El Paso-Juárez is the second largest binational region on the United States-Mexico border. Also known as the Borderplex, or as…

Zoological gardens, or zoos, as they have come to be known, were at first little more than exotic collections of…

For many people, San Antonio is a tourist city: It has long been a draw for tourists attracted to its…

The official groundbreaking ceremony for the National Medal of Honor Museum will take place on March 25. The museum will…

We stood together, leaning back, staring up at the sky, waiting in a hilltop cemetery by a small country church…

Community First! Village is a master planned community for people emerging from chronic homelessness. The development features six new houses…

On October 19, 2021, the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) issued a statement reaffirming its opposition to unpaid…

Hotel renovations are not generally news. Lobbies and other high-traffic areas become worn and are renovated; fabrics and furnishings go…

The light rail system operated by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is a hub-and-spoke model, designed to bring riders from…

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, to Texan parents studying at Yale, Clovis Heimsath, FAIA, would himself study at Yale before…

This summer, The University of Texas at San Antonio announced it would be combining its College of Architecture, Construction and…

Gensler, teamed with San Antonio firm GRG Architecture, has been selected by the Alamo Trust to design the new Visitor…

Three sites in Texas are among the 40 recipients of grants from the African-American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.

Participants in the 28th annual Building Communities Conference of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Chapter of the American Institute of…

In 2021, Austin Energy Green Building (AEGB) celebrates 30 years of assisting Central Texas architects to design more sustainably. Since…

In 2010, the Houston-Galveston Area Council completed the Northside Livable Centers Planning Study, identifying the “heart of Northside Houston” as…

On May 11, 51 years to the day after the city's infamous 1970 tornado, the Lubbock Tornado Memorial was opened…

After a hiatus due to the pandemic, a hybrid of virtual and in-person summer architecture programs were once again able…

In Dallas, a city dominated by the automobile, word has gotten out about the new AT&T Discovery District — an…

In May, the American Institute of Architects announced that Robert Ivy, FAIA, will retire at the end of this year,…

On June 14, the Texas Society of Architects welcomed Jennifer Briggs as its new executive vice president. Briggs was previously…

M. Arthur “Art” Gensler Jr. died on Monday, May 10. His six-decade career was marked by championing a culture of…

The winter storm that descended on the United States in mid-February was particularly hard on Texas. Temperatures plunged into the…

On January 13, development and construction giant Skanska USA unveiled renderings of 1550 on the Green, an office tower in…

On August 25, 2017, communities along the Gulf Coast were forever changed by the devastating effects of Hurricane Harvey. The…

The Architectural League of New York has selected Austin- and Ghana-based Low Design Office (LOWDO) as one of its 2021…

In 2020, the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, in conjunction with the…

As Agustina Rodriguez, Assoc. AIA, an architectural designer and public artist living in Austin, browsed her social media feed during…

In 2001, Boeing moved its headquarters to Chicago, in large part due to the city’s vibrant downtown, something the runner-up…

In January, the Blanton Museum of Art unveiled a redesign of its grounds on the campus of The University of…

To Gail Adams, “architecture is public art.” Reviewing the work of Adams Architects, it is clear how this sentiment plays…

In 2018, the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) started to include data related to attrition in its yearly…

In 2016, students at Saint Mary’s College of Maryland made a harrowing discovery while performing a routine archeological survey on…

After launching an international design competition for the first time in its history, Rice University has selected Adjaye Associates from…

Since 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt donated all of his official papers to the federal government for safekeeping and public…

We follow up with the six architects and design professionals interviewed in the early days of the pandemic.

In another location, the former Jesse R. Dawson State Jail might be easy to ignore. It is certainly forgettable, with…

Real estate developer and investment builder Gerald D. Hines, who died on August 23 at the age of 95, changed…

In 2018, renowned international architecture firm Snøhetta submitted the winning proposal for the El Paso Children’s Museum design competition. The…

In mid-March the state’s architecture schools came face to face with unprecedented pedagogical challenges. All had to grapple with the…

On August 31 — the third anniversary of Hurricane Harvey’s arrival in the Bayou City — Architecture Center Houston (ArCH)…

Audrey Maxwell, AIA, spoke to architects across the state early on in the pandemic and more recently to learn about…

In May, Andrew Barnes, AIA, co-founder of Agent Architecture in Dallas, spoke with his friend Chris Hardie, a principal and…

At first glance, this upcoming Austin high-rise hotel by Nelsen Partners has all the trappings of its hyper-developed, post-contextual tower…

The Texas Gulf Coast is home to some of the most affordable beach communities in the country. In Port Aransas,…

In the downtown districts of Dallas, Houston, and even smaller Texas metros, a movement is on the rise to rescue…

The long expanse of desert grassland stretches out some 30 miles, changes in ecozones painting bands of color in the…

Walking around downtown Laredo, you quickly discover two key areas dating back to the founding of the city: the banks…

A collaboration between San Antonio-based Overland Partners and local firm Megamorphosis has culminated in the design of an environmental center…

Since last covered in Texas Architect in 2017, Dallas’ bold endeavor to build a great series of parks along the…