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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.
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Resolving the requirements of a luxury brand with the development team's economic goals forms the basis of a successful hospitality project.
The 1,016-key Omni Dallas Convention Center Hotel is currently the City of Dallas’ largest development, costing $546-million. The facility includes 100,000 square feet of ballroom and meeting room space, a fitness center, premier upscale spa, and outdoor pool. This hotel includes three specialty restaurants and retail spaces for guests. There will also be an accessible direct connection, via skybridge, to the existing Dalals Convention Center. The project is being publicly financed by the City of Dallas in a unique public/private joint venture with Matthews Southwest, Inc. Design Architect: 5G Architects
The Block 21 project in Austin combines a dynamic set of program elements to create a new urban center for the city. This 1,100,000 square foot project includes a 250-key W Hotel and 175 condominiums plus a new Austin City Limits Music Venue, Children’s Museum, office space, retail space and an extensive below-grade parking garage. This project is being designed to LEED® Gold Standards.
The St. Regis Hotel and residences located in the prestigous Turtle Creek neighborhood in Dallas, Texas includes 150 hotel suites, and 80 luxury residential units. Located adjacent to the Historic Katy Trail, the project will incorporate a luxurious spa and a signature restaurant. Amenities such as an elevated roof terrace for admiring city views and dramatic balcony views of Turtle Creek, distinguish this project among neighboring five star hotels. This project is being designed with LEED® certified credentials.
Situated at the heart of the Mountain Village Urban Center, the hotel depicted above will be serving tourists visiting the Telluride/Mountain Village area. The hotel will have 4 stories of hotel structure over 3.5 underground parking garage. With 76 hotel suites and 16 townhouse units, this hotel will also feature a raised pool terrace and a clubroom with spectacular views of the mountains.
Motel 6 is raising the bar in the economy lodging market with its first new prototype in 12 years. The Carrollton-based hotel chain is known for its low prices, and true to form, its newer design is both simple and functional. Customers who’ve seen the “Phoenix” prototype, named after the mythical bird symbolizing rebirth and renewal, note the modern, European boutique-style design of the rooms. The brightly accented rooms feature wood-effect flooring rather than carpet, a 32-inch flat-screen TV, and black granite counter tops with a vessel/raised sink. Dallas-based BOKA Powell designed the new building exterior, and Priestman Goode of London designed the room.
The Hotel Valencia will make its Dallas home in the heart of the vibrant and eclectic Park Lane lifestyle development. Shopping, dining and entertainment will enhance the Hotel Valencia experience of luxury and style, where sleek, modern design meets elegant old world European comfort. The tower will stand as a sentinel for arrival into an environment of elegant rich finishes and architectural craftsmanship. The Sports Club / Dallas will further add to the luxury lifestyle with the urban country club feel of its fitness and spa components.
The 1 Hotel concept developed by BOKA Powell for Starwood Capital sought to leverage the high visibility and active street life of downtown Austin, Texas. Designed to ultimately be LEED Silver, the concept contained 250 keys, a signature restaraunt, specialty retail, spa, lobby bar, and rooftop bar. The program elements included use of solar power, green roof decks, unobtrusive parking with major on-site components, and careul consideration of view orientation from guestrooms to adjacent structures.
Located just inside the loop of Westheimer, the River Oaks District in Houston, Texas will mark a serious upgrade with new bold rich urban settings. This mixed-use development includes two hotel towers and two office towers that will include approximately 300,000 SF of retail, 300 luxury apartments, 250,000 SF office, two four-star hotels and 150 condominiums. Block B of this development will include a 32 story, 397,000 SF W Hotel, 130 condominiums, ballrooms, pool, spa, fitness and restaurants and 673,000 SF of structured parking. Block D of this development will include a 14 Story, 249,000 SF hotel including 263-key Le Meridian with pool, and fitness center.
BOKA Powell is working with the University of Nevada, Reno with the vision of a redevelopment plan for the Gateway District which borders the south edge of the campus along Highway 80. The first phase of this long term redevelopment plan will include a 200-key mixed use hotel block incorporating office, retail and a conference center. BOKA Powell has played a significant role in introducing development and finance partners to additional campus-related opportunities for student housing and academic facilities.
As part of the renovation for this 30-year-old resort outside of Miami, BOKA Powell designed a 12-story, 126-key hotel development. The four hotel towers boast conference space, a golf club, two 18-hole golf courses, an interior court pool and lazy river, nestled between seven new luxury private villas with a poolside bar and grill. The new hotel was designed to blend with the existing Floridian Mediterranean style of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture using plaster, red tile clay roofs and arched openings.
This new hotel and resort outside of San Antonio, Texas, is planned around an existing 18-hole golf course and part of a larger master planned development. The Hotel is a 250-key resort with future expansion for condo hotel units and villas with spectacular views down the golf course valley. The back poolside amenities are terraced with luxury pools on two levels, including water slides and plaza decks for sunbathing and after-hours parties around the Pool Grill. Lush landscaping enhances the resort experience with a lazy river just down the next terrace to provide relaxation for couples and kids. Other features include a spa, dining, golf pro shop and 22,000 square feet of convention space for business travelers. The facility design is influenced by the Santa Barbara Mediterranean style of elegance with plaster walls and clay-tiled roofs.
This hotel and condominium study consists of approximately 340,000 square feet of hotel suites and condos, 42,000 square feet roof top bar. There will be two satellite pads to house restaurant/bar/retail space at the front of the property. The majority of the 2.3 acre site will be developed over a 4-level garage, totaling 210,000 square feet. It is anticipated that there will be a large leisure pool and deck located on the second floor directly adjacent to a fitness/spa of approximately 5,000 square feet. In addition there will be a connection to each of the satellite buildings from the second floor of the hotel.
BOKA Powell this exciting created concept for a new W Hotel and mixed use block. This 400 room concept is part of a Block Redevelopment includes retail, apartment and condominium components. The masterplan resolves the challenges of incorporating the Hollywood and Vine MTA subway entrance into the design, as well as addressing contextural neighborhood issues.
BOKA Powell is currently designing a hotel prototype in Granite Park as part of the 68-acre mixed-use development located in the southeast quadrant of the Dallas North Tollway and State Highway 121. The design is intended to reflect the character of the surrounding BOKA Powell designed campus while maintaining the planning characteristics of the prototype.
Located in Farmers Branch, the Doubletree Hotel at Park West was designed by Dewberry & Davis. BOKA Powell acted as the Production Architect and Architect of Record for the project. Working from a schematic design concept from Dewberry & Davis, as well as from schematic concepts from Vivian Nichols for the interiors, BOKA Powell developed the design and executed the shell building and interiors production scope. The facility is comprised of 363 rooms with a connected parking garage, restaurant, and health club.
The inspiration for this scheme came from nature; and more specifically, water and the behavior of fish schools in the ocean. The flowing movement of water derived into the plan and elevations for this scheme; while the fish provided an idea for the windows and the building's skin treatment. The purpose of this design direction is to remove the occupants from the psychological rigid structures of everyday life; and to transport them into a completely different environment of flowing surfaces, areas and activities connected by curving hallways and surrounded by light. The project consists of a podium connecting three towers. The 1,000,000 square feet podium will house a casino and areas like upscale retail, restaurants, spas, a natural sand beach with salt water and wave replication and all services. The main tower will house upscale retail and private residences while the secondary towers will be used for hospitality and retail; all of this in about 1,400,000 sq. ft.
The program for the project includes a four-star, full-service hotel with 289 rooms, a 25,000 sf conference center, 65 condominiums, specialty dining and parking garage. The facility is designed throughout to create dramatic framed views of the lake.
Located at Main Street between Ervay and Akard, two doors down from the flagship Neiman Marcus store. This project is comprised of both adaptive reuse and new construction. The program for this project contains 130 hotel rooms, a Charlie Palmer restaurant, cellar lounge, ballrooms, meeting spaces and a spa. The entire design is by the world famous Adam D. Tihany. BOKA Powell worked with the Design Architect and Production/Historic Preservation Architects in creating a project that would achieve the clients’ budget and schedule to exceed the expectations of the guests. On-site supervision is provided by BOKA Powell throughout the construction phase.
This Australian-inspired contemporary hotel/condo project is located in the heart of downtown Tempe, Arizona. On the corner of Veteran’s Way and College Avenue, the project will bring a new vibrant aesthetic to the area, with chic retail and restaurants on the ground level continuing the pedestrian activity of nearby Mill Avenue. The 20-story, 330,000 s.f. condominium tower, right across the street from the ASU stadium, has a total of 289 condos - including 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom and 3-bedroom units. Alongside the 20-story building is a 17-story, 250,000 s.f. hotel tower, has 250 rooms and 27 condos, in addition to conference spaces, restaurants, bars, and retail. Both towers share a podium which houses the pool, spa, cabanas etc. There are 3 levels of underground structured parking that serves both towers. Development/Design Partner: Constellation Property Group
Lumina Reno is the leading edge of a new development within downtown Reno, Nevada, incorporating a 200-key luxury hotel with residential and high-end gaming facilities. This mixed-use block synergizes the redeveloped Truckee River Pedestrian Corridor while energizing the plaza adjacent to the river with retail and restaurant uses.
Formerly the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Convention Center, the Presidente InterContinental Guadalara is situated in the heart of downtown Guadalajara, and combines Four-Star hotel facilities with a highly-flexible convention and meeting facility. The existing hotel was taken to a shell condition throughout and redesigned as a marquee Hyatt property, including all new guest rooms, lobbies, entries, restaurants and lounge areas. Concurrently, an existing mall structure adjacent to the hotel was partially demolished and redesigned as a highly-flexible convention and conference center facility. The centerpiece of the facility is the Astral Ballroom, with a capacity of up to 1,500 people in theater-style seating, 1,100 for dinner and 1,300 for reception, all within a dramatic 33-meter high space. BOKA Powell provided on-site design, document production and construction administration services for the project, in a design-build team format.
This mixed-use development is proposed to occupy a 2.3 acre of prime real estate at the Atlantic Station mixed use development. This sleak building will be 34 stories of condominiums topping a 9-story, 250-key, 5-star hotel. Alongside is a 400,000 SF, 19-story Class A office tower. Accompanying will be 12,000 SF of retail and a 10,000 SF signature restaurant. This mixed-use development is proposed to occupy a 2.3 acre of prime real estate at the Atlantic Station mixed use development. This sleak building will be 34 stories of condominiums topping a 9-story, 250-key, 5-star hotel. Alongside is a 400,000 SF, 19-story Class A office tower. Accompanying will be 12,000 SF of retail and a 10,000 SF signature restaurant.