Original article written by Olivia Pulsinelli in the Houston Business Journal
Architects-Plus and Three Square Design Group, two fast-growing Houston architecture firms, will merge to create a firm called Method Architecture in mid-2016. The new firm will move into and help design a renovated mixed-use project.
The combined firm will be led by four partners: Keith Holley and Eric Hudson, principals and co-owners of Architects-Plus; Jake Donaldson, founder and principal of Three Square; and Vanessa Ortega, director of projects at Three Square.
Combined, the two firms employ nearly 40 staff.
Both firms made the 2015 Cougar 100 List of fastest-growing businesses owned or led by University of Houston graduates. Three Square ranked No. 8, based on its 71.8 percent compound annual revenue growth from 2012 to 2014, and Architects-Plus ranked No. 28 with 33.3 percent growth.
Architects-Plus, which Holley and Hudson took over in 2013, specializes in corporate interiors, retail, health care and industrial fields. Three Square, which Donaldson founded in 2008, specializes in tenant finish and ground-up projects for the retail, health care, industrial and craft-brewing industries. Three Square has designed space for Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co., Karbach Brewing Co., Fort Bend Brewing Co. and others.
Three Square is also the architect of record for the exterior of Our Vodka’s new location underway in an East Downtown mixed-use project called East Village.
Method Architecture will move into an adjacent building in East Village, occupying the entire 10,000-square-foot second floor of 2118 Lamar St. The firm will design the interior renovations of its own space and the exterior renovations for the 30,000-square-foot building. Chapman & Kirby, a gastropub, will be on the first floor of 2118 Lamar.
East Village is being developed by Houston-based real estate company Ancorian. According to the company’s website, the 60,000-square-foot project “includes concepts from some of Houston and Dallas’ most talented and respected operators.”
According to renderings posted by Swamplot, the plans incorporate some existing buildings and call for large outdoor areas, an office building, restaurants and other elements. The project will be bounded by Lamar, Hutchins, Polk and St. Emanuel streets.
The development is located one block away from 8th Wonder Brewery and within walking distance to BBVA Compass Stadium and Minute Maid Park.
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