Arts & Entertainment
June 4, 2018
McKinney’s $69.9 Million High School Football Stadium Has Cracks Before It’s Even Open
Neighboring Allen is in good company.
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Architecture
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Art
May 29, 2018
‘Lost, Texas’ Offers a Glimpse of Fading Small Towns
Texans are no strangers to long drives. Whether cruising from Mission to South Padre Island to spot great kiskadees, from Turkey to Lubbock while blasting Waylon Jennings, or catching the remote vistas from Marfa to Chinati Hot Springs, Texans often get to
Style & Design
May 3, 2018
Chef Johnny Hernandez Turns His Home Into an Art-filled Wonderland
The historic building, a former factory and metal shop, is filled with Mexican art and whimsical touches.
Style & Design
April 13, 2018
The Alamo Is Still Under Siege
How San Antonio handles the Alamo Plaza redevelopment will say a lot about what kind of city it wants to become.
Style & Design
March 22, 2018
The Old World Charms of Houston’s Isabella Court
Art dealer Arturo Palacios relishes the creative environment at this 1920s apartment building—especially its romantic courtyard.
Style & Design
February 21, 2018
The Historic Adolphus Gets a Major Overhaul
The revered Dallas hotel is ready for another century of revelry after sweeping design changes by a visionary local firm.
Arts & Entertainment
February 15, 2018
Unveiling Ellsworth Kelly’s ‘Austin’
The debut of a destination showpiece on the University of Texas campus marks a turning point for the Capital City.
Style & Design
December 24, 2017
Merry and Bright in Houston’s River Oaks
Getting the elaborate Christmas displays in this posh neighborhood ready for the masses is big business.
Style & Design
December 21, 2017
KKDW Opens Modern-Furniture Showroom in the Country
The former Austin couple renovate a 1934 building in quiet Bertram to showcase their new line of furniture.
Style & Design
November 29, 2017
For $250 Million, You Can Buy T. Boone Pickens’s Panhandle Ranch
A look inside the octogenarian oil magnate's 65,000-acre spread.
October 24, 2017
A Look Inside Austin’s New Central Library
Austin's bibliophiles get a slicked up new playpen.
Style & Design
September 18, 2017
A First Look at Le Politique, Austin’s Newest Brasserie
The restaurant promises French ambiance, pastries, and a raw bar in downtown Austin.
The Daily Post
August 22, 2017
Texas Castles in the Twentieth Century
Dream of building your own medieval fortress? You aren’t alone.
Style & Design
August 9, 2017
In Memory of Texas Architect Dick Clark
A look back on the work of the celebrated Austin architect who defined the city’s modern vernacular.
Style & Design
July 26, 2017
The Queen of Cool
Liz Lambert’s hotels have a stunning, often imitated style. But where does the trendsetter get her ideas? We asked her.
Travel & Outdoors
May 24, 2017
Diamond in the Rough
Keeping baseball pure at Kokernot Field, out in far West Texas.
The Daily Post
May 18, 2017
Beauty in the Forgotten
In the search for the perfect dive bar, a writer discovered another hidden gem—the Mosheim school.
Style & Design
April 19, 2017
A Home of Last Resort
Breaking ground— and betting big—on a doomsday community for the rich.
Style & Design
April 11, 2017
Tiny House, Big Style
Modern living on a historical East Texas homestead.
Style & Design
January 18, 2017
The Houston Heights’s Cajun Invasion
Is the Houston Heights turning into a Little Louisiana?
Style & Design
December 22, 2016
Scenes From Inside a Houston “Zombie” Mall
Long live Northwest Mall!
The Culture
December 5, 2016
My Grandfather Air-Conditioned the Alamo. Now the Building Is Crumbling, and It’s All His Fault
Well, sort of.
Art
November 30, 2016
Home Is Where The Art Is
Charles Stagg walked into the woods and decided to build something. Now, four years after his death, his daughter and grandson are trying to preserve his masterpiece.
Travel
October 21, 2016
Objects of Our Affection
An armadillo incense burner. An Andy Warhol self-portrait. The keys to the Alamo. Who knew what startling treasures you could find without ever leaving the state?
Style & Design
September 23, 2016
Cross Ways
A pastor at a Corpus Christi church is on a mission to build “the largest cross in the Western Hemisphere.”
Style & Design
July 19, 2016
The Three-Story Closet In The Woodlands Is Up For Auction
Oh, and the house that comes with it too.
Style & Design
June 13, 2016
Inside Texas’s White House
It can be yours for a cool $6 million.
Art
June 3, 2016
Sugar Land Roils Over Selfie Statue
Has a selfie ever been more contentious?
Style & Design
October 23, 2015
Texas Castles: The Early Years
Although we trail such medieval wonderlands as Spain, Bavaria, and Wales in castles per square mile, Texas is studded with crenellated, turreted strongholds, ranging from the kitschy to the magnificent.
The Culture
September 17, 2015
Green Acres
How did smog-breathing, gridlock-prone Houston become the newest natural wonder of the urban world?
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Film & TV
July 23, 2015
The Next Picture Show
By reviving a small-town movie theater, can a Lubbock businessman revive a small town too?
The Daily Post
March 26, 2015
Another Day, Another Proposal to Save the Astrodome
Or perhaps a more fitting and respectful fate is to just let the structure crumble, to go the way of the ancient ruins.
Travel & Outdoors
March 18, 2015
Out on a Limb
Tree houses—they’re not just for kids anymore.
Style & Design
November 21, 2014
The Astrodome Is Getting a $63,800 Power Washing Next Month
That's a lot of Astro-dough.
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The Daily Post
October 17, 2014
Deion Sanders’ Palatial North Texas Estate Is For Auction Next Month
If you've got an eight-figure house-hunting budget and a need for a place with goalposts in the backyard, give it a look.
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Style & Design
October 2, 2014
San Antonio Architects Reimagine Houston’s Rocket Park
This isn't a real proposal, but it is really neat.
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Style & Design
September 23, 2014
The Proposal to Turn the Astrodome into the World’s Largest Indoor Park is Gathering Some Steam
They've built a scale model of it to show it off and everything.
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The Daily Post
July 31, 2014
The Astrodome Might Be Replaced With a Tiny Astrodome
A tiny Astrodome!
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The Daily Post
March 28, 2014
Furry Friday: Cat Rescued From Montrose Fire In Houston Is Singed, But Purring
The massive fire that took down a Montrose apartment building didn't claim this cat.
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Style & Design
February 6, 2014
How Much for the Biggest Mansion in Texas?
It's got a veranda with seating for 450 people, a two-story closet, and a bowling alley. It's on 25 acres and the mansion itself is 48,000 square feet. And nobody really knows what it's worth.
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The Daily Post
February 4, 2014
What Does It Mean that the Astrodome Has Been Added to the National Register of Historic Places?
It doesn't mean that they're not going to tear it down.
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The Culture
December 6, 2013
Raze the Roof
Houston put a man on the moon and performed the first artificial heart transplant. So why can’t it save the Eighth Wonder of the World?
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Style & Design
November 11, 2013
Re-Imagining Uses for the Astrodome
Voters may have decided that the Astrodome isn't worth saving, but The Architect's Newspaper has published four ideas for what to do with the space.
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The Daily Post
November 4, 2013
People Bought A Lot Of Astrodome Memorabilia This Weekend
The one-time Eighth Wonder of the World may soon be a parking lot, but the "yard sale" held by Reliant Park officials brought a lot of nostalgia—and money—out of people who remember its heyday.
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Energy
January 29, 2013
Texas Tenth in the Nation for Green Building
The Lone Star state constructed over 36 million square feet of energy-efficient space last year.
Art
January 24, 2013
Change of Art
Just over forty years ago, Texas was the kind of place dismissed as hopelessly provincial and culturally mediocre. But then came the Kimbell Art Museum.
January 21, 2013
Dallas’s “Elegant” and “Graceful” Museum Tower Would Like to Apologize For Being So Shiny
The owners of Museum Tower took out a full-page ad in the Dallas Morning News Friday to (sort of) apologize that the new building is so shiny.
Style & Design
January 21, 2013
A Q&A With Michael Ennis
The writer-at-large on the development of West Dallas, Big D’s need for an urban middle class, and what a standout twenty-first-century city looks like.
Style & Design
January 21, 2013
Arch of Triumph
Dallas’s almost-finished Calatrava bridge may be an emblem of the city’s status. But the smart urban plan for the small neighborhood it leads to says more about the city’s future.
Politics & Policy
January 20, 2013
North Toward Dome
The best way to visit the Capitol, the state’s grandest public building, is to take the 45-minute guided tour. But there is much more to see if you know what to look for, and I’m going to tell you precisely that.