AUSTIN OAKS BUSINESS PARK

Studio Balcones

DESIGN CONSTRUCTED | COMMERCIAL

The property, known as Austin Oaks Business Park, is a 31-acre commercial property located just north of Mopac, one of Austin’s most traveled thoroughfares. In lieu of proceeding with a planned unit development that would demolish the entire office park and many of the prized oaks, we helped the clients establish a much more sustainable and cost-efficient strategy to renovate the office park. Using lush native plantings and large-scale art pieces, the landscape invites the tenants to partake in a unique landscape experience.

Austin Ridge Bible Church

Design Workshop

DESIGN CONSTRUCTED | COMMERCIAL

In the heart of the Texas Hill Country, the Austin Ridge Bible Church campus is transformed from an unwelcoming, disconnected series of outdoor spaces to a richly planted place for gathering. Sun-baked asphalt becomes shady walks and green gathering spaces. Disconnected buildings are united by graceful pathways sprinkled with alcoves for respite. A fire lane is transformed into an active lawn for games and festivals, and diverse plantings blanket outdoor spaces in a myriad of colors and textures. Challenging the typically neglected and ecologically dead treatment of similar campuses, Austin Ridge Bible Church shows a new way forward.

Epic Ii Amenity Deck

Hocker

DESIGN CONSTRUCTED | COMMERCIAL

The EPIC II tower is an office building sited at the edge of downtown Dallas. The project site is the 7th level amenity deck that provides 10,000 square feet of accessible outdoor space for the benefit of its tenets. The design is influenced by Japanese garden & masonry techniques. Dynamic, undulating curvilinear walls create ample volumes for planting and terraces for seating below tree shade. Granite quarry blocks were identified as the preferred hardscape material to provide a sense of structure & stability through-out. Evergreen and perennial drifts of planting float above the granite to provide a sense of lightness. Trees serve to humanize the scale of the space and provide much needed shade and wind protection. This amenity deck serves as an accessible and natural respite away from the bustle of the office that is just a few steps away.

ORACLE HEADQUARTERS, PHASE II

TBG Partners

DESIGN CONSTRUCTED | COMMERCIAL

Located on a 25-acre site along the Colorado River and adjacent to popular and scenic parkland around Lady Bird Lake, the Oracle campus is a mere 3 miles from downtown Austin in an area known as the Lakeshore District. Reimagining the campus experience, Oracle phase two provides a myriad of benefits, including opportunities to work in all group sizes, convenient access to fresh air, natural light, abundant visual access to nature, connectedness to the neighborhood that both create community and pride in shared open spaces and a high-quality work environment. The campus design is most compelling in its clever utilization of earth work and exterior spaces

Kevin Sloan Studio

AIRFIELD FALLS CONSERVATION PARK DESIGN CONSTRUCTED | PUBLIC

For decades the tallest natural waterfall in North Texas was isolated from the public within Carswell Air Force Base. Downsized in 1990, the waterfall is now outside the secured precinct of the base, property of the Tarrant Regional Water District. The principal task of the Airfield Falls Conservation Park was to provide public access to the falls with a new park while educating visitors about water conserving practices. The mission was enlarged with a park design that also conserves history through a historic jet aircraft display, a shade pavilion that reused foundation relics from the former base commanders House, a water harvesting car park, and a quarter- mile butterfly walk that connects to the falls. Using actual air base equipment and lighting heightened the conservation mission with high performance and low energy use elements that were indestructible and historically appropriate. To contrast the built elements, the waterfall was left untouched. The landscape architect designed all the elements in the Conservation Park, including the environmental graphics to a budget that did not exceed $1.75 M.

Buda City Park

DESIGN CONSTRUCTED | PUBLIC Design Workshop

Once a barren parade ground, Buda City Park serves as the city’s signature park and recreation space, providing opportunities for festival gatherings as well as improved service for the community’s everyday needs. A larger trails system connects City Park to adjacent green spaces, including Stagecoach Park, Bradfield Village Park, and the Downtown Greenbelt, leveraging their shared amenities and creating an expanded recreational network. Buda City Park maximizes event and program opportunities vital to the small town’s sense of community through a rich palette of native plants and signature white Texas limestone. The result is an ecologically functional, context-sensitive central gathering space for the people of Buda.

East Aldine Town Center

Clark Condon

DESIGN CONSTRUCTED | PUBLIC

The East Aldine lacked sufficient resources, educational opportunities, and a safe, centralized gathering space. The management district, design team, and key stakeholders developed a master plan of a 61-acre site that would be home to a variety of facilities within a larger park environment. The East Aldine Town Center provides a number of flexible spaces for festivals, art exhibits, and cultural celebrations. Current project partners, including Lone Star College and Baker Ripley, are now able to offer educational courses, career readiness preparation programs, and an emergency call service center which directly responds to the needs of the community.

EVELYN’S PARK

DESIGN CONSTRUCTED | PUBLIC SWA Group

Evelyn’s Park is the realization of the combined effort of a grassroots community effort to build a small-town civic space that serves as a model for communities with large aspirations. Envisioned as “Bellaire’s front yard”, this 5-acre urban park has transformed one of the city’s oldest commercial nursery sites into a civic heart and a casual meeting place for all ages and demographics. To create a national model of sustainability, the park design incorporates multiple strategies of water conservation, alternative power generation, increasing native habitat and shade canopy coverage, walking and alternative modes of transportation. At the core the park is an island of nature respite with opportunities to connect to each other in a growing urban community.

Mayor Vera Calvin Plaza In Old Town Burleson

TBG Partners

DESIGN UNREALIZED | PUBLIC

As a prominent stop on the historic interurban railway system connecting north Texas communities, Burleson was a key node on a regional trolley car system that was years ahead of its time, and contemporary urban renewal efforts celebrate that legacy through contextual placemaking. The City has converted the area fronting Burleson City Hall - formerly surface parking lots - into a multipurpose civic plaza and paseo as the community’s living room. The design integrates historic elements including a train depot and two trolley cars from the early 20th century into a new civic space able to accommodate community-wide events as well as informal daily activity. The reimagined Mayor Vera Calvin Plaza celebrates Burleson’s historical legacy and provides an inviting civic hub for the community.

LPA, Inc

TIDE ACADEMY DESIGN CONSTRUCTED | PUBLIC

A reflection of the entrepreneurial spirit of the nearby companies in the Silicon Valley was the mission and vision for the design of TIDE Academy. The STEAM focused public high school, located on a 2-acre site in a light industrial section of Menlo Park, offers views of the San Francisco Bay and Diablo Mountains beyond. Housing 400 students, the site design places an emphasis on openness, compactness, and innovation. The campus provides students with a multilevel, protected courtyard that opens towards the street, putting education and TIDE’s spirit of collaborative on display to the surrounding community and industry partners. Drawing from the High School’s concept of “Learning Happens Everywhere,” the school was designed to have a variety of flexible outdoor spaces giving students the opportunity to define their educational possibilities.

THRIVING TOGETHER: THE MUELLER SOUTHEAST GREENWAY

RVi Planning + Landscape Architecture

DESIGN CONSTRUCTED | PUBLIC

The Southeast Greenway in Austin, Texas is one of five large parks surrounding the Mueller Development, a mixed-use urban village that has emerged on the site of Austin’s former Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. Once part of the concrete runway and airport parking, the site has become a place where life, both human and wild, has flourished. Thoughtful design has created a place of balance; a respite from city life centered on a peaceful urban wetland adjacent to an active, bustling community skate park and pump track. The Southeast Greenway exemplifies how nature and humans can do more than merely coexist in an urban context, they can thrive together.