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Oct
22
Mon
Hess Houston Corporate 5k Supports MPC @ Memorial Park
Oct 22 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Hess HCR5K Cropped LogoJoin your co-workers and friends for Houston’s “Largest Office Party” at Memorial Park. This event promotes the health and fitness of the corporate community and provides a great opportunity to interact with fellow Houstonians. The course will remain open between 4-7 p.m. over a four-day period, October 22-25, 2018, at Memorial Park.

A portion of all registration and sponsorship proceeds directly benefits Memorial Park Conservancy’s day-to-day park care. To sign up your company, call 832-974-1690 or email info@houstoncorporate5k.com. Or sign up as an individual on team “Memorial Park Conservancy.”

For more information, visit houstoncorporate5k.com.

Oct
23
Tue
Hess Houston Corporate 5k Supports MPC @ Memorial Park
Oct 23 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Hess HCR5K Cropped LogoJoin your co-workers and friends for Houston’s “Largest Office Party” at Memorial Park. This event promotes the health and fitness of the corporate community and provides a great opportunity to interact with fellow Houstonians. The course will remain open between 4-7 p.m. over a four-day period, October 22-25, 2018, at Memorial Park.

A portion of all registration and sponsorship proceeds directly benefits Memorial Park Conservancy’s day-to-day park care. To sign up your company, call 832-974-1690 or email info@houstoncorporate5k.com. Or sign up as an individual on team “Memorial Park Conservancy.”

For more information, visit houstoncorporate5k.com.

Oct
24
Wed
Hess Houston Corporate 5k Supports MPC @ Memorial Park
Oct 24 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Hess HCR5K Cropped LogoJoin your co-workers and friends for Houston’s “Largest Office Party” at Memorial Park. This event promotes the health and fitness of the corporate community and provides a great opportunity to interact with fellow Houstonians. The course will remain open between 4-7 p.m. over a four-day period, October 22-25, 2018, at Memorial Park.

A portion of all registration and sponsorship proceeds directly benefits Memorial Park Conservancy’s day-to-day park care. To sign up your company, call 832-974-1690 or email info@houstoncorporate5k.com. Or sign up as an individual on team “Memorial Park Conservancy.”

For more information, visit houstoncorporate5k.com.

Oct
25
Thu
Hess Houston Corporate 5k Supports MPC @ Memorial Park
Oct 25 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Hess HCR5K Cropped LogoJoin your co-workers and friends for Houston’s “Largest Office Party” at Memorial Park. This event promotes the health and fitness of the corporate community and provides a great opportunity to interact with fellow Houstonians. The course will remain open between 4-7 p.m. over a four-day period, October 22-25, 2018, at Memorial Park.

A portion of all registration and sponsorship proceeds directly benefits Memorial Park Conservancy’s day-to-day park care. To sign up your company, call 832-974-1690 or email info@houstoncorporate5k.com. Or sign up as an individual on team “Memorial Park Conservancy.”

For more information, visit houstoncorporate5k.com.

Nov
10
Sat
15th Annual Run in the Park @ Molly Ann Smith Plaza
Nov 10 @ 8:00 am

The Conservancy’s 15th Annual Run in the Park offers a 5K run, a 3K walk and a 1K Kids’ Run. Runners and joggers wind through a scenic course below the Park’s historic live oak canopy. The run begins and ends at Molly Ann Smith Plaza near the Jones Reflection Pool where family and friends cheer on participants. A Post-Race Party will feature food, drinks, music and more! For more information, visit www.hermannpark.org/calendar.

Jan
12
Sat
AIA’s ArCH Walking Tour: UH Art & Architecture @ University of Houston, Moores School of Music
Jan 12 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
An exploration of art, architecture and campus design on the University of Houston’s main campus. Works by Frank Stella, Jim Love, William King and The Art Guys are found within the context of a campus and buildings designed by notable architects such as Phillip Johnson, Alfred C. Finn, Gensler, Lake|FLato, BNIM and Cesar Pelli.

Tour will meet in the courtyard in front of the Moores School of Music by the Winged Woman sculpture. Parking available in adjacent campus visitor’s lot. Parking fees not included in tour registration.

 Reservations are recommended.

Jan
19
Sat
AIA’s ArCH Walking Tour: Buffalo Bayou @ Architecture Center future home
Jan 19 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
 Explore the city from a vantage point most people don’t see: the waterway that gave Houston life and has been its backbone for 175 years. Architecture Center Houston (ArCH), with the cooperation of Buffalo Bayou Partnership, invite you to a stroll along Buffalo Bayou Parkway for an overview of downtown Houston’s history and architecture from its beginnings in 1836 to the efforts to revitalize the central city today. The tour showcases the innovative bayou reclamation efforts of the City of Houston, Harris County, and Buffalo Bayou Partnership, while topically discussing history and preservation, contemporary architecture, the bayou, and adjacent parkland.

Meets outside the future home of the Architecture Center Houston at 902 Commerce Street; lot parking is available in the area.
 Parking fees are not included in registration.

$5 for Bayou Buddies members too!

Reservations are recommended.

Jan
26
Sat
AIA’s ArCH Walking Tour: Urban Art @ Market Square Park
Jan 26 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
This series of tours will look at public art, architecture, place making and urban planning in Houston. Each new tour will focus on a small walkable section of Houston.

Downtown Part 1 includes Market Square Park, Buffalo Bayou and areas West of Main St. Artists featured on this tour include Mel Chin, Paul Kittleson, Louise Nevelson, Claes Oldenburg and Dean Ruck.

Meets in the NE Corner of Market Square Park. Street, lot and garage parking are available in the area.

Reservations are recommended.

Feb
2
Sat
AIA’s ArCH Tour: 3rd Ward Bicycle Tour @ HCC Central Campus Sign
Feb 2 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
This bicycle tour explores the Historic Third Ward and surrounding areas including Houston Community College, Emancipation Park, Project Row Houses, Dowling Street, the Negro Hospital, later Riverside General Hospital, the Buffalo Soldiers Museum, and Texas Southern University. The tour is a dynamic discussion of the neighborhood’s character, history and future in the center of Houston featuring notable local architects such as John Chase and Caudill Rowlett Scott (CRS).Reservations are required for this tour as attendance is limited.

Attendees need to bring their own bicycle. We encourage everyone to wear a helmet. If you do not have your own bicycle, you can rent a bike from Houston B-Cycle.

Tour meets in front of the HCC “Central Campus” sign at 1300 Holman St. Metered street parking available in the area.

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Reservations are recommended.

Feb
9
Sat
AIA’s ArCH Walking Tour: Texas Medical Center @ John P McGovern Commons Building
Feb 9 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Texas Medical Center is the largest medical center in the world. Equivalent to the 12th largest business district in the United States, TMC has over 33.8 million square feet of patient care, education, and research space. 160,000+ individuals visit the Texas Medical Center each day with more than 6 million patients treated annually. The 1000+ acres is approximately the size of Chicago inside the “Loop” with over 160 buildings on the main campus alone. Join our ArCH docents on this introductory architectural tour of Houston’s own modern marvel of medicine. Sites on our tour will include Baylor College of Medicine, the new Texas Children’s Hospital Maternity Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Methodist Research Center, and a short ride on Houston’s Metro Rail.

Meet in the ground floor lobby of the John P McGovern Commons Building, 6550 Bertner Ave, 77030. Texas Medical Center Entrance 4.
 Paid parking available in the TMC Commons parking garage.

Reservations are recommended.

Reservations are recommended.