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Austin
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METROPOLIS Arch30 Celebrates Austin’s Emerging Architectural Leaders
Austin’s next generation of architects, affiliated with leading firms, convened for METROPOLIS’s Arch30 event, celebrating innovation, collaboration, and professional growth.
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How Adaptive Reuse Is Shaping Austin’s Neighborhoods
Michael Hsu Office of Architecture and Clayton Korte are designing a growing number of projects in the city that prioritize identity, community, and the revival of third spaces.
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Sustainable Building Must Take Site and Community into Account
A recent Think Tank Panel examined the positive ripple effects of sustainable design on surrounding sites and communities.
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Austin’s Tallest Residential Tower Is on Track for LEED Gold
Designed by Rhode Partners, the Independent, a 58-story residential tower, has surpassed downtown’s Austonian residence in height.
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Austin Micro-Home is a Guiding Light for a Ground-breaking Community
The city’s top architects were tapped to create homes for Community First!, a master planned village designed for Austin’s unhoused population.
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The First Mass Timber Hotel in North America Has Opened in Austin
Designed by Lake|Flato Architects and Bunkhouse Group, Hotel Magdalena rises high in Austin's iconic South Congress District.
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An East Austin Fabrication Shop Is Transformed Into a Refined Beer Hall
Kartwhell Studio looked to the past to revive the 80-year-old Central Machine Works.
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Inside an Airy Texas Home Addition That is Just as Sculptural as the Artwork Inside
A.GRUPPO Architects delivered the ultimate workshop and gallery space for two retired Texas State professors.
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A Restaurant by Olson Kundig Recedes into the Background
Cladding of black brick, glass brick, and steel conceal rather than broadcast the Austin eatery's program.
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Profiles
In Lake|Flato’s Eco-Conservation Studio, Sustainability and Education Go Hand-in-Hand
Green building was always part of the firm's DNA, though a little more than ten years ago Lake|Flato formed an internal studio that would focus on landscape and resource management.
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Architect Michael Hsu Keeps Design Weird and Wonderful in Austin, Texas
His firm, founded in 2005, puts a Texan spin on sophisticated designs that range from mixed-use condos to offices and hotels.
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In Austin, A New University Medical Center Stays True to its Motto: Rethink Everything
The design of this new Austin, Texas, medical training facility encourages academic excellence with spaces for collaboration.
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Experience Design Is Essential for Cities to Thrive in the 21st Century
Metropolis’s director of design innovation, Susan Szenasy, led a panel at the Gensler-designed 500 West 2nd Street tower examining how certain experiences (both physical and digital) now drive urban design.
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How Austin’s Growth Can Be Sustainable and Equitable
Lake|Flato hosted a Metropolis Magazine Think Tank discussion on the risks and benefits the expanding city faces.
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Ellsworth Kelly’s Last Artwork Was a Building
Titled Austin, the structure features colored windows that shine a variegated spectrum on a granite-floored interior.
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Students From Texas and Germany Team Up for Solar Decathlon 2015
The innovative design NexHaus, created by a team of students from University of Texas in Austin, Texas and Technische Universität München in Germany for the Solar Decathlon, is on display at the Orange County Great P