New Community Garden Will Be Planted Behind Fourth Ward Surge Shack
The vacant lots shown here at the corner of Bailey and O’Neil streets will soon become a community garden for the Fourth Ward’s Sutton Square neighborhood. The properties, which measure 12,000 sq. ft....
View ArticleGolfers and Gardeners Get Ground Rules for Grabbing Gus Wortham Park
The deadline for the Houston Golf Association to raise the $15 million the city says it’ll need to save and restore the Gus Wortham Park golf course at Lawndale and Wayside will be the end of next...
View ArticleGrab a Hurricane and Tour the Appointed Nooks and Hidden Patios of This $875K...
Somewhere behind this leafy garden wall, which rises 14 ft. high along Mason and Pacific streets, a 1910 home in Montrose’s Avondale area has been holding on to another era — and another city, maybe....
View ArticleSubterranean Garden Undergoing Laboratory Testing in NYC
Meanwhile, under Manhattan: In a dense urban environment where natural settings come at a premium, a team of designers is following the lead of the High Line (which repurposed an elevated rail line...
View ArticleDuplex Plans Germinating on Former Community Garden Plots in Audubon Place
Greenleaf Gardens appears to be getting ready for some less-communal, more-perennial planting on the corner of Kipling and Stanford streets in Audubon Place. A reader snapped a few photos at the...
View ArticleViews of America from Behind a Shadyside Wall, Yours for $18 Million
A piece of Americana comes standard with this 1921 collaboration between architects Harrie T. Lindeberg and John F. Staub, who would later go on to design Bayou Bend. This Georgian-style home north of...
View ArticleBayouside Estate Sports Title, Tobacco Barn Floor, and $5.5 Million Price...
Known as ‘Bayou Breeze’ to its friends, the 16,022-sq.-ft. English manor-style residence designed by architecture and landscape firm Curtis & Windham includes 6 bedrooms, 6 baths, and 2 half...
View ArticleHow the 24-Sided Kinder Building’s Roof Swoops Will Fit In with the MFAH’s...
Construction started yesterday on the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, going up in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s former parking lot north of Bissonnet St. at Main. That’s the curvy-roofed structure...
View ArticleSpring Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Fountainhead
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View ArticleThe Great Coltivare Kumquat Tree Heist
One of the hazards of having a street-facing 3,000-sq.-ft. garden adjacent to your restaurant’s back patio: plant theft. But Coltivare chef Ryan Pera tells Bloomberg reporter Kate Krader that the...
View ArticleConstruction on the MFAH’s New Glassell School Is Ramping Up
From the skies above Montrose Blvd. just north of Bissonnet, here’s a view from late last week of progress on the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s new Glassell School of Art. The new building, designed...
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