Design

The Los Angeles Times Architecture Critic Really, Really Hates the Perot Museum

Locals and outsiders alike have been heaping praise upon the Perot Museum of Nature & Science since it opened in December, not just on the dizzying array of interactive exhibit halls but on the building itself. It was designed by architect Thom Mayne to be both a natural outgrowth of the North Texas ... More >>

Home Is Where The Bar Is

Stamp Of Approval

Ain't No Call fer Us to Pick a Side in Them Rich Folks' Museum Feudin'

Update/Correction/Apology/Literary Forehead Slap: The premise of this column is a stupid mistake on my part. For some time I have labored under the impression that Lucy Crow Billingsley, a daughter of Trammell Crow, was an early partner with John Sughrue in the development of Museum Tower. That's wr ... More >>

Nasher Architect's Steel-And-Glass Monstrosity Was Inaugurated Last Night With, Yes, a Laser Light Show

When Renzo Piano, the architect of the Nasher Sculpture Center, visited Dallas last month and cast himself and the museum as the impotent victims of the phallic death rays emanating from Museum Tower next door, Jim pointed out a subtle irony. Because at the very moment Piano was delivering his tale ... More >>

In the Nasher vs. the Museum Tower, Who's the Aggressor? Who Cares?

I just get a little tummy ache every time I see the Nasher Sculpture Center back in the news again treated like it's holy Bethlehem. Please. The stuff in there is art, not the preserved teeth and hair of the saints. Renzo Piano, the architect, is on the front page of the official government newspap ... More >>

After Years of Foreclosures and Frustration, North Oak Cliff Apartments Back on Track

​As conceptual renderings are my kryptonite, here's one that landed in the inbox late yesterday -- a look at what Wood Partners says it will build on that vacant lot at 1836 W. Davis, not so long ago the site of the Cliffwood Apartments. The address, of course, is familiar: A few years ago, you ma ... More >>

KAWS Steps into Focus at the Modern

There's Not Enough Green to Implement Phase 2 of Dallas's Green Building Ordinance

​No doubt you remember well the glory days of December 2007, which is when the city of Dallas convened its Green Building Task Force consisting of real estaters (including The Real Estate Council) and city staffers with the intention of rewriting the City Code to pave the way for happier, healthie ... More >>

QR Signs of the Times, Part II: CityDesign Studio's Virtual Look at Dallas' "Public Realm"

​I saw one of these signs on a Bishop Arts sidewalk over the weekend and thought nothing of it -- that is till today, when I was looking for something unrelated on the Dallas CityDesign Studio, which led me to its Facebook page, which led me to this: Urban Design Matters, a just-launched website r ... More >>

Poster of the Week: The Walkmen at the Granada Theater on Saturday Night

​ Well, it's about time we gave some love to the Dallas-based music blog Gorilla vs. Bear's visual aesthetic.

Is Dallas "Built Out," or Are City and County Officials' Priorities Completely Out of Whack?

​A little more than a week ago, the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that the city of Dallas barely grew between 2000 and 2010 -- by 0.8 percent, to be precise, though Matt Stiles and Emily Ramshaw, the Texas Trib'ers contributing to this morning's New York Times, are generous enough to bump it up to " ... More >>

Black On Trak

Downtown Dallas 360, Meet The Community

To get to last night's Downtown Dallas 360 meeting you had to walk through the Chase set, which was using the convention center as Chicago O'Hare International Airport.​Last night a hundred or so folks interested in downtown development gathered at the Dallas Convention Center -- where they were f ... More >>

My Fair Lady Lifts Lyric Stage To New Heights; DFW Theater Critics (Who Include Elaine) Honor Top Actors And Shows.

Giveaway (and Belated Poster of the Week): A Pair of Tickets and A Free Poster For Tonight's Octopus Project Show at the Granada

​ Dallas-based graphic designer Aaron Eiland's clearly got a nice eye, as both his above poster design for The Octopus Project's Texas tour and his extensive collection of other poster designs show. It's a pretty simple design, sure, but it's in its clever re-appropriation of the human head (in th ... More >>

Wine, Lose Or Draw

The Dallas News's Architecture Critic, David Dillon, Has Died at the Age of 68

​During our server outage of the last hour, several Friends of Unfair Park wanted to make sure we noted David Dillon's death at his home in Amherst, Mass. He suffered a massive heart attack at the age of 68. Dillon, who was among those who took a buyout from the paper in '06, continued to contribu ... More >>

Financial Times on the Good, the Bad and the "Omnivorous" Dallas Architecture

Justin TerveenDallas City Hall​Woke up this morning all prepared to direct your attention to Monday's Transportation and Environment Committee briefing involving neighborhood farmers markets, in which the key city-staff recommendation reads, "Neighborhood Farmers Markets may operate 24 non-consecu ... More >>

Erykah Badu Releases Cover Art, Leaks New Song on Web Site

The cover art for New Amerykah Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh.​Over the weekend, Erykah Badu leaked a couple more juicy bits of information pertaining to her upcoming, March 30 release, New Amerykah Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh. First and foremost is the cover art, which, yep, you can see right here to yo ... More >>

New Leases for Old Facades

It's Official: The Trinty Trust Gives $2 Million to Set Up "CityDesign Studio" in Dallas City Hall

Speaking of the Trinity Trust, they've still got those T-shirts available.​The suspense is over. (See what I did there?) Following up its September 24 announcement concerning $10 mil going toward turning the Continental Avenue Bridge into a pedestrian pathway-n-park, the Trinity Trust this morning ... More >>

If They Build It...

Say "Buenos Dias" To Fergus & Geronimo's New 7-Inch Release

​This morning, Fergus & Geronimo's 7-inch for "Tell It (In My Ear)" was made available for pre-order from London-based blog/record label Transparent. But if you want to secure yourself a copy, you'd better start reaching for your credit card because Transparent is only having 300 copies of the ... More >>

EXPO-nentionally Bad News from Home Depot

View Larger MapFour years ago, Home Depot shuttered four of its five EXPO Design Centers in Texas, leaving only the behemoth on Dallas Parkway near the Galleria. And in coming days, that one will no longer exist either, as Home Depot this morning issued a media release announcing that it's getting o ... More >>

And This Year's Invisible DFW Theater Critic Forum Awards Go To ...

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Bringing the Cedars to Downtown. Or: Some Good Ideas, Goodspeed.

The Old 97's Cramp Dust Congress' Style, Hit Public Radio Circuit; Also: Art For Sale!

Urban Land Institute Taps the Cedars As the Site of Its Annual Design Contest

The Museum of Nature's Mayne Man

Auping Talking

The Modern's curator lays out 30 Years

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

Over the Top

The Women's Museum honors Draper's decadent design

Calatrava Got No Cred?

The Architect

Pollack Sketches Frank Gehry

Dallas' Prostitute

The once-Little D hussy opens on Commerce Street

Works Well With Others

Chuck Close shows the faces of printmaking

Building Dallas

Big D could use a man like Gehry

Best Reason to Believe in the Future

Apple Store

Letters

The Family Guy

A son goes looking for his late father and finds some buildings

Spanish Fly

Dallas turns rape to romance with Calatrava bridges

Best Furniture Store

Design Within Reach

Not So Hot

Plus: Bring on the Smut, Tudor Tyrants

Best Strip Mall

Mockingbird Station

Letters

Bombs Away; Our Rotund Reporter; A Bridge Too Far-out

Bilbao Envy

Meadows' show of Santiago Calatrava's designs is one big missed opportunity

Best place to buy salvaged parts for your home

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