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Advanced Micro Devices

Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) Lone Star Campus consists of four office buildings, three garages, and a large multipurpose center, all carefuly sited along a circulation spine. Although visible from surrounding streets, the buildings turn inward to each other on the site: the effect from the outside being that the buildings complement rather than overwhelm the natural features of the landscape.

Whole Foods Market

Using locally quarried Texas limestone as a special feature, Whole Foods Market has expanded its Austin-based location to include both a retail location as well as the company’s headquarters.

Whole Foods Market, the world’s largest natural and organic foods supermarket, has opened an 80,000-square-foot landmark store and a 200,000-square-foot office tower in downtown Austin, TX. Locally quarried Antique Lueders limestone from Mezger Enterprises Ltd. of Lampasas, TX, was selected for various exterior elements, and HKS Inc., of Dallas, TX, was hired to carry out the design.

Prothro House Addition

This house occupied a valuable parcel of land near downtown Dallas, featuring green spaces and large mature trees. The size was right, but the layout didn’t suit all the needs of its owners.

Walls of the servant spaces were constructed of sawn and sandblasted antique Lueders limestone, laid in long horizontal planks. Stone is mounted inside and outside the structure, with an inner cavity between for insulation. Slabs of Lueders comprise the steps and patios that surround the structure.

Frisco Square

Frisco Square in Frisco, TX, one of the largest mixed-use developments in the country, features a variety of buildings clad in native limestone.

“The project is part of a 140-acre master plan, of which the city owns roughly 20 acres,” said architect Michael C. Swartz from the firm David M. Schwarz/Architectural Services Inc. of Washington, DC. “The rest of the land is owned by a private entity that was interested in selling it. Some of the city’s representatives saw it and like the quality and feel of the mixed-use project, and they asked us to come on board to help design something that resembled Parker Square, which is also in Texas.”

Austin City Hall

Austin City Hall is an Antoine Predock design that features more than 58,000 square feet of Lueders roughback and copper and more than 1,450 tons of veneer limestone. In addition, the landscape surrounding the building includes more than 1,100 tons of Lueders quarry blocks used to promote Austin’s goal to keep the building a casual, welcoming and friendly gathering place. The 450 ton water terraces that spill out of the building into the plaza are made of Lueders quarry ledge.