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Rice University Bites Off Another Rice Village Leftover
Rice U.’s real estate appetite for Rice Village property just picked up another choice tidbit: 2445 Times Blvd. That’s the 1955 flat-topped 7,500-sq.-ft. retail property on the southeast corner of...
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With New Letters and Numbers, KTRU Will Return to the Airwaves from High Atop...
According to the manager of banished-from-FM KTRU, a new low-power transmitter for the student-run radio station is to be constructed on top of Rice Stadium — now that the FCC has granted permission...
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Two Home Demos Mark Rice University’s Continuing March into Rice Village
Is it Rice’s manifest destiny to extend its land holdings all the way from the Texas Medical Center to West U? The university already owns a bit of frontage on Kirby Dr., on West U’s eastern border,...
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Yum Yum Cha Closing Hints at Rice’s Plans for Retail Building It Bought Next...
The owner of Rice Village dim sum spot Yum Yum Cha tells Eric Sandler that Rice University’s management company “can’t decide what they’re going to do” with the building it bought earlier at the corner...
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Strategically Placed Fig Leaves Will Shield Bashful Rice U. Parking Garage...
Don’t stare: next week, Rice University will begin construction of a new 6-story parking garage, which will be hidden from roving eyes in the Med Center across the street by giant plastic scrims...
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Comment of the Day: The Persecution of Fantasy Southern Gothic
“First they came for the colleges (Cell Block D and the McMurtry Unit), but I was not an undergraduate so I said nothing; then they came for the academic buildings (Brockman Hall and the Moody Arts...
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Bricks Turn White in the Rice Village as Arcade Makeover Unfolds
The western corner space at University Blvd. and Kelvin St. in the Rice Village now has a coat of white paint over its brick facade, though the storefronts to either side have yet to follow suit. The...
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Before-ish and After Views of the Rice Village Design Overhaul Now Underway...
Compare and contrast the 2 images above, which together show the former Village Arcade at University Blvd. west of Kelvin Dr. both as is and as it may become. The rendering above appears in a...
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Is This What That Rice Opera House That Diller Scofidio + Renfro Was Going To...
A set of unattended display posters spotted during Rice University’s graduation weekend appear to show interior and exterior renderings of the campus’s planned opera house. The drawings (which were...
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Rice University’s U-Turn Away from a Modernist Opera House
A recent Facebook post by architect Allan Greenberg appears to confirm his firm’s involvement with the Rice University opera house project, of which possible renderings and a model recently surfaced in...
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Moody Art Building’s Gray Face Now Glazed Over on Rice Campus
The skirt of first-story glass now appears to be in place along the northern side of Rice University’s in-progress Moody Center for the Arts, per the shot above from Allyn West this week. The second...
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Rice Confirms Redirect Toward Classically-Skinned Opera House
Rice University announced this week that the opera house it plans to build in the parking lot next to the Shepherd School of Music will, in fact, be designed by the classic-leaning architecture firm...
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The Rice Village Plans To Remake Amherst St., Lure Shoppers Into an Alley
Remodeling along the lines of what’s depicted here is now underway on Amherst St. between Kelvin St. and Kirby Dr., according to a Rice Village District rep. A couple of newly released drawings shown...
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Midtown Sears Closure Nets Rice 9 Acres Near the Wheeler Transit Center
The company that manages Rice University’s $5.3 billion endowment last week bought out the 28 years remaining on a 99-year lease the university had signed with the Sears department store on its Midtown...
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