Dallas Architecture

The Best Architect in Dallas?

The Best Architect in Dallas?

Architecture can be an incredibly creative field, wildly rewarding for those who like to think outside of the box … but there is also a role for those who love architecture whose predilections and skill sets lean towards the straight and narrow. There are times when I wonder “… which one am I?”

The Dallas Perot Museum of Science and Nature

The Dallas Perot Museum of Science and Nature

The new Morphosis designed Perot Museum of Science and Nature designed by a Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Thom Mayne.

2012 AIA Dallas Tour of Homes

2012 AIA Dallas Tour of Homes

This weekend is the 2012 AIA Dallas Tour of Homes and this year, we have a house that is participating on the tour. There are 8 houses altogether, and all of them designed by architects.

Dead Projects

Dead Projects

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it doesn’t count if it doesn’t get built. Projects that for one reason or another got put in the drawer only to never see the light of day again. I call these “dead projects.”

Update: Modern House – Friendly Neighbor?

Update: Modern House – Friendly Neighbor?

Update: A look at a modern house set in a traditional neighborhood where the question is asked: Is there any responsibility to fit in the neighborhood?

Perot Museum of Science & Nature

Perot Museum of Science & Nature

The $185-million Perot Museum of Nature & Science broke ground in November of 2009. Construction is coming along well on the building designed by 2005 Pritzker Prize Laureate Thom Mayne and the California based firm Morphosis.

Modern Infill Project in Dallas

Modern Infill Project in Dallas

Local Dallas architect Bob Borson walks us through the first 9 months of construction on this large and exciting modern project.

Azalea Residence – Dallas, Texas

Azalea Residence – Dallas, Texas

Another feature that is common in our work are exterior living spaces. We go to great lengths to organize the plans so that we can collect the typical wasted side yard spaces and make them into usable spaces – either by extending an interior view out into the yard or by creating an actual exterior room.

Wanted: Advice from other architects

Wanted: Advice from other architects

I should preface this by saying I am not complaining … but I receive a lot of emails from people asking for advice

Dallas and a Calatrava Bridge – we have one

Dallas and a Calatrava Bridge – we have one

I was driving to an event last week and I saw the new Santiago Calatrava bridge that we have been waiting on forever! I was very excited to see that it is coming along and thought to myself – Dallas is becoming an awesome destination for Architecture.