Museum Place Development Group is proud to have constructed a new 6,000 square-foot post office that will serve as the gateway into the highly anticipated Museum Place development in Fort Worth’s world-renowned cultural district. The new post office opened in September 2008. The post office, a full retail service center, is located at the corner of Bailey Avenue and University Drive and will be accessible from 6th Street off Bailey.

Generous donations from local foundations funded the enhanced architectural elements of the building, done by the Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc., of Philadelphia. The design work will include a mural of the West Texas sky on the outside wall facing south and the north wall will be floor-to-ceiling glass. Just south of the building are steel billboard beams bent during the 2000 tornado that will serve as an art piece, set in a public plaza. Hahnfeld, Hoffer and Stanford, of Fort Worth, is the architect of record who will be completing the detailed construction drawings for the projects.

Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates was founded by the husband and wife team of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. The company’s most recent projects include an addition to Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, the California Nanosystems Institute at the University of California in Santa Barbara and the Dumbarton Oaks Library in Washington, D.C.  When complete, the post office will be the fifth building in the cultural district to be designed by a winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize. The post office will serve as a unique gateway into the Museum Place development, both in function and design.

“We have loved the problem of designing for a small but important public structure in a big Texan environment,” said Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. “The building must have civic scale, cultural relevance, local intimacy and visibility through the intersection at West 7th Street, Bailey Avenue and Camp Bowie Boulevard.”