Artist Theaster Gates and landscape designer Sara Zewde have designed a pavilion from recovered building materials that will be a community centre in a historic Black neighbourhood in Houston, Texas. More about Theaster Gates and Studio Zewde to create performance space for Houston's Freedmen's Town
Nearly $9 billion of convention centre design and construction is currently underway in Texas's five biggest cities. Local writer Kate Mazade asks experts about the phenomenon and dives into the plans for each city. More about Five Texas cities "catalyzing" urban development with convention centres
A large orange-lacquered communal table runs through the centre of this burger restaurant in Houston, designed by locally based Studio Danel to "transcend the conventions of a burger restaurant". More about "Architecture and everyday culture" meet at this Texas burger restaurant by Studio Danel
American architecture studio Kwong Von Glinow has renovated parts of the architecture school at Rice University, adding three new spaces through a "programmatic re-invention" of the 1947 building in Houston, Texas, USA. More about Kwong Von Gilnow shows Rice University architecture school's "rich history" in renovation
The saga concerning late American architect Victor Lundy's personal residence in Houston, Texas, USA, has been resolved following a last-minute bid from local preservationists who successfully purchased the home. More about Saving of Victor Lundy's modernist Bellaire house shows "what's possible" in preservation
London studio Farshid Moussavi Architects and US studio Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects have completed a building and sprawling gardens for the first Ismaili Center in the US. More about Farshid Moussavi Architects wraps Ismaili Center in Houston with "tapestry in stone"
Swiss architecture studio Karamuk Kuo has designed an extension to the Rice School of Architecture in Texas composed of "linear forms that slip and slide", with facades wrapped in glass and terracotta. More about Karamuk Kuo creates jagged addition to Houston architecture school
Local studio Schaum Architects has used birch panels, colour blocking and strategic skylights to adapt a metal garage into a restaurant in Houston, Texas. More about Schaum Architects adapts Houston garage into "urban cabin" restaurant
A Florida International University study in Houston has concluded that damage from "non-hurricane" events, such as a derecho wind storm, can cause more damage to tall buildings than hurricanes More about Damage to Houston skyscrapers from derecho winds "more severe" than hurricane
Texan studio Michael Hsu Office of Architecture borrowed from mid-century modern design to create the Balboa Surf Club restaurant, which features lush plants, rich-toned wood and green upholstery. More about Michael Hsu fills Houston seafood restaurant with dark wood and green accents
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing Danish architecture studio BIG's recently completed skyscraper in Texas. More about "Interesting, but aesthetically it's already dated" says commenter
Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled 1550 on the Green in Houston, which is the studio's first skyscraper in the state of Texas. More about BIG completes staggered "bundle of towers" in Houston
Texas studio Method Architecture has completed an office for itself in Houston with maximalist design, vibrant colours and a mural at its centre. More about Method Architecture outfits its Houston office with vibrant mural
Brooklyn-based studio Modu has employed a series of techniques that lower ambient air temperature in order to help cool the interior and exterior of this Houston building. More about Modu clads Houston building with "self-cooling" exterior
US studio Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects has covered a six-lane highway with a sprawling land bridge and park in Houston that symbolises "the triumph of green over grey". More about Nelson Byrd Woltz covers six-lane highway with land bridge in Houston
New York-based studio O'Neill McVoy Architects has created a grey stucco house with a Z-shaped plan and an upward-pitched roof in Houston. More about O'Neill McVoy designs Houston house as "mini-manifesto against McMansions"
Architect Jesús Vassallo and a team of graduate students at Rice University have added a pavilion made of cross-laminated timber panels to the Houston campus. More about Jesús Vassallo creates mass-timber pavilion for bird watchers in Houston
Berlin-based architect Riccardo Mariano has designed an arch topped in photovoltaics, which will act as a sundial for Houston, Texas, as a part of the city's ongoing expansion of the Bayou Greenways. More about "World's largest sundial" set to be created in Houston
Houston-based Gin Design Group has combined various mid-century references at a local restaurant, which celebrates its chef's family history and is "a tribute to all grandmothers". More about Gin Design Group completes jewel-toned restaurant The Lymbar in Houston
LA studio Kevin Daly Architecture has created a headquarters for a Houston foundation that has a latticed canopy suspended over a white building that was created using steel and cross-laminated timber. More about Kevin Daly designs canopied building to be "welcoming as the shadow beneath a tree"