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Phase II centered on the construction of a building that would house a 2,100-seat auditorium, a lobby, a coffee shop, as well as a number of gathering spaces-all linked to the tower via a sky bridge. The first phase of the project focused on the office tower, transforming it into a facility that could accommodate preschoolers, youth ministries, and meeting spaces for the adult members of Watermark’s congregation. Because it’s an urban site, building adequate parking space would normally be a challenge, however, Watermark addressed this through reciprocal agreements with its commercial neighbors: on Sundays, and during special events, the church has access to its neighbors’ parking, and their neighbors’ patrons may park at Watermark when necessary. “It was a little bit of a risk-they didn’t quite know what a church would look like in an eight-story office building.” Once the firm began programming the spaces, however, it proved that utilizing the existing building would, indeed, work very well. “We started studying the value, the virtues, and the stewardship of doing that and proved that you could get a lot more bang for your buck if you kept that structure and allocated program space that could go into a tower,” he explains. But Scott Hall, AIA, principal and director of design at Omniplan, recounts that it was during master planning that this decision was reversed. Watermark’s newly purchased site housed an eight-story, 150,000-square-foot office tower that the church originally believed it would tear down in favor of building entirely new facilities from the ground up. The design of the master plan and the architecture was a collaborative effort between the church itself, the architect, and the AVL team. Thus began a three-phase design and construction effort that would produce two auditoriums, a chapel, youth and children’s facilities, a multipurpose space, numerous classrooms, and a multitude of gathering spaces. Over the course of more than 10 years, Watermark’s leadership worked with Omniplan, a local architectural firm, as well as Idibri, an Addison, Texas-based consultancy focusing on acoustics, theatrical design, and audio, video, and lighting, to bring this project to fruition. The church’s continued growth mandated the need for a permanent home, which in 2003, Watermark’s leadership found in the form of a 13-acre plot of land next to Interstate 635 in Dallas. The garden homes are located on the sixth-floor amenity level, with convenient access to two junior Olympic-sized pools, a fitness center, and a spa.For their first six years together, the members of Watermark Community Church gathered first in each other’s living rooms, and then, as membership grew, in hotel ballrooms and high school auditoriums. Its luxury penthouse condominiums with dramatic, cantilevered pools are unlike any other in the United States, and the community also features two garden homes with 1,400-square-foot terraces. The 33-story, upscale condominium tower features floor-to-ceiling glass with sweeping terraces overlooking the city.

The firm is working with Jean-Michel Wilmotte, a Paris-based architect leading the design with landscape architect Sadafumi Uchiyama. HDF is serving as the Architect of Record for one of the Harwood District’s newest skyscrapers, Bleu Ciel. The penthouse boutique office space is 10,485 square feet. The 10th, 16th, and 17th levels offer an additional 17,214 square feet of gardens, as well as two private roof gardens off the penthouse. The ground level offers over 12,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space alongside gardens and outdoor seating. The class AA office high-rise features 22 floors totaling 226,778 square feet. 10 is the tenth development in the Harwood District master plan. Corgan led the master planning and interior design, as well as site design healthcare consulting and strategic consulting for the project. A 1,900k-square-foot campus contains an 862-bed hospital and an attached Women’s and Infants Specialty Hospital. In 2015, the New Parkland Hospital, designed in collaboration between HDF and Corgan, won an Honor Award for Large Projects from AIA Dallas and a Texas Society of Architects Design Award. It received the Community Impact Deal of the Year Award in 2015 from D CEO Magazine. The campus includes an 850-person dining commons, a healthcare clinic, a fitness center, a multi-purpose knowledge center, a 500-person gathering space, a pharmacy, a museum, and a conference center.

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Corgan provided full architectural and interior services for the project. When it was finished, more than 4,000 employees were relocated to the 2.1M-square-foot campus. In July, Toyota began moving employees into its new campus in Plano.