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Green Sales Offices for Sale: Solar Powered Shipping Containers for Everyone
The solar-powered portable building fashioned from recycled shipping containers that’s been waiting patiently at the corner of Hyde Park and Waugh since last September isn’t just the sales office for...
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$99K House Series: Adaptable Habitat
Denver’s JG Johnson Architects describes its entry in the $99K House Competition using 4 terms: MODULAR: three modules, numerous configurations, structural insulated panels allow flexible opening...
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Buffalo Modern: The New H-E-B in West U
Two new buildings designed by regional architecture stars Lake/Flato Architects will open in Houston in the next couple of months: Rice University’s new swimming-pool and palm-tree festooned Wellness...
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Opening Day: H-E-B Buffalo Market Stampede Begins
Fresh from a first visit to the new butterfly-roofed, design-pedigreed H-E-B Market on Buffalo Speedway at Bissonnet — which opened to the public bright and early at 6 o’clock this morning — a reader...
View ArticleSecret Powers of the Cordell St. Shipping-Container House
The Brookesmith home of Kevin Freeman and Jen Feldmann — fashioned from shipping containers by Numen Development’s John Walker and Katie Nichols — meets a national audience in the pages of the latest...
View ArticleA Realtor’s Tankless Job
HAR’s consumer site won’t let you search for data in new fields that indicate whether a home has LEED or NAHB Green certification, AC with a high SEER rating, or other energy-related features yet, but...
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That New Thick-Skinned FBI Operative Moving in Next to Oak Forest
What fancy high-tech firm just moved into that shimmering new green building off 290 at 43rd St.? It’s your FBI. And hiding behind those dark shades in the new Houston Field Office: The building...
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Kiddie Party on the Plaza: A Discovery Tower Construction Update
A reader sends in photos of the new Hess Tower, formerly known as Discovery Tower, under construction adjacent to Discovery Green Downtown. You can see the tower isn’t quite finished yet but it sure...
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Houston Buying 25 Shipping-Container Offices for Emergency Solar Power
A small fleet of modified shipping containers outfitted with adjustable solar panels will soon serve as mobile emergency power supplies for the city of Houston. City officials are currently...
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For Sale: Huntsville Wine House of Upcycled Corks
Animal bones, mirror shards, scrap lumber destined for a landfill: Dan Phillips builds houses up in Walker County out of almost anything he can get his hands on. The former Sam Houston State dance...
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Now Listed: The Slightly Bigger Half of That New Small Modern East Downtown Duo
Look familiar? Two weeks after its smaller look-alike housing unit appeared on the market, this bigger-by-a-bedroom version finishing up right next door listed for a bit more. And speaking of doors,...
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Green Painter Grows, Opens Second Location in the Heights
Shoppers on 19th St. will soon be able to pop in between stops for vintage cowboy boots and vinyl LPS for a few gallons of non-toxic paint, now that a second location of the Green Painter is opening...
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Yes, Gotta Give ’Em Credit for All the Fake Grass in the Back Yard
If you’re wondering what an expanse of fake grass is doing in the back yard of a $1.345 million home around the corner from Antidote, Premium Draught, and the Sonoma Wine Bar in the Heights, the...
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What’s Inside the Big Platinum Box Behind the Kirby Collection?
On the market as of 2 weeks ago: the home-slash-power-plant on the corner of Virginia and Colquitt streets, a block west of the now-rising Kirby Collection. The listing claims the building is...
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