Douglas Newby Insights - Page 35
Architectural Autumn
Search for fall this wet season in Dallas is even a tougher search than finding good modern homes among the hundreds of builder production homes. A visit to the Urban Reserve neighborhood yields both 50 architect designed homes and a touch of fall color in the natural landscape of Urban Reserve designed by landscape architect Kevin Sloan. Home designed by Thad Reeves.
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Floating Fall
Heavy rains have filled our Dallas ponds allowing this modern home and touch of fall to appear to float on the edge of the Urban Reserve landscape designed by Kevin Sloan.
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Sleek Historicity
This casual photograph illustrates how a historic home can inspire finishes that convey the architectural aesthetic of the house and still be sleek, handcrafted, and lush. Architects Ted Larson and Paul Pedigo designed this newel post that was then crafted in the shop of contractor Randy Clowdus. The wide plank floors and ceilings are another example that reflect the era and convey 21st century refinement. The Venetian plaster finish also draws from tradition and current design.
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Dusk, Damp, Dallas
Dallas is a city associated with sunshine, smiles, and optimism. The historic rains this fall have transformed the city into one of contemplative and melancholy vignettes. Well into autumn, a green, moist landscape still prevails. It is not the weather people move to Dallas for, but it gives the friendly, frenetic nature of the city a respite. Nature itself becomes the dominant theme.
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A Doctor in the House
When I think of UT Southwestern and the Dallas medical community, I think of Nobel Laureates and doctor bands. Here Dr. Buz Burkhead fronts the esteemed Doctor Doctor Band at Hotel ZaZa. I looked for the great architect and music aficionado @SeanGarman in the audience. Alas, Sean must have broken his perfect streak of seeing dynamic rock and roll bands every night for what seemed like two straight weeks. Fortunately, Sean will still be able to find this music under the Broken Bone label. Buz Burkhead also lives in a fabulous home designed in the mid-century by architect Robert Johnson Perry.
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Playful Wink at Daily Life
Reinvented remnants of artist Katie Stout’s daily life are medium for vibrant and colorful suggestion of a journey forward. DMA opens exhibition of Women + Designers. This is a perfect show for Dallas, a city of fabulous female artists and architects and a city known internationally for its sense of design.
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Slotted Sun
An important part of Texas Modern Architecture is orienting the home to accommodate the environment. Porches capturing breezes and shielding the sun have been a long-honored tradition from the early pioneer homes that inspired the original Texas Modernist architect David Williams and architect O’Neil Ford. Here is the detail of the slatted brise soleil over the side porch. A slatted porch roof will shield the sun and provide light. This slatted roof is angled so that in the summer when the sun is moving directly overhead, the streaks of light are narrow. In the winter, when the sun is welcome, sunlight fully streams through the slats, on through the glass walls, and across the vast expanse of composite concrete tile floors. It is details like this that when searched for provide a sense of discovery when the origins of the home’s joy become apparent.
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Architectural Slow Note
Subtle, powerful, prolonged pleasure is created by this home design by architect Joshua Nimmo. Sitting in this house, I was reminded of a grade school talk and demonstration by a symphony violinist. He played a gypsy piece with what sounded like a thousand notes a minute. Then he played a piece with a long note that seemed to last a minute. He then explained that the fast notes seem more difficult but they are much easier to play than the sustained long note. This story came back to me as this modern home resonated on many levels. The finesse of the architectural note is deep, complex, and yet the home appears so simple and straightforward. That is when my eyes started searching for the clues – an architectural treasure hunt.
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Urban Reserve Arrives
There is always something chimerical about a new residential concept – Urban Reserve, an environmentally sensitive development with design guidelines encouraging modern homes. Now, a dozen years later, a modern home designed by Joshua Nimmo confirms that Urban Reserve has arrived. The vision of a modern architect-designed community of 50 modern homes is a reality. Joshua Nimmo designed the home, filled with sunlight, with parallel walls of windows to capture the sun and garden on one side and a delightful view of modern homes across the pond on the other side. Modern homes are seldom associated with front porch neighborhoods. Here the owners on a quiet protected street are spontaneously joined by their neighbors when they sit on their front porch cantilevered over the pond. The trail running along Urban Reserve allows immediate access to ride a bike to White Rock Lake. Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, when these contemporary houses are all placed, the aesthetics and livability of Urban Reserve reveals itself. Now the desirability of Urban Reserve is a certainty.
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Stonebridge spans Vibrancy – Tranquility
People living in a city seek out two things—vibrancy and tranquility. This is the reason Turtle Creek Park is such an enchanting neighborhood, entered over the stonebridge. This bridge does more than span Turtle Creek. It connects the density of the high-rise condominiums of Turtle Creek Boulevard, the vibrancy of nearby Downtown Dallas, Oak Lawn, Knox, and the West Village with a secluded private neighborhood of 39 homes embraced by Rock Creek, Turtle Creek, and the Katy Trail. Here one is in the vibrant heart of the city and removed from the city.
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