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Projects
Our projects are designed to create value, support work performance and deliver cost-effective solutions targeted to meet the clients’ goals. We do not have a house "style", but rather pride ourselves in creating project specific solutions for each client that reflects our client goals within the context of the region. Our clients come from diverse professional industries, allowing our firm to provide services on a wide variety of project types, including: Mixed-Use, Hospitality, Corporate Campus, Commercial Office, Interiors, Residential, Higher Education, Healthcare, Sports, Retail, Adaptive Re-Use/Renovation, and Planning & Urban Design.
Contact BOKA Powell:
info@bokapowell.com
Phone: 972.701.9000
BOKA Powell’s ability to deliver a wide variety of domestic and international projects resides in our commitment to respond effectively to diverse budget, schedule, and efficiency goals, while exceeding our client’s expectations for design excellence.
Located at Main Street between Ervay and Akard, two doors down from the first and flagship Neiman Marcus store. This project is comprised of both adaptive reuse and new build. The program contains 130 rooms, restaurant, bar, ballroom and meeting space and spa suite. The entire design is by the world famous Adam D. Tihany. The famous restaurant is by Charlie Palmer of Aureole and Charlie Palmer Steak fame. The lounge is by Pure Las Vegas, one of the hottest names at night. In addition to the Cellar Lounge, there is a pool bar and grill. The unique pool cantilevers 8 feet above Main Street traffic. Hotel Joule is scheduled to open in the spring of 2008.
For you art lovers out there. The Phoenix Midtown Apartments, on Mockingbird Lane, has achieved a milestone of sorts. Eyecon, our artists have completed the first of seven large murals to be painted on the buildings new skin. Take a look. The murals are stylized to fit the “Art Deco” theme of this existing large residential community near Southern Methodist University. This is an ongoing project that still has another 20 months of work to do, including a complete new landscape design along Mockingbird Lane with palm trees, etc.
This 15-story tower office building designed in the early 1980’s represents a style of architecture prevalent at that time using dark glass in the tower and travertine stone as accent elements around the podium and street level lobby. The location along the now busy McKinney Avenue has prompted the building owners to upgrade the street level to better embrace the street life. BOKA Powell has been engaged in creating a new ‘front door’ that is closer to the street and provides a new and more updated entry that will enliven the space and provide visitors and tenants with a new sense of welcome. The space will be energized with light by opening up the lobby to two levels of height and a large wall of glass utilizing an apparently seamless system to allow an unobstructed view to the inside. Materials are selected to create the transformation from all stone and glass to glass and metal and stone in a variety of forms to enhance the experience of space and invite people to sit and interact with others. The introduction of retail space at the ground lobby will further enliven this space for activity.
This adaptive renovation project consisted of transforming the Butter Krust Bakery into the Corporate Headquarters for Hoovers Online. This existing 78,000 sf facility posed many challenges that the design team successfully overcame. Today, it is home to more than 200 users who enjoy the many amenities and openness not present in their previous work environment. Some unique features of the building include inflatable ductwork, outdoor terrace, cafe with coffee service from one of the old bread delivery trucks, and a work area with computer friendly lighting.
Ground floor will remain a US post Office. The buildings upper floors are currently being selectively demolished with preservation construction ongoing to historic courtrooms. We are working in collaboration with Norman Alston (historic specialist). Future project use is now being evaluated. It will be either a boutique hotel, Class A Office or 40 luxury residential condominiums.
This existing corporate campus was replanned to accomodate a multi-tenant mix, and redeveloped with new lobby and public area spaces, exterior and landscape upgrades, as well as new MEP systems. In addition, BOKA Powell designed a new 474,810 SF parking garage on-site to flexibly accomodate the leasing strategy. BOKA Powell fully upgraded the ground floor lobby, including security gates, new restrooms and the existing elevators. We completely gutted the existing floor plan of walls ceilings, lighting, finishes, etc. while reworking base building Gypsum Board columns, exterior of the core walls and reconstructed new restrooms, and added new ceiling lighting, leveled the floors, planned interior construction and finishes. The plan shown includes upgraded 3rd floor lobby, with secured entry, offices, workstations, conference rooms, break rooms, training room on 6” raised floor.
BOKA Powell is focused on the documentation of the concepts of a full team of consultants including programming specialists, architectural and interior designers, and mep engineers. Our challenge has been to translate the extraordinarily large floor plates of a retail mall into a seriously capable work environment to support a fun team attitude. Utilizing raised floors with power, data and hvac distribution below allows unlimited space flexibility for Rackers to build their teams around their talent. Amenities such as a full-service cafeteria, fitness center, fueling stations and open escalators for vertical transportation and communication allow different configurations of physical space to be immediately responsive to changes in organizational structure. Fanatical Support is Rackspace’s terminology for legendary customer support of IT Hosting – meeting and exceeding every customer’s needs and expectations. This high-technology firm has directed the conversion of an entire existing shopping mall into office space to integrate the best technologies and practices in the most collaborative, flexible, high-energy work environment possible.
BOKA Powell, along with Economic Research Associates (ERA), conducted an economic study for the Dallas Farmers Market (DFM). A thorough and involved research of the DFM and its surrounding community was needed to boost the Market’s economic performance. BOKA Powell and ERA actively responded to this need, engaging representatives of the City of Dallas, DFM management and Convention Center Bureau Management. Posing pertinent questions to these officials and analyzing comparative information regarding other farmers market were crucial in developing a strategy to restore DFM as a financial asset to the City of Dallas.
BOKA Powell was asked to evaluate and design for phased renovation to improve the dated image of this prestigious downtown office address. The design goals were to downsize the city block sized lobby space in scale and to re-introduce a new income producing tenant space to the ground floor. The improvements included the demolition of the large existing bank teller space and the basement food court public dining area. Existing granite slabs in the lobby were carefully salvaged for future patching and remodeling. A warmer aesthetic approach was desired and included in the introduction of new public seating areas, carpet, lighting and custom wood privacy screens. The tall lobby area also features three very large custom light fixtures that are suspended to help reduce the overall perception of height. The basement food court improvements included a new ceiling, reshaping of existing column covers, new metallic paint, custom graphics and furniture. The improvements have been favorably received and both spaces are now actively enjoyed by the building’s tenants and visitors.
BOKA Powell was asked to evaluate and design for phased renovation to improve the dated image of this prestigious downtown office address. The design goals were to downsize the city block sized lobby space in scale and to re-introduce a new income producing tenant space to the ground floor. The improvements included the demolition of the large existing bank teller space and the basement food court public dining area. Existing granite slabs in the lobby were carefully salvaged for future patching and remodeling. A warmer aesthetic approach was desired and included in the introduction of new public seating areas, carpet, lighting and custom wood privacy screens. The tall lobby area also features three very large custom light fixtures that are suspended to help reduce the overall perception of height. The basement food court improvements included a new ceiling, reshaping of existing column covers, new metallic paint, custom graphics and furniture. The improvements have been favorably received and both spaces are now actively enjoyed by the building’s tenants and visitors.
Renovation of an existing drive to create a plaza linking pedestrian and vehicular between two adjacent office towers in an urban context. Another cool-laboration, this time with Chris Russell (Landscape Architect). We incorporated colored concrete in select areas for impact and softened the abundance of hard, geometric surfaces with the creative placement of planting beds, large plant containers, trees and a low, serpentine and landscape wall. Renovation also involved recladding of the two office towers and design of a decorative stair to link the new lower plaza to an existing upper plaza.
Xerox Corporation’s decision to consolidate their Customer Support Center from Las Colinas office buildings to an existing warehouse in Lewisville, Texas affected six divisions of the corporation, 160,000 square feet of building area and a total of 650 people. BOKA Powell provided complete planning, programming, architecture and interior design services, while implementing “fast track” construction procedures. Renovating the Lewisville facility required site improvements, new windows, a new entrance and canopy, and the addition of restroom and other core areas. The vast open warehouse becomes an internal city composed of elements that operate at three successive scales. At the large scale, a “town center” accommodates centralized functions such as building entry, reception and large group meetings. Beginning at the town center, a primary circulation route, “the boulevard” winds through a series of multi-departmental areas or “neighborhoods”. Gridded “main streets” intersect the “boulevard” and lead to intermediate scale “neighborhood centers” which house shared multi-departmental support areas. The design solution provides comfortable work areas, unique spaces for communal activity, and eventful paths of circulation, while responding in character and function to the daily needs of the building’s inhabitants.
This design concept for the renovation of an existing office building provided for a dramatic lobby and entrance experience, with integration of cutting edge building systems and technology throughout.