BOKA Powell is a Dallas architecture, interior design and planning firm with more than four decades of practice. It’s based on Park Lane in North Dallas and also has studios in Fort Worth and Austin, with partner-principals leading each regional team. Its project types run from office towers, corporate interiors and build-to-suits to hospitality, multifamily, mixed-use, senior living, healthcare, higher education and industrial work. In Roanoke, north of Fort Worth, BOKA Powell is the architect for The Cade Hotel and Convention Center, a roughly $104 million design-build project for the City of Roanoke and developer Garfield Public/Private, with Brasfield & Gorrie building it toward a June 2028 completion.
The firm’s published team directory is the most informative page on its site, and it says something a project list does not. Staff are filterable by studio – Dallas at 8080 Park Lane, Fort Worth at 777 Taylor Street, and Austin – with partner principals identified for each: Chris W. Barnes (AIA, RID, NCARB), John Orfield (RA, LEED AP) and R. Andrew Bennett (AIA, NCARB) among them.
Read down the list and the staffing model becomes clear. Alongside registered architects and design professionals, the directory names senior interiors project managers, NCIDQ and RID-credentialled interior designers, senior construction administrators, construction administration support, a Well AP-credentialled senior associate, architectural coordinators, project managers, and a contracts manager. Two things follow from that. First, interior design is a staffed discipline here rather than a service subcontracted out, which matters on corporate interiors and hospitality work where the architecture and the fit-out are judged together. Second, construction administration – the unglamorous business of answering RFIs, reviewing submittals and showing up on site during the build – has dedicated senior staff, not just design architects covering it between projects.
Credentials visible across the directory include AIA and FAIA, NCARB registration, RID and NCIDQ for interiors, LEED AP and Well AP for performance and wellness standards. For an owner, the practical reading is that the firm can carry a project from concept through construction without bringing in outside consultants for interiors or administration.
The site itself is lightly built – a search-driven single-page structure rather than a deep marketing site – so the fastest route to understanding whether the firm fits a project is the team page and the project portfolio rather than a services narrative. Contact and careers routes are published directly.
With three Texas studios led by partner principals, the question worth asking early is which office would hold the work and who would run it day to day. The directory is organised to answer that, which is more than most firm websites allow.
