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Unexpected City: Sheldon State ParkThree ponds at Sheldon State Park. All photographs by Theresa Keefe and Keith Koski. OffCite presents the fourth submission to the Unexpected City challenge, made by Theresa Keefe. Click here to learn about making your own submission. Sheldon State Park is a wonderfully unexpected place in Houston. It is located in east Houston, wedged in [...] |
01.24.11 | Environment Unexpected City |
Sharpstown Back to the FutureSpectators watch as the rotation of a house in Sharpstown is completed. It is 11 a.m. on a Thursday in Sharpstown, Houston. Roughly forty spectators sit obediently on metal benches provided by Cherry House Moving Company — a mix of Rice University students, architects, “just in for the day” New York art scenesters and garden-variety [...] |
11.19.10 | Environment Preservation |
Can Market Square Honor and Break from Past?Houston Market Square Park, designed by Lauren Griffith Associates and Ray + Hollington Architects, featuring James Surls’s “Points of View.” Photo by Hank Hancock. Visitors to the new Market Square Park in the past couple of weeks have seen significant changes, and many are distinctly hopeful about what it all means for Downtown. Designed by [...] |
09.17.10 | Place Reviews |
Cave of New BeingModel of Cave of New Being and meditation pond With the growing genre of architecture generated by biomorphic design and biomimetic processes, a reevaluation of Frederick J. Kiesler’s work is ever more timely. During the mid-20th century he became increasingly occupied with the relationship of structure and natural form in architecture. The Cave of the [...] |
02.10.10 | Architecture Art & Culture |
Can Houston Feed Itself?Illustration by Amir Kasem The next issue of Cite is at the bindery. Enjoy this preview and subscribe or join the Rice Design Alliance now to get the whole issue. It was soil, not oil, that determined the location of Texas’ largest cities. It was good dirt that drew people here—good dark, rich soil that [...] |
12.01.09 | Architecture |
Houston Needs a MountainHouston Needs a Mountain by Lysle Oliveros, recipient of a Rice Design Alliance Initiatives for Houston Grant This project was Lysle Oliveros’s 2009 Masters Thesis project. The concept originated as a point of humor during a dinner party. “I asked my neighbor if he recently mulched the yard (due to a pungent odor), and he [...] |
05.31.09 | Infrastructure Place |
Market Square and the Great Big EmptyA parking lot to the southwest of Market Square [Photo by Christof Spieler] Chronicle columnist (and former Cite editor) Lisa Gray recently reported on the plans to rebuild Market Square Park with a dog run, a food stand, and maybe a farmers’ market. This builds on a report done by the non-profit Project for Public [...] |
12.21.08 | Place |
