Josh Shelton

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Habitat for Humanity Prototype, Designed by El Dorado

The Kansas City, Mo.–based architecture firm and Kansas City, Kan.–based Heartland Habitat for Humanity collaborated to reprogram the affordable house. More

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echo ridge duplexes, topeka, kan.

El dorado applies a creative approach to a pair of affordable duplexes. More

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ra50: el dorado

el dorado has built a following in Kansas City., Mo., and beyond. More

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National Center for Drug Free Sport

El Dorado injects a sense of whimsy into a sober program: a drug-testing center for athletes. More

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Pedestrian Strands

Public art lines highway overpasses in Kansas City More

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El Dorado Architects

We travel to Kansas City to profile the funny, smart, and practical architecture firm El Dorado Architects. More

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Precious Metal

The anchor tenant of a light industrial park in Topeka, Kan., Cox Communications (CC) was in need of more space for its growing inventory—a new distribution center to respond to increased sales in the greater Topeka area. This was just the opportunity for CC's landlord, the owner of the office park who had inherited the outdated site from his father, to rewrite its architectural landscape by updating one building at a time. More

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el dorado verbatim

additional thoughts from el dorado's principals. More

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thinking & making

It's not easy for an outsider to catch the folks at el dorado in an entirely serious moment. The Kansas City, Mo., firm's five partners recently used the 1980s hair band Def Leppard as a reference point in an architectural lecture. The group's offbeat, deadpan sense of humor harmonizes with their pronounced aversion to the idea of the heroic, Howard Roark-style architect. More

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