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• Posted The Modern Kit Home to Houstonist
  Recently Brett Zamore of Brett Zamore Design LLC has been raking in the Architectural accolades, and we can't help but agree. The Houston resident and Rice alum is featured in this month's issue of Metropolis Magazine, along with this last week's very own Houston Chronicle. The buzz is about Brett's eco-twist on modernist prefab housing. It appears that at long last, Brett has solved a significant problem to kit home design -- shipping. It...
• Posted High Design Sandcastles to Houstonist
  This Saturday the structural and aesthetic skills of the biggest architects and planners around town will be put to test -- on the beach. Special teams from major Houston architecture firms will convene to compete in The 22nd annual AIA Sandcastle Competition on Gavleston's East Beach, and while this might not be the bonus-bringing project of the year each firm takes the competition quite seriously. Many firms begin months in advance generating ideas, developing...
• Posted Asia Huh? to Houstonist
  For weeks, months even, all that stood on the lot between Caroline and Austin on Southmore was a modestly sized sign for the forthcoming Asia House. And Asia House is such as strange idea, too, isn't it? We mean, does it house all of Asia? Is it of an eastern style? What exactly would an Asia House look like, anyway? The truth of it is that as time wore on, it was that kind...
• Posted Brochstein Pavilion to Houstonist
  The Brochstein Pavilion, Rice University's newest set of facades on campus, will open tomorrow for a sneak-peak preview for Rice students, faculty and staff. It will be open to the public starting Friday April 25th and promises to offer guests a wide range of tasty (though probably spendy) treats including coffee, snacks and sandwiches. The Broch. Pav. is situated smack in the middle of a central courtyard between the back of the Fondren Library,...
• Posted Architect to the Senses to Houstonist
  How keen is your haptic organ? Philippe Rahm, architect to the senses, will speak at Rice University today Monday, April 7th at 5pm in the Farish Gallery. Trained at the Polytechnic school of Lausanne, where he obtained his architectural diploma in 1993, Philippe is less interested in the look of his spaces then how they feel, literally. No seriously, how space feels. By controlling and modulating heat, humidity, air-flow, sound and scent Philippe can...