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Bordersville Building •O^IIBBBSQEIQEI Completed New Office/Retail Space in the Heart of the Rice Village 28,000 SQ.FT Cite Winter 1985-1986 UH Architecture Building To Be Dedicated HOUSTON CUSTOM FURNITURE) 909 West 22nd • Suite A • Houston, Texas 77008 • (715)880-8987f Jilt t 3ns l l Have a kadi oar rresk kerb Atrium, University of Houston College of Architecture Building, John Ouisie's • Open Tuesday thru Saturday Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson and Morris»Aubry, architects 8 Sunset Boulevard • Houston • 713/528-2 (Photo by Paul Hester) The University of Houston's College of Beyond compilation of the final punch Architecture will celebrare 40 years of list, prededication activities include a architectural education with an academic major student social event and the festival, scheduled for }-9 February 1986, opening of a gallery exhibition to be kicked off by the dedication of its documenting the history of the College of new-old building (John Burgee Architects Architecture. Dedication is scheduled for 3 with Philip Johnson and Morris*Aubry February, with a week of lectures, Architects). With move-in scheduled for symposiums, and social events to follow. the Christmas-New Year's break and A special announcement of Dedication spring classes to begin in the Johnson Week events will be sent to all interested building, anticipation of the events is individuals. To have one's name placed on rising, with planning lagging somewhat the mailing list, telephone the College of behind. Architecture at 713/749-1187. Peter Wood BROADCASTING UH Texas Studio The Leader in Professional Sound & • Investigates American Villages Communications since 1958. • Public Address, Paging, Intercom Sound Masking Emergency Evacuation Peter J. Zweig, director of the Texas • Environmental Music by Muzak and YESCO Studio, and 10 graduate students from UH will collaborate with Charles W. Moore, Sales • Installation • Service O Neil Ford Professor of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin, and 10 students from the graduate school at UT Austin on a study of the architecture of villages. The studio will invesrigare the phenomena of the American village, assemble a documentary exhibition in April 1986, and design projects that capture the identity and place of the American village. To further the educational process, the program will offer a field trip to Mexico, as well as the Charles W, Moore and Peter J. five regions of Texas. Visiting critics will Zweig in a front-porch seminar include J.B.Jackson; Michael Graves, with UT and UH students at FAIA; William Mitchell, professor of the Winedale (Photo by Dietmar TAFT BROADCASTING CORP computer program at UCLA; Peter Froehlich) 4808 San Felipe Road Schneider, dean of architecture at Houston, Texas 77056 Louisiana Tech University; and Kent Bloomer, author, architect, and professor (713)622-1015 .it Yale University. Lectures will be open to the public. For more information, call the College of Architecture, University of Houston, 713/749-1187. 6 Cite Winter 1983-198(1 Bordersville Building •O^IIBBBSQEIQEI Completed New Office/Retail Space In The Heart Of The Rice Village 28,000 SQ.FT. Available m Free Parking m For more information and leasing call Mr. Reid at 520-6064 Spring Well An attractive convenient way to dispense pure water Human Resources Building. Three H Neighborhood Service Center, Borderspille, 1985, John Zemanek. architect (Photo by Paul Hester) (Perfect for 5 gal. The tenth and final building of the Three containers) H Neighborhood Service Center in Porcelain with Bordersville, an advocacy planning project begun in 1969, was completed in May of blue strip this year. The new building houses local $62.50 offices for state public welfare programs, including a food-stamp certification FETCHES ships-anywhere l center. Architect John Zemanek received an AIA Honor Award in 1978 for his design of the complex which was hailed as a model example of the advocacy planning FETCHES process. Hand Craftad American Gifts Bordersville, a ramshackle community of 220 families located north of Houston, 2015 B West Gray was the victim of the city's annexation Houston 77019 plan in the late '60s to assemble large Axonometric drawing of site plan. Three H tracts of land for the construction of Neighborhood Service Center * J* 713/524-4484 Houston Intercontinental Airport (see Cite, August 1982, "New Water Mains, center. The program included a meeting Mall G>me to Bordersville"). The hall, recreation hall, library, clinic, day- annexation boundary cut through care center, public bath, guest rooms, Bordersville, annexing 180 houses and manager's quarters, and shops. Plans and leaving 40 outside the city. "With models were produced and presented for annexation came the notices to pay city discussion to the community and the taxes," recalls Zemanek. "But when the CCAN board, and the study committee EVANS-MONICAL residents asked for city utilities, they were voted to implement the project. informed that only newly annexed communities of 200 or more families were Initial funding of $45,000 was secured AND KNOLL. eligible." from four private agencies in April 1970, but the project was delayed by the lengthy Prompted by protests from residents, process of securing land and building then-mayor Louie Welch enlisted the permits. A second grant of $196,000 came University of Houston's Graduate School from the Economic Development of Social Work to cosponsor a program to Administration of the Department of bring representatives of the Bordersville G>mmerce, and land finally was acquired community together with public officials from the local school district. Zemanek, VISUALLY CAPTIVATING and representatives of the business sector together with consulting architect Out of these meetings came the Alexander McNabb, structural engineer Committee on Coordinated Action in George Cunningham, and several former Neighborhood (CCAN), with Zemanek students from the University of Houston's serving as chairman of a subcommittee on College of Architecture finalized the the physical environment and housing. design and produced the contract documents. Obstruction began in 1974 In September 1969, Zemanek took his and, except for the building completed UH architecture design students to this year, the complex was finished and Bordersville and they began to work with ready for occupancy in 1975. a Neighborhood Council committee to formulate a program for a community Bruce C. Webb RDA Spring Events The Rice Design Alliance will embark on Memory and Invention." Speakers and an array of public programs for the dates to be announced. All lectures will be Spring of 1986. held at 8 PM in the Brown Auditorium of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. To Architects Fireside Chats, a series of reserve tickets, telephone the RDA ar informal presentations by three Houston 713/524-6297. Admission charged. architectural firms of their work and working methods, is planned for early The Rice Design Alliance and IES Travel spring. Organizing the events are Danny Group plan a tour of Charleston, South Samuels, Richard Keating, and William F. Carolina and Savannah, Georgia for late Stern. All presentations will occur in the May 1986. Barrie Scardino and John Jury Room in M.D. Anderson Hall on the Lingley are organizing the tour. For more campus of Rice University, Admission is information, telephone IES Travel Group free to RDA members with reservations; at 713/526-5171. there is an admission charge for non- members. Limited searing. For Available for purchase is the first Rice information and reservations, telephone Design Alliance architectural guidebook, EVANS-MONICAL the Rice Design Alliance at containing three, self-guided, walking nn 2750 KIRBV DRIVE HOUSTON. TX 528-2075 OPEN 9-6. MON.-SAT 713/524-6297. tours of the museums-Rice University- Hermann Park area. Called Houston's For its spring lecture series, organized by Cradle of Culture and Environs, it was Drexel Turner and Richard Keating, the prepared by the Anchorage Foundation of Rice Design Alliance explores "The City: Texas. Photographs are by Paul Hester. Cite Winter 1985-1986 DART Chooses Subways In a bold move, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) board adopted subway plans for downtown Dallas and the North Central Expressway corridor on 27 August 1985. This action committed DART to Nltih the construction of three subways totaling five miles in length in downtown Dallas and an additional three miles of subway north from downtown under the North Central Expressway to Mockingbird Lane. This decision was just the latest in a series RESULTS! which the DART board has made in A Sterling Opportunity moving forward with plans to build about 150 miles of rail transit in Dallas by the year 2010. •M'l'i""! DART was created by voters in Dallas and 1J suburban communities on 13 August 1983. At that time, voters A great concept doesn't do approved an $8.75 billion plan to build a model mass-transit system in Dallas and a you a bit of good if there I percent sales tax to fund transit- are no results. authority operations and improvements. m, ii>, -., Since initiating operations in January 1984, DART has moved ro rapidly expand Invest in Houston's history with this bus operations in Dallas and the unique National Register property. Built Why don't you let our surrounding areas and also has begun fntptrtv 1916-19. Former home of Gov. Ross Sterling. concepts create great work on implementing the rail plan. Magnificent Alfred Finn-designed porch. results for you through 4500 + square feet on half acre. 1 block off Montrose in Museum Area. Newly innovative and effective The plan passed by the voters provided renovated as architect's office. Many marketing & advertising for the construction of light-rail transit in custom details. Good parking. Ready design. 12 major suburban corridors. Light rail to occupy. was chosen as the most flexible and the most cost-effective transit mode (a choice Walk to: confirmed by an independent study funded Museums Galleries by the Dallas City Council).
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