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Welcome to Houston, the cutting edge of architecture. The local boys are turning a gentlemen’s profession into a business, the stylish out-of-towners are creating a new aesthetic, and neither group is filled with admiration for the other.
The latest news regarding the architect Philip Johnson, including Fujiko Nakaya's installation that hid his Glass House in vaporous fog.
The welcome but subtle changes to Crystal Court are a towering achievement.
Renovating the lobby of 550 Madison, Philip Johnson and John Burgee’s 1984 postmodern icon—the city’s youngest landmark—presented numerous challenges, among them striking the right chord between reverence and reinvention. Gensler principal, design director, and Paris office managing director Philippe Paré and the Gensler New York team endeavored to restore a sense of porousness that had been eradicated over the decades and also attend to foot traffic and security needs crucial in the building’s conversion to a multi-tenant property.
Ed Baker's drawings and models of past projects give us a glimpse of what might have been.