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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

Aerial image of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building in Houston
Dazzling Glaze

Steven Holl Architects tames the harsh Houston glare with clever massing and opaque tubular glass

Photo of a building in demolition, akin to the Round Bank
In Brief

Demolition begins on Bellmead, Texas’s Round Bank

Downtown santa fe, consisting of short clay buildings
A Man's Home Is His Castle. But Not Literally

George R. R. Martin wanted to build a castle in his backyard; Santa Fe shot him down

An angular glass building jutting through the trees
The Green Wave

WEISS/MANFREDI’s new building for Tulane makes the most of clear glass

the rio grande river, possible home of a floating border wall?
The River Approach

Army Corps mulls a floating border wall along the U.S.–Mexico border

view of downtown dallas from bridge
When Life Gives You Decommissioned Jails...

WEISS/MANFREDI selected to transform former jail as part of massive Dallas park project

Interior view from a terminal at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
COVID Conundrum

$3 billion Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport expansion delayed indefinitely

david and gladys wright house, arizona
Time For a Deep Exhale ...

Imperiled David and Gladys Wright House in Arizona finds a buyer

Photo of Austin Texas skyline
In Brief

Austin, Texas, moves to protect Air-Conditioned Village home

A SpaceX rocket in flight
To Infinity And Beyond (If You Can Afford It)

SpaceX reveals it’s building a luxury spaceport in a small Texas town

A twisting white building, bisected in the middle
Gold Medal in Accessibility

Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum set to open in Colorado Springs

rendering of harbor bridge, corpus christi
Relief Pitcher

Arup tapped as new design engineer for Corpus Christi’s New Harbor Bridge

Rendering of a grey metal boring company station, as revealed by elon musk
So Much For Public Transit

Elon Musk reveals Las Vegas Convention Center Loop station, and its private shuttles

Gabled concrete homes
A Hacienda of One’s Own

Lake | Flato’s newest residential development embraces courtyard-centric living in the COVID era

rendering of texas MLB stadium
A Dunking Field Day

Texas Rangers share video of billion dollar new ballpark, get mercilessly lambasted online

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