OMA, a New York-based design firm, is transforming this historical post office in Houston into an art and music facility. The new facility is billed as "one of the world's largest rooftop playgrounds and gardens." The firm intends to transform the city's disused Post Office at 401 Franklin Street into a blended cultural venue. The new complex, known as POST, will include cultural venues, entertainment areas, creative workstations, eateries, and...
Adjaye Associates is designing an outdoor amphitheater for Rice University's woodland location in Houston, Texas. The three-story structure, which is set to open in 2023, will substitute the university's current student hub. Adjaye Associates' plan, which includes a striking rooftop theater, is expected to become the new core of the 121-hectare site. The new building will coexist with a multicultural center that promotes student diversity and...
Opaque glass tubes meet curving ceilings in this art institution designed by American architect Steven Holl for the Houston's Museum of Fine Arts. The structure is divided into parts with curved roofs. This allows sunlight to enter the galleries within the 164,000 square-foot structure. The Texas sky stretches 180 degrees just above the dazzling canopy surrounding the new skyscraper, according to Steven Holl Architects. Concave shapes inspired...
Architecture firm OMA has finished the first stage of renovating a former US Postal Service facility in metropolitan Houston into a multi-purpose hotspot. Houston's POST communal places debuted in November 2021, within a 500,000-square-foot enclosed mail-sorting warehousing and office complex. The massive construction was built in 1962 by the same group that created the Astrodome sports stadium in Texas City. It was erected on the site of...
