PLACES
Human-Built environments
Zydeco Real Estate Developer creates unique environments prioritizing human interactions and community engagement. It designs spaces that seamlessly blend residential, commercial, and recreational areas, encouraging social connections among residents. Zydeco fosters a sense of community by prioritizing pedestrian environments coupled with plazas and community centers.
Zydeco’s approach emphasizes local culture and sustainability, integrating art, nature, and local businesses into our projects. This commitment to enhancing the human experience extends to thoughtful architecture that encourages walking and gathering, ensuring that each environment feels inviting and alive. By prioritizing connectivity and accessibility, Zydeco creates neighborhoods where people can easily interact, share experiences, and build lasting relationships.
Developing Places
The Artesian Eclipse
Houston, Texas
The Artesian Eclipse Tower is a 59-floor, ultra-luxury, mixed-used residential condominium.
- Have you ever lived in a notable national treasure? This unique and dazzling residential development promises to become a regional landmark.
- The proposed high-rise development is on a 1.2-acre site one mile from the prestigious River Oaks Country Club in Houston, Texas.
- This high-rise, or “Mansion in the Sky,” purports a slenderness ratio of 9:1, rendering it a marvel of engineering finesse. Engineering coupled with an imaginative Art Deco conceptualization promises a memorable and timeless rendition of high-rise place-making.
- On the entry main floor, a glass canopied porta cochere announces the building entry. Also located on the ground floor are indoor and outdoor pools, a large dining area supported by a full kitchen, and luxurious indoor and outdoor seating areas.
- The exclusive design features one condominium unit per floor, allowing its owner 360° views and complete visual and acoustic privacy from its neighbors. Should more floor area be needed, a unit can be joined with the adjacent floor for a spacious “Mansion in the Sky” feeling and utility.
- This “Mansion in the Sky” will have two penthouses. The top-floor penthouse is six stories tall, and its private interior elevator terminates in an entertainment room with 360° views. A sky terrace and two swimming pools complete the penthouse for incomparable luxury and exclusivity.
- The mid-building penthouse features a two-story “art” room on par with fine museum interiors. This penthouse, with its oversized see-through time clocks that cantilever fifteen feet from the face of the building at each quadrant, is truly an unmatched architectural event. Altogether, this 5-level condominium offers incomparable event space and space for intimate family gatherings.
- Planning this high-rise structure was a unique pursuit that explored the industry’s technological advancements in vertical circulation, automated parking systems, the deep science of mechanical and structural engineering, and facade design with hurricane exposure. The building design strategically considers storm surges and high winds and how a building of this height confidently quells nature’s fury.
Orchard on the Alameda
Albuquerque, New Mexico – 2025 Groundbreaking
Zydeco (Architect Richard Yates) land banked and designed this development along a major transportation route in the North Valley. He designed a commercial retail center that also includes housing.
- The commercial development has over 22,000 square feet of available retail.
- The development includes 5,000 square feet of multifamily housing.
- The development includes 5-fee simple lots and 2,000 square-foot homes.
- The total development interpolates between a heavily trafficked commercial strip and a residential neighborhood development to the north.
- The development explores the relationship between live-work housing and retail.
- The development inspiration is rooted in Santa Fe’s historic east side, with its acequias and friendly, stylistic architecture.
Is your business looking for a location on a heavily trafficked boulevard in the North Valley? Please contact us for more information regarding commercial retail suites built to suit. Are you looking for a new home? Five lots with pre-designed single-family homes are available in this most desirable neighborhood. Contact us to see what we can build for you.
