Honoring the past while building for the future

One of Texas’s first charitable organizations settles into a new satellite office. Project SunsetLocation San AntonioClient H. E. Butt FoundationArchitect…

Last October, six winners were recognized for their innovative designs for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), also known as casitas or…

An expansion to the San Antonio Botanical Garden ushers in a new era for the beloved public venue. Project San…

Urban design has always occupied the intersection of politics, social science, and economics. In an age where the town square…

Almost every urban Texan has experienced the arrival of hordes of birds to our cities, especially in the fall and…

“It teaches kids how to respect nature by respecting nature. It retreats every time it sees a tree — and…

Emilio Ambasz: Curating a New NatureBarry BergdollRizzoli New York, 2022 Barry Bergdoll’s “Emilio Ambasz: Curating a New Nature” is neither…

The Alamo City gets its fourth federal courthouse. Project San Antonio Federal CourthouseLocation San AntonioDesign Architect Lake|Flato ArchitectsArchitect of Record…

A renovation of San Antonio’s Sidney Lanier High School improves learning outcomes for underserved students. Location San AntonioClient San Antonio…

The Credit Human and Oxbow towers bring old-world principles to contemporary sustainable design. Clients Silver Ventures and Credit Human Federal…

“Small in scale, each home contributes to a mid-block stepped public space — a true urban fabric project that achieves…

I have lived within a mile of the McNay Art Museum for most of the two decades I have called…

When AIA San Antonio announced “City Hall for All,” a design contest seeking an accessible solution for the east elevation…

Boston Commons, a 15-unit community on San Antonio’s East Side, listens deeply to its formal, social, and climatic context.

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

The Canopy Hotel San Antonio creates new ways of experiencing the River Walk.

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…

The Soto, an office building in San Antonio, is the largest mass timber project in Texas.  Architect Lake|Flato ArchitectsArchitect of…

Pine House in San Antonio is a model of affordable infill residential design and another case for the reintegration of…

San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, with almost 1.5 million people. By 2050, that number could…

A sculptural concrete canopy made with digitally designed and fabricated formwork creates shade and captures rainwater in a San Antonio…

The most memorable part of my childhood morning routine before grade school wasn’t the bowl of cereal or the cartoons…

A new Alamo Plaza Master Plan has stoked controversy in San Antonio, and for good reason: It proposes closing streets,…

Just north of the Pearl development in central San Antonio stands what appears to be an Art Deco gem —…

University Health System’s new building at its Robert B. Green Campus near downtown San Antonio provides an underserved community with…

Just west of I-10 in downtown San Antonio, VIA Centro Plaza is a bus rapid-transit center that also serves as…

“They really let the building breathe, and at the same time, you can see the hand of the new architects,…

Expander Lab, a “think/do-tank” at the UTSA College of Architecture, construction, and planning led by assistant professor Antonio Petrov, has…

In 2014, though he had never entered a political contest before, Roberto Treviño, AIA, found himself in something of a…

Since purchasing the Pearl Brewery in 2002, private equity firm Sliver Ventures has transformed the 23-acre site just north of…

On a cold autumn day in 2006 — overcast and uncharacteristically windy — the conversation in the air centered on…

Project Linda Pace Gallery Client Linda Pace Foundation Architects Adjaye Associates, design architect; Alamo Architects, architect of record. Linda Pace was a woman…

San Antonio’s Stinson Municipal Airport is set to get a new air traffic control tower. Located in the Mission Trails…