The Chalmers Courts housing project has provided homes for low-income Austinites since the Great Depression. An ongoing expansion will ensure…

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

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

Next Door Creative Offices on Austin’s east side provides refined, loft-like workspace for artists, designers, and more. Architect Pollen Architecture…

The SXSW Center shows that Austin’s biggest little festival organizer is all grown up, for the most part.  Architect Pei…

Now in its tenth year, AIA Austin’s PERSPECTIVAS is an annual exhibit held in conjunction with National Hispanic Heritage Month…

The Avenue C Fourplexes provide missing-middle housing and density without upsetting the character of Austin’s historic Hyde Park neighborhood.

Music Lane on Austin’s South Congress strip distinguishes itself amid contemporary retro architectures through tectonic authenticity. Architect Lake|Flato ArchitectsGeneral Contractor…

One goal of architectural postmodernism has been to accommodate more variety than was typically addressed in high modernism, an objective…

Little Tiger, Austin’s first full-day Chinese immersion school, occupies an eclectic mini-campus in a residential neighborhood. Architect Murray Legge Architecture…

Dove Springs in southeast Austin is a working-class Hispanic neighborhood of single-family homes. A regular destination for Central American immigrants,…

In “Architecture Beyond Experience," Michael Benedikt, director of the Center for American Architecture and Design at UTSOA, advances the idea…

Nkiru Mokwe Gelles is a project designer at Michael Hsu Office of Architecture in Austin. Originally from Lagos, Nigeria, Gelles…

Integration of the site, architecture, and the buildings created a lot of different types of experiences and really wove together…

To me, it’s the strongest project we have, or one of the strongest ones — the craft and the detailing…

There’s something timeless and a little monumental about the forms, sort of “monumentality meets domesticity,” in a way. — Dan…

Community facilities should be about that community, and this one, we found, had the most sense of place. It felt…

It’s a very, very nicely detailed project with a lot of love that you see in its intentions. — Michel…

The architects were very smart — strategic in terms of demolition and editing out the head house, and exposing this…

It’s a very sophisticated balance of inventiveness and restraint. — Dan Kaplan, FAIA

This really had a combination of understanding and honoring the building itself. — Kirsten R. Murray, FAIA

Installed at various locations throughout Austin, “Parkspace” is a straightforward but playful outdoor solution for encouraging social distancing.

Legge Lewis Legge’s “Amphibious” is a new kind of monument for the city of Austin. Composed of 35 life-sized bronze…

The Arrive Hotel disguises its identity behind an aggressive architectural screen and a wrapper of wining and dining, fitting perfectly…

On a sunny weekend in October, under the dappled light of several sprawling oaks, Sean Guess, AIA, of Faye and…

An Austin bungalow renovation blends the old Texas dogtrot and the contemporary Texas air-conditioned box, with pleasing results. Architect Charles Di…

Lucero, a new affordable housing development in South Austin, shows how designers can slip some poetry into a tight budget.

“Make Austin’s Zoning Weirder” was one of the more unusual pleas during recent Planning Commission public hearings focused on the…

Waterloo Greenway (formerly Waller Creek Conservancy) welcomed a record-setting 60,000 guests to its 6th Annual Creek Show. This temporary, interactive…

The digital revolution has changed nearly every aspect of life, including the design of built space. For an extreme example,…

Located in the W Austin Hotel and Residences, this condo defines zones of use between its concrete slabs with finely…

The site on East 6th Street just one block east of Interstate 35 is one of many patches of dirt…

Freedom and individual choice underpin the Montessori curriculum, and those ideals motivated the design of this new school in Austin.…

Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin,” recently completed on the grounds of the Blanton Museum at The University of Texas at Austin with…

Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin,” recently completed on the grounds of the Blanton Museum at The University of Texas at Austin with…

With a simple volumetric shift, the Holly ADU goes from efficient backyard apartment to multivalent indoor-outdoor space that can be…

The Austin Central Library is the most important Central Texas building in more than a decade. Designed to be a…

The Austin Central Library is the most important Central Texas building in more than a decade. Designed to be a…

“It’s a great example of an accessory dwelling in an urban context. It’s very well sited; it has its own…

“It actually has this sort of extraordinary sense of being in a special place — but it’s a bathroom.” —…

“There’s always the money shot, and for us it was the room that had this two foot repetition of trusses…

Tiny and glossy, like a piece of hard candy, this Austin eyeglass boutique designed by Baldridge Architects projects an aspirational…

“If I ever write a book,” says Sinclair Black, FAIA, “it’s going to be called, ‘Austin Texas: Lost Opportunity National…

In response to the current political climate of our nation, I asked TxA web editor Alyssa Morris to write this…

“We’re hurtling at breakneck speed to get from somewhere we didn’t want to be to somewhere we don’t want to…

Nick Deaver Designs a restrained and principled modern addition to an old bungalow for clients fleeing the suburbs for the…

The concrete walls of the dormant Seaholm Intake dip beneath the waters of Lady Bird Lake. This abandoned work of…

The John Gaines Park and Swim Center in Austin’s Mueller neighborhood is more than just a developer amenity — it’s…

Sanders Architecture and Cravotta Interiors transform an East Austin warehouse into a dramatic and alluring spatial experience for Juniper, a…

For a prime example of 21st century urban design thinking, look no further than Austin’s Second Street District. In the…