New Listings: Where the Mid-Century Moderns Are
A three-bedroom, two-bath, 2700-square-foot house on a cul-de-sac. A half-acre, wooded, park-like lot. Overlooking the bayou. Designed by Houston’s own Frank-Lloyd-Wrightian architects, MacKie &...
View ArticleJust Listed: Texas Modern Outside, Martha Washington Inside
Note: Story updated below. A house in Houston can’t earn much more of a modern Texas pedigree than this: Designed in 1970 for Oveta Culp Hobby by quintessential Texas architect O’Neil Ford. Built by...
View ArticleCharles Gwathmey’s Greenspoint Strip
Diehard Modernist architect Charles Gwathmey, dubbed one of the “New York Five” (along with Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Richard Meier, and John Hejduk) in the early 1970s, passed away yesterday in...
View ArticleAstrodome Architect’s Former Home Holds Court in the Museum District
An uncovered courtyard is the centerpiece of this former home of Astrodome and ex-Houston Post building architect Ralph Anderson, who designed the 1,805-sq.-ft. space and lived there leading up to his...
View ArticleA Glimpse Behind the Shotgun Chameleon’s Adaptable Skin in Fourth Ward
From the inside out and the outside looking in, here’s a peek through the semi-see-through mesh facade of University of Houston architecture professor Zui Ng’s Shotgun Chameleon house, located just...
View ArticleRice Confirms Redirect Toward Classically-Skinned Opera House
Rice University announced this week that the opera house it plans to build in the parking lot next to the Shepherd School of Music will, in fact, be designed by the classic-leaning architecture firm...
View ArticleAstrodome Architect’s Hole-in-One Home in Boulevard Oaks Now Up in Mod Cred,...
On the market again: the designed-it-himself 1959 home of Ralph Anderson (who worked on the Astrodome, as well as the retooled brutalist building now occupied by the Houston Chronicle). The home is...
View ArticleGunnar Birkerts, 1925-2017
Latvian-born architect Gunnar Birkerts, designer of the stainless-steel-clad Contemporary Arts Museum that’s stood at the northwest corner of Montrose Blvd. and Bissonnet St. since 1972, passed away...
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