由洛杉矶建筑事务所 Kevin Daly Architects 以及墨西哥事务所 PRODUCTORA 合作设计的 Houston Endowment 总部于近日正式落成。作为该基金会首座总部建筑，项目面积达 3.2 万平方英尺（约 2972.89 平方米），价值 2100 万美元。基金会原办公大楼坐落于休斯顿市中心，如今则搬迁至风景优美的 Spotts 公园附近，可持续、无障碍的新总部反映了该公司作为城市合作者与支持者的重要地位。全新的建筑为基金会创造出与公共、私营和非营利部门合作伙伴的新合作方式，同时也将为大休斯顿区的人民创造出更加平等的机会，并增强地区的活力。

Los Angeles-based Kevin Daly Architects (kdA) today announced the completion of the new headquarters of Houston Endowment, designed by kdA with Mexico City-based collaborator PRODUCTORA. The nearly 32,000-square-foot, $21 million building serves as the Foundation’s first purpose-built headquarters. The organization’s relocation from an office tower in Downtown Houston to an engaging, sustainable, and accessible new headquarters in Spotts Park reflects its on-the-ground ethic as a vital source of support and collaboration within the city. The building provides the Foundation with a new way of working with its partners across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and will support the mission of advancing equity of opportunity for the people of Greater Houston and enhancing the vibrancy of the region.

▼项目鸟瞰，Aerial view

▼北立面，North facade

▼西南侧夜景，Southwest view

建筑设计

Building Design

设计旨在将该建筑打造为不同组织与部门的合作网络核心，以及服务于社区、分配资源、传播专业知识的聚会场所。该总部将成为休斯顿不断更新的城市化进程中的“锚”，以响应继水牛城河口和周边社区修复后的重大城市转型策略。面对如此复杂的挑战，包括 kdA 在内的设计团队提出了为建筑创造前门与后门廊的设想。建筑的前门作为基金会的门户，以专业且正式的姿态欢迎着各方合作伙伴，同时也以热情的姿态欢迎着来自社区的公众，让合作者甚至第一次来访的人都能够产生出一种强烈的归属感。

The Houston Endowment headquarters has been thoughtfully designed to be the center of a network, equally a meeting place for members of the community and for the distribution of resources and expertise back to the community at large.

The headquarters was imagined to have an anchoring quality in a transient city, a measure against the significant urban transformation that has followed the restoration of the Buffalo Bayou and the surrounding neighborhood.

The challenge of the project addressed by kdA and the design team was to create a building that is simultaneously a front door and a back porch for the organization.

The front door is the public representation of the Foundation, formal enough to greet institutional partners while remaining approachable for any member of the community to feel welcome, with a strong sense of belonging for collaborators and first-time visitors alike.

▼南立面，South facade