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Thirty miles north of Houston, The Ritz-Carlton Residences, The Woodlands is a 111-unit residential development on scenic Lake Woodlands, encompassing more than eight acres and approximately 1,200 feet of lakefront shoreline. The design for The Woodlands builds on our decades long experience with expansive single-family houses as well as great apartment buildings—filtered here through the work of John Staub, a renowned local architect who began his career in New York in the early-20th century, before relocating to Houston in 1919. Staub transformed his knowledge of classic East Coast houses into more casual, and eventually more abstract, designs that suited the booming Texas development scene at the time, which was eager to modernize while maintaining ties to architecture’s Great Tradition. Staub designed over thirty important houses for the leading families of River Oaks, as well as notable buildings at Rice University and throughout Houston.
Taking advantage of the peninsula on which it sits, the project offers spectacular views across the lake in multiple directions. In the additive tradition of Staub’s houses, a taller mass at the peninsula’s headland steps down to a low-rise club building, with a smaller tower at the opposite end of the site. This massing, along with bays, chimneys and set-back terraces, creates a hierarchy of symmetries extending out into the landscape in a series of well- defined gardens that serve the community's activities. Topped by standing seam metal roofs, warm stone and masonry defines a varying silhouette on the skyline, reinforcing the picturesque and scenic residential character of the project.
The Ritz-Carlton Residences offers the variety and individuality expected of a great neighborhood, with 36 unique apartment plans in addition to a breadth of amenities that include an on-site restaurant, club rooms, a resident's lounge, fitness center, spa facilities, gardens, grilling pavilions, and a dramatic outdoor pool that anchors the tip of the peninsula’s southwestern point. A boat house will allow residents to partake in the sculling traditions of Lake Woodlands, whether by actively rowing or by simply enjoying the movement of a slender scull skimming across the water.
