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

The history of lighting design gets illuminated in Houston

section of border wall in arizona
Back to the Wall

Biden administration mulls resuming border wall construction

Exterior of a long performance arts venue with swooping entrance hall
Take Your [Guitar] Pick

The Buddy Holly Hall complex strums a new chord in Lubbock, Texas

photograph depicting a smiling man and his two sons in the front of a modern midcentury house in Houston
Model Home

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

rendering of two modern homes with large lawns
Icon Status

ICON goes “mainstream” with production of 3D-printed single-family homes for new Austin development

structures rising in the nevada desert
Burning Ideas

Check out these ten wild proposals for a permanent Burning Man in the Nevada desert

the Air Force Academy Chapel under construction with half the spires unfinished
Up In The Air

The restoration of the Air Force Academy Chapel is the U.S.’s most complex modernist preservation project ever

a visitor's center atop a mountain
Rocky Mountain High(est)

Colorado’s ultra–altitudinous Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center will open this summer

Aerial photo of a health complex shaped like gabled houses designed by Mass
Texas Treatment

MASS Design Group’s first U.S. healthcare project is an inclusive Texan clinic

the new hq of Clayton Korte, a white cantilevered volume
All Together Now

The Design Office brought the Austin staff of Clayton Korte together under one roof

image of a frozen texas iced out after a storm, with icicles on a barbed cattle fence
The Big Chill

Op-ed: A Texan blizzard revealed a crisis of governance and of architecture’s priorities

Rendering of a blockchain-powered smart city
Some Kind of "Company Town"...

Will corporation-owned smart cities come to Nevada?

Aerial rendering of the triangular populus project
Downtown Sprouts

Studio Gang will bring Populus, an aspen tree-inspired mixed-use complex, to Denver

Arcosanti, where the Taliesin School of Architecture is holding summer classes
New Year New Dean

Stephanie Lin named dean of the School of Architecture

Rendering of a swinging concrete walls at AquíAquí in el paso
Border Matters

Matter Design envisions a configurable concrete gathering place at the El Paso border

Border wall construction along the U.S.-mexico divide in arizona
Border Won't

Biden White House shuts down border wall construction on first day

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

Skanska USA reveals a staggered Houston office tower from BIG

museum campus with petal-shaped shading structures
A Texas-Sized Refresh

Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art shares a $35 million campus redesign headed by Snøhetta

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