to date.

It offers an environment that promotes interaction and collaboration through strategies of integrating the exterior with the interior. The plan provides for an exterior environment that is designed for people rather than cars. The office lobbies are open and connected to the exterior where wooded arbors, protected walkways, and fine arts displays connect the buildings and the park paths.

POST OAK II MIXED-USE PLAZA

Office Buildings, Multifamily, Fitness, Grocer, and Retail Mixed-Use

Houston, Texas

Client

Midway

Size

Hotel Keys: 312

Office 1: 217,800 SF

Office 2: 610,000 SF

Retail / Office Podium: 64,300 SF

Fitness:128,600 SF

Grocer: 50,200 SF

Retail: 15,900 SF

Residential 1 Units: 285

Residential 2 Units: 300

Completion 2012 (Study)

Located at the intersection of San Felipe and Post Oak Boulevard, this master planning effort sought to define the corner of this central business district as a destination point to live, work, and play.

Included in the program are retail, two office towers, a fitness center, premium grocer, two multifamily buildings, and a condominium tower.

MCNAIR HEIGHTS MASTER PLAN

Multifamily, Grocer, Office Buildings, Townhouses, Hotel, and Retail Mixed-Use

Houston, Texas

Client McNair Interests

Size Area: 18 Acres

11 Lots

6 Phases

Retail: 60,000 SF

Completion 2021 (Study)

The McNair Heights Master Plan is an ambitious development plan for a new hub in Houston, Texas. This comprehensive redevelopment master plan consists of multiple phased multifamily buildings, office buildings, hotel, central retail area, and park space.

The industrial site between Hempstead Highway and W 11th St in The Heights is the context where a new mixed-use program is proposed. The site is well-positioned to offer an extensive retail program consisting of a grocery store and food & beverage offerings around a designed town center, surrounded by residential and boutique office space projects.

Our design proposes the reutilization of some of the existing warehouses and the creation of a connection linkage between Hempstead and The Heights. Three primary warehouses would be adapted in place for a grocery store, a three-story creative office space, and a project entry statement. The town center will be positioned in the geographic center of the development with a strong visual axis into a public plaza from the access road.

The remaining land would be used for the construction of four different multifamily projects, offering, in some cases, a mixed-use environment in the proximity of the plaza. Otherwise, each multifamily component will be designed to fit a particular residential market to capture a broader sector of the neighborhood demographic. The smallest typology in the project consists of a series of townhouses that will be developed and sold at the projects onset.

PROJECTS

MARATHON OIL

Corporate Headquarters - Office Tower

Houston, Texas

Client Marathon Oil Hines

Architect of Record

Kendal Heaton Architects

Size

500,000 SF

1,400 Parking Spaces

Completion 2021

Munoz + Albin was engaged by Marathon to study possible relocation sites and master planning strategies that would best prepare them for their future growth. We advised them on sites and helped them find a new location that best fit their progressive workplace expectations.

The master planning and programming effort resulted in a build to suit corporate headquarters building in the Energy Corridor that delivers a modern working environment where integration, engagement, digital technology, connectivity, workplace environment, and branding are carefully crafted to Marathon’s needs.

Marathon is proud of their corporate culture and truly focused on their employee’s satisfaction and retention. They wanted to build the best office place for their employees and provide a diverse setting to conduct their business. Marathon aspired to integrate into an urban environment that would promote work-life integration and give their employees convenient access to quality retail opportunities and a daily connection to nature.

UPPER

TOWER LEVELS

IBM

Office Tower and Retail Mixed-Use

Austin, Texas

Client IBM Hines

Architect of Record Kirksey

Size

507,000 SF

Completion 2027

IBM will be the anchor tenant for a vertical campus class AA office building on the northside of The Domain, an area referred to as Austin’s second downtown. IBM is consolidating and relocating its Austin operations into this next generation office space. The highly amenitized, state-of-the-art building is conveniently located off the main expressway, Loop 1 MoPac. The building is owned and operated by Hines. IBM occupies 60% of the overall building, and the remaining office space is available for lease. IBM, which has 250,000 workers worldwide, does not break out local employment numbers. However, the Austin Chamber of Commerce estimates the company has about 6,000 local employees. With the opening of the new campus, IBM will leave its long-term offices in a nearby area.

Munoz + Albin was engaged by Hines and IBM to create a clear vision into what the future of the office space should look like. The building design needed to be a distinguished, elevated experience for their workforce. Hines and IBM, both global organizations, share symmetry in their perspectives of what the office represents going forward and this project delivers an environment that all parties will be proud of well into the future.

“This new location offers an opportunity to create a modern new experience for Austin-based IBM employees,” said Joanne Wright, IBM Senior Vice President, Transformation & Operations. “Our vision is to create an environment where employees can gather to collaborate and innovate with colleagues and our clients.”

BUILDABLE FULL LOT FAR OF 3 UPPER SETBACK ROADWAY CARVE OUT SUBTRACTION TO CREATE TWO DISTINCT FORMS

ARRIVAL AND GROUND FLOOR CONSIDERATIONS IMPROVED BUILDING SEPARATION AND DEFINITION GARDENS AND BALCONY

Leading the building industry, the building will place a heavy emphasis on ESG. It is being designed for LEED Gold certification and will seek WELL Platinum, Wired Score Platinum, and Austin Energy Green Build distinctions.

“New York-headquartered IBM was an early pioneer of Austin’s tech sector, with operations here since 1967, and the move is a sign that the company will continue to invest in Central Texas. It’s just creating a modern environment to help improve productivity and get our people excited about coming back to collaborate,” according to Dexter Henderson, senior local executive for IBM Austin

The site is an irregular triangular shape with one side abutting the feeder for the expressway. The result of this is a V-shaped plan with two conjoined office blocks or towers at 14 stories high resting on a podium of shared parking. Each tower has independent cores, restrooms, elevator banks, and lobbies. The entirety of the West Tower is devoted to IBM, with their dedicated lobby off the main vehicular entrance. The East Tower is a mix of partially leasable open office or full IBM floors that are conjoined to the West Tower.

The ‘front’ of the building is the southwest facing side of the building. This is the preferred location for the main entrance, lobbies, landscaped garden, retail component, and open space because the adjoining road is the main northern vehicular access to the Domain area. Additionally, the southern exposure has the added benefit of natural light and open views. The open side of the V-shaped office above cradles a vertical garden and upper amenity deck on the 9th level. Catering to the needs of the modern workforce, tenants will experience the main landscaped deck, outdoor sports amenities, and a high-end fitness and conference center. Many of the upper floors of both towers have private balconies that open toward this amenity and direction.

The broadest brushstroke of the building’s design is centered around the split allocation of office space and semi separation between the two office towers. Paradoxically, it wants to be simultaneously connected but separated. The two main masses gradually pull away from one another with a curving connection at the intersection point, giving the impression that it is a borrowed element or two limbs.

GROUND LEVEL PLAN

1 IBM LOBBY

2 TENANT LOBBY

3 PARKING GARAGE MAIN ENTRY

4 CAFE

5 BIKE STORAGE

6 LOADING DOCK

7 BACK OF HOUSE

8 GROUND LEVEL PARKING

9 PARKING GARAGE SIDE ENTRY

Each of the two office building volumes are divided into two separate masses, inward facing and outward facing. The outward volumes have smooth glazing with less detail because the perception of these outward facing facades is mainly from fast moving freeway traffic or from a narrow street to the east. On the façade facing the freeway the design can be broken into two distinct cladding applications, a glass volume and a masonry podium. The glass volume drapes over the masonry box towards the main entrance at the prominent corner.

In contrast, the glass envelope surrounding the courtyard has a more textured solution, with fins attached to its curtainwall. The courtyard side of both

buildings directly interacts with its users, as office workers come in direct contact with it on the 9th floor amenity and have interior workspace views to it. These inward facing facades have colored fins along its surface and terraces along its façade to give them a level of visual acuity.

On the south east corner of the building above the lobby of the East Tower there are a playful layering of terraces and overhangs. Its staggered look and collision of forms peal away it the edge, it’s both interlocking and gear like. The interior form with its intricate patterning is allowed to leak out of its internal confine and disrupt the edge, a curve form gives way to a sharp corner and back again.

AMENITY LEVEL PLAN

1 IBM OFFICE

2 CONFERENCE

3 FITNESS

4 IBM COURTYARD

5 ADDITIONAL COURTYARD

6 PICKLEBALL COURT

Another distinctive part of the design and concept of the building was the incorporation of a vertical garden that spills down from the upper amenity to the ground level. The vertical garden dresses up the exposed garage façade bookended between the office towers. The solid forms are derived from a microprocessor esthetic, a giant magnification of a circuit. We explored the pairing of digital esthetics and natural flora as an intentional juxtaposition of concepts.

IBM Courtyard Canopy

IBM Courtyard Canopy

ONE GROVE STREET

Office Tower and Retail Mixed-Use

Houston, Texas

Client Midway

Architect of Record Kirksey

Size 223,000 SF

Completion 2015

Kirby Grove is a LEED Gold Certified, Class A, 16-story mixed-use office building that is a part of the Kirby Grove Development. The master plan also includes a multifamily project and a central park.

The building program includes ground floor retail, office space, and structured parking. The lower levels of the building contain double-height collaborative loft office space and a trading floor. The building is oriented on the northern perimeter of Levy Park, with its main office lobby facing the park and the base flanked with restaurants and pedestrian friendly landscape features, patios, and sidewalks that provide around the clock amenities.

A single pass-through vehicular motor court arrival area allows cars to enter from Richmond Avenue and from the Levy Park side. The building was designed to take full advantage of views to the park.

CROSS SECTION - STACKING

CIRRUS LOGIC CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS

Corporate Headquarters - Office Tower, Retail Mixed-Use

Austin, Texas

Client

Cirrus Logic

Cypress Real Estate Advisors

Architect of Record House and Partners

Size

Office: 136,000 GSF

Parking Spaces: 315

Completion 2012

On a 1.33-acre site adjoining Shoal Creek, the objective of this project was to develop a new corporate headquarters for Cirrus Logic with office and laboratory space, as well as a parking garage. The setting of the building allows for close weaving and interaction of the Shoal Creek natural trail system with the active urban scene of 6th Street, creating a new means of creek access to the area residents. The building mass is articulated with a direct connection from West Avenue to the creek. Shoal Creek is further activated with a public restaurant and terrace overlooking the creek.

The Cirrus Logic Headquarters is a build to suit corporate office building. The building shape responds to the internal programmatic requirements, as well as massing, envelope, and height constraints (capitol view corridor restrictions) required by the city of Austin. Integration of the Shoal Creek trail system to the city was a fundamental requirement of both the community and the city. This became an important design parameter that strongly influenced the design of the building.

The building is clad with zinc panels, yielding horizontal bands that simulate the siding of the residential buildings in the surrounding neighborhood. Irregular windows are placed in a random pattern that spans two stories. This effect allows for street perception of a 4-story building rather than the actual 6 stories, helping to blend in with the style of the neighborhood.

The building did not pursue LEED status, but sustainability standards comply with Austin Energy Green Building standards including the use of transparent, highperformance glass to integrate the internal activity with the outside.

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CITYCENTRE FIVE

Office Tower and Retail Mixed-Use

Houston, Texas

Client Midway

Architect of Record Kirksey

Size

223,000 SF (20,717 m)²

Completion 2015

CityCentre Five is a 16-story, mixed-use building with a full-service restaurant on the ground and an integrated podium-type parking garage designed on a 1.13-acre site.

This simple scheme divides the building into two distinct volumes: a masonry volume facing the south and a glass volume facing the north featuring a full-height trellis that serves as an identifying piece.

The scale and material application respond to the orientation of the building. The building takes full advantage of the entire site, making it part of the urban grid. In order to activate the street, a scheme with street facing functions was designed.

GROUND LEVEL PLAN

LOWER LEVEL PLAN

TOWER LEVEL PLAN

CITYCENTRE 3 AND 4

Office Building and Retail Mixed-Use

Houston, Texas

Client Midway

Architect of Record Kirksey

Size

CC 3: 122,594 SF

CC 4: 123,373 SF

Total : 245,967 SF

Completion

2014

The design for CityCentre Three and Four comprises two Class A, low-rise office buildings separated by a central plaza with retail and restaurant components located on the ground level.

The design challenge was to design two buildings on a site that was master planned for one building of equal size. The solution consists of three overlapped volumes of limestone, brick, and glass with overhangs that start from second and third levels. The space houses a notable university’s off-site MBA program and additional business tenants.

LEVY PARK SPEC OFFICE TOWER

Office Tower and Retail Mixed-Use

Houston, Texas

Client Midway

Size

461,000 SF

Retail: 17,680

Completion 2020 Study

Levy Park’s newest Class A, 15-story, mixed-use office building is the latest installment to Levy Park’s perimeter. It is planned as a multi-tenant building with a large portion of its area dedicated to one anchor tenant.

The architecture of the tower is defined by the shifting and stacking of glass and perforated screened masses. A distinctive pair of shifting glass boxes with deep inset landscaped recesses sit atop two screened boxes. The recesses, ledges, and intermediate roof areas are adorned with landscaping and gardens. Making for an alternating effect of buildings and horizontal bands of greenery, the elevated landscape is an effort to bring the park to the building.

Occupying the remaining corner lot at the perimeter of Levy Park, the tower space attracts top-tier tenants to its mixed-use development. The amenity-rich neighborhood and immediate access to Levy Park makes this project exceptional in the Houston area. There simply aren’t many public parks like Levy Park. It is an urban oasis that is bustling and well planned with mature oak trees, a performance area, pavilions, food offerings, trails, wetlands, and a playground.

The bulk of the office space contains 45-foot leasing depths in the form of the tower at the highest floors. The building’s lobby is positioned off the park, extending the pedestrian-focused master plan westward. A large majority of the ground floor is dedicated to retail. The retail fronts and patios spill out onto the landscaped area at the edge of the park. The main entrance at the corner of the building also opens toward the park.

If and when completed it will provide yet another directly connected pedestrian focused building design to the Levy Park masterplan.

CITYCENTRE 6

Office Tower and Retail Mixed-Use

Houston, Texas

Client Midway

Architect of Record Kirksey

Size

325,600 SF

Retail: 12,382

Completion 2026

CityCentre Six, a Class A, 19-story, mixed-use office building, is the latest installment to the CityCentre District. It will be a multi-tenant building with a large portion of its area dedicated to one anchor tenant.

CityCentre continues to attract top-tier corporations to its revitalized mixed-use development. The amenity rich neighborhood is an urban oasis that is sophisticated and well planned. Keeping with this effort, part of CityCentre Six’s development plan, in conjunction with Marathon Oil’s headquarters building, was to build a public park. Both buildings would position their lobbies off of the park, growing the pedestrianfocused master plan of CityCentre northward.

Almost the entire ground floor under the CityCentre Six tower is dedicated to retail. The retail fronts and patios spill out onto the landscaped plaza under cover of a protected colonnade. The main entrance is at the center point of the building and its entrance sequence flows through two sets of colossal V-shaped columns. Two office level terraces also open toward the plaza.

The bulk of the office space contains 45-foot leasing depths in the form of the tower at the highest floors. This glassy bent mass rests on an efficient three-bay parking podium. The office core slices through the parking levels. A lower level of the building has a double-height collaborative loft office space facing the park.

The design of the building’s massing responds to its neighbor by carving away at its lower levels to create a visual eddy on the north side of the tower and parking garage. The design team felt that keeping that open and free of obstruction was a courteous gesture to Marathon Oil’s parking elevator lobbies that open into this

corner. The tower design reaches out at the opposite southern building corner to draw people in and drop the glazing to the ground. The protruding parking podium is treated as sculptural element and is clad in perforated metal to disguise its use from the public.

GROUND LEVEL PLAN

HEAVY TIMBER OFFICE BUILDING AT AUTRY PARK DEVELOPMENT

Office and Retail Mixed-Use

Houston, Texas

Client Hanover

Local Partners

Size

6 Levels of Office & Retail

117,000 SF

Completion 2021 (Study)

The Autry Park Development is an urban village on Buffalo Bayou that stretches southward to fill in the master plan that includes new and exciting shopping and dining opportunities, as well as a central park. The plan also includes two office buildings on the southeastern perimeter. The first is a boutique mid-rise office building with retail planned for its ground floor. The structure of this office building is an innovative use of cross-laminated timber for the floor and ceiling decks used in conjunction with a steel frame. It will be the first publicly proposed cross-laminated timber office project in the City of Houston. The design showcases the heavy timber as a primary design element, exposing the highly visible wood in the soffits.

Many local office buildings have highly reflective dark glass. We deviated from this precedent with highly transparent glass and wood fins. The vertical wood planks that adorn the curtainwall also act as passive shading and light filtering devices.

BRAVA

Residential Tower and Retail Mixed-Use

Houston, Texas

Client Hines

Architect of Record Kirksey (House + Partners)

Interior Architecture Munoz Albin (A project of Erick Ragni’s while owner and principal at MaRS)

Size

782,152 SF Total Area

6,804 SF Retail Area

46 Floors

Residential Units: 373

Completion 2022

Brava is a 46-story luxury apartment tower that is the tallest multifamily high-rise in downtown Houston. It features panoramic views of the Central Business District, Market Square Park, Sesquicentennial Park, and Buffalo Bayou.

Rotating the building diagonally to Houston’s grid provides wider, uninterrupted views from all residential units. The massing and geometry of the tower are a response to the building’s immediate context, maximizing long-distance views, natural light, and direct views of Market Square Park.

The tower has a slender outline on both sides. One of the thin sides is defined by undulating balconies, creating a dynamic twisting shape that rises up the building.

This unique architectural feature and distinctive massing is a deliberate departure from the standard expectation of the high-rise residential building.

Vehicular access is from Preston Avenue and a generous motor court was designed in direct relationship with the lobby, creating a strong and dignified entry sequence. The parking garage contains eight levels with capacity for 517 cars. Level 10, on top of the parking podium, is dedicated to residential amenities.

DIAGONAL MAR

Multiple Residential Buildings, Retail, Hotels, and Condominiums

Barcelona, Spain

Client Hines Size 84 Acre Site

Completion 2008

In an 84-acre industrial zone on the Mediterranean Sea in Barcelona, Spain, Hines developed a large-scale, mixed-use project consisting of 1,400 condominium units with retail, a regional shopping mall, three Class A office buildings, three hotels, and a limited rental property. At the center of the development is a 42-acre park with three lakes. This project promoted the development of the entire neighborhood.

Projects Competed by Munoz+Albin at Diagonal Mar:

ILLA DEL LLAC, 2002

Double Tower & Podium

321 Condominium Units

430,000 GSF

ILLA DEL BOSC, 2004

Double Tower & Podium, Retail, Mixed-Use

233 Units

333,300 GSF

HOTEL PRINCESS, 2004

Double Tower & Podium, Retail, Mixed-Use

366 Rooms

202,300 GSF

ILLA DEL MAR, 2007

Double Tower & Podium

262 Condominium Units

650,000 GSF

EDIFICIO BILBAO, 2008

Double Tower & Podium

42 Condominium Units

64,217 GSF

ILLA DEL LLAC

BOSC

LA COLOMBE D’OR

Residential Tower and Hotel Mixed-Use

Houston, Texas

Client Hines

Architect of Record Kirksey (House + Partners)

Size

683,865 SF

Residential Units: 263

Hotel Keys: 18

Completion 2021

Designed in the center of Montrose, a cultural district in Houston, this 35-level tower includes 283 residential units and 18 boutique hotel rooms on a 1.2-acre site.

The massing resolution of the architecture incorporates a podium parking component which is hidden behind a portion of the vertical tower that is visible all the way down to street level. The architectural expression is a mixture of more traditional and ordered proportions at the base, with a contemporary language on the tower, maintaining an elegant and timeless identity in both.

The Residences at La Colombe d’Or is a unique apartment project in Houston, as it is part of a boutique hotel that will bring a high level of service to its residents. The new high-rise building is part of a larger development that includes the current La Colombe d’Or historical mansion, as well as a pocket park at the northwest corner of the site. The base of the building responds to the existing mansion using a traditional architectural expression including fenestration, limestone, and highly articulated detailing, all tied together with a conscientious landscape design. Contrasting with this traditional approach, the apartment portion of the project emerges as a vertical statement of modern architecture, composed of a vertical box volume with a series of floating planes encompassing it. The swimming pool and outdoor amenity deck on the 10th floor and on the east side have views of downtown, while the tower offers unique and large livable balconies with panoramic downtown views.

THE VICTOR

Residential Tower and Retail Mixed-Use

Dallas, Texas

Client Hines

Architect of Record Kirksey (House + Partners)

Interior Architecture Munoz Albin

(A project of Erick Ragni’s while owner and principal at MaRS)

Size

864,075 SF

Residential Units: 347

Retail: 9,500 SF

Completion 2021

The Victor is a 39-story, luxury, high-rise residential tower in the Victory District of Dallas. The project consists of retail space, lobby, leasing offices, structured parking, amenity deck, and 362 units. Its units range from 743 square feet to penthouse apartments at 2,498 square feet with views to downtown Dallas.

The ground level perimeter that faces outward is pedestrian-focused, thoughtfully landscaped, and welcoming. Retail opportunities on the east side of the podium provide continuity and a direct connection to Victory Park, and slightly elevated patios make for a protected area perfect for restaurant or café opportunities. A pocket park greets the public on the west side and is in direct sight of the tower’s lobby. The motor court and main entrance are centered in the width of the block, making for a prominent entrance statement that is visually stimulating and active.

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