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A Stroll Along Hillcroft and 59

A ramp arcs over the Hillcroft Transit Center, photos by Rose Kuo In this Hear Our Houston audio tour and contribution to Unexpected City, Raj Mankad, the editor of Cite and OffCite, takes us on a tour of the triangle-shaped area bounded by Highway 59, Hillcroft, and the Westpark tollway. First he braves the feeder [...]

 09.22.11 Unexpected City

Sharpstown Back to the Future

Spectators 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

Policy — An Exhibition

Photos by Steven Thomson It is befitting that the Architecture Center Houston is positioned in the shadow of City Hall, and a glut of the city’s engines of cultural production — the Hobby and Wortham centers, Jones Hall — and the corporate headquarters that fuel them, as the site is currently host to an exhibition [...]

 07.06.10 Reviews