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The Architect's Newsletter

AUGUST 21, 2024

The median of Will Clayton Parkway, as it jogs east from Interstate 45 to George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), gives travelers a sense of what this land north of Houston The post A carpark near Houston by EASTON COMBS takes on a second life appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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IT Transportation Architecture 114

The Architect's Newsletter

AUGUST 16, 2024

Houston’s Rothko Chapel, the lauded home of 14 paintings by Mark Rothko, has been “closed to the public for an indefinite period of time” after Hurricane Beryl rocked the Gulf The post Rothko Chapel closed indefinitely to the public after Hurricane Beryl hits Houston appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled 1550 on the Green in Houston , which is the studio's first skyscraper in the state of Texas. BIG has completed a staggered skyscraper in Houston The procession of towers curves slightly, away from the adjacent park. The photography is courtesy of Skanska USA.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Buildner Architecture Competitions has just released the results of its recent design contest to reimagine an industrial park in Houston, Texas.

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The Architect's Newsletter

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In Houston, the Harris County Commissioners Court recently approved a spending package that will help fund a new park designed by SWA, Studio Red Architects, and RDC. Hill at Sims The post A new park by SWA, RDC, and Red Studio in Houston moves forward appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Brooklyn-based studio Modu has created a building envelope that lowers the ambient air temperature in order to help cool the interior and exterior of this Houston building. Each tenant will be provided with both an interior and exterior space.

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Bustler

JULY 10, 2024

On view now until the end of summer, the show will consider Houston 's "hyper-engineered" 640-square-mile footprint from Galveston Bay to west of Katy and the tensions that it faces as it continues to expand in the face of constant stress.

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The Architect's Newsletter

APRIL 17, 2024

Shovels broke ground in Houston this week on phase two of the Opening Spaces campus plan, a $42-million, multi-year restoration and expansion of the world famous The post Phase two of the Rothko Chapel’s campus expansion plan by ARO and Nelson Byrd Woltz breaks ground in Houston appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2024

Texas studio Method Architecture has completed an office for itself in Houston with maximalist design, vibrant colours and a mural at its centre. Method's new Houston office perfectly encapsulates that mantra." Signage: ARIA Signs The post Method Architecture outfits its Houston office with vibrant mural appeared first on Dezeen.

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The Architect's Newsletter

MARCH 16, 2023

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) have signed an agreement that allows a controversial Houston highway project to move forward.

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Transportation Project 145

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

US studio Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects has covered a six-lane highway with a sprawling land bridge and park in Houston that symbolises "the triumph of green over grey". The post Nelson Byrd Woltz covers six-lane highway with land bridge in Houston appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Nick Hubbard.

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Hotel Designs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This addition marks Bunkhouse’s second hotel project in Houston, following the highly anticipated opening of Hotel Saint Augustine in Montrose’s Museum District in the fall of 2024. Main image credit: Bunkhouse Bunkhouse announces Hotel Daphne’s debut in Houston Pauline Brettell.

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The Architect's Newsletter

MAY 7, 2024

In Houston, tucked up against the eastern edge of Rice University is Hermann Park, a 445-acre greenspace that annually attracts six million visitors. The post The Commons at Hermann Park by Michael Van Valkenburgh and Marlon Blackwell opens in Houston appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Bustler

OCTOBER 4, 2024

At the time of its completion in 1971, One Shell Plaza in Houston was the tallest reinforced concrete structure in the world. He served as SOM's project engineer on One Shell Plaza in Houston. Designed by SOM's extraordinary collaborators, architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Khan, working for the developer Gerald D.

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The Architect's Newsletter

APRIL 10, 2023

CAMH COURT Contemporary Arts Museum Houston 5216 Montrose Boulevard Houston Through April 27 In the early 1900s, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s (CAMH) museum registrar Tim Barkley threw around the idea The post Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock installs a basketball court inside Contemporary Arts Museum Houston appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper. (..)

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The Architect's Newsletter

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Each year, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) hosts a competition, the LowDown Showdown Competition, inviting design professionals to transform an existing structure into a more The post A design competition from ASHRAE reimagines a more eco-friendly Houston Astrodome appeared first on The Architect’s (..)

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Engineering Engineering Design Structure 119

Deezen

JULY 13, 2023

Berlin-based architect Riccardo Mariano has designed an arch topped in photovoltaics, which will act as a sundial for Houston , Texas, as a part of the city's ongoing expansion of the Bayou Greenways. The post "World's largest sundial" set to be created in Houston appeared first on Dezeen.

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Art Structure Cities Glass 98

Deezen

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Houston -based Gin Design Group has combined various mid-century references at a local restaurant , which celebrates its chef's family history and is "a tribute to all grandmothers". Gin Design Group focuses on hospitality interiors primarily in the Houston area. The photography is by Leonid Furmansky.

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The Architect's Newsletter

APRIL 7, 2023

Facades+ returns to Houston for the first time since 2015 on April 13. After successful events in Austin and Dallas in 2022, Facades+ is excited to present a technical program The post Facades+ returns to Houston with a program focused on prominent local buildings appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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The Spaces

AUGUST 23, 2022

Asian barbecue chain Loro has taken over a church in Houston Heights, serving smoked beef brisket and char siew pork belly beneath its soaring vaulted ceiling. The Houston restaurant is the third Loro to open in Texas, joining locations in Austin and Dallas. 1001 W 11th St, Houston, TX 77008, United States. Via Dezeen].

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Hotel Designs

JUNE 17, 2024

Hotel Designs Hotel Vesper mixes it up with Houston roots and Parisian flair Hotel Vesper mixes it up with Houston roots and Parisian flair Located in the heart of Houston, Hotel Vesper underwent a transformative redesign led by Pixel Design Collaborative.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Hearths found in Japanese farmhouses informed the interiors of this restaurant in Houston , designed by Michael Hsu Office of Architecture. A wooden lattice frames the entrance to Uchiko Houston. Read: Michael Hsu converts 1940s Houston church into Asian smokehouse.

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Bustler

JUNE 17, 2024

A new exhibition of Theaster Gates ’ large-scale paintings, sculpture, and installation work depicting the complex dynamics – both seen and unseen – undergirding the architecture and everyday lives of marginalized communities across the United States is coming to the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) this summer.

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The Architect's Newsletter

MAY 15, 2024

Considered the first suburb of Houston, the Houston Heights neighborhood is where homeowners Michelle White and Haden Garrett purchased their starter home in 2011: a 1,000-square-foot Sears kit bungalow with plenty of historic The post Janusz Design doubles a Houston home with sensitivity and saturation appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper. (..)

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The Architect's Newsletter

APRIL 8, 2024

One of Houston’s newest office buildings is also supposed to be its most sustainable. The project is notably the first in Texas to use the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator The post In Houston, BIG and Skanska promote sustainability with new tower 1550 on the Green appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JANUARY 4, 2023

Conceived in 1979 by architect Kevin Roche, the former corporate headquarters of petroleum giant Conoco along Interstate 10 in Houston is a self-contained office environment modeled after a fishing village, [.].

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Design Environment Architect Development 111

The Architect's Newsletter

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Texas Triangle, a geographic region encompassing Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio has terrible traffic, high amounts of traffic deaths, and steep pollution levels. million federal grant to study adding high-speed rail service between Dallas and Houston appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Transportation Development Developer 105

The Architect's Newsletter

JANUARY 27, 2023

The post University of Houston displays restored K67 kiosk from Yugoslavia appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper. In the late 20th century, brightly colored K67 kiosks dotted the streets of former Yugoslavia. Conceived as small cubic booths measuring eight feet all around, the structures were used as [.]

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Archinect

JULY 7, 2023

Houston Residental Development Presentation by Brooklyn Digital Foundry

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Development Developer 100

The Architect's Newsletter

JULY 8, 2022

Brought to you by: Architect Kevin Daly Architects; PRODUCTORA Location Houston, Texas Projected Completion October 2022 General Contractor W.S. The post Kevin Daly Architects and PRODUCTORA’s Houston Endowment headquarters will bring net-zero design to Texas appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JULY 13, 2023

As temperatures this week in Houston, Texas exceed 100 degrees, the announcement of new shading structure in Guadalupe Plaza Park is a welcomed addition. Arco del Tiempo, a multifaceted public The post A public artwork in Houston designed by Riccardo Mariano plans to be carbon positive appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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The Architect's Newsletter

MARCH 3, 2023

The gleaming white Houston Endowment headquarters building, designed by Kevin Daly Architects of Los Angeles with PRODUCTORA from Mexico City, is a temple on a The post Kevin Daly Architects and PRODUCTORA shape shaded scallops for new Houston Endowment headquarters appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper. What’s old is new again.

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designboom

JULY 25, 2023

the dubbed world’s largest sundial tells time using sunlight, produces electricity with solar panels, and will become a permanent arts venue in houston in 2024. The post world’s largest sundial with solar panels triples as energy generator and arts venue in houston appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Art Architecture Design Technology 98

The Architect's Newsletter

JANUARY 16, 2024

After beginning her career at SOM, continuing to DMJM Rottet, and founding her eponymous studio in 2008, interior architect Lauren Rottet now has plans to build a new ground-up office The post Rottet Studio draws inspiration from a midcentury home for the design of its new office in Houston appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

With the addition of the land bridge, Houston joins Los Angeles County and San Francisco as communities aiming to adopt solutions for local wildlife to be able to move about freely. The total costs for the Land Bridge and Prairie project was funded by a $70 million donation from the local Kinder Foundat.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

With the addition of the land bridge, Houston joins Los Angeles County San Francisco as communities aiming to adopt solutions for local wildlife to be able to move about freely. The total costs for the Land Bridge and Prairie project was funded by a $70 million donation from the local Kinder Foundation.

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