American Institute of Architects

At CityWalk@Akard, Architects Are Turning a Loading Dock Into a Playground

There weren't supposed to be many kids at CityWalk@Akard. The 200 units at the downtown office building-turned subsidized apartment complex were small, closet-less studios and one-bedroom units, and half were set aside for the formerly homeless or those at risk of becoming so. But there they are: 38 ... More >>

Owner's Looking to Landmark His House, Designed by the Late, Great Harris Kemp

The "Harris Kemp House" at 2822 Maple Springs Boulevard​I've driven past this house countless times; it's not far from the office, after all, more or less just behind Maple and Motor on Maple Springs Boulevard. But till I saw the agenda for Monday's meeting of the Landmark Commission, I had no ide ... More >>

For Sale: Architect John Barthel's Award-Winning Home, Which Doubles As Fine Art

​If you had $425,000-ish to drop on a new home, would you buy: a two-bed, two-bath ca. 1794 clapboard house in Providence, Rhode Island; a one-bedroom, two-bath log cabin in Cougar Gulch, Idaho (no doubt the setting of a more rustic Cougar Town spin-off); or this four-bedroom, two-bath midcentury ... More >>

Dallas "Visionary" and UT-Austin School of Architecture Dean Hal Box, 81, Died Sunday

Courtesy the University of Texas at AustinHal Box​Two years ago I posted a lengthy excerpt from the 1962 book The Prairie's Yield - Forces Shaping Dallas Architecture from 1840 to 1962, published by Reinhold in conjunction with the Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Among its ... More >>

AT&T PAC's "Giant Transformer," the Wyly, Honored By American Institute of Architects

Flickr user: Jennifer Conley​Two different announcements have landed in the in-box in the last 24 minutes alerting our attention to the fact the American Institute of Architects has given the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre one of its prestigious Honor Awards for Architecture, along with these other ... More >>

Barefoot in the Park Pavilion, or: How the City's Putting Art Into Neighborhoods

The St. Augustine Park Pavilion, built in 2008​On Sunday we took a look at the new pavilions at Brownwood Park on Walnut Hill Lane, just as they were getting their finishing touches following some issues with a contractor that tried to cut corners. At which point Willis Winters, assistant directo ... More >>

Slowly (Very Slowly, Occasionally) But Surely, City's Custom Park Pavilions Take Shape

​What you see above are the new pavilions at Brownwood Park on Walnut Hill Lane, between Webb Chapel Road and Marsh Lane. When I spotted them Friday morning, contractors were putting the finishing touches on the three structures, which have been very slow to take shape. "We had difficulty with the ... More >>

There Are a Number of Familiar Places on Preservation Dallas's Most Endangered List

Justin Terveen508 Park Avenue, currently the subject of litigation as its owners try to tear down the building​At this very moment Preservation Dallas executive director Katherine Seale is at the Women's Museum in Fair Park formally presenting its annual list of properties, neighborhoods and "hist ... More >>

Congo Street Initiative Feted By AIA, HUD For Restoring "Integrity" to Community

AIA/HUDBefore and after along Congo Street​Till a Friend of Unfair Park just pointed it out, I hadn't seen mention made anywhere of Brent Brown and bcWORKSHOP's accolade handed out a few days back by the American Institute of Architects and the U.S. Housing and Urban Development. Brown's Congo Str ... More >>

Ten Years Later, AIA-Dallas Plans on Updating Its Invaluable Guide to Dallas Architecture

​Speaking of great books about Dallas architecture ...On Monday, shortly after I mentioned that the Dallas Historical Society has reissuing Dallas Rediscovered on its to-do list, a Friend of Unfair Park sent word that the American Institute of Architects-Dallas is planning on updating The American ... More >>

If They Can't Redo the Statler Hilton, Well, They'll Just Cover the Damned Thing Up

The city's love-hate relationship with the Statler Hilton's been well documented here, so no need to rehash that never-ending story. But there is this bit of news concerning the Hotel Conrad Built on Commerce Street: Mayor Tom and the DowntownDallas-ites would love that sumbitch covered, if'n you do ... More >>

Surf's (Hanging) Up

A Look at Dallas's Long-Ago "NOW"

What you see above is the cover to a slim 1962 tome published by Reinhold in conjunction with the Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Clearly, the copy I picked up this week at the Forestwood Antique Mall was a downright steal: $25, or $100 less than the copy you can purchase fro ... More >>

A "Dallas Center for Architecture"? Nope, Not an Oxymoron, Swear.

Nice Cans

Designers and Architects show their can-do spirit

Home Again and Again and Again

Angela Hunt: "Let the Voters Decide."

Mayor to Schutze: "You Are Wrong."

That Jim Schutze is Always Makin' Friends

Vh1 is Accidentally Honoring Raymond Nasher Tonight, Sort Of. Kind Of.

One More Bit of Dallas' History About to Bite the Dust

Deadbeats

Posh Trinity backers skate on 80 grand they owe to the city

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

What's the Catch?

This new Trinity River plan is suspiciously reasonable

Rules are for suckers

When it came time to hire an architect at city Hall, bureaucrats Robert Troy and Jan Adams made one unforgivable mistake. They were honest.

Storm warning

When a tornado ripped through Lancaster, it also laid bare the city's racial wounds

Soul Power

The city's future is in the hooves of a winged horse--and in the New Age musings of the Dallas Institute of Humanities.

From Bauhaus to God's House

What happens when cutting-edge architecture collides with surburban sensibilities? Mark Alden Branch tells the unholy tale of Plano's Prince of Peace Catholic Church