Location
Year
Type
Size
Houston, TX
2025
Interior Architecture
Architecture
Furniture Services
Art Services
Brand Experience Design
Signage & Wayfinding
Workplace Strategy
80,000ft²
Port Houston’s new administrative headquarters is a six-story workplace located within Midway’s East River development in downtown Houston. Designed to support nearly 300 administrative employees, the project brings the Port’s support operations together into one cohesive, highly functional workplace.
The space replaces a disconnected office environment with one that supports collaboration, flexibility, and day-to-day efficiency. It provides a central hub for Port Houston’s administrative teams while reflecting the organization’s scale, purpose, and role within the global maritime and logistics industry.
A grand reception area provided the appropriate backdrop to highlight a monumental glass seal that spans the entire double volume entry wall, discovered in a warehouse mid way through the project, by a Port employee. Given new life with a modern brick back drop, architectural illumination, and custom framing, the seal is not only a dramatic statement in the stately lobby, but a fitting preservation of part of the storied company’s historic past.
An adjacent history wall coupled with a dynamic storytelling display and selected artifacts, tell the complete Port Houston story for anyone visiting the new building.
A large exterior facing corridor on the ground floor reflects the transparency the Port aims to achieve with their open forum commissioning meetings. When the operable wall at the primary boardroom is open, the corridor serves as overflow seating to allow for maximum public attendance and complete visibility to the exterior lawn and sidewalk beyond. Reinforcing the emphasis on connectivity, operable partitions were included at all large meeting rooms to reinforce the desired flexibility for scale and function throughout.