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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

view of an apartment tower with a landscaped chasm
Gashing Out

MAD Architects starts work on a fissured tower in Denver’s River North District

rendering of a giant fake moon on the las vegas strip
Shoot For the Moon

Is the third time the charm for a massive Moon resort in Las Vegas?

a tin home with printed concrete base
Print To Order

A Texas start-up introduces a cost-cutting way to build houses—by printing them

waterloo park, arranged with whirling paths and a metal pavilion
Green And Grey

At Austin’s Waterloo Park, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates weaves nature and infrastructure

a whole neighborhood of 3d printed homes under construction by ICON
Keep Austin Printed

ICON and Lennar reveal the world’s largest 3D-printed community, designed by BIG

The new round glass entrance to the denver art museum at night
Opposites Attract

Gio Ponti’s incongruously stolid Denver Art Museum sprouts a space-age appendage

The marfa suite, a squat brick dwelling against the sky
Earthen Bright

Dust’s Marfa Suite is a sprightly counterpoint to an existing modern adobe house

red brick dorms on the University of Oklahoma campus
Replace or Renovate?

A preservation petition at the University of Oklahoma questions what’s best for the environment

a foam desert shelter from the school of architecture
New Digs

The School of Architecture settles into Arcosanti with its first generation of student-built thesis shelters

single story structure in grassy field printed by icon
Military Grade

ICON completes largest 3D-printed structure in North America for the Texas Military Department

a spherical building under construction, the msg sphere
An Epidemic

Construction workers find noose at MSG Sphere site in Las Vegas

aerial view of suburbs in Denver with blue building in foreground
Pass Go, Collect $200

PRODUCTORA completes a low-cost Denver housing complex dressed in blue

Image of Hoover Dam with Lake Mead in the background
Southwest Drought

Federal government declares water shortage at Lake Mead for the first time

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

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