Rogers Partners is helping one of America's premier folk art destinations expand in Houston

2021-11-18T14:19:00-05:00

One of America’s premier folk art institutions is getting a major expansion for the first time thanks to a newly-unveiled design from Rogers Partners.

The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art opened in 1980 and is dedicated to outsider and folk art.

Orange Show traces its origins to a transplanted local postal carrier named Jeff McKissack, who transformed his East End Houston property into a shrine for the signature fruit of his native Florida over a three-decade span until his death the same year.

Image courtesy of the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, Houston, and Rogers Partners.

The expansion allows for one unified program for the first time in the organization’s 40-year history. A 31,000-square-foot warehouse building adjacent to the center will be turned into a flexible exhibition space and education center with a special feature that will serve as the new centerpiece to one of the city’s most important public art festivals.

Since the mid-80s, the center has hosted Housto...

$5.2M contract approved for new St. Petersburg Pier

2015-07-09T20:57:00-04:00

City of St. Petersburg officials formally approved a $5.2 million contract that will ultimately lead to the construction of the new St. Petersburg Pier. The team consisting of Rogers Partners, ASD, and WORKSHOP: Ken Smith Landscape Architect had the winning proposal for the second run of the St. Petersburg Pier competition that launched last summer. The competition sought a redesign of the pier, but also required the preservation of the structure's iconic inverted pyramid.

The approved $5.2 million will go toward the finalization of design details, demolition of the current Pier, and approach and initial contracting services. The City issued a press statement indicating that the design phase is scheduled to take five months and will include feedback from residents. The community will have additional opportunities to learn more about the redesign during the design refinement process.

The winning proposal, titled "The Pier Park", builds upon the Pier's eclectic history that dates back t...

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Rogers Partners is helping one of America's premier folk art destinations expand in Houston

$5.2M contract approved for new St. Petersburg Pier