DESIGNING SACRED SPACES THAT SUPPORT COMMUNITIES
Civic + Government
About Us
Firm Introduction
Hobbs+Black Architects, founded in 1965, is one of the top 10 largest architectural firms in Michigan and nationally recognized as one of the Top 300 Design Firms by Architectural Record (2019). Over 70 dedicated professionals provide architectural, interior design, and related consulting services from our offices in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Lansing, and Phoenix Our diversified practice meets design challenges that often require extensive research and innovation. As a full-service architecture firm, we provide our clients with complete support from conceptual study to construction administration, including the following:
Facility Audit and Site Analysis
Site Planning, Design, and Zoning
Facility Programming
Master Planning
Architectural Design
Space Planning
Contract Document Development
Interior Design and Procurement
Signage Design and Implementation
Relocation Management
Post Occupancy Evaluation
LEED Design and Management
Project Experience & Approach
To achieve success in today’s market, each project must be approached with a focus on balancing scope, quality, and budget as well as creative planning. To achieve this objective, the owner’s participation in the design process is critical. Our design team knows buildings, but only those who manage and operate your existing facilities on a daily basis know every detail of how a new facility will be used. In a dynamic process, we combine your ideas and knowledge about your operation with our expertise and vision of design. The result is a solution that is strategic, affordable, and comprehensive
Interior Design
The Hobbs+Black Interior Design Studio has an award-winning portfolio exhibiting projects from a diverse group of clients that span several business sectors Our ability to successfully resolve and surpass the goals of our clients stems from our approach.
Core Values
Smaller Teams
t’s the pizza principle: don’t have meetings arger than you can feed with one pizza Trust & efficiency trend as a result
Share Work
Bigger ideas in rougher layouts, weeks sooner, results in deeper collaboration.
Emotional Logic
We believe people must feel something efore they do something It’s why we wrap strategic messages with emotional truth
Further Faster
When you add these people-powered omponents together, your project flies with less jet fuel
Practical Strategy
trategy should be based on human truths, roject pllars and applied with simplicity
Kent County Road Commission Central Complex
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Kent County Road Commission (KCRC) is the second largest road commission in Michigan, serving 21 townships and more than 635,000 residents. KCRC purchased a 29-acre parcel in the Walker View Industrial Park to build a new headquarters as well as a garage/storage building. They had outgrown their Central Complex facility, built in 1924, and had no room to expand.
We were chosen to provide architecture services for the development The new Main Central Complex consists of a: 25,000-square-foot administration office building, 135,000-square-foot vehicle parking & maintenance garage, a 6,000-ton salt barn, a 5,500-square-foot vehicle wash building, an 18,500-square-foot storage building, and a fueling station with canopy Additionally, we completed all associated site development for the new operations complex, including all geo-tech and franchise utility coordination
State of Michigan Public Health and Environmental Sciences Lab
Dimondale, Michigan
The State of Michigan is preparing to move into the future with a new Consolidated Laboratory program, replacing existing aging and obsolete facilities. The new lab complex will be the home to four state agencies: MDHHS, MDEGLE, MDLEO, and three state agencies The project site is located on the west side of Lansing, MI at the southern intersection of I-96 and I-69, adjacent to the existing state facility campus in undeveloped land The lab is anticipated to be 304,800 sf with construction cost stated to be approximately $170M and total project cost of $260M (factoring the exclusion of the existing co-gen plant work and tunnels in the original estimate).
The project is anticipated to provide sustainability features to achieve LEED Gold status without formally submitting to USGBC for certification. Public health labs are changing. World public health events – natural and man made – infectious diseases to biological terrorism are becoming more common in our media The changing environment of public health requires a different approach to the design of public health labs The labs designed in the past are already challenged with obsolescence. Even by the time your building is constructed, it will already be outdated in many ways. The world is changing faster than we can design and construct buildings. This project is designed in conjunction with CannonDesign
WR Wheeler Service Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Located on a 46-acre former landfill in Pittsfield Township, this new Service Center contains an Operations Building that houses offices and shop areas, a maintenance building dedicated to vehicle repair, and a vehicle storage building for vehicle parking and equipment storage The site also includes ancillary support services, including a fueling station, truck wash, storage bunker, parking and storage canopy, and a salt dome. The project incorporates many “green” elements of sustainable design into the building, including an organic green roof that serves to improve water quality by retaining and filtering rainwater
Washtenaw County Road Commission Northeast Service Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan
The new WCRC Northeast Service Center includes the development of a new 15-acre parcel for the road commission’s regional operations Planned site features include a fuel depot, truck scale, outdoor material storage yard, future brine well, an approximately 3,000-ton salt barn, and the construction of a new 29,690-square-foot vehicle parking and light maintenance facility.
The new facility includes a service bay, parts and tool storage, lubrication fluid storage, storage mezzanines accessible by an overhead crane, wash bay, and 13 parking stalls, including spaces for eight tandem axle snow plows and a tow plowThe new facility includes a service bay, parts and tool storage, lubrication fluid storage, storage mezzanines accessible by an overhead crane, wash bay, and 13 parking stalls, including spaces for eight tandem axle snow plows and a tow plow.
Michigan State Police Headquarters
Lansing, Michigan
The Michigan State Police Headquarters is a state-of-the-art office and energy-efficient building that presents a monumental and civic presence. The central location in downtown Lansing, Michigan, provides a strong and welcoming community interface, while the hardened structure, containment wall, and highsecurity parking lot provide critical safety needs A collaborative team approach was used to successfully meet the project objectives of the complex program, tight timeline, and budget constraints, with environmental awareness informing the entire design process
City of Lansing Public Safety Building
Lansing, Michigan
This project consists of building a new Public Safety Complex in Lansing made up of courts
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