SIZE: 13,000 sf SERVICES: Full Architectural Services DATE COMPLETED: 2010
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Amazing Place is a 13,000-sf Fellowship, Memory and Wellness Center that serves sixty participants in the early and middle stages of Alzheimer’s. It is designed to create a warm environment for those with mild dementia and helps stimulate participants’ minds through the use of familiar materials, texture, warmth, light and color. The center utilizes “Healing Garden Concepts” and includes a fish pond, aquarium, library, chapel, and even a pool table. All major activity meeting rooms are organized around the courtyard to provide critical natural light for the participants. Patients gather as a community in one of two large activity rooms and meals are shared family style in the largest room.
This LEED® Silver Certified project features local and regional materials, water harvesting low-VOC interior products for improved indoor air-quality, water-saving plumbing fixtures, high-efficiency HVAC systems, occupancy sensors and water-saving irrigation.
Amazing Place West
SIZE: 12,300 sf SERVICES: Full Architectural Services DATE COMPLETED: 2025
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Amazing Place West is a 12,300 sf state-of-the-art memory care and wellness center on two acres of land in West Houston/Katy. Designed by Studio RED Architects and constructed by Mission Constructors, the facility serves as a “gym for the brain,” offering evidence-based day programs for individuals with mild-to-moderate dementia alongside extensive caregiver support. The facility extends its community impact through a strategic partnership with Bo’s Place, which utilizes the campus to provide free, specialized grief and bereavement support groups for families. By co-locating these essential services, the project creates a comprehensive emotional and cognitive safety net, uniquely addressing the interconnected needs of memory care, caregiver respite, and community healing within a single landmark.