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Reduce and reuse
Consider this: Every year we send millions of tons of food waste and yard clippings to landfills that could otherwise be composted. Austin event production company Green Fern Events (GFE ...
So Many Choices
Are you inspired by the homes of strangers? Do you like to balance your curiosity with a certain amount of social politeness? This weekend, get a sneak peek into others ...
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Tucked in among a row of nice, neat houses, on a street just south of central Bellaire, Houston's first Southern Living Showcase Home stands.  The $1.4 million, 4 ...
In Photos
Seven years into the existence of Axiom, the company's founder and president, Tom Hair, became aware of a need for a permanent space to house the creative agency. On ...
Wood work
Leave the upturned pinkie behind for a different take on “finishing school” now being held at a local green institution. Gather that now-wobbly and scratched wooden rocker you’ve had ...
google drive
Google has announced the arrival of its latest project and dubbed the cloud computing service "Google Drive." Drive allows users to access their files at anytime, on any platform and ...
Tours This Weekend and Next
The welcome mat is out at the 2012 Pink Ribbon house as doors open to the public two full weekends. Get a sneak peek here.  
Fair Days
Lawndale Art Center's Design Fair recently underwent an evolution from a strictly 20th century modern market to a fair that focuses on the best of mid-century modern and contemporary ...
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Trying to distil the complex, often confounding architectural history of Houston is no small task, says Kim Lykins, whose new half-hour documentary The Art of Architecture: Houston airs Monday at ...
The Vintage Contessa
When you think green building and design, you may imagine solar panels or water recycling and have an ill-conceived notion that the process is too expensive or complicated. However, there ...
His Minimal Side
Ai Weiwei is an artist known for working in an impressive range of mediums, including installations, photography and curatorial efforts. Yet, while one of his most successful works — the Bird ...
At the Decorative Center
Top achievers in architecture, photography and more design genres took their deserved bows Wednesday night at the fifth annual Stars of Design awards ceremony at Decorative Center Houston. In addition ...
China's first starchitect
Before he was awarded the Pritzker Prize — the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the architecture world — a couple of months ago, Wang Shu was not particularly well-known. But now ...
Five Questions
Scott Frances is a self-taught, world-renowned architectural photographer. His work has appeared in such publications as Architectural Digest and Vanity Fair. Top architects make up his clientele, and he has ...
CultureMap Video
While a handcrafted bowl is a beautiful object in and of itself, an empty vessel serves as a reminder of the 900,000 people — 53,000 everyday — that routinely go ...
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