Arthouse Houston, Wes Anderson, and others rally to restore Garden Oaks Theater
When Garden Oaks theater in Houston opened in 1947, it had all the post-war fixings of a movie theater from its time: a tall blade…
Joe Overstreet’s Activism Through Abstraction
HOUSTON — On April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Joe Overstreet began a new painting. The piece that would…
Pennzoil Place, Houston’s Most Emblematic Skyscraper, is for Sale
✕ Pennzoil Place might not be the oldest skyscraper erected during Houston’s oil-driven building boom of the 1970s and ‘80s—SOM’s 1971 One Shell Plaza is…
Lake|Flato’s Hotel Saint Augustine Rises Respectfully Next to the Menil Collection Campus in Houston
✕ At a museum whose galleries are housed within several low-slung buildings illuminated by gently diffused daylight, the arrival of taller, sun-blocking neighbors is a…
Karamuk Kuo’s First U.S. Building Unites the Rice School of Architecture
✕ The venerable and verdant campus of Rice University in Houston began in 1910 with a Beaux-Arts master plan by Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson of…
