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Farnsworth & Chambers BuildingFarnsworth and Chambers Building, Home to the Manned Spacecraft Center 1962-64 [Image from NASA] Houston’s historic Farnsworth & Chambers building, located at 2999 S. Wayside, held its grand reopening opening last night following the rehabilitation of this architecturally and historically significant building. Visitors, many who had not set foot there in decades, marveled at how the [...] |
12.09.09 | Preservation |
The Astrodome—What is to be done?Conceived of by David Bucek, this 1990 illustration depicts a sanctuary for survivors of a worldwide ecological disaster Hotel, movie studio, sanctuary from disaster, and giant indoor park are among the many ideas proposed for the dilapidated Astrodome. Join our online forum about the once glorious stadium’s future. Madeleine McDermott Hamm, former Home Design Editor for [...] |
08.06.09 | Preservation |
A Place Along A Path: International Coffee Building RenovationInternational Coffee Building design by Lake/Flato Architects and BNIM [Renderings and historic photos courtesy Buffalo Bayou Partnership, current photos by Jesse Hager] At the time of the completion of the International Coffee Building in 1910, Commerce and Main Street were bustling with the activities that the street names imply. The International Coffee Building served as [...] |
07.10.09 | Architecture Place Preservation |
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 replied [...] |
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 Spaces, [...] |
12.21.08 | Place |
A Review of the Brochstein PavilionBrochstein Pavilion [Photo by Stephen Fox] The Susan and Raymond Brochstein Pavilion is an architectural masterpiece. It is a masterpiece even though it is “only” a coffeehouse and, in terms of its architecture, “beinahe nichts” or “almost nothing,” as the great, twentieth-century, German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe described his modern skin-and-bones buildings. [...] |
12.19.08 | Place Reviews |
A Mosaic of Interests: MOCAH and Buckboard ParkMOCAH students make art. Photo by Reginald Adams During the summer of 1999, when my wife, Rhonda Radford-Adams, and I stepped out on a limb and decided to both quit our jobs to begin on an incredible journey now known as the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston (MOCAH), we had no idea what impact our [...] |
12.01.08 | Art & Culture Place |
