The Stack Deep Ellum Mixed Use
Gate Precast Company

Involved Companies

Background

This cutting-edge Class AA office building located in a historic and thriving Deep Ellum neighborhood. The 16-story building’s upper 7 levels include flexible office space with extensive building amenities such as a 10th-floor amenity terrace, unobstructed views of the downtown, private tenant balconies, a state-of-the-art fitness facility, a tenant lounge and conferencing space, 24/7 on-site security, and fully covered parking.

Level 1 includes 15,000 SF of street-level retail space, and the building’s structured parking is located at Levels 2 through 9.

The building’s lower volume blends with Deep Ellum’s historic neighborhood and shows respect for the neighborhood’s history of brick and mortar architecture, while the upper volume aesthetically expresses the goal of creating an innovative office model for the future withits modern aesthetic and visual prioritization of outdoor amenity spaces for the building’s occupants.

Precast concrete was chosen to meet the aesthetic, constructability, and budget goals for the lower volume’s brick façade.

Challenges

To suit special design conditions, some of the panels were 16 feet wide x 25 feet long, and weighed slightly over 31,000 lbs, which was challenging to ship but the precaster succeeded. The complicated arched window, features and detailed cornice work are also noteworthy of craftsmanship by the precaster.

Innovations/accomplishments

Ornate Cornice Work and Multiple Brick Colors: Three unique and different colors of brick were used on the north elevation along with three differing window patterns to give the impression of three different buildings on this façade.

Photos via Robert Tsai Photography and GATE Precast Company