Adams directed the adaptive reuse design of an iconic midcentury high-rise office building to include a 326-key luxury hotel. The project required a high level of creative problem solving to adapt to structural and mechanical systems and floor plans largely unsuitable for hotel functional layouts. Adams located the hotel lobby, bar, a ballroom, and restaurant on the second floor with 25-foot ceilings originally designed for a bank. The guestrooms were located on the top 11 floors of the 32-story building. The existing 10-foot centered window placement called for creative layouts to achieve appropriate room widths. Plumbing shafts needed to be strategically placed to avoid the web of existing structural beams.  The project met the client’s goals for securing federal and state historic tax credits by carefully protecting the original fabric of the building which resulted in achieving placement on the National Register of Historic Places. Hotel public spaces included a new arrival court with a free-standing porte cochere, the highest indoor swimming pool in Texas on the top floor and conference space including three dramatic ballrooms. A new-build column-free garden pavilion was designed in an open-air plaza, surrounded by lush vegetation and with a 900 SF skylight that utilized an innovative mechanical shading system to allow the room to be blacked out for presentations. (Adams was Principal in Charge and Design Lead for ForrestPerkins).