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Uncensored Views of the Med Center’s Giant Syringes, Now Flashier Than Ever
The double hypodermic needles atop the Cesar Pelli-designed O’Quinn Medical Building have just gotten brightened up: a lighting designer from FUSE sends Swamplot these bare-all shots of the Madonna...
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Ivy Lofts To Release Even Newer Drawings in October, Break Ground in January
Actually, the rendering above is not the newest look for the Ivy Lofts, PR head Jared Anthony tells Swamplot this afternoon. Anthony says that the 3-week-old images posted in Wednesday’s since-pulled...
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The Local Designer Drawing Your Heights-Area House and Then Mailing You a Copy
Recognize any of the images above? They’re each depictions of actual houses in the Heights area (yes, even that really skinny one in the top right corner) as drawn by local designer Dalia Rihani, who...
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3 More Shots To Live in a Glow-in-the-Dark Box near Hermann Park
Like the looks of this light-display-slash-townhouse-trio at Prospect and Chenevert streets on the Almeda side of the Museum District? All 3 of the homes hit the market yesterday for between $925,000...
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3 Wise Men Lead the Way Through a $975K Hunters Creek Mod
Behind the well-spotted Lucite front door of the 1958 mod above, living and dining room spaces wrap full-circle around an open-from-all-sides central kitchen. The home, full of floor-to-ceiling mirror...
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Tiny Tokyos Grow as Ivy Lofts Scraps Second Tower, Hotel Plans
The new, new design views of the Ivy Lofts highrise have been trickling out this week, and the glossy view above is fresh out into the digital ether as of late last night. The project’s marketing...
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Rice Confirms Redirect Toward Classically-Skinned Opera House
Rice University announced this week that the opera house it plans to build in the parking lot next to the Shepherd School of Music will, in fact, be designed by the classic-leaning architecture firm...
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Galleria’s Philip Johnson Facade Facelift Now Clearing the Nosejob Stage
Now hanging in the newly remodeled central nook on the Galleria’s curved facade along Westheimer Rd.: these strips of hexagonal rings spotted early last week by a passing bus rider. (That curved wall...
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6 Mock Ice Houses for Brays Bayou, As Proposed by That Guy Who Takes Photos...
That massively expanded greenway network is all well and good, suggests architect and icehouse photographer-philosopher David Richmond in the Chronicle today — but bayouside trails are a lot better at...
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West University’s Metallic ‘Monstrosity’ House Now Up For Sale
That big metal-skinned house on Centenary St. in West University is on the market as of yesterday, listed for a smidge under $2.2 million. The home’s construction in the early 2010’s touched off some...
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How the 24-Sided Kinder Building’s Roof Swoops Will Fit In with the MFAH’s...
Construction started yesterday on the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, going up in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s former parking lot north of Bissonnet St. at Main. That’s the curvy-roofed structure...
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A Decade Later, Another Arnold-Owned Staub Mansion Smashed in River Oaks
Does tearing down historic Houston architecture run in the family? The 1930’s house built for Harry C. Hanszen at 2945 Lazy Lane Blvd. (which showed up on Wednesday’s Daily Demolition Report last...
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