Southwest Police Station Receives 2020 AIA Houston Design Award

Congratulations to the Southwest Police substation team here at RDLR and Roth Sheppard Architects on the 2020 AIA Houston Design Award!

More and more Americans are calling for police reform, and we believe that architecture has a crucial role to play in the future of forward thinking and more positive justice policies. The ultimate goal of policing is to protect and aid the path to justice, but the means to achieve this goal are varied in practice across the world. Relational Policing offers a method to this service that focuses intensely on the human dimension. It offers the proven philosophy that when an officer feels connected to the community that he or she is meant the serve, mutual loyalty can bridge the gap between police and civilians.

Our team worked alongside HPD to create a design that would lend itself to the ideals of Relational Policing for an under-served community.