Taming the 12-Lane Monster

Task Force Finalizing Plan to Limit Environmental Damage From Aquifer Freeway

"...One proposal for US290, designed by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), would put..."

Dec. 13, 1996 News Feature

The Road to Ruin

US290: We Built It, and Dammit, They're Coming

"...our rules currently read, there are no water quality standards per se set up to judge water coming off..."

Jan. 19, 1996 News Feature

Things to Do for Free

Broke? Badgeless? Fear not.

"...stage, 4:15pmSouth By Bookstore book signings12:45pm: Dan Cederholm, Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook..."

March 4, 2005 Screens Feature

Plaza Saltillo Ground-breaking Set for Wednesday

After a long wait, the Eastside redevelopment finally kicks off

"...2003, when Cap Metro and the city hired ROMA Design Group to create a master plan for the area,..."

June 23, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Raising the (Green) Roof

Austin's Green Roof Advisory Group to deliver its report to council

"...center), and City Hall (which has two green roofs designed by McKinney and landscape architect Carolyn Kelley...."

Oct. 29, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

When It's Time to Turn the Rules Inside Out

The Boarding House on Seventh

"...their project with Simon Atkinson, a principal in Urban Design Associates and professor of architecture and planning at the..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

Austin at Very High Speed

The who, what, where, when, and why of Formula One racing

"...It's Hellmund's design and desire to bring F1 to Austin that got..."

July 9, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Compact, Climate-Friendly, Competitive

To restart the economy while saving the planet, the Congress for the New Urbanism advocates traditional neighborhoods for all

"...whiz-by roadways or cul-de-sacs. The draft legislation also incorporates standards from Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood..."

June 26, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Making of an Endorsement

"...input and return to a much more car-based, margin-maximizing design. That will be a loss to the city, whether..."

Oct. 24, 2008 News Feature

Texas Fiction Science

The State Board of Education does its part to fantasize biology

"...strengths of the latest pseudo-scholarly variation on creationism: "intelligent design." Last fall, in the latest episode of that eternal..."

July 25, 2008 News Feature by Andrea Grimes

Superbadass Web Sites for Everyone!

With the help of Knowbility's AIR-Interactive for the Arts and a team of professional designers, I am going to help reinvent the Internet

"...Arts 2005, one of two annual Knowbility contests. Web design teams pair with artists and nonprofit organizations to overhaul..."

March 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Spike Gillespie

Austin's Land Use Debate Returns to the Spotlight

A new draft code has risen out of CodeNEXT's ashes

"...in flames, amid squabbles over parking requirements and compatibility standards but also amid the conflict at the heart of..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Where No Man Has Gone Before

What Jeffrey Zeldman thinks about Jeffrey Zeldman's induction into the SXSW Interactive Hall of Fame

"...Web design pioneer Jeffrey Zeldman will be the first ever inductee..."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Developing Stories: Pioneering at Mueller

Urban trailblazers aren't just settling Downtown

"...Council, must give its tasteful blessing to all home designs before the builders can proceed. Mueller home facades harken..."

March 23, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

More internal problems at the new Travis County Central Booking facility?

"...move. The officers' main concerns were that the new design of the building, which features "direct supervision" (that is,..."

July 27, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

SXSW Interactive Festival

With no startling new technical innovations around to distract, this year's SXSW Interactive Festival panels devoted to the visual creative process stressed that now is the time for designers to find their roots.

"...Design Track: Get Back to Basics, Back to the Topic..."

March 23, 2001 Screens Feature by Rob D'Amico

Making a Front Porch for the City

As he was completing the final design for the Austin Museum of Art's long-awaited downtown facility, architect Richard Gluckman took time to discuss the project, his approach to architecture, and what it means to design buildings for a boomtown.

"...the Austin Museum of Art selected an architect to design the museum's permanent downtown facility. The choice -- Gluckman..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

I never thought the letters in "Postmarks Forum" were real until this happened to me ...

"...any conflict of interest is the lack of professional standards in Austin theatre and its press. One of America's..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Column

Naked City

"...officials are looking for input on the creek's look, design, and landscaping, as well as storm-water collection points. The..."

Nov. 16, 2007 News Feature

A Green Travel Glossary

A glossary of definitions pertaining to the field of Green Travel

"...or practice as having met and maintained certain predetermined standards of environmental stewardship. A number of government and private..."

May 25, 2007 Features Feature

Planning South Shore Central: The ROMA Report

2000 study of redeveloping the South Shore was a good first effort

"...In 2000, ROMA Design Group worked with a citizen task force, the Town..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...and video rendering (which is what the Apple is designed for). Please enroll Michael in a basic computer architecture..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...and video rendering (which is what the Apple is designed for). Please enroll Michael in a basic computer architecture..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Column

Council Watch

The Bradley deal is out in the open but no one seems to have an opinion on it.

"...on the enforcement of the agreement and allow the standards to slip -- or in the worst case, to..."

Feb. 25, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Postmarks

Letter to Isaac

"...American cities, including Austin, stopped designing and started "letting the market" dictate what to build..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Column

Naked City

"...report Nov. 1, with more than 200 recommendations for designing and building (see www.sustainablesites.org). The standards and guidelines finally..."

Nov. 23, 2007 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...quality of representation for indigent capital murder defendants. Current standards are inadequate and actually prevent the appointment of better..."

April 15, 2005 Column

Get Visionary With Me Here

We are no longer pioneers of the digital age. We're miners.

"...the "Visionary in Residence" at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. Basically, I've become a designer futurist...."

March 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Bruce Sterling

On the Lege

Sen. Bill Ratliff's committee shows what good government looks like as it takes up controversial HB 4.

"...liability if their products met applicable state and federal standards, unless a plaintiff could show that the standards themselves..."

April 25, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Postmarks

Warning: blatant use of music knowledge within

"..."10 lacked required financial statements or had problems with design or accounting -- factors that should have immediately disqualified..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Column

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