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Architectural Team Picked to Design Scaled-Down Building

Under fire, designs for the new city hall received a less-than-enthusiastic approval by City Council last week.

Welcome to the City Hall you thought would never come

Against all odds, the design for the new City Hall does everything its architects promised it would do, from providing public spaces, to integrating natural elements, to simply looking good.

The city has hired an architect known for his grand, sweeping designs to build the new City Hall, but size restrictions imposed by a contract with Computer Sciences Corporation may limit its creativity and scope.

Architect Antoine Predock presents a sleeker, more sharply angled version of his City Hall design; the Bennett Tract faces a tough road with neighbors and the developer at an impasse over the size and scale of proposed development on the East Austin tract.

When we perform as public citizens, what do we really want?

The preliminary design for UT's new Blanton Museum of Art facility has been unveiled, and as expected, the white-shoe Boston firm of Kallmann McKinnell & Wood has come up with a building that hews to the dicta of UT's Campus Master Plan, even when it doesn't make much sense.

Architect Juan Miro proposes a new plan for the CSC-City Hall complex that's so simple and obvious, it's striking.

An architect to design the next stage for the Zachary Scott Theatre Center.

The University of Texas announces the finalists for the design of its new art museum (after rejecting the original design as too modern) and everyone on the list, with few minor exceptions, hews closely to the classical or neo-classical tradition.

Details to be discussed at final noise-education forum this week

As the city drops its time capsule, we hope there'll be something to drink to – and with – in 100 years

CSC changes its plans, and the city has to pay $4 million … for its own land

The City Council puts off plans to approve an appropriation to extend the northern portion of MoPac, buying time to discuss a more controversial project: the proposed expansion of the freeway through several central Austin neighborhoods.

As he was completing the final design for the Austin Museum of Art's long-awaited downtown facility, architect Richard Gluckman took time to discuss the project, his approach to architecture, and what it means to design buildings for a boomtown.

UT Regents Rita Clements and Tony Sanchez torpedoed Herzog & De Meuron's design for the Blanton Museum because it didn't fit in with the Campus Master Plan. But neither do most buildings built on campus since the mid-1960s.

Benthos, People’s Gallery, porn, dance, and homely weirdness

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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Council Watch

The Austin City Council is back from their winter break, and they have a full schedule ahead of them.

The Art of the Deal

Blanton Architect Named

And Still More Dancing About Architecture