Architecture

The firm provided conceptual architectural, interior, landscape, and graphic design services for this new five-star luxury hotel with 500 keys and 100 luxury extended-stay suites to be located at the “trunk” of Palm Island, Dubai. Amenities envisioned for this full-service destination hotel includes two specialty restaurants, a lobby lounge sports bar, outdoor al fresco dining with a high-energy night club and lanai beach front restaurant. The design centerpiece is an 18-story floating screen wall that “veils” glass bridges to frame views of the Gulf.

The floating villas were designed to be anchored near the Australia island in the man-made “World Islands” in Dubai. A series of 12-unit single residence luxury villas would be tethered to triangular mooring stations with boat slips to form a floating village. The units may only be accessed via boat from the Dubai shoreline. Each villa was designed to be as self-sufficient as possible with its own desalination unit and composting unit. Electric power would be provided by an underwater electric cable from the mainland, plus a diesel-powered emergency electric generator.  

This 16-hectare master plan is the Central Commercial District to the Airport Free Trade Zone. It features 197,000-square-miles of international Class 5A offices, 21,500-square-miles of above-grade retail and restaurant with a wavy green roof, 36,000-square-miles of above-grade retail and a restaurant with a green roof park, 88,000-square-miles of commercial serviced apartments, and a 76,000-square-miles park and connection to the lakefront.

The 1111 Pennsylvania Ave project is a medical office building in the heart of the Fort Worth Medical District in Fort Worth, Texas. Stacked as two stories of medical offices on top of two stories of parking spaces, and a first floor for retail and additional office space, this distinctive building will replace an aging single-story one. Offering over 63,000 square-feet and 112 parking spaces this building will change the streetscape of Pennsylvania Ave for the better. Huitt-Zollars provided full architectural, engineering, and construction administration services for this project.

Located mid-campus on the Houston Medical Center, the MD Anderson Cancer Center Administrative Building is a significant component of an area slated for substantial expansion. Morris, a Huitt-Zollars company, provided interior architecture design services. The 420,000-GSF build-out on 7 shelled floors provided administrative office functions, shared conference rooms, break rooms and break out spaces. Over 40 separate tenant groups were integrated along with nearly 2,000 staff members from multiple MD Anderson facilities.

The original scope of work included only the Day Room renovation and the addition of a dedicated Pediatrics and Adolescent Seclusion Room. However, before design of the Day Room began, the Huitt-Zollars team worked with the users to understand their ultimate goals and created a master plan of the space, in order to ensure that future needs could be accommodated. The master plan was utilized in a marketing effort aimed at private donors, and was ultimately incorporated into the scope of the project.

This project consisted of a Public-Private-Partnership or P3 to deliver to the TAMU System a 1,400+, 5-story parking garage in time for the 2016 college football season. Demolition of the former Cain Hall dormitory, which was converted into Student Services offices, began November 16, 2015. The project also required relocating several existing utilities and upgrading some of them to meet the additional demand loads of the new garage and two other new facilities yet to be built.

The patient unit renovations for Ben Taub and LBJ Hospitals were part of an on-going, multi-year, task-order project consisting of the conversion of four-bed patient units to semi-private rooms. Each project renovates one or two patient units at a time, at approximately 10,000 square-feet per unit, in order to minimize the number of beds offline and to reduce interruption to patient care. Ongoing coordination and collaboration with the hospitals’ infection control team and construction manager ensured the ICRA plan was continuously followed and maintained.

Our team worked with stakeholders in each of these three departments to develop a move management strategy in order to complete the necessary remodels and allow each of the three departments to remain open during the remodel process. The diagrams below outline our approach to, first of all, identifying an underutilized portion of the existing medical office building to serve as swing space where each of the three departments would be relocated to while their home location underwent the necessary remodel effort. We identified underutilized space within the medical office building which could

Kaiser Permanente purchased an existing two-story concrete tilt-up industrial-type facility to expand its rapidly growing membership in Orange County. Morris, a Huitt-Zollars company, provided architectural and engineering services for the first phase tenant improvements which encompassed 71,000 SF for 42 medical providers and staff. Design challenges addressed multiple building deficiencies. A point-cloud model (3-D scan of existing conditions) was created and compared to the BIM model in order to distinguish discrepancies.