Architecture

At Bennett Benner Pettit the practice of architecture encompasses a range of projects and services. The firm’s award-winning work includes new construction, historic restoration 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.

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...

The Museum of Living Art rises out of a landscape of native grasses and canyons. Limestone walls replicate the striations of the canyon, while steel beams and metal roofs rise and fall in soft waves. The line between inside and outside and the enclosure between animal and human are blurred.

While the 7,000-square-foot café provides dining and underwater viewing, the herpetarium includes...

Situated within the new Omni Hotel in downtown Fort Worth, Bennett Benner Pettit has provided design services for a number of these private residences. The private residences are finished with the finest finishes and amenities to create truly unique downtown living spaces. Additionally, residents have access to a private pool and gardens, creating an urban oasis within the busy downtown scene...

WestBend is a new mixed-use development in Fort Worth’s University District on the Trinity River. 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, potential residential and 122,600 square feet of Class A office space, including redevelopment of an existing office building. The...

Since 1992, BNSF has been consolidating its headquarters departments and its Network Operations Center into a group of buildings forming a campus-like setting in north Forth Worth, Texas.

This project represented a significant shift in the way the railroad was managed, using technology to consolidate and reduce field-based dispatching and freight office functions. It successfully...

The new Fort Worth Museum of Science and History serves as a capstone to Fort Worth’s Cultural District, which has developed into an international destination for the architecture of its museum facilities over the past five decades. Built adjacent to a natural plaza, the pedestrian-friendly museum is anchored by the building’s iconic signature attraction: a 76-foot-tall glass and stone tower...

The Westlake Academy Complex is a forward-thinking mixed-use facility that provides the space for a top-quality, international baccalaureate curriculum educational facility. The project was designed to LEED environmental standards and employs natural daylight to light the offices, classrooms and gymnasium. Rainwater is harvested and stored on-site for use in irrigation. Natural stone, exposed...

As the Architect of Record, Bennett Benner Pettit partnered with the Design Architect, David M. Schwarz Architects, Inc., on the Tarrant County Family Law Center and Parking Garage, one of the most significant new projects 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...

Housing the district’s engineering and information services departments, the 26,000-square-foot building was awarded USBC Gold Level LEED certification. The Annex boasts 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 percent of the building’s energy as well as surplus electricity for 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...

Throughout their history AUI Contractors have been known as a utility and infrastructure contractor. When they purchased a site along the I-35 frontage road north of downtown Fort Worth, they requested a structure that would demonstrate their capabilities in vertical construction.

The design utilizes cast-in-place concrete walls, steel roof framing, metal panels, and Texas limestone...

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 extend the classic architectural vocabulary of the existing high-rise office building yet create an individual presence for the lead tenant who now occupies the two top floors of the building.

Exterior materials include well-...

The Fischer Dining Pavilion, completed in 2008, is the prototype to set design standards for future buildings on the Fort Worth Country Day campus and is intended to be the school’s crown jewel. The building is a dining hall space with multiple purposes, including banquets, assemblies and dances. The roof is sloped to create an opportunity for a large clerestory on the north facade while...

The new 75,000-square-foot facility 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 wood room, with wood structural framing and...

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 and 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...

This new arts facility for Fort Worth Country Day was designed to accommodate the school’s growing art education department. The school decided to renovate and expand a former campus cafeteria into art studios and classrooms. The project was inspired by the use of natural light, the need to form strong connections with the campus and a desire to have art education on display.

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 renovate Jarvis Hall to incorporate career services, student services, university ministries, music classrooms and offices.

The design provides for the...

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. Bennett Benner Pettit 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 seats.