dallas is getting a new convention center and developers are scrambling to cash in. details are few, billion in public $$$ and the city’s future are at stake, and there is A LOT of reason for concern.

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if only some recent event could have called attention to this danger. dallasnews.com/news/texas/202…

gotta admire the commitment level. dallasnews.com/arts-entertain…

In 2019, I profiled Janette Monear, CEO of Texas Trees Foundation. She's leading an ambitious overhaul of the Medical District, flooding it with greenspace and refocusing on pedestrians, particularly along Harry Hines. The project's first phase is now fully funded. dmagazine.com/frontburner/20…

video recap of the mavs 4th quarter performance last night. sigh.

welcome to next year's The Loeb Fellowship class. loebfellowship.gsd.harvard.edu/stories/introd…

Born on this day in 1630, in Antwerp, architectural painter Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg. Here, two figures in huge, strangely classical entrance to a Gothic church. Eerie.

happy architectural mother's day.

go doris go doris go. a+++

planning in texas, illustrated:

Imagine how cool this would be if the Mavericks listened to mark lamster and rebranded years ago

paul rudolph’s blue cross blue shield tower now an officially designated landmark. huzzah.

“I don’t do them to create cute chaos. They are a reinforcement of architecture: You reinforce traffic patterns; it’s an aid to circulation. I’m paid by my clients to solve their problems, not to amuse myself.” archpaper.com/2024/05/barbar…

“Because museums’ exhibition spaces often are cavernous…climate control becomes one of the key areas for reducing energy use and its related carbon emissions.” latimes.com/entertainment-…

maybe i should call my forthcoming project on the trinity “the not great river”?

Congrats to Dawn Davis and Julie Barer! This is fantastic read (and listen), folks.

These 10 buildings define Texas architecture | mark lamster
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architecture above the fold on the Dallas Morning News home page, as well it should be! dallasnews.com/arts-entertain…

with apologies for the seo headline, a look at the excellent (and wonderfully titled) 'home heat money god,' a survey of texas modern architecture. dallasnews.com/arts-entertain…

Dallas' 15 cultural facilities expect to receive $75.2 million for urgent maintenance. But it won’t fix everything. The city has logged $133.2 million in needed repairs. | Elizabeth Myong has the details for Dallas Morning News KERA Arts #ArtsAccessNTX

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