A Mall is a Mall is a Mall
A wheelchair bound person expressed their support of the Domain on Reddit a few days ago. I get it. Nearness of things is a selling point. Still, it’s a half-step backwards from what we had in the 1970’s: What the…
A wheelchair bound person expressed their support of the Domain on Reddit a few days ago. I get it. Nearness of things is a selling point. Still, it’s a half-step backwards from what we had in the 1970’s: What the…
Homelessness is a social failure. When your fellow citizens have nowhere else to sleep and so sleep in the streets, this says more about you and the people with someplace to sleep than it does about the poor person who…
The title of this piece, a report that I started back in October and published yesterday: …includes the reference number for business that will be brought before the Austin city council soon. The business? A permit to allow outdoor music…
I was retained by one of the tenants of the Crestview Shopping Center for the purpose of exploring the advisability of allowing the Violet Crown Clubhouse (VCC) to continue exercising their permit issued under the Shop the Block provisions passed…
This is the way I saw this structure when I first noticed it under construction two decades ago. I was driving through one of the many new power centers that were popping up at the edges of Austin. Here was…
For any #MAGA out there. You know who you are.
If you don’t stretch you won’t know where the edge is. I was constantly stretching into areas that I didn’t know very much about. Designers don’t just look, but they see. They don’t just hear, but they listen. And they…
Our Google Chromecast delivered this ambient photograph that the Wife and I could not identify when we wandered through the living room on Wednesday. Was it a gear? Was it an organic growth? We couldn’t tell, so I took a screenshot of…
This impressive reproduction of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in gingerbread was a total labor of love, taking over 12 hours to design and 40 hours to build and decorate. The river and waterfall are made up of three batches of…
From everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to…