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before
304 West Dexter
607 Old Jersey
200 Lee Street
716 Park Place
200 PerShing
1309 Walton Drive
Former Homes
3O7
1700
601
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1909)
304 West Dexter Artist
Owner--Jerry Loving
50 years of service
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No, 983 ~mui~ing ,~ ~rd ~f Trust's
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Story by
rchitecture is
bad.
Architects
Bryan-College
name his
and to talk
in the
of what the
1300 Jersey
re-use of an older
finer
one
Some said
chitecture
ed (it) ought
head."
But there was
The
Rudder
Other top
3833 Texas Ave, in Bryan, one of the finest ex-
architecture ~ of the
one
Bryan-College Station Eagle Saturday, September 10, 1983
1973.
In 1980, developer Don Mar~ll invited Wood to
submit a design for a new office building.
At the time, there was an old ranch house on
Martell's property and Wood noticed it was facing
not toward the roadway but at an exact, 4~.degree
angle with the roadway m and, therefore, not
directly into the hot, afternoon sun,
The home, despite its age, was almost completely
energy efficient.
"The
from the s
noolI
They liked
architect.
"But then they asked me if I had ever worked for
a Houston firm," Wood says with a smirk, "and 1
said, 'of course.'"
They approved Wood's design, but one big ques-
tion remained. Would it be accep~ by the local
clientele? Martell bet that it Would and, pushing his
point a bit, charged rates well above what office
complexes of comparable size were asking at the
time.
"Prevailing rates were 66 cents a square foot, but
Don was asking 85 cents, and there was con*
siderable question over whether he'd get it," Wood
says.
"But he got it."
To Wood, it was
chitecture would be i
Temple Freda
~ J.W. Wood
1983 3
4
gri el ~A"Y~hifig iha~ isn°t energY efficient
mq ks M0rleY ~ent!y d~igned agarden center in south
a n~d to in~ C01lege S~fio. ~fivported by 52 w~den Poles and
value to in4 SuS~d~ a~h~e frOm three to nine feet off the
~ makes use of natural Ventilation
Morley ,
vent
the air
off the ground
overnight
That!s fine, bUt
after a long
10,1983
First
tilevered roof. ~
marble is a good use of
onservatism,
"I thinl
with
bad,"
how much
sign.
"And
answer the
build
believe
order t,
creator of
architects and that
"Here,
he says.
he knows."
ac-
Hamblett
Rudder
Tower
the
5
Bryan~College Station Eagle Saturday, Se!otember 10, 1983
Metro
Centre
arChi
towa~:
pUS, ~:
to a~
isn't ~
you c
up
'
disast
It
Brook
and is very
will come
on that
We have to be
to
Even
Ca, itt
6
Professor of environmental dasi~n, Texas
EI.Sayed home, 1903 Bee Creek
Drive, College Station -- "Very energy
conscious with good natural ventila-
tion. Set up off the ground ... away
from the muck and mire. Metal roof
reflects a lot of sun. Carefully sited to
the ~rees around it."
St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 906
Jersey St., College Station -- ' I like
the scale (it's size relative to people),
the setting and use of materials. The
spaces and size seem just right."
Brazos County Courthouse (the
original), downtown Bryan -- "It
seems to have a sense of' dignity,
Access tO
511 University ~ve building,
lege Station -- "Very nice
... with parking below and
above. Wisely designed."
Briarcrest Commons, 1735
crest Dr., Bryan -- "Nicely sited
appropriately scaled. It has a
informality that s~ms appropriate
today's business environment."
Heldenfels Building, Texas
campus -- "Handsome design. Smarl
use of color inside. Well proportion-
doesn't have to be air conditioned."
Texas A&M campus --
functional, well-
s professor of environmental
design at Texas A&M,
Dnane Cote sees some ('pret-
ty deplorable" examples of
architecture on the A&M campus.
"There's still an attempt to keep
toward beige brick buildings on cam-
pus, but it s~iil varies from one building
to another," he says. "Ther~ really
isn't much control o'er materials when
you come right down to it."
Cote needs little prodding to come
up with examples of architectural
' 'lemons" on campu s.
"The Reed McDonald Building is a
disaster," he says. "You can't get
through it.
"The O&M Building is dangerous.
It's hard to find the exits. And the man
who designed the new librmy addition
ought to have a T-square broken over
A&M campus --
complexes work well. The
good. Every seat is a l
are good and acoustics are good."
his
head. It is tight, cheap and over-
pOWering. The s~al~ is bad. And it's
heavy-handed, not sensitively conceiv-
And what about the Memorial Stu-
dent Center?
'(Banal," Cote replies.
The building in which Cote works,
the Langford Architecture Center, has
caught its share of flack -- not the least
from architecture students. Shortly
after it was completed, one inhabitant
draped a sign outside a window, say-
ing, "Gosh, I'm ugly{"
In his office, Cote can't peer out his
window without standing up. It seems
the windows were designed the same
for the offices as they were for the
s~and-up drafting areas upstairs.
Seated, Cote is at eye level with his
EI.Sayed
window sit.
But Cote sees signs that architecture
is improving in the B~an-College Sta-
tion area.
"More bright
tieing.
a8
tries,
with
up
away from the
boean acceptance and encouragem~t
f fresh design ideas."
Bryan-
Bryan-College S'tation Eagle Saturday,
of the more
like)
now.
i here.
They used to let natural
1 Einse! is an Eagle staff
8
1983