Public & Civic
Pacific Plaza Park Pavilion
The City of Dallas hired SWA Group to masterplan one of several site in Downtown Dallas since they are experts at understanding the benefits of urban heat island reduction. HKS Line was brought in to work in concert with them, developing geometries and patterns for an elegant open-air pavilion, which draws inspiration from the former...
Equal Justice Initiative Building
Located in Montgomery, Alabama, The Equal Justice Initiative is a non-profit organization that provides legal representation to prisoners who may have been wrongly convicted of crimes, impoverished prisoners without effective representation, and others who may have been denied a fair trial. The Legacy Pavilion, designed by Williams Blackstock Architects, is the EJI Museum campus’ new...
Barnard College
Barnard College; New York, NY Prominent in its upper westside location in Manhattan, The Cheryl and Philip Milstein Teaching and Learning Center is a new academic hub in the heart of the Barnard College campus. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), the 128,000 square foot building features a five-floor base plinth which transitions...
Académie Lafayette
Académie Lafayette Playground Académie Lafayette Playground is a KEM Studio-designed playspace for students which features a slide manufactured and donated by Zahner. Académie Lafayette is a French immersion public school operating on multiple campuses in Kansas City serving grades K-8. To maximize the school’s budget, the forms of the playground were designed to be easily...
Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas
Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center: The University of Texas at Dallas Overland Partners designed the exterior for the Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center at UT Dallas to evoke the movement of a comet in homage to the school’s mascot. Zahner collaborated with the architect and contractor JE Dunn to develop a perforated system informed by orbital paths. Metaphorically, this...
