Our architecture practice encompasses comprehensive design services for a broad spectrum of projects ranging from commercial, education and residential to cultural, mixed use, zoos, as well as parks and trails. The firm’s award-winning work includes new construction, historic restoration, sustainable design, and adaptive reuse. We respond to our clients’ needs and project constraints with innovative yet pragmatic solutions. Bennett Benner Pettit is also frequently sought after as a partner by other design firms in order to provide careful execution of complex projects. Collaboration, personal service, highest quality design, and emphasis on sustainability are hallmarks of our work.
The original Herpetarium at the Fort Worth Zoo had long been a favorite destination among the more than one million zoo visitors each year. The 50 year old facility, originally designed by noted Fort Worth architect J.R. Pelich, was no longer able to accommodate the needs of the zoo’s enlarged animal collection or adequately address the increased needs for today’s educational and conservation...
Bennett Benner Pettit is providing planning and architectural design services for three projects at Texas Wesleyan University to create an iconic campus entryway with clock tower and fountain. This new entryway will also serve as a catalyst for future development and to help reenergize the historic Polytechnic neighborhood. The project also includes renovation to an old fire station which will...
As part of the design team, Bennett Benner Pettit is working in conjunction with David M. Schwarz Architectural Services on a major Sundance Square project to design and execute three (5 and 6 story) office buildings that will frame a plaza with streetscape in the heart of downtown Fort Worth. The firm is working with Michael Vergason Landscape Architects on the plaza.
The three mixed...
Sited at the SE corner of Rogers Road and Riverfront Drive on a small triangular piece of under utilized property, the Rogers Road Pavilion provides an idyllic setting to enjoy the serenity along the banks of the Trinity River. Located just south of the University Park shopping center along the Trinity Trails system, and offering access to a variety of amenities, makes the Rogers Road site...
Bennett Benner Pettit worked in conjunction with Bing Thom Architects to design a series of buildings and interior spaces at Tarrant County College (TCC) that are oriented to take advantage of the dramatic vistas along the historic Fort Worth bluff. The central plazas and exterior courtyards meander gently between the buildings, descending down the riverfront, providing students and residents...
WestBend is a new mixed use development along the Trinity River in Fort Worth’s near the Fort Worth Zoo and TCU. The design takes advantage of spectacular river views and river trail access for 90,000 square feet of specialty retail and restaurants, a 140-room lifestyle hotel, and 122,600 square feet of Class A office space, including redevelopment of an existing office building. The project...
The Westlake Academy Complex is a forward-thinking education institution that provides a top-quality, international baccalaureate curriculum. Its picturesque site is nestled into a hillside overlooking a meadow which serves as a town green. Natural stone, exposed structural timber, and tile roofs seek to marry the building to the natural setting and establish an architectural identity for the...
Beginning in 1988, Bennett Benner Pettit began assisting BNSF Railway with the consolidation of the railroad’s Corporate Management and Mission Critical Operations to a suburban campus site in north Fort Worth, Texas.
Approximately 4000 of its 42,000+ workforce have been accommodated in a Headquarters Campus of 10 function specific buildings designed to support the corporate workforce...
In conjuction with world renowned Design Architect, Ricardo Legorreta of Legorreta + Legorreta in Mexico City, Bennett Benner Pettit provided architectural services for the new Fort Worth Museum of Science. This family friendly musem is located in Fort Worth’s Cultural District, which has developed into an international destination for the architecture of its museum facilities over the past...
FWCD expanded its middle school in support of its dedication to keeping class size small. An increase in total enrollment, and high retention rate led to the need for additional middle school classrooms and related support spaces. The addition includes five classrooms on the first level and another five on the second level, 2,200 sf of commons space, and new office space for the middle school...
As the Architect of Record, Bennett Benner Pettit partnered with Design Architect, David M. Schwarz Architects, Inc., on the Tarrant County Family Law Center and Parking Garage in downtown Fort Worth. Incorporating open space and natural light, the courthouse provides a high level of security and is sensitive to the needs of families during stressful legal proceedings. The building adds to the...
This new mixed-use project enjoys a prime location along Fort Worth’s booming West 7th corridor and across University Drive from the renowned Modern Art Museum. Bennett Benner Pettit has been involved in master planning the site, originally the Acme Brick corporate complex, and has now been retained as architect for two of the project’s five blocks.
The southeast block is comprised of...
Housing the district’s engineering and information services departments, the 26,000 sf building is expected to receive the USBC Gold Level LEED Certification after an upcoming review process. The Annex boasts the one of the largest roof-mounted solar electric systems in the state of Texas. The 236-kilowatt system of 1,157 solar photovoltaic panels will provide 70% of the building’s energy as...
Formerly an industrial building home to Fort Worth Bolt and Tool, 2800 Bledsoe was purchased by a developer to lease to multiple tenants as office space. Located in a bustling area between Downtown and the Cultural District, this area has undergone a transformation from a fading industrial zone to a vibrant urban mixed use hub.
A primary goal of the project is to create interest through...
The 9/11 Tribute exhibit, to be located on the front lawn of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, will offer a peaceful and emotional opportunity for the citizens of Fort Worth and surrounding communities to view a significant structural artifact recovered from the World Trade Center collapse.
Placed prominently at the center of a concrete and stone plaza, the fallen tri-column...
AUI Contractors purchased a site along the I-35 frontage road north of downtown Fort Worth for the building they envisioned that would demonstrate their capabilities in vertical construction.The design utilizes cast-in-place concrete walls, steel roof framing, metal panels, and Texas limestone roughback panels. The completed project showcases the contractor’s vertical construction skills while...
This four-story project includes Class A office space situated on a prime downtown site that terminates three separate view corridors. The building is designed to maximiza access to natural light and provide a representative appearance for the building's tennants.
Exterior materials include well-articulated architectural precast concrete, stone and window wall systems configured to...
Seeking to be part of an active urban environment and all that downtown Fort Worth has to offer, the clients asked Bennett Benner Pettit to provide them with a fully customized condominium build out for an unfinished shell in an otherwise complete downtown high rise condominium. The unit encompasses an open living, dining & family space, Master suite, guest bedroom and study. Creative...
The Fischer Dining Pavilion, completed in 2008 establishes the design vocabulary for future buildings on the Fort Worth Country Day campus and is intended to be the school’s crown jewel. The building functions primarily as the main dining hall on campus, but it is also a multi purpose building that accommodates banquets, assemblies, dances and other functions. The roof slopes up to the north...
Located in a historically industrial area, Foch Street Warehouses were built in the 1940’s. Adaptively reused to take advantage of their location in the vibrant West Seventh District, a portion of the building was carved back 55ft to provide additional parking and an entry drive. The structure was further carved away to create pedestrian colonnades and terraces. With a limited budget, a...
Bennett Benner Pettit is the architect for the Lena Pope Home’s new main building adjacent to their existing campus off Hulen Street in Fort Worth, Texas. The new facility will re-centralize the organization’s administrative and counseling staff along with their Early Learning Center. The project also includes a Youth and Family Center.
Continuing a long history of service for the...
The new 75,000 sf facility, designed in association with Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer, features the 1,100-seat Margot and Bill Winspear Performance Hall, the 400-seat Lyric Theater with accompanying opera and instrument rehearsal rooms, a scene room and a costume shop. Each major component of the building celebrates a unique form, creating a playful composition of forms.
The concert hall is a...
Located in a key urban renewal area of Fort Worth’s historic Near Southside, the Magnolia | May renovation is being designed to be both cost effective and flexible for a variety of potential tenants. The project consists of three buildings on a single city block. Our design team is updating the three facades with minimal demolition or changes to the existing facades by adding simple materials...
The Sid W. Richardson Visual Arts Center is a new arts facility for Fort Worth Country Day School. The project consisted of a renovation and expansion to the former campus cafeteria into art studios and classrooms to accommodate a growing art education department.
Natural light was used to define the forms of the existing studios, achieved by removing approximately 70% of the existing...
The new Tarrant County Jail is a five-story maximum-security facility that primarily contains single-occupancy cells for male and female inmates, medical facilities for male inmates, and a new kitchen that will serve the entire downtown campus and their Cold Spring Facility and, in some capacity, their Green Bay Facility. This new jail is located between Weatherford and Belknap streets and...
The Gatehouse at Grapevine is a living community where women and their children leaving abuse, poverty or prison can participate in an independent life program to build new lives. The planned community is sited on a 49-acre wooded site in Grapevine. Selected as the architect for this organization’s new home, Bennett Benner Pettit is providing design services for this multi-family neighborhood...
Opened in 1911, Jarvis Hall is the oldest building on TCU’s Fort Worth campus. Until recently, Jarvis Hall served as a women’s dormitory. Due to recent growth at TCU and changes in student housing, Bennett Benner Pettit was asked to provide architectural services to renovate Jarvis Hall to incorporate career services, student services, university ministries, music classrooms and offices.
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Designed as a series of gabled roof buildings along the shore of Eagle Mountain Lake, the Berry lake house draws inspiration from the utilitarian sheds and native limestone walls of northern Texas.
A long central gallery, sited to preserve existing trees, forms the spine and main organizing element of the building. This gallery, which begins in the bunk room as a window seat, runs past...
Casa Mañana Theatre, built in 1959 using a kit of parts marketed by Alcoa, is one of the few aluminum geodesic dome structures remaining in the U.S. Our firm was charged with reconfiguring the performance space into a more flexible modified thrust/proscenium arrangement while adding appropriately scaled public spaces and related amenities for the resulting 1,082 seat theater.
Situated within the new Omni Hotel in downtown Fort Worth, Bennett Benner Pettit provided design services for these private residences featuring the finest finishes and amenities to create truly unique downtown living spaces. Condominiums begin on the 16th level where a pool deck creates an urban oasis above the busy downtown scene. The 96 units continue up to the top level of the building....
500 West 7th Street, Suite 1400