06/05/2026
We are honored to share the Champions Pavilion received the Divine Detail Award at last night’s AIA Houston Design Awards.
Sited between the existing clubhouse and golf course, the pavilion creates a shaded threshold between the indoor and outdoor life of the club. Organized around two large oak trees and anchored by an 8’ grid, the project extends into the landscape as a series of covered and uncovered places to gather, pause, watch, and return.
The design is rooted in the rituals of the club life: moving from clubhouse to course, gathering in the shade, watching a group come in, waiting out a passing rain, or feeling the shift of light through the day. From a distance, the roof reads as a quiet, thin plane below the existing fables. Up close, the experience of the pavilion is shaped through careful integration of the structure, shade, water, light, and shadow.
The awarded detail brings together column, sunshade, gutter, beam, and rain chain. In Houston, rain is never an afterthought. Here, water is choreographed into the architecture: the sunshade filters light and conceals the gutter, the gutter directs rain into a hidden channel within the cantilevered steel beam, and the rain chain returns it to the ground in alignment with the pavilion’s columns and grid.
A detail of place, ritual, and experience; shaped through shelter, shade, and rain.
Thank you to and the jury, , , and for this recognition, and to everyone who helped bring the project to life.
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