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Nancy and Rich Kinder Building at MFAH.
A Kinder Houston

Steven Holl Architects expands Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts with the Kinder Building

Model of a black ski lodge with rivers of windows
Bond Villain Lair

Tom Wiscombe Architecture’s Dark Chalet looms over Powder Mountain with black-on-black aluminum composite

traffic on a freeway outside of austin, texas, sorely lacking mass transit
Keep Austin Mobile

Austin voters back a $7 billion ballot to fund urban trailways, bikeways, and a mass transit system

Rendering of the Rice campus with a variegated student center
Rice To Meet You

Adjaye Associates tapped for Rice University’s new student center

Construction image of the Ion in Houston
Lone Star Retrofit

Houston’s Ion will transform a disused Sears into an Rice University-led innovation hub

illustration of a park expansion project in dallas
All Decked Out

Dallas’s famous freeway-capping park is one step closer to being expanded

children and parents playing in a play structure
Put A Kid On It!

Perkins&Will designs tubular play structure for Fortlandia at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

A triangular hotel shaped like the atari logo
Game On

Gensler is bringing the flagship “Atari Hotel” to Las Vegas

Rendering of a floating cube mass clad in stainless steel, the new National Medal of Honor Museum
Stars and Slabs

Rafael Viñoly Architects unveils renderings of National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington, Texas

A waymo branded minivan in front of chandler city hall
Robot Runs

Waymo launches its fully driverless taxi service in Phoenix

a pedestrian bridge being lifted into place
Big Moves In Olympic City USA

Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed pedestrian bridge hoisted into place in Colorado Springs

A sign in front of a construction site that reads Make It Right
Make It... Wrong?

David Adjaye-designed house built by Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation to be torn down

a memorial in texas made of marble
No Basement Jokes, Please

$450 million overhaul of Alamo Plaza in jeopardy after historical commission moves to block monument relocation

Exterior night rendering of the El Paso Children’s Museum, with lights embedded across the facade
Bulking Up

Snøhetta reveals its El Paso Children’s Museum, inspired by geometric shapes

a historic courthouse building overlooking Quebedeaux Park
Solemn Markers

Officials approve transforming a Houston park into memorial for victims of racial violence

Inside the renovated Rothko Chapel, with an octagonal skylight
Renovating Rothko

Architecture Research Office brings the Rothko Chapel closer to its creators’ vision

a botanic garden in houston
From Golf to a Global Plant Fest

West 8 debuts first phase of Houston Botanic Garden

Interior of a crumbling segregation-era gym, the type being looked at by tulane researchers
Remnant Schools

At Tulane, faculty are repurposing the legacy of Jim Crow across Louisiana

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