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Walmart Plan Repeats Suburban Patterns on Urban Site

The site for the proposed Walmart is off Yale Street between I-10 and Washington Avenue, and could be an urban transitional node between Montrose and the Heights. Photo by Sharon Steinmann. Houston city council passed a $6 million incentive for the new Washington Heights shopping center to include “landscaping, a bike trail, and widening, repaving [...]

 09.22.10 Environment
Place

Spies and Astronauts: Headlines November 24 to December 6

Houston FBI Office, Design by Larry Speck of PageSoutherlandPage in a joint venture with Leo A Daly [Image from FBI.gov] Jesse Hager recounts how he was detained after photographing the new Houston FBI office. The Houston Parks and Recreation department is dedicating its new offices in a renovated MacKie & Kamrath building that once housed [...]

 12.08.09 Architecture

Deconstruction: Headlines October 31 to November 23

Oak floor removed from house under deconstruction [Lantz Full Circle] Lisa Gray devoted her column to several interesting Houston places: Karen Lantz’s deconstruction project in the Museum District, the Willow Waterhole flood control and greenspace project, and an East End exhibition. Also, Jesse Hager assessed the 2009 AIA Houston home tour at a new online [...]

 11.26.09 Architecture

Architect as Mayor? Headlines October 10 to 30

Four major mayoral candidates [Wikimedia Commons] Architect Peter Brown has a lead in the polls for the Houston mayoral race as early voting closes. In regards to the built environment, Brown has advocated for form-based codes. Annise Parker is known for preservation efforts. Gene Locke has talked about investing in underdeveloped areas. Christof Spieler analyzes [...]

 10.31.09 Architecture

Stupendous News: Headlines September 12 to October 9

Proposed route of Grand Parkway Segment E [From Houston Tomorrow] The proposed use of stimulus funds to build Segment E of the Grand Parkway through farmland and prairie is doomed according to a Chronicle report. Other major headlines from the last month include new momentum to establish high-speed and commuter rail lines (1, 2, 3). [...]

 10.10.09 Environment
Infrastructure

Shelter: Headlines August 26 to September 11

Birdwatchers count chimney swifts [Photo from Lower Trinity Valley Bird Club] Over the past year, I’ve looked to Mike Snyder for consistent follow-up on post-Hurricane Ike reconstruction efforts in Shoreacres and Galveston. His most recent report lays out available data on the thousands of people who remain homeless or in shelters. For a story that [...]

 09.14.09 Architecture

Tower Time: Headlines Aug 12 to 25

Site of what was the Wilshire Village with Fiesta in the distance [Photo Raj Mankad] I came back from six days of vacation to find a surprising number of important stories about the built environment. Perhaps the biggest one is the approval of the controversial Ashby Highrise. Also, Houston City Council passed the Transit Corridor [...]

 08.26.09 Architecture

Googie: Headlines July 23 to 31

Penguin Arms [Photo by Photine] This weekly post gathers headlines about local architecture and design with a few top stories highlighted. Rice University announced that Sarah Whiting will be the new dean of the Rice School of Architecture as of January 1, 2010. Lisa Gray wrote an article about the Penguin Arms and its “Googie [...]

 08.02.09 Architecture

Surf’s Up and Up and Up: Headlines July 11 to 22

Surfside, Texas [Photo Christof Mendt] It’s summertime and the news is all about the beach and coast. Surfside is vanishing. A Galveston family is claiming they own the beach. Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church in Port Bolivar may yet survive. And the Rosenberg Library makes a post-Ike comeback. Wednesday July 22 Family says it [...]

 07.24.09 Architecture

Fluvial Geomorphology: Headlines June 19 to July 2

Sims Bayou, Design by Kevin Shanley, SWA Group [Image from ASLA website] Besides the record-breaking-pipe-bursting heat, the top stories in the last two weeks about the built environment were Mike Snyder’s piece on the ugliness of Houston’s new urban density and Lisa Gray’s piece on the beauty of the new flood abatement projects on the [...]

 07.08.09 Architecture