BBAx Architects

BBA X, LLC is your trusted advisor in delivering high quality projects, always with a Design focus. We are systems thinkers who strive to understand what clients value and deliver a service that allows them to achieve project goals. Our process involves Lean Design principles to fundamentally break down complicated problems in order to evaluate options, toward innovative and uniquely original solutions. No two clients or projects are the same. While there is a common core method to our project design approach, the results provide creative and occasionally unconventional solutions, free from preconceived notions and completely unique to each client.

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The Grand Leader

Brenham, Texas

Programmatic Requirements

The Grand Leader serves as a multi-purpose use in Brenham’s Historic Downtown District. We had the privilege of collaborating with Smithdish Architecture to complete this adaptive reuse in 2022, and were recently awarded a 2025 AIA Brazos Design Award for the project’s unique design characteristics.

Design Solutions

The Grand Leader, home to Brenham’s own Mescalito Coffee and Ballad of the Bird Dog features an open plan design, uniting both spaces effortlessly and offering modern interventions that are seamlessly introduced to the historic fabric of the building with minimal visual disruption. The front outdoor patio area features an all-glass façade that seamlessly terminates into the building’s adjacent perimeter and steel supports, offering a fully integrated appearance to the main entry. A large, original glass skylight on the interior features a consistent flow of natural light into the retail space.

Rooted in history, revived for community.