Sep 04, 2024
Nestled at the center of the University of Dallas’s small campus lies the Church of the Incarnation, mostly unchanged since…
Mar 04, 2024
In a time and place where the paving over of green is the norm—and celebrated as progress, development, and growth—we…
Jan 05, 2024
Like the title of the famous children’s books says: Everybody poops. So why is it so hard to find a…
Jan 05, 2024
The Hill brings a vibrant mix of uses to East Dallas. Project The HillLocation DallasClient Cypress EquitiesArchitect LRK in collaboration…
Nov 09, 2023
A Dallas-based developer turned manufacturer bets big on design. Project HiFAB HaciendasLocation DallasClient/Developer HiFABArchitect Lake|Flato ArchitectsStructural and MEP Engineer RCS…
Jul 03, 2023
The historic Old Parkland campus in Dallas reconsiders classical architecture for the 21st century.
May 01, 2023
“A practicing architect of sensitivity and great distinction…. Besides achievement as a designer, he has given himself unflaggingly and quietly…
Mar 07, 2023
The Kalita Humphreys Theater is Dallas’ own historic gem designed by world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Although one can argue…
Mar 07, 2023
Deep Ellum’s Kimpton Pittman Hotel marries a contemporary tower with a historic temple. Location DallasClient Epic Dallas HotelArchitect Perkins&WillHistoric Preservation…
Jan 12, 2023
Athenaeum: via Latin from the Greek Athenaion, denoting the temple of the goddess Athene in ancient Athens, which was used…
Jan 12, 2023
The St. Sarkis church in Carrollton unites the Armenian community of past and present.
Nov 07, 2022
“Architecture is cladding on two sides of a cavity.” So said one of my professors, distilling the essence of modern…
Nov 07, 2022
From its inception in 1963 and completion in 1965, through its subsequent expansion in 2006, NorthPark Center was envisioned as…
Nov 07, 2022
The Stack brings modern office space to Dallas’ Deep Ellum. Client and Developer Hines, Westdale, and Ivanhoe CambridgeArchitect 5G Studio…
Sep 08, 2022
“Through inventive site planning strategy, this is an exemplary project that fosters a collaborative, healthy workplace while transforming a ‘leftover’…
Sep 08, 2022
“Designing schools is difficult: Engaging students, bringing in light, and developing spaces to learn and play are challenging. With the…
Sep 08, 2022
“This combination of new and old successfully demonstrates a new approach to addition/restoration projects. The new brick addition delivers something…
Jul 06, 2022
Carpenter Park injects new life into a forgotten corner of downtown Dallas. Clients City of Dallas Park and Recreation Department…
May 03, 2022
“Poisoned by Zip Code,” a site-specific installation by Dallas-based visual artist Ari Brielle, spotlights South Dallas resident Marsha Jackson and…
Mar 07, 2022
The Summer Bohannon House responds to the specifics of its wooded Dallas site while revealing the influences of its architect’s…
Mar 07, 2022
An iconic metal screen defines Virgin Hotels Dallas.
Mar 07, 2022
In 1946, Frank Lloyd Wright seemed to have landed the client who would finally fulfill his decades-long ambition to build a…
Jan 07, 2022
The light rail system operated by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is a hub-and-spoke model, designed to bring riders from…
Jan 07, 2022
This site serves as a gateway to the world class neighborhood at its doorstop. With protected frontage on Woodall Rogers…
Sep 01, 2021
“It’s a very inventive approach to a tight lot: minimizing the building footprint in favor of introducing an outdoor space…
Jul 01, 2021
In Dallas, a city dominated by the automobile, word has gotten out about the new AT&T Discovery District — an…
Jul 01, 2021
Dallas’ iconic Fountain Place office tower finally has the sibling promised by its original 1980s master plan, and — surprise!…
Mar 04, 2021
In 2001, Boeing moved its headquarters to Chicago, in large part due to the city’s vibrant downtown, something the runner-up…
Jan 11, 2021
The Epic development in Dallas negotiates the boundary between downtown and Deep Ellum through form, material, and urban design. Architect…
Nov 04, 2020
In another location, the former Jesse R. Dawson State Jail might be easy to ignore. It is certainly forgettable, with…
Nov 04, 2020
One goal of architectural postmodernism has been to accommodate more variety than was typically addressed in high modernism, an objective…
Sep 01, 2020
Here the most important thing is liberating the floor plan to permeate the whole public realm underneath the building, and…
Sep 01, 2020
It punches above its weight in terms of size and really just has a generous presence. — Dan Kaplan, FAIA
Sep 01, 2020
We really appreciated both the building and the landscape element. And the way the roof transitioned from interior to exterior,…
Jul 09, 2020
The UT Dallas Engineering and Computer Science West building is a connector and an oasis, facilitating access to its campus…
May 06, 2020
In the downtown districts of Dallas, Houston, and even smaller Texas metros, a movement is on the rise to rescue…
Mar 11, 2020
Since last covered in Texas Architect in 2017, Dallas’ bold endeavor to build a great series of parks along the…
Mar 11, 2020
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum In 1977, fellow survivors and Jewish community leaders gathered in the North Dallas home…
Mar 11, 2020
Texas’ hardened international frontier garners most of the headlines, but its porous state-to-state border, the one legislated to absorb as…
Jan 07, 2020
A new condo in Dallas’ Museum Tower is helping revise the building’s reputation as an embodiment of high-design refinement.
Nov 05, 2019
“City of Dallas putting a homeless shelter 2-3 blocks from our community” read the email subject line. The email went…
Nov 01, 2018
The Steven Holl-designed Stretto House, located in the Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas, is among the most celebrated residential designs…
Nov 01, 2018
In the past decade, several cities in Texas have opened important downtown parks and public spaces. Their purported purpose has…
Nov 01, 2018
Unfired earth building materials — rammed earth, adobe, compressed earth block — are a plentiful, structurally robust, and natural alternative…
Sep 06, 2018
In 2009, the newly established Dallas Center for Architecture was featured in Architectural Record. The article, by former TA editor…
Nov 20, 2017
Dallas’ decades-long saga of its Trinity River project reached a turning point on August 9, when the Dallas City Council…
Sep 11, 2017
“Every interior space had an appropriately scaled outdoor space to give out onto, and really achieved an amazing sort of…
May 16, 2017
The Philip Johnson-designed Thanks-Giving Square and Chapel was commissioned in the wake of the Kennedy assassination, as part of a…
Feb 28, 2017
Re-engineering a modern megacity like Dallas-Fort Worth to create the sort of dense, walkable urbanism favored by 21st-century planners is…
Jan 09, 2017
On April 30, 2015, a team of architects and landscape architects assembled by the local urban strategy firm Ash+Lime implemented…