Architecture & Design

Public Place

A new documentary short tells the story Parque Zaragoza, the first public park for Austin’s Mexican American community

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City releases final designs of new Dougherty Arts Center

Jeanne Claire van Ryzin

Austin’s Waterloo Greenway gets $9 million federal grant to rehabilitate downtown parkland

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Preservation Austin’s annual tour goes ‘Out of the House’

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A $2 million gift for UT students to design immersive art experiences in new lab space

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How to design responsively for the future? Perhaps we need less design, says editor of The Architect’s Newspaper

Jeanne Claire van Ryzin

‘Groundbreaking Women’ tour celebrates designs by Austin’s female architects

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Pease Park to host ‘The Blue Trees’ installation

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Son of John S. Chase, Texas’ first Black licensed architect, pledges $1 million to UT School of Architecture

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Preservation Austin awards $27,500 to restoration projects

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Turrell Skyspace “The Color Inside” to re-open at UT

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City design commission approves schematic design for next phase of Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center

Penny Snyder

Floating concrete and disruptive ecologies: UT School of Architecture’s free lecture series

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The Contemporary Austin commissions Daniel Johnston mural

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How Cheryl D. Miller confronts white supremacy in graphic design

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Preservation Austin releases free virtual homes tour of Austin’s only Black designated historic district

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Creek Show artists and installations announced

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Two chairs and a green sponge: Ten Eyck Landscape Architects transform Kingsbury Commons in Pease Park

Penny Snyder

At UT’s public art program, the effort to diversify is underway

Jeanne Claire van Ryzin

Pease Park’s renovated Kingsbury Common opens

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Blanton Museum receives $5 million from Ernest and Sarah Butler for outdoor sound art gallery

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After four years of renovation (and a pandemic), Austin’s historic French Legation re-opens

Mary K. Cantrell

Waterloo Greenway installs enormous Arturo Herrera mural

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Rock world: On the road, in the desert with Rondinone

Barbara Purcell

Edible cities: Landscape architect Phoebe Lickwar on post-pandemic public spaces and urban agriculture

Jeanne Claire van Ryzin

Neighborhood sounds: A geolocated sound art tour invites you to listen to overlooked cityworks

Jeanne Claire van Ryzin

Common ground: The story of Austin’s newest, and only Black, historic district

Marla Akin

Pandemic Places: Notes from Afield

Penny Snyder

Austin City Council approves site plan for new Dougherty Arts Center

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UT Landmarks to unveil a new public art commission by Sarah Oppenheimer

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