Public Notice: The Calm Before ...

How to talk about talking about CodeNEXT

"...most useful at the beginning of a process: An architect draws what she wants a building to look like,..."

June 1, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Mixed Metaphors

These craft cocktails are for the books

"...Instead, he does the 'practical' thing and goes to architect school. He makes similar choices throughout his life and..."

June 17, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Playback: HAAM's Time of the Season

HAAM Day fills its coffers for uninsured live music capitalists

"...the city's true live music capital everywhere except the library. Fundraising kicks off a day early with ACL Live..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Good Eye: Nostalgia for the New

Pull up that Arvin and read about from whence it came

"...house retains some of the social-engineering impulses of midcentury architecture: A partition wall hides the kitchen without walling it..."

July 18, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Point Austin: Stayed on Freedom

Considering the LBJ legacy

"...So it is certainly right for the LBJ Library to celebrate Johnson's role in institutionalizing civil rights in..."

April 11, 2014 News Column by Michael King

Wheels of a Dream

With the long-awaited Topfer Theatre, Zach races full-throttle into the future

"...Grounds to the Atlantic City boardwalk to the Morgan Library...."

Oct. 5, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin x Design

"...own. The local chapter of the American Institute of Architects spearheaded the move to coordinate a month's worth of..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

If You Build It ...

Turk Pipkin's continuing adventures in making the world a better place

"...first-ever secondary school, designed from the ground up by architect Greg Elsner. An Architecture for Humanity design fellow, Eisner..."

April 1, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Dead End at Olive and Juniper

ARA and the city leave would-be homeowners out in the cold

"...Jeffrey Lott, was head librarian at the Carver Branch Library. Her great uncle, Jerome C. Lott (Jeffrey's husband), was..."

Sept. 7, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...Hill Country. Karl Rove, called "turd blossom" and "the architect" by President Bush and many other things by Democrats,..."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Feature

Bush's Brain Removed

Karl Rove to quit the White House staff.

"...majority (read James Moore and Wayne Slater's excellent The Architect for his real stances on gay rights and evangelical..."

Aug. 13, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Happenings

Aug. 2-8

"...ARCHITECTURE AT THE UMLAUF LECTURE SERIES: GREEN BUILDING The Torchbearers..."

Aug. 3, 2007 News Feature

Site Unseen

"America Starts Here" shows how the pioneering artistic team of Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler made the overlooked visible

"...MIT completed the Wiesner Building, a structure designed by architect I.M. Pei, which was hailed for fully integrating artworks..."

March 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

The Arts District Dance

Council's vote this week on funds for streetscapes for Ballet Austin is a little bit about depleting the city's annual Great Streets fund and a lot about the creation of a performing arts district Downtown

"...neighbor for what could be the city's future main library on the Green Water Treatment Plant site. In this..."

Dec. 15, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Endorsements

"...We also like the fact that he's been an architect of ACC's living-wage policy. Challenger Ana Mejia-Dietche has strengths..."

April 28, 2006 News Feature

Communing in the Air

With 'Lounge!,' Arthouse transforms itself into a space that swings

"...spare of design as to give even a Scandinavian architect pause – the tables are essentially flat boards and..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Military-Petroleum Complex

The Second Iraq War and the cronies of state capitalism

"...during times of crisis. Kissinger was also a key architect of the plan, pushed by Donald Rumsfeld when he..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Nukes Are Back!

The Bush administration plans for the next (little) nuclear wars

"...The Pentagon reorganization signifies more than a promotion for..."

Jan. 16, 2004 News Feature by William M. Adler

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from around Austin and beyond

"...the design of ACC's new South Austin campus. ACC architect Larry Speck of Page Southerland Page will present design..."

Sept. 12, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...through them, illuminating the interior. This isn't merely an architectural flourish designed to give a 30-year-old facility a rejuvenated..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day Trips

The Amon Carter Museum has a new, modern look, but it's still the same old great place to get culture.

"...dark granite extension -- designed by 95-year-old New York architect Philip Johnson, who also did the 1961 building --..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Letters at 20 Years

Some 'Postmarks' Writers Just Don't Know When to Quit … God Bless 'Em

"...of her years as a page at a UT library. "I actually wanted to work as an architect," she..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Naked City

The old Cinema West is back on the leasing block; meanwhile, its former tenant, now Megaplexxx, has moved south and is doing better than ever.

"...the site that bears the inventive design work of architect Juan Miro. The abandoned building's most distinctive feature these..."

May 25, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

The Austin City Council is back from their winter break, and they have a full schedule ahead of them.

"...in the bond proposals this fall: a new central library, affordable housing, more parks -- and the list is..."

Jan. 19, 2001 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Postscripts

How to pun your way to fame, how to meet lots of Texas writers, and how to discover the truth behind the mysterious and controversial de la Peña diary.

"...in attendance at the party benefiting the Austin Public Library System. Sponsored by Barnes & Noble and the Texas..."

April 28, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Articulations

The loss of the architects for the new Blanton Museum of Art; a home for the Rude Mechanicals.

"...Any of you architecture junkies tucked in your beds with visions of a..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Articulations

Forward motion on a renovation of UT's Harry Ransom Center and the lack of motion in the design of the new Blanton Museum of Art.

"...this was worked out, the center solicited proposals from architects, and settled on three finalists! And last week, Thomas..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Book Reviews

Hangover Soup

"...pictorial skills. In his first novel, The Swimming Pool Library, he made a quick suck in a grungy porn..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Books Review

Mixed Mex in Edge City

"...bright color, reminiscent of the work of renowned Mexican architect Ricardo Legoretta, famous for the new San Antonio Library..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

El Paso Perseverance

"...bonds in 1994 and the same year a local architectural firm began design work. In 1996, the museum commenced..."

May 29, 1998 Arts Feature

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