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Furniture buyers unite! You have nothing to lose but your La-Z-Boy.

All photographs courtesy wacdesignstudio.

“I came home with a high fever; my ears still hurt. Just from the noise — a ringing in my ears. It is very toxic. But it’s Houston.”
Jenny Lynn Weitz-Amaré Cartwright is describing the after effects of Sunday’s Furniture Sale on North Freeway (announced last week on OffCite), a daylong [...]

03.11.10 Art & Culture
Design

Guerrilla Furniture Sale

Scott Cartwright and Jenny Lynn Weitz-Amare Cartwright showcase their first furniture line. [Photo courtesy wacdesignstudio]

In January, the New York Times reported that employment at US architecture firms had dropped from its July 2009 peak at 224,500 to 184,600 by November. Commercial development has ground to a halt, the big car manufacturers have pulled the plug [...]

03.05.10 Art & Culture
Design

Transit War Whoop: Headlines May 23 to June 3

A bronze chariot from the necropolis of Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of the Qin dynasty, on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science [Photo S. J. Alexander]

A Chronicle editorial last week celebrated the budgeting of $150 million in federal money for light rail and suggested that the METRO CEO and Chair shared a [...]

06.04.09 Architecture

Houston: The Walking City

Pedestrian realm cross-section showing a 15 foot minimum distance from a mixed-use development to the street [From City of Houston Urban Corridor Planning]

The city released an implementation report for the urban corridor planning initiative, which aims to “create a high quality urban environment in areas along METRO’s light rail corridors.” It is the product of [...]

01.14.09 Infrastructure
Place

Stimulus We Can Believe In

An ICE 3M train near Montabaur, on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed railway line. [Wikimedia Commons

Originally published in the Houston Chronicle on November 16, 2008 By Tory Gattis, Carrol G. Robinson, and Christof Spieler
The Great Depression was a tough time for America, but it left us with an enduring legacy of good infrastructure. Bridges built in the [...]

12.02.08 Environment
Infrastructure