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Why Dallas should be grateful for a Thanks-Giving Square makeover Architecture critic Mark Lamster weighs in on a new plan that would remake and expand the iconic downtown Dallas park. https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/architecture/2021/03/18/why-dallas-should-be-grateful-for-a-thanks-g...

Three Downtown Dallas Parks Deliver Differing Visions of Public Space https://magazine.texasarchitects.org/2021/03/04/three-downtown-dallas-parks-deliver-differing-visions-of-public-space/ Klyde Warren Park Klyde Warren Park, Dallas’ freeway-topping jewel which has been successful beyond anyone’s w...

Three Downtown Dallas Parks Deliver Differing Visions of Public Space https://magazine.texasarchitects.org/2021/03/04/three-downtown-dallas-parks-deliver-differing-visions-of-public-space/ Carpenter Park On the eastern edge of downtown is Carpenter Park, which is slated to be completed in spring 20...

Three Downtown Dallas Parks Deliver Differing Visions of Public Space https://magazine.texasarchitects.org/2021/03/04/three-downtown-dallas-parks-deliver-differing-visions-of-public-space/ Thanks-Giving Square Completed in 1976, Thanks-Giving Square was one of the first parks in the heart of downto...

My vote goes to a modernized version of the Sanford Center. I believe the current building is the uncompleted base for this tower, right? The parking deck and ground floor were completed and occupied by a bank until the YMCA renovated/added space when they relocated here in 1980. The foundation shou...

Another write-up about improvements: https://www.archpaper.com/2020/12/callisonrtkl-reimagines-philip-johnsons-thanks-giving-square-in-dallas/ Thanks for sharing. As stated in the article, the goal is to keep the garden area (within the walls) a contemplative space that respects the original archit...

Here's the latest on our work at Thanks-Giving Square. Design for the rejuvenation has been moving along with a fundraising campaign to begin soon. What a Reimagined Thanks-Giving Square Could Look Like https://www.dmagazine.com/commercial-real-estate/2020/10/what-a-reimagined-thanks-giving-square-c...

Photos of the Hall of State restoration look amazing, from the exterior to the tiny interior details. https://www.fox4news.com/news/14-million-hall-of-state-restoration-project-nearly-complete Screen Shot 2020-09-30 at 3.07.03 PM.png Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_skFLPHB94/ Screen Shot 2020-...

Can the downtown restaurant scene recover? Lack of foot traffic is taking its toll https://www.dallasnews.com/food/restaurant-news/2020/08/31/can-the-downtown-restaurant-scene-recover-lack-of-foot-traffic-is-taking-its-toll/ When asked how business was going at his downtown Neopolitan Italian resta...

drove by yesterday after work and they put up the new pegasus city brewery sign.. looks really good and was lit up nicely. Commerce street really improving with all of this and will only get better with hawthorn and pegasus city opening soon. Wow, gorgeous. Reminds me of old theatre row down elm st...

I finished S2 of The Umbrella Academy and it was a lot of fun! It's silly superhero shenanigans, so if that's not your glass of sweet tea here are a couple of the notable Dallas establishing shots. No spoilers here I promise, the first screenshot is from the first five minutes of the season. You ca...

I've heard CRE people contend that companies will be seeking more real estate moving forward and not less, to accommodate employee spacing/distancing and such, but I'm still not buying it. At some point, employers will pull their employees back into the office. The idea that white-collar managerial...

Wow, I had never heard the story of Santos Rodriguez, absolutely heartbreaking. There's a park in Seattle dedicated in his memory as well, but nothing yet in Dallas. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018/07/24/mother-of-santos-rodriguez-visited-the-seattle-park-named-for-her-son-in-2015-dallas-still...

Dallas City hall is ugly. I loathe any building build with concrete as an design feature. Burnett Tower in Ft. Worth is the same kind of ugly. They all look like Soviet buildings. You'll love this... https://www.instagram.com/brotalism/ or https://www.instagram.com/brutalady/ :D

Landmark Dallas Morning News building still headed for a redo https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2020/07/09/landmark-dallas-morning-news-building-still-headed-for-a-redo/ ... He said the original building designed by noted Dallas architect George Dahl will be used for a luxury hotel. “...

Did you also have a similar diagram for the deferred Knox-Henderson subway station, northsouth? Here are some other diagrams. All are in the Dallas Public Library available for research (where I found these originally). https://www.flickr.com/photos/dfwcre8tive/7136074561/in/album-72157618842236092...

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Magical iconic subterranean restaurant in downtown Dallas closes after 36 years https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/05-20-20-dakotas-downtown-subterranean-closed/?fbclid=IwAR30aKYqUKOty3EF5bve1fPY9jt_hl_z1ohZiCX_h5Eoo_FbKG9xWGxT2AY Here's an article about the restaurant's history. R...

That's a nice view! On a somewhat related note, with the rest of the EQ getting spruced up, I wonder if we'll ever see Salazar Center remove the ugly glass skin which was added back in the '80s. It wasn't ever the prettiest building, but what we have now is hard to look at. https://farm3.static.fli...

Some photos of what this building once looked like... https://flashbackdallas.com/2020/04/12/the-southland-center-mid-century-cool-1959/ metadc1615219_xl_UNTA_AR0870-084-004-037.jpg https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1615219/m1/1/ https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1615133/m1/1...

Too many pessimists on this string... Will Uber ride off to Dallas with its headquarters? As cost-cutting pressures mount, speculation intensifies that Uber could move its San Francisco headquarters to lower-cost Dallas. https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2020/05/01/will-uber-ride-off-to...

Nice to be listed. Also embarrassing to have had that much opportunity, be in that kind of company, and yet the city's lasting original contributions to global civilization are the Texas donut apartment block, graphing calculators, Mary Kay marketing mantras, and the inspiration for Outkast's "...

I believe phase 2 is starting for LCC. Does anyone have a rendering of the new black box expansion? http://www.dallascitynews.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/LCC-Phase-2-Image-1.png http://www.dallascitynews.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/LCC-Phase-2-images.jpg http://www.dallascitynews.net/latino-c...

This city in Lithuania is allowing restaurants to reopen with only outdoor seating. Good seasonal idea to relocate dining to the city's plazas, streets, and parks.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/outd ... index.html

Check out these stories about the never-built 1989 DFW Terminal F plans. Lots of great visuals by Corgan.

Part 1: https://www.airporthistory.org/dfw-rebuild-1.html

Part 2: https://www.airporthistory.org/dfw-rebuild-2.html

Maybe this will be a new trend in other cities... Emeryville announces plan to eliminate 'beg buttons' at crosswalks in response to COVID-19 “You no longer need to press pedestrian push buttons,” O’Connell said, explaining that the buttons would be automatically activated when the traffic light chan...

I'm curious how many employers are going to ask themselves why they have so much office space when so many people can effectively work from home. I realize it may not be going perfectly, but its def working well for many. I feel like this was a question companies were already asking, and now it's b...

Kinda random, but I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the old mural inside 1401 elm? It was probably posted in the old forum, citing renovation that they were interested in keeping it. Ive been looking for pictures online, but can't seem to find it. Could have sworn it was a tree. You can...

The Embarcadero Freeway was pretty much a glorified off ramp. It's traffic count was about 1/3 that of I-345. Removing it just meant dumping local traffic onto city streets a few blocks earlier. The local equivalent would be the Good-Latimer exit off of US-75 southbound. Thanks for that nugget of i...

New mural coming soon. The artist will paint a large piece throughout November (the month of gratitude).

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It took a *while*, but now the TexRail route has started appearing on printed maps as well as those on displays at train stations/transit centers. Some of the maps (not unlike for other routes) are more than a bit out-of-whack and not to scale. 20190918_004403.jpg 20190918_004424.jpg This one is an...

With hate rising, the Dallas Holocaust Museum unveils a new home, and an expanded mission The $73.5 million facility traces an arc from genocide and human rights. https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/architecture/2019/09/15/with-hate-rising-the-dallas-holocaust-museum-unveils-a-new-home-an...

Unfortunately, probably I. M. Pei's least distinguished work. The original 1977 plan had all phases designed by Henry Cobb and the shapes were more cohesive. Two Dallas Centre was to be a chevron-shaped tower with 30 floors of office space topped with 21 floors of hotel space. Three Dallas Centre w...

Maybe the time capsule will be ready to open around the same date the hotel portion is complete.

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Here's the original plan for Dallas Centre.

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Here's a good example of new TOD. It turns an empty parking lot adjacent to BART (Oakland) into: 32-story tower 1,032 apartments 41,135 sf commercial space 59 parking spaces (parking maximums here instead of parking minimums) https://sf.curbed.com/2019/8/26/20833353/titanic-west-oakland-housing-proj...

Flashback article; interesting read from 30 years ago: CITYPLACE - A WORLD APART - Southland's new headquarters sits alone in its unfinished setting Dallas Morning News, The (TX) (Published as The Dallas Morning News) March 19, 1989 Author/Byline: David Dillon, Architecture Critic of The Dallas Morn...

Pretty cool article summarizing the 1401 Elm project (probably need to stop calling it The Drever) and highlighting a few of the other projects swirling around downtown. I gotta say, was in several Dallas neighborhoods today, including much of downtown, and it really feels like the entire city is u...

There's a call to artists for an upcoming mural project at Thanks-Giving Square. This project will cover a large portion of one concrete wall with a temporary mural installation. Please pass this information on to any interested artists. https://www.thanksgiving.org/2019/08/05/highlight-the-good-mur...

Interesting read about the plans for IH-45 in Houston.

Houston’s $7 billion solution to gridlock is more highways

https://www.curbed.com/2019/8/5/20754435/houston-traffic-highway-i-45-north-txdot?fbclid=IwAR2p_3FIkRyC4N3l-aAkOHbapp13jBvlAEWTJpBPFS30DjhfJHECq4cUo2c

Hopefully, the architecture will be less stucco and less hip/modern garbage for this site. The West End deserves old, traditional industrial-style architecture. Need more buildings like this in the West End area. http://mithun.com/project/weyerhaeuser-headquarters-at-200-occidental/ http://mithun.c...

That's a nice little building, any story on this one? That alley would make a nice little patio/green space. The story? It was the last downtown building tied to the cotton industry. Adding about 20 spots in a parking lot was more valuable (could have made a nice boutique hotel). But all is not los...

Todd Interests is referring to it as 1401 Elm at this time. They have several hundred workers on-site every day to keep things moving quickly.

Last week The Thanks-Giving Foundation conducted a design charrette to discuss opportunities within the upcoming rejuvenation plan. It was an exciting and intense working session involving a large group of architects and stakeholders (including Alan Ritchie from PJAR Architects in NYC). The conversa...

^hahahaha I was going to say The Sundance Square of Dallas!!! It'll be nice if "Discovery" District turns into a memorable place people seek out, like Rockefeller Center, or Sundance Square. Since ATT's Spirit of Communication is naked, does anyone think the righteous folks of Dallas will...

longhorn wrote:So how does one go from the fast growing north Dallas area to I-45 bound for Houston if there is no I-345?

IH-635/IH-20?

I'm sure it's been shared before, but I was watching this footage again from the city's official U.S. Bicentennial celebration at Old City Park: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc674009/m1/1/high_res/ My understanding is that a nonprofit, the Dallas American Revolution Bicentennial Corp...

H. L. Hunt died in the 70’s, Thanksgiving Tower is early 1980s. Perhaps his children developed Thanksgiving Tower (HuntOil?). I do recall that all original occupants were primarily companies owned by or doing business with the Hunts, sorta the 1980s version of Old Parkland. Hunt Petroleum / Hunt En...

Here's a new one in San Francisco that looks pretty nice.

https://www.wrnsstudio.com/project/miss ... structure/

I believe the city still has structured all incentives so that the tunnels have to be closed as part of these vacant redos cause most council members still think they alone are the reason retail isn't on the ground floor of the crappy designed office buildings the city has allowed and continues to ...

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