Design Team For Tarrant County College: Bing Thom, Michael Heeney, Venelin Kokalov, Ling Meng, Francis Yan, Shinobu Homma, Matthew Woodruff, Amirali Javidan, Bibianka Fehr, Lisa Potopsingh, Berit Wooge, Nicole Hu, Michael Motlagh
Photography: Nic Lehoux Photography
Selected by the Tarrant Regional Water District in 2003, Bing Thom Architects (BTA) developed the master plan for the redevelopment of 800 acres of reclaimed land adjacent to the downtown core of Fort Worth, Texas along the Trinity River. Called the Trinity Uptown Vision, and currently, the largest urban redevelopment taking place in North America, the plan will transform this flood-prone zone into an urban waterfront neighborhood that will encourage young families to move back to the city’s core. In order for the new community to be truly balanced and sustainable, BTA felt strongly that the City needed a significant educational institution that would serve as an anchor downtown to serve the 10,000 new households that would be moving into the area. An opportunity arrived in 2006 when BTA and Bennett Benner and Pettit (BBP, formerly Gideon Toal), the local associate architect, were comissioned by Tarrant County College District (TCC) to design a new downtown campus. Photography: Nic Lehoux Photography
One of the fastest growing community college districts in Texas, Tarrant County College District had four existing, healthy campuses serving primarily suburban communities, but wanted a new downtown campus. The...