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M-K-T. Photo by Peter Molick. Courtesy Radom Capital.
Architecture, Reviews, Place, News, Houston, Environment, Design

An Exercise in Maximalism!

June 9, 2021
Marcel Merwin
City Hall. Photo by Leonid Furmansky.
Architecture, Public Space, Racial Equity, Place, News, Landscape, Houston, Events, Environment

Spaces of Protest

June 2, 2021
Leonid Furmansky
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Photo: Iwan Baan.
Architecture, Art & Culture, Place, News, Houston, Environment, Design

Tubular

May 27, 2021
Iwan Baan
"Convention City" (1972) by Ant Farm, model. Via Dezeen.
Architecture, Public Space, Urbanism, Urban Planning, Art & Culture, Place, Other Cities, News, Landscape, Interview, Infrastructure, Houston, Environment, Design

Convention City

May 26, 2021
Amale Andraos, Chip Lord, and Dan Wood
Photo by Sam Stoeltje.
Public Space, Urbanism, Urban Planning, Socioeconomics, Racial Equity, Public Transit, Place, News, Land Use Regulation, Infrastructure, Industry, Houston, Events, Environment, Design

Stop TxDOT I-45 and the Viral Replication of Bad Infrastructure Policy

May 20, 2021
Sam Stoeltje
Carol M. Highsmith, “Transco Tower, Houston, Texas.” Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2011630562/. Via the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Architecture, Racial Equity, Place, Other Cities, Interview, Houston, Environment, Design

The Pinnacle of Success: Cynthia Phifer Kracauer in Conversation with Kathryn O'Rourke

May 18, 2021
Cynthia Phifer Kracauer and Kathryn O'Rourke
Photo by Tamara Lichtenstein.
Public Space, Art & Culture, Place, News, Interview, Houston, Environment

A Moment That Lasts Forever

May 10, 2021
Tamara Lichtenstein
The marquee of the River Oaks Theatre on its final day of operation, March 25, 2021. Photo by David Welling.
Architecture, Preservation, Art & Culture, Place, News, Houston, Events, Design

River Oaks Theatre: Once the Dust Clears

May 6, 2021
David Welling
Jazz musicians after being arrested during a concert. Seated, from left: Ella Fitzgerald, Georgiana Henry (Fitzgerald’s assistant), Illinois Jacquet, and Dizzy Gillespie. RGD0006N-1955-0764-1, Houston Public Library, Houston Metropolitan Research Center.
Public Space, Uncategorized, Art & Culture, Place, News, Houston

Gangsterism on a River

April 29, 2021
Jack Murphy
Studio portrait of James C. Watkins. Photo by Bonni Oakes. Courtesy Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.
Reviews, Art & Culture, Place, News, Houston, Events, Environment, Design

Sculpting Ground into Gold: James C. Watkins at HCCC

April 28, 2021
Michael McFadden
Demonstrators from one of WDP's actions. Courtesy Workers Defense Project.
Architecture, Public Space, Socioeconomics, Racial Equity, Place, Other Cities, News, Land Use Regulation, Interview, Infrastructure, Industry, Houston, Environment

Construction Workers are Essential Workers: An Interview with Workers Defense Project

April 27, 2021
Emily Timm
Architecture, Public Space, Urbanism, Urban Planning, Socioeconomics, Art & Culture, Place, Other Cities, News, Landscape, Land Use Regulation, Environment, Design

How to Retrofit Suburbia?

April 22, 2021
Travis San Pedro