The Kansas City, Mo.–based architecture firm and Kansas City, Kan.–based Heartland Habitat for Humanity collaborated to reprogram the affordable house. More
El dorado applies a creative approach to a pair of affordable duplexes. More
El Dorado injects a sense of whimsy into a sober program: a drug-testing center for athletes. More
We travel to Kansas City to profile the funny, smart, and practical architecture firm El Dorado Architects. More
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 This was just the opportunity for CC's landlord, the owner of the office park who had inherited the outdated site from his father, to rewrite its architectural landscape by updating one building at a time.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
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
