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.
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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.
Style & Design
August 31, 2012
Making Something Out of Nothing
How McAllen turned a vacant Walmart into one of the most architecturally imaginative libraries in the country.
Style & Design
July 31, 2012
The Governor’s Mansion Renovation Has Some Preservationists Wringing Their Hands
The recent renovation to the state's most historic home left some preservationists worried that the changes to the mansion would be too significant.
Style & Design
July 3, 2012
McAllen’s Dazzling New Public Library
Take a virtual tour of the new McAllen Public Library, built inside an abandoned Walmart.
News & Politics
June 21, 2012
Crews Put Finishing Touches on Governor’s Mansion
The Perrys are expected to move back into the Greek Revival mansion, which was torched by arsonists in 2008, next month.
Style & Design
March 31, 2012
Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, Dallas
“The Trinity River is the biggest problem you have in Dallas today,” declared landscape architect George Kessler in his comprehensive plan for the city a century ago. And so it has remained: an undeveloped flood-prone eyesore that requires an extensive system of levees to protect residents and property. On March
Style & Design
March 1, 2012
David Lake and Ted Flato’s Office
The architects show us what's on their desk.
Business
January 9, 2012
VIDEO: Houston Eschews Preservation and Demolishes Historic Skyscraper
It took less than twenty seconds to take down the sixty-year-old MD Anderson building, which was demolished to make way for new clinical space.
Style & Design
January 1, 2012
Don’t Mess With River Oaks
Houston has always prided itself as a city that barrels forward into the future, and operates without memory, regret or nostalgia. But when developers began messing with the historic River Oaks Shopping Center, Houstonians raised their hackles.
Style & Design
December 21, 2011
“Garden and Gun” Builds a Profile Around Architects Lake/Flato
Writer Guy Martin talks to Ted Flato, one half of the visionary architect duo from San Antonio, about the merciless sun, the Texas breeze, and Tommy Lee Jones.
Web Exclusive
April 30, 2011
Design for a Vulnerable Planet
An excerpt from the introduction.
Style & Design
March 1, 2009
The 10 Best Buildings in Texas
A tour of our greatest architectural master-pieces—from the Alamo to the World Birding Center—shows how the collision of the Old World and the New forged a unique style on the Texas frontier.
Style & Design
February 1, 2008
Donald R. Horton
The population of Texas is rapidly expanding—from just under 24 million today to perhaps 50 million in 2040, according to the state demographer—and someone has to put out the welcome mat for all our neighbors-to-be. It may very well be the founder and chairman of D.R. Horton, one of the
Style & Design
March 1, 2002
Picture This
The Austin Museum of Art tries to right itself, again.
Style & Design
March 1, 1999
Suburban Renewal
How three Dallas area developers are beating back the threat of soulless sprawl by restoring a sense of community.
Business
April 1, 1998
Wowtown!
The billionaire Basses had a vision—and money, of course. Now, thanks to their efforts, Fort Worth has the hottest downtown in Texas.
Style & Design
November 1, 1997
Tiles and Tiles of Texas
The ceramic designs created by these four Texas studios will look great in your kitchen or bathroom—and except for their shape, there’s nothing square about them.
Style & Design
August 31, 1997
Architecture • Ted Flato and David Lake
Master builders.
Style & Design
January 1, 1997
Trinh Pham
Why hire an architect, an interior designer, a graphic designer, and an image consultant when one person can do the whole job? That’s the idea 29-year-old Trinh Pham has been building on since she earned an architecture degree from the University of Houston in 1991. Her first big job had
Style & Design
June 30, 1996
Rock Star
Bob Ragan’s nationally renowned, intricately detailed stone carvings have a distinctly European look. Is it any wonder he lives in a place called Florence?
Style & Design
November 1, 1995
Seeing Red
The contrversial color of ASan Antonio’s new public library is only the latest indication that architect Ricardo Legorreta isn’t afraid to buck convention.
Style & Design
September 1, 1994
David Schwarz
Building a better Fort Worth.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1994
Down by the Riverside
More people visit San Antonio’s River Walk than the Alamo. Here’s why—our complete guide to the sights, restaurants, shops, and lore of Texas’ most popular urban park.
Style & Design
May 31, 1992
House of the Century
“Still ahead of its time, even after twenty years,” says architect Doug Michels about Ant Farm’s futuristic House of the Century, designed and built in 1972. The colony of anti-establishment architects (of whom Michels was one) christened themselves Ant Farm in honor of the toy ant colonies popular in the
Art
July 1, 1989
The Temple of Destiny
In downtown Mexico City are the ruins of the great Aztec pyramid, the site where one empire ended and a new world began.
News & Politics
December 1, 1986
Lessons From the Golden Apple
Empty office buildings . . . bankrupt developers . . . budget deficits. It’s Manhattan, 1975. Things sure have changed, and by learning from some Yankee real estate barons, maybe we can find a way out of our troubles.
Style & Design
May 31, 1984
Move Over, Southfork
Up for sale in Dallas, the Shanbaum house boasts a whopping 28,000 square feet and what may be Texas’ most comprehensive collection of sixties and seventies kitsch—along with a $2.75 million price tag.
Style & Design
September 1, 1983
Johnson & Johnson
In a glass-and-steel world of Houston skyscrapers, there was nothing like an art deco obelisk or a pink Gothic cathedral until architect Philip Johnson.
Style & Design
April 1, 1982
The Architects
Welcome to Houston, the cutting edge of architecture. The local boys are turning a gentlemen’s profession into a business, the stylish out-of-towners are creating a new aesthetic, and neither group is filled with admiration for the other.
Business
May 1, 1980
Three Gentlemen, One Ghost, and a Skyscraper
The intrigue behind the building of Houston’s Texas Commerce Tower was almost as monumental as the 75-story structure itself.
Business
October 1, 1979
The Man Who Built River Oaks
Architect John Staub, the forgotten genius of River Oaks, transformed a few nondescript Houston streets into Millionaires’ Row.
Style & Design
May 1, 1978
Cabin Fever
Years ago, kids used to play pioneer with Lincoln Logs. Today grown-ups are playing pioneer—only with real log cabins.
Style & Design
February 1, 1978
Open House
Now for something completely different: a house that’s not rectangles or squares.
Style & Design
January 1, 1978
Art Yucko
How we learned to stop worrying and love the fifties.
Style & Design
December 1, 1977
Living in Glass Houses
The world is full of monuments to art—but how many can you live in?
Sports
November 1, 1977
View From the Top
Inside the cushy private boxes at Texas’ top sports stadiums, far from the madding crowd.
Texas History
September 30, 1977
What’s Red, White, and Blue . . . And Orange All Over?
The Orange Show’s 75-year-old creator, Jeff McKissack, still goes dancing and is sure he will live to be a hundred.Never heard of the Orange Show? Then you’ve missed a razzle-dazzle piece of American folk art—an amusement park/sideshow that looks like a topless castle designed by a committee
Style & Design
August 31, 1977
The House That Art Built
What do you do when you have more paintings than walls to hang them on?
Design
June 30, 1977
Hello, Walls
When is a wall not a wall? When it's a work of art.
Style & Design
May 31, 1977
Restoration Drama
A Texas farmhouse relives those thrilling days of yesteryear.
Texas History
April 30, 1977
Grand Hotels
You won’t find Greta Garbo at these classic establishments, but some things that happen there are straight out of a movie.
Style & Design
May 31, 1974
Constructive Criticism
Once again a critical eye is cast on those irregularities along the skyline called buildings.