The Pierpont
Bainbridge / Dix.Hite + Partners
Dual-Site Community Identity Installation
Land O’ Lakes, Florida
Chapter 1: The Problem
A 600-foot concrete retaining wall, 10 feet from apartment windows.
This property also had an architectural liability at its heart: a massive retaining wall running the length of the property, so close to the residential buildings that residents could reach out and touch it. They needed it transformed — not screened behind landscaping, not minimized with neutral paint, but genuinely transformed into something residents would want to look at, every day, for as long as they lived there.
The narrow passage between the retaining wall and the apartment building — 10 feet wide. This image makes the design challenge real. The wall that residents had to look at every day, transformed into something they look toward.
Before a single color was chosen, Pure Hart studied the building.
The Pierpont speaks in art deco — a soaring entrance tower, a geometric white lattice against dark glass, bold stacked lettering, warm bronze and dark tones. The mural had to harmonize with that aesthetic without reproducing it. Not art deco as costume. Art deco as conversation.
The recurring coral diagonal that threads through all 600 feet of the mural is Pure Hart's response to the facade's white lattice lines — same angular confidence, same architectural energy, translated into color and movement.
Chapter 3: The Narrative
Epoch had a specific request: make it about Houston.
So Pure Hart painted Houston — forests and waterways, urban neighborhoods and skylines, local wildlife and landmarks, the texture of life in this specific city. Eight thousand square feet of site-responsive storytelling, unified by the coral diagonal and a color palette that shifts from warm and golden at one end to cool and aquatic at the other.
The bee on the flower. The truck on the highway. The fish beneath the surface. The trees at dusk. Every section a different mood, a different scene — but all of it unmistakably one composition, one vision, one wall.
mock-up of full wall with narrative sections
The Forest
Soft, atmospheric forest — the mural's quietest moment. Stylized trees in blue-gray and sage, with the coral diagonal threading through. Scale and depth on a flat concrete surface.
Houston Cityscapes
Houston neighborhoods — buildings, a truck, the coral diagonal cutting through. Site-responsive storytelling at its most specific. This section shows that the mural belongs to this community.
The Gulf
The mural's coolest, deepest moment — teal, aqua, coral horizontal bands, a fish silhouette. The color palette shifts dramatically from the warm golden sections at the other end of the wall.
This was Pure Hart's first Epoch commission and the studio's largest project to date.
Dix.Hite + Partners, the project's landscape architects, were working alongside Pure Hart on the installation. They watched the wall transform. When their next project came — Bainbridge Sunlake — they wrote Pure Hart into their design plans by specification, naming the studio before the developer had formally commissioned the work.
Everything that followed traces back to this wall. Brisole. Sun Lake. Every Epoch project since. Six hundred feet of concrete in Spring, Texas — the beginning of everything.