For the general public, the Kimbell Art Museum’s exalted reputation rests on the extraordinarily high quality of its small collection, with hundreds of firstrate pieces by Western painters and sculptors, and a growing cache of Asian and pre-Columbian work.
Though it isn't quite all tumbleweed and Longhorns on the 20-minute drive from downtown Austin to the Circuit of the Americas (COTA)—the only facility in the United States specifically built to host the Formula 1 Grand Prix auto race—the barren landscape looks and feels like rural Texas.
Decked out in Dallas: A sprawling rectangular park on top of a major freeway unites an up-and-coming residential neighborhood with the burgeoning Arts District.
As in many American cities, large highways slice through downtown Dallas. Sidewalks seem intermittent, parking lots abundant, and locals respond with strange looks when asked the best way to walk to a nearby bar or restaurant. But Dallas is pouring millions of dollars into changing all that.
Salvaged materials, sensory gardens, and non-toxic medical equipment have all helped the recent expansion of Dell Children’s Medical Center earn the first-ever LEED for Healthcare (LEED-HC) Platinum designation.
An innovative pinwheel plan brings daylight into a rugged cubic building that strengthens the public realm's imprint in a historic part of the Texas capital.
A single-story, 30,000-square-foot headquarters for the Livestrong Foundation, with office space, meeting rooms, a courtyard, a gym, and a resource center for cancer patients. Located in East Austin, the facility is an adaptive reuse of a concrete tilt-up paper warehouse built in the 1950s.
Completion Date: September 2010 Owner: Spring Independent School District Program: A two-story, 105,391-square-foot public elementary school with large-volume communal spaces—a cafeteria, a gymnasium, and an auditorium—concentrated in a central core, with classrooms arranged along the perimeter. The school also includes a library, a music room, a computer lab, an indoor "tree house" on the second floor, and a garden/outdoor classroom at the entrance with a river table and pond. Design Concept and Solution: The district normally uses a two-building prototype for all its schools, but for Gloria Marshall the board wanted to rearrange the program to conserve natural resources and
Drawing on the simple forms and pure shapes of minimalist art, Andersson-Wise Architects conceived this Texas hotel as a narrow tower defined by light and shadow.
Dallas-based 5G Studio Collaborative designed an emergency room and urgent-care facility in nearby Frisco that would provide comfort for patients in distress.
The ubiquitous “Keep Austin Weird” movement seems more defined by what it’s against — big-box stores, Mediterranean-style buildings, Hummers — than what it’s for.