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⧵ Hycohen Residency
⧵ Houston, TX ⧵ 2023 ⧵ Under Construction


Units: 210 (one and two bedroom)
Density: 25 units/acre
Building type: three-story garden
Staus: in construction, opening 2023

Hycohen is a 210-unit development on the south side of Houston, Texas. Organized within a splayed crosshatch of drives are seven residential buildings, a loose-fitting grid that sandwich a meandering sequence of shared amenities: community building to central pond to dog park and run. In each, one- and two-bedroom units combine to form three legible volumes, one sheared at the main entry, and all tied together from one end by a playful roofscape. Enmeshed within a rich landscape of native trees and grasses, the otherwise identical buildings are occasionally rotated within the grid yet painted on each side relative to orientation—warm in tone if viewing north, cool if south—lending variety and interest while instilling a sense of orientation and place.














⧵ Public Media Commons
⧵ St. Louis, MO ⧵ 2014


The Media Commons is a first-of-its-kind interactive media environment and public plaza in the Grand Center Arts District of St. Louis. Encompassing 13,000 sf between the studios of St. Louis Pubic Television (9 Network) and Radio (KWMU, within UMSL’s Media Center), the space bridges these institutions and fosters creative exchange with a new way to engage the public: a site-specific “broadcast channel” that is an unprecedented synthesis of public media and public space.

The plaza is defined by two white, perforated metal facades. Animated by programmable LED uplighting, these surfaces incorporate large-format projection, LED screen and audioscape. A new window into the TV Studio provides a glimpse behind the scenes, and “virtual windows” create direct interaction via LCD touch screens or through mobile devices utilizing the QR code patterned facade. Visitors to the space not only engage the content within but create and contribute their own.

The broad central gathering space was designed for big events: speeches, concerts, cinema screenings, town halls, and benefits. To either side are the Broadcast Platform, an elevated café terrace or stage, and the Grove, a shady hangout and place to relax or spectate. Here, the landscape exhibits rich seasonal variation, reflecting the ever-changing news and media cycles as well as Missouri’s native prairie landscape. Whether just passing by or attending an event, visitors not only become an integral part of the local public media broadcast they experience the center of St. Louis’s public media, music, art and culture.

Created with Benjamin Gilmartin, Powers Bowersox Associates, DLANDstudio, Electrosonic and Randy Burkett.




















⧵ McKinney Development
⧵ McKinney, Texas ⧵ 2024


Units: 615 (studio, one and two bedroom)
Density: 78 units/acre
Building type: four-story wrap in two phases
Staus: in design


Located on the north side of Dallas, the McKinney Development is a two-phase, four-story complex of 615 apartments. The building is created by a string of residential blocks kinked along the edge of an irregular site and enfolding structured parking. In turn, the blocks create a sequence of courtyards of differing size and shape—lush exterior spaces that serve as a principle means of circulation and that connect a neighboring park through the project to a shared center of amenities, outdoor plaza and an adjoining retail development.

The building’s public facing exterior is variegated with soft bands of warm and cool metals atop a sculpted base of white brick, all punctured by an array of Juliette balconies. Inside, the landscape cascades from park to playground to pool to plaza, progressively shifting in character and in color at each step and emerging at breaks between volumes to reveal a more playful and vibrant interior to the public while also providing a stronger sense of place to residents inside and out.



















⧵ Wildwood Residency
⧵ Houston, Texas ⧵ 2023


Units: 120 (one and two bedroom)
Density: 30 units/acre
Building type: three-story garden
Staus: under construction, opening 2024


Comprising 120 contemporary garden apartments, Wildwood Residency is located on Houston’s west side. The design includes three linear and one square residential buildings encircling a shared community building and green space that open up and connect to the neighboring public library. Each side of the residential buildings is treated differently, lending a legible street presence and sense of place with a palette of dark masonry and light board and batten siding uniquely articulated to produce a layered, shingle-like quality wrapping the length of each building.

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⧵ Sheldon Plaza
⧵ St. Louis, MO ⧵ 2019


Sheldon Plaza is a vital new public space for The Sheldon Arts Foundation and a critical link in the Grand Center Artwalk. The Plaza connects the Public Media Commons and Saint Louis University Museum of Art to the Pulitzer Foundation, Contemporary Art Museum and The Sheldon. Through a series of terraced spaces for the outdoor display of art, staging of performances and educational gatherings, the Plaza brings the gallery and concert hall out and into the city, furthering Sheldon’s mission of public engagement and providing space for collaboration with nearby arts institutions. Setting the stage is a dramatic new vertical garden, a rich variety of climbing plants that ascend to create an irregular pattern in contradistinction to the building beyond thanks to a novel, digitally fabricated structural array (believed to be the world’s largest tensioned plate structure). Modulation in the array promotes the propagation of vines, varying density while maintaining a unified visual presence that draws the interest of visitors, provides an inviting atmosphere and lends a distinctive new element The Sheldon campus.

Created with Benjamin Gilmartin, Powers Bowersox Associates, DLANDstudio, M. Ludvik Engineering and Randy Burkett Lighting.









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