Texas Architect — Driving east from Dallas along State Highway 276, the landscape opens into the Blackland Prairie. Fields stretch out from the highway. Low industrial buildings, scattered houses, and roadside businesses punctuate the horizon. Near Royse City, something unexpected appears. At first glance, it reads less like a building than a visitor—a bright orange flying saucer set down on the ground. A ring of oval windows punctures the shell, and a narrow stair descends

Hospitality Design — The boundaries between hospitality, retail, wellness, and entertainment are dissolving. As hybrid environments become more prevalent, designers are creating spaces that offer more than a single transaction or activity—they provide reasons to linger. Often described as third spaces, these destinations exist somewhere between home and work, fostering connection, ritual, and shared experience. “Increasingly, successful hospitality environments are becoming b

Texas Architect — Houston has always negotiated with water—through shipping infrastructure, flood control systems, and the bayous that shaped the city long before highways and warehouses obscured them. Along Buffalo Bayou’s industrial East End, Turkey Bend, a new landscape project by Reed Hilderbrand with NADAAA and Rogers Partners, attempts something more nuanced than restoration: the design of public space that works with water, industrial history, and community memory rath

Architect Magazine — At any given time, wildfires are raging around the world, from California to the Amazon to Australia. In the United States, 4.5 million homes were identified at high or extreme risk of wildfire, according to a 2017 study by data analytics provider Verisk, with more than 2 million at-risk structures in California alone. Despite knowing the risks of living in a threatened area, David Hertz, FAIA, and his wife, Laura Doss-Hertz, purchased a 47-acre ranch in

Hospitality Design — The Wilshire Grand Center—a mixed-use development that includes offices, an event space, and the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown hotel—has altered the skyline of the city. Rising 73 stories and 1,100 feet, the tower, owned by Hanjin International Corporation (a subsidiary of Korean Air), is the tallest building west of the Mississippi River (and boasts another claim to fame: the largest continuous flow of concrete at 1,180 cubic yards poured for its

Metropolis Magazine — In the past, successful acoustical treatments remained out of sight and out of mind. Today, product companies are offering innovative solutions that incorporate lighting and space-defining elements to enhance commercial interiors. Here are some of the latest offerings that dampen sound while amplifying design. 01 PANTHEON TURF Turf'1new ceiling product Pantheon is designed to sculpt the ceiling plane and can be supported using a standard tee grid. It fea