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tent shelter
Sculptures and Shelters

Daily digest: Zaha Hadid Architects converts World Cup tents into refugee shelters, Biggie statue lands in Brooklyn, and more news

lecture hall with large windows and timber frame
Top of its Class

Lake|Flato Architects designs a mass timber structure for Trinity University in San Antonio

exterior of a federal courthouse with a brise-soliel facade
Bright-Line Rule

Built with a minimal budget, Lake|Flato Architects’ San Antonio Federal Courthouse focuses on the most affordable material of all: daylight

aerial view of a construction site
Sealed To Perfection

This ultra-efficient San Antonio office underscores the importance of tight building envelopes

The surfside condo tower the day of collapse
Looking South

Daily digest: Key West’s Southernmost Point landmark is burned, a virtual tour of the doomed Champlain towers, and more

Rendering of the Robert L.B. Tobin Land Bridge in San Antonio, which is now complete
Creature Comforts

This new San Antonio land bridge enables people and animals to safely cross a busy highway

exterior rendering of a museum building
Take A Look at Me Now

Texas Historical Commission green lights new Exhibition Hall and Collections Building at Alamo Plaza

exterior of a historic five and dime store in san antonio, future home of the alamo museum
Will There Be A Basement?

Once-endangered San Antonio Woolworth’s will be converted into an Alamo museum

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

Ruby City, a red, squat box with a window at the end, at night
Meditative Monuments

David Adjaye’s Ruby City is an imposing monument to art in southern Texas

Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro
From HUD to the Whitehouse?

Former HUD secretary Julián Castro announces 2020 presidential bid

Photo of Yanaguana Garden
Mosaic, Mo'Problems

The World’s Fair Grounds in San Antonio gets a playful facelift courtesy of MIG

Alamo City

San Antonio’s architecture has a bright future illuminated by a rich heritage

Rendering of red colored museum in park
Grapefruit-Chic

David Adjaye realizes a ruby-red museum in San Antonio, Texas

Petal Power

Sculptural concrete canopies cool a San Antonio public park

Zoom Out

In Ballroom Marfa’s “Hyperobjects,” the scale of ecological crisis stretches human perception

Low Line

San Antonio’s “Latino High Line” opens to the public

$450 Million

A controversial master plan for The Alamo causes debate among architects and the public alike

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