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Subject: I.M. Pei

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

    February 26, 2008
  • Forty Years Ago, A Man Had a Plan for Downtown Dallas ...

    May 5, 2008
  • A Grandfather's Stash Reveals the Dallas That Was and Might Have Been

    Courtesy Justin Cozart Yesterday, I came across a Flickr page maintained by Justin Cozart, who's been uploading in recent days photos of a Dallas that no longer exists -- as you can tell by the photo of the Baker Hotel above, taken as it was being imploded in June 1980. But not all of Cozart's photos are of long-gone structures: Among his treasures are conceptual renderings for downtown skyscrapers planned but never built, including fascinating what-ifs sketched out by the likes of I.M. Pei a

    November 21, 2008
  • Not Taking The Cake

    Patrick MichelsThe 33 KDAF's Rebecca Miller dresses up her cake.In a scandal very much like the one where French and Russian figure skating judges fixed Olympics results, I was robbed this morning of a cake decorating crown that was--by at least one account--rightfully mine.But first, the important stuff: The annual "cake-off"--in which the likes of Robbie Owens and Teresa Frosini of CBS 11 news, meteorologist Rebecca Miller from channel 33 and a lowly Observer food writer decorate cakes--draws

    June 2, 2009
  • BeloWatch

    October 12, 1995
  • From Bauhaus to God's House

    October 26, 1995
  • Virtual DSO

    June 6, 1996
  • Piano Works

    The architect Renzo Piano makes high design for our local culture of kitsch

    July 20, 2006
  • Like Mike

    October 13, 2005
  • Strung Along

    A party that's music to our ears

    September 9, 2004
  • Boxcar Miller

    The floating homeless encampment settles in at Dallas City Hall

    August 26, 2004
  • The Family Guy

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

    February 12, 2004
  • This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

    February 5, 2004
  • Members Only

    It's a view to a thrill

    June 12, 2003
  • Black velvet Elvis

    A little attitude goes a long way at The Hard Rock Cafe

    September 21, 1995