OMA revamps Houston's old post office

2019-07-01T13:18:00-04:00

The Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and developers Lovett Commercial have unveiled plans to transform the 55,000-square-foot Barbara Jordan Post Office in Houston into a mixed-use cultural center and park for the city.

Rendering of proposed atrium located within the renovated post office building. Image courtesy of OMA and Luxigon.

The adaptive reuse project, called POST Houston, will bring a rooftop park, urban agriculture, retail establishments, a market hall, co-working spaces, and other uses to the former post office building with the goal of "balancing preservation with strategic, almost surgical interventions" in order to reposition the post office into a dynamic cultural node.

View of POST Houston's proposed rooftop park. Image courtesy of OMA and Luxigon.

The complex will be topped with a five-acre rooftop park designed by Chicago landscape architects Hoerr Schaudt containing an organic farm and other recreational areas. Hoerr Schaudt is also behind the 2015 desig...

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OMA revamps Houston's old post office