BENCHMARK OFFICE BUILDING

LONGVIEW, TEXAS | 33,000 SQFT | COMPLETED IN 1983

DALLAS AIA MERIT AWARD 1984

TSA HONOR AWARD 1985

LONGVIEW BEAUTIFICATION AWARD 1985

“Of all the projects we looked at, this is the one with the strongest concept. It tries to create a very sensitive posture for a building nestled into the wilderness. Rather than making a decision to blend or contrast with nature, the architect has decided to do both, and surprisingly, succeeds in showing us this duality.  Mirror glass is used in the brilliant way Saarinen first used it as a way of blending into nature.  It also uses a symbolic element, the ruin to let us know that something man-made can be added to the environment and that the man-made can fit in.”

- Texas Architect 3-85

“In popularity with architectural critics, low-rise suburban mirror-glass office buildings now rank somewhere below Nehru jackets.  But when one of them is so carefully sited in the East Texas woods that it practically disappears, and when it peaks out at the road from behind an astonishing brick-wall façade that recalls a Roman aqueduct, the look gets a new life.”

- Texas Business Magazine 3-86