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June 26, 2019
33 Small Swimming Pools with Big Style
On a small or narrow lot, where do you put the pool? With the challenge of density and less room to build, homes and properties are being reconfigured or just shrinking. Architects and builders can use vertical real estate–climbing up or digging...
June 20, 2019
Chip and Joanna Gaines Plan $10.4M expansion at Magnolia Market
Chip and Joanna Gaines are growing their Waco empire with a $10.4 million expansion at Magnolia Market at the Silos. The news comes in the wake of the couple’s announcement that the Gaines are propelling their media presence beyond their popular TV...
June 5, 2019
San Antonio Architecture Firm Clayton & Little Wins AIA’s 2019 National Small Project Award
From a large swath of properties at the Pearl to the retail locations of Local Coffee, Clayton & Little’s fingerprints are all over San Antonio, recognizable by the industrial modern aesthetic that characterizes the firm’s designs. Although the firm has worked on...
June 4, 2019
Big Design, Small Budget: These are the Best Small Projects for 2019
Now in its 16th year, the AIA Small Project Awards program—established by The Small Project Practitioners (SPP)—recognizes small-project practitioners for the high quality of their work. The program also aims at raising awareness about the value and design excellence that architects can bring...
May 30, 2019
AIA Announces Winners of Small Project Awards 2019
BIG’s tiny cabin in Upstate New York, a prayer room in Arizona and an outdoor toilet with gabion walls are among the 12 winners of this year’s AIA Small Projects Awards. Announced today, the annual American Institute of Architects Small Projects Awards...
May 26, 2019
2019 Small Project Awards: Saxum Vineyard Equipment Barn
Located in the Templeton Gap area of Paso Robles, California, this simple agricultural structure rests at the toes of the 50 acre James Berry Vineyard and the adjacent winery. Sitting sentry as the foremost structure present upon entering the vineyard lined property,...
May 25, 2019
Clayton & Little Receives AISC IDEAS² Award for Saxum Vineyard Equipment Barn
The equipment barn at Saxum Vineyard is quite a departure from the typical notion of what a barn should look like. Located in the Templeton Gap area west of Paso Robles, Calif., this simple agricultural storage structure rests at the toes of the 50-acre James...
March 5, 2019
Food Critic’s Pick: San Antonio’s Savor Passes Every Test
I have to wonder: Does Uyen Pham ever feel like her life has turned into a culinary version of Groundhog Day? Since January, the tireless 44-year-old chef-instructor has been training graduating students to prep and cook all the dishes at Savor, the...
March 1, 2019
Skip To The Loo, The Bathroom Designs Make A Case For Lingering
There are those who make restroom breaks as quick as possible, some who demand to travel in a pack and others who find time to answer a few emails in between hand washing and a lipstick refresh. And while in the past,...
February 28, 2019
Savor This Classroom In San Antonio, Where Eating is Required
The scene is similar to that of any restaurant’s opening night. Energy is high, dining room is bustling, staff is pumped up yet a little nervous. Through the open kitchen I see cooks in perfectly pressed uniforms getting their stations ready as...
January 30, 2019
Savoring Savor: Culinary Institute of America San Antonio Evolves with the Addition of Its New Restaurant
The Alamo City has always been a destination for great food, but the Culinary Institute of America arguably helped put it on the radar for the rest of the world. The CIA-San Antonio is hoping to further build on that reputation with...
January 10, 2019
The Best Restaurant Architects and Designers in San Antonio
The restaurant scene in San Antonio is on the rise, with creative local chefs investing in the city’s revitalizing urban neighborhoods and turning old, historic buildings into exciting new spaces for culinary adventures. As with any large city, San Antonio is also...
January 5, 2019
Head to the Upstairs of Mattie’s for an Intimate Bar
Almost two years after the former Green Pastures restaurant reopened as Mattie’s, a visit to the upstairs bar remains an inviting and warm spot to grab a cocktail or three. Dark walls, wallpaper featuring a peacock pattern and hardwood floors the color...
December 5, 2018
Presenting the 2018 Best of Design Awards Winner for Building of the Year
“The project is an attentive and delicate reinvention of the agricultural shed as a responsive, performative infrastructure for the nearby vineyard.” Tei Carpenter, Founder, Agency—Agency
October 19, 2018
Welcome Back to Salado’s Stagecoach Inn
Clark Lyda remembers coming to the Stagecoach Inn as a child, as far back as 1967. On road trips from Austin, his family would pull off Interstate 35 in Salado and follow Main Street to the stately old white wood-frame building that...
August 10, 2018
Sneak Peek: The Incredible Homes of the AIA Austin Tour
The 14 homes on this year’s tour embody the range of work, styles, and talent available in this city and include designs by such heavy-hitters as Clayton & Little, Dick Clark + Associates, FAB Architecture, Hugh Jefferson Randolph, and Weiss Architecture, just...
July 18, 2018
A.D. Stenger Home Reimagined for Modern Family in West Lake Hills
Tom and Amy Brown found a charming West Lake Hills house in 2015 for the next chapter in their family’s life, but the 1961-built home needed an update. The last homeowner had lived there since 1982 and had made some changes, such...
March 30, 2018
San Antonio Conservation Society Honors Excellence at 69th Annual Historic Preservation Awards
The San Antonio Conservation Society recognized Clayton & Little and partnering firm Latitude Architects for their work on the Maverick Building Apartments. The annual event honors local developers, architects, craftsmen and others who have played a significant part in preserving and redeveloping...
December 27, 2017
Ten New and Upcoming Texas Hotels Worth Checking Into
This Texas landmark’s new owners have been updating the 1861 building’s systems and making repairs, and are on track to reopen by May. Nestled among six acres of mature oak trees along Salado Creek, the renovated inn will feature 48 rooms with...
December 7, 2017
The Best in 2017 San Antonio Architectural Design
After evaluating 60 entries from local architecture firms, the San Antonio chapter of the American Institute of Architects announced the winners of the 2017 AIA San Antonio Design Awards at its People + Place Celebration.
September 18, 2017
A First Look at Le Politique, Austin’s Newest Brasserie
August 28, 2017
The World’s Most Gorgeous Glass Restaurants
A clutch of four distinct areas—from a rooftop terrace to a historic 150-year-old bar which was replanted from Greenwich Village—now connect to create Eberly. The study is the coziest of its quarters and stands right in the center, designed after 19th-century British...
July 26, 2017
More Than Before
“The building tells you what it wants to be.” With cues from the existing structure, we helped this once industrial bottling plant turned haunted house become a modern adaptation of its Art Deco past. Read more about West Elm on Grayson Street...
June 13, 2017
Historic Austin Estate to Become Boutique Hotel