Jan 11, 2021
Music Lane on Austin’s South Congress strip distinguishes itself amid contemporary retro architectures through tectonic authenticity. Architect Lake|Flato ArchitectsGeneral Contractor…
Nov 04, 2020
One goal of architectural postmodernism has been to accommodate more variety than was typically addressed in high modernism, an objective…
Nov 04, 2020
Little Tiger, Austin’s first full-day Chinese immersion school, occupies an eclectic mini-campus in a residential neighborhood. Architect Murray Legge Architecture…
Nov 04, 2020
Dove Springs in southeast Austin is a working-class Hispanic neighborhood of single-family homes. A regular destination for Central American immigrants,…
Sep 01, 2020
In “Architecture Beyond Experience," Michael Benedikt, director of the Center for American Architecture and Design at UTSOA, advances the idea…
Sep 01, 2020
Nkiru Mokwe Gelles is a project designer at Michael Hsu Office of Architecture in Austin. Originally from Lagos, Nigeria, Gelles…
Sep 01, 2020
Integration of the site, architecture, and the buildings created a lot of different types of experiences and really wove together…
Sep 01, 2020
To me, it’s the strongest project we have, or one of the strongest ones — the craft and the detailing…
Sep 01, 2020
There’s something timeless and a little monumental about the forms, sort of “monumentality meets domesticity,” in a way. — Dan…
Sep 01, 2020
Community facilities should be about that community, and this one, we found, had the most sense of place. It felt…
Sep 01, 2020
It’s a very, very nicely detailed project with a lot of love that you see in its intentions. — Michel…
Sep 01, 2020
The architects were very smart — strategic in terms of demolition and editing out the head house, and exposing this…
Sep 01, 2020
It’s a very sophisticated balance of inventiveness and restraint. — Dan Kaplan, FAIA
Sep 01, 2020
This really had a combination of understanding and honoring the building itself. — Kirsten R. Murray, FAIA
Sep 01, 2020
Installed at various locations throughout Austin, “Parkspace” is a straightforward but playful outdoor solution for encouraging social distancing.
May 06, 2020
Legge Lewis Legge’s “Amphibious” is a new kind of monument for the city of Austin. Composed of 35 life-sized bronze…
May 06, 2020
The Arrive Hotel disguises its identity behind an aggressive architectural screen and a wrapper of wining and dining, fitting perfectly…
May 06, 2020
On a sunny weekend in October, under the dappled light of several sprawling oaks, Sean Guess, AIA, of Faye and…
Mar 11, 2020
An Austin bungalow renovation blends the old Texas dogtrot and the contemporary Texas air-conditioned box, with pleasing results. Architect Charles Di…
Mar 11, 2020
Lucero, a new affordable housing development in South Austin, shows how designers can slip some poetry into a tight budget.
Jan 07, 2020
“Make Austin’s Zoning Weirder” was one of the more unusual pleas during recent Planning Commission public hearings focused on the…
Jan 07, 2020
Waterloo Greenway (formerly Waller Creek Conservancy) welcomed a record-setting 60,000 guests to its 6th Annual Creek Show. This temporary, interactive…
Jan 07, 2020
The digital revolution has changed nearly every aspect of life, including the design of built space. For an extreme example,…
Jan 07, 2020
Located in the W Austin Hotel and Residences, this condo defines zones of use between its concrete slabs with finely…
Nov 01, 2018
The site on East 6th Street just one block east of Interstate 35 is one of many patches of dirt…
Jul 02, 2018
Freedom and individual choice underpin the Montessori curriculum, and those ideals motivated the design of this new school in Austin.…
May 07, 2018
Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin,” recently completed on the grounds of the Blanton Museum at The University of Texas at Austin with…
May 07, 2018
Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin,” recently completed on the grounds of the Blanton Museum at The University of Texas at Austin with…
May 07, 2018
With a simple volumetric shift, the Holly ADU goes from efficient backyard apartment to multivalent indoor-outdoor space that can be…
Mar 12, 2018
The Austin Central Library is the most important Central Texas building in more than a decade. Designed to be a…
Mar 12, 2018
The Austin Central Library is the most important Central Texas building in more than a decade. Designed to be a…
Sep 11, 2017
“It’s a great example of an accessory dwelling in an urban context. It’s very well sited; it has its own…
Sep 11, 2017
“It actually has this sort of extraordinary sense of being in a special place — but it’s a bathroom.” —…
Sep 11, 2017
“There’s always the money shot, and for us it was the room that had this two foot repetition of trusses…
Jul 05, 2017
Tiny and glossy, like a piece of hard candy, this Austin eyeglass boutique designed by Baldridge Architects projects an aspirational…
May 16, 2017
“If I ever write a book,” says Sinclair Black, FAIA, “it’s going to be called, ‘Austin Texas: Lost Opportunity National…
Mar 02, 2017
In response to the current political climate of our nation, I asked TxA web editor Alyssa Morris to write this…
Mar 02, 2017
“We’re hurtling at breakneck speed to get from somewhere we didn’t want to be to somewhere we don’t want to…
Mar 01, 2017
Nick Deaver Designs a restrained and principled modern addition to an old bungalow for clients fleeing the suburbs for the…
Mar 01, 2017
The concrete walls of the dormant Seaholm Intake dip beneath the waters of Lady Bird Lake. This abandoned work of…
Mar 01, 2017
The John Gaines Park and Swim Center in Austin’s Mueller neighborhood is more than just a developer amenity — it’s…
Jan 06, 2017
Sanders Architecture and Cravotta Interiors transform an East Austin warehouse into a dramatic and alluring spatial experience for Juniper, a…
Jul 20, 2016
For a prime example of 21st century urban design thinking, look no further than Austin’s Second Street District. In the…
May 25, 2016
The “perfect wall” concept was developed by Joseph Lstiburek of Building Science Corporation, a consulting and architectural services firm based…
May 25, 2016
It was probably Thomas Dedrick, one of the first former slaves to settle in Austin, who built the little yellow…
May 25, 2016
Project Hart Woodson House, Austin Client Dr. Maggie Hart and Patrick Woodson Architect Malone Maxwell Borson Architects Design Team Michael Malone, AIA; Ryan Thomason,…
Mar 26, 2016
For several years now, real estate developers out for a quick buck have been buying up single-family and duplex homes…
Mar 26, 2016
On January 11, 2016, 11 Austin city leaders broke ground on a whimsical and well-appointed signifier of Texan self-regard: the…