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Artist James Turrell is Transforming an Extinct Volcano Into a Naked Eye Observatory

Artist James Turrell is Transforming an Extinct Volcano Into a Naked Eye Observatory

"I am making spaces that will engage celestial events," Turrell explains of his work. He sees his efforts at Roden Crater as belonging to a tradition that spans the breadth of human history; one that

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Friends For Life Houston is the Only LEED-Certified No Kill Animal Shelter in Texas

Friends For Life Houston is the Only LEED-Certified No Kill Animal Shelter in Texas

The Don Sanders Adoption Center is located in an existing warehouse in an urban, mixed-used community near downtown. Instead of opting for a remote, out-of-town site, an urban location like this places

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Houston Row Houses Are an Exercise in Daylighting & Simple, Sustainable Design

Houston Row Houses Are an Exercise in Daylighting & Simple, Sustainable Design

Located in the trending Houston Heights downtown neighborhood, Row on 25th is a collection of five rentable homes. Soon there will be 4 more homes for a total of 9, all inspired by the symmetrical

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Twilight Epiphany Skyspace by James Turrell Suspends Time and Space With LEDs in Houston

Twilight Epiphany Skyspace by James Turrell Suspends Time and Space With LEDs in Houston

Turrell worked with Thomas Phifer and Partners as well as Linbeck contractors to realize the project's construction, which consists of grass, concrete, stone and composite steel. The rooftop LED light

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Buffalo Bayou’s Subterranean Cistern Could Become an Underground Performance Venue

Buffalo Bayou’s Subterranean Cistern Could Become an Underground Performance Venue

Originally the Buffalo Bayou Partnership planned to turn the underground space into either a mulch storage or a parking lot, but once they actually sent someone down to scope it out, they discovered

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Solar-Powered SPACE Shipping Container Office Produces Twice as Much Energy as it Consumes

Solar-Powered SPACE Shipping Container Office Produces Twice as Much Energy as it Consumes

SPACE stands for Solar Powered Adaptive Containers for Everyone and that's exactly what they are. The 140 square foot off grid structure comes with 20 rooftop solar panels that provide up to 350 kWh of

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Gensler’s Houston Ballet Center for Dance Opens With A Flurry of Fluttering Feet

Gensler’s Houston Ballet Center for Dance Opens With A Flurry of Fluttering Feet

The Center for Dance is a six-story, 115,000-square-foot facility with nine dance studios, a dance lab, and artistic, administrative and support facilities for Houston Ballet and its academy. Clad in

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Intexure Architects Transform Parking Garage Into a Rooftop Zen Garden

Intexure Architects Transform Parking Garage Into a Rooftop Zen Garden

The 6,000 sf garden is divided into textural zones, with each serving as a distinct open or enclosed space for group meetings and quiet contemplation. A white tensile structure in the center gives way to

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Houston Architecture Office Doubles as Beautiful Eco Home

Houston Architecture Office Doubles as Beautiful Eco Home

The architects snatched up an abandoned lot, which for some time had served as a garbage dump. Then they began work to transform the lot into their home and office space with a heavy focus on simple, cost

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Houston to Get First Privately-Funded EV Charging Network in US

Houston to Get First Privately-Funded EV Charging Network in US

Chalk this up to things we never thought we'd see: Houston, that bastion of the oil industry, is getting the first privately-funded electric vehicle charging network in the U.S. The $10 million network,

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Modern, Colorful and Creative Shipping Container Home in Houston

Modern, Colorful and Creative Shipping Container Home in Houston

Shipping container homes just keep on getting cooler. Developers Katie Nichols and John Walker along with architect Christopher Robertson wanted to create affordable and sustainable homes for the emerging

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12 New Solar America Cities Chosen

12 New Solar America Cities Chosen

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 12 new Solar America Cities, bringing the number from 13 to 25 in total, and moving along the $2.4 million initiative to provide up to $200,000 per city to

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