An international design competition to create a new headquarters for the Houston Endowment organisation has whittled down more than 120 expressions of interest to four bid teams.

The endowment, which funds community-cohesion projects in Texas’ most populous city, appointed Malcolm Reading Consultants to find it an architect for a new 3,700sq m base with a construction budget of $20m – or £16.4m at today’s exchange rates.

Malcolm Reading said the four shortlisted teams were: Deborah Berke Partners with David Rubin Land Collective and Atelier Ten; Kevin Daly Architects with TLS Landscape Architecture, Productora and Transsolar; Olson Kundig with Surfacedesign Inc; and Schaum/Shieh Architects with HKS and Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture.

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