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the ion, a new mall integrated into a historic sears
Plus And Minus

The Ion in Houston upgrades an art deco Sears into a tech-incubating cyborg

aerial view of a large, barn-like structure with a sheltered porch area, Sarofim Hall
Back to School

Diller Scofidio + Renfro reveals a barn-inspired design for Rice University’s new Sarofim Hall

All Sorted Out

OMA’s park-crowned POST Houston opens in the shell of an old mail processing warehouse

People looking down in a pit
Everybody Art

Houston’s Orange Show Center for Visionary Art unveils major expansion by Rogers Partners

The Ismaili Center Houston, showing a mesh covered volume

The United States’ first Ismaili Center in Houston unveils its design by Farshid Moussavi Architecture

A landscape shot from houston visions showing a flood plain
Houston Visions 2020

An exhibition at the Architecture Center Houston augurs a more resilient future for the city

A houston highway with a tangle of lanes, set to be expanded under NHHIP
End Of The Road?

A highway expansion project in Houston is the site of a battle over environmental justice

rendering of exterior of a concert venue
Remember Live Music?

OMA reveals The Terminal, a Houston concert venue that nods to the city’s astronautical legacy

Photo of chandelier, part of the electrifying design show
Bright Spot

The history of lighting design gets illuminated in Houston

photograph depicting a smiling man and his two sons in the front of a modern midcentury house in Houston, john s. chase
Model Home

In 1959, John S. Chase, Texas’s first licensed Black architect, laid claim to one of the state’s most radical houses

houston high-rises overlooking a park
BIG Lands in the Land of Big

Skanska USA reveals a staggered Houston office tower from BIG

Nancy and Rich Kinder Building at MFAH.
A Kinder Houston

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

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

Adjaye Associates tapped for Rice University’s new student center

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

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

tall building behind a park
HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SOLUTION

Houston launches multi-billion-dollar resiliency master plan

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