Douglas Newby Insights - Page 36
Bridge to Neighborhood
Just as a footbridge is a romantic path to a front door, an intimate bridge is a romantic path to a hidden neighborhood. A small bridge creates a sense of destination, privacy, serenity, in an urban setting, removing it from the city and enhancing the sanctuary of a small neighborhood surrounded by hills and creeks.
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A little Country A bit Rock and Roll
Does this house revolve around the television, or does the television spin around in the house? Many architects try to hide a television. Here architect Thad Reeves of A. Gruppo Architects makes the television a cool design element in the middle of a modern farmhouse in an older Dallas neighborhood. You will be able to see this house on the 2018 Dallas AIA Tour of Homes on October 20th and 21st.
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American Home – Modern Interpretation
This home is a triumph for the middle class living well. Here architect Thad Reeves designed a classic 3-bedroom 2-1/2-bath home with the American average 2,600 sf on a standard 50 ft x150 ft lot. Rather than trying to further dumb-down a McMansion, decorate a McModern, or contort a modern design, this home has architectural grace and interest. It is a simple house with a lot of design. AIA Dallas Tour of Homes will present an opportunity to see this home found in an older Dallas neighborhood with the bike path running behind it, on October 20th and 21st.
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A Room Without Walls
There are all kinds of outside rooms and spaces that extend the joy and livability of a home—terraces, porches, gardens, yards, balconies, verandas, atriums, and courtyards. Here is what I really do consider a room with no walls. However, it has all the comforts of an interior room. It has a fireplace, kitchen, living area, dining area, central air and heat, additional built-in auxiliary heaters, receding screens that disappear, a sound system, ample electrical and elaborate lighting. Now, it might seem extravagant to have central air and heat for an outdoor space, kind of like turning on the air conditioning with the top down on your convertible. On the other hand, think how environmentally beneficial it is to be able to turn off the three central air and heat units inside a 5,700 sf home as you are able to go outside and just turn on one central air unit to supplement the breezes coming across the 30-meter pool. Outside comfort and maybe even a net environmental advantage!
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Bus Stop Cheer
As Henderson, the surrounding historic districts, and houses in the conservation districts become more fashionable, what doesn’t change are the smiling faces at the bus stops that dot the area. Urbanists don’t consider Dallas to have inner city housing because the homes 10, 20, or 30 blocks from the Dallas Art Museum have front porches and tall backyard trees. Still, for the last forty years of rejuvenation, gentrification and renovation, the bus lines running straight from the downtown Dallas streets through the neighborhoods every few blocks have remained constant. Even when the City Council voted years ago to rezone 100 blocks of Old East Dallas to single family zoning as the economic foundation of its revitalization, the planners were able to keep Columbia zoned for new apartments so that historic homes could be torn down and new apartments added to increase bus ridership. I haven’t seen an increase in bus ridership. With the cost of Uber increasingly competing with the cost of a bus ticket, we can only anticipate less bus travel in the future. In the meantime, one of the joys of living in an older neighborhood, regardless of how many suburbanites fretted about gentrification, is the diverse strata of the economic means and lifestyles one sees on the streets of an urban neighborhood.
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Every Town Needs a Quinlan Terry
Almost every town has modern homes, historic homes, and generic homes. But I have come to realize every town needs a Quinlan Terry designed home to put everything else in perspective. While sorbet is considered a small refreshing serving between courses, this large monumental home almost serves as an architectural palate cleanser. Its simple materials, elegant, smooth-faced stone construction, and clean lines overlook an immense piece of property as an architectural breath of fresh air. Imposing but relaxed, it exudes architectural significance with dignity.
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Bridge to Tradition
Architect Robert Johnson Perry was a dynamic mid-century modern architect in Dallas who designed many significant modern homes. Here he designed a home for the Schepps who lived much of each year in France and loved the French aesthetic. I love when I find a traditional home designed by a modern architect. At first glance it looks traditional. A more penetrating look sees modern influences of the floor plan, proportions, and the home’s relationship to its environment. This home with a footbridge over White Rock Creek to the front door is universally enticing. It has captured imaginations for decades and has survived because this architectural design is still so well suited and well placed in the 21st century.
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Bridge to Architecture
Hidden in Highland Park is a modern home designed by architect Antoine Predock. It incorporates an elevated bridge extending above the property overlooking a forest in Turtle Creek. This residential bridge visually connects the home to the property in an intimate way. This bridge also connected the Dallas community to a better understanding of good architecture, inspirational design, and the possibilities of connecting homes to sites.
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Bridge to Gone
This modern mid-century home designed by Jim Wiley and Bud Oglesby in Highland Park might have been the best known home with a footbridge in Dallas. It was a small home tucked in by Turtle Creek just a few doors down from Highland Park Town Hall. A footbridge led to the front door that when opened would reveal a two-story concert hall with balcony bedrooms that also served for seating to listen to the chamber music performed in this 2,000 sf home with abundance of windows looking across the creek. This modern home was charming and enticing. After 50 years the home was torn down but the bridge still served as an inspiration for the modern home that would take its place. The new home incorporates a room over the water that serves as a bridge that connects the home and the land.
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Back Yard Bridge
There is a certain magic to a home that has a bridge. The small 1950s home that architects Jim Wiley and Bud Oglesby designed in Highland Park, the modern home architect Antoine Predock designed overlooking Turtle Creek, and the architect Robert Johnson Perry designed house with a bridge over White Rock Creek in Mayflower Estates all come to mind. This backyard bridge adds to the romance of a small modern home on East Lake Highlands Drive in the Peninsula neighborhood. This footbridge also expands the .21 acre lot by adding a more dramatic sense of topography and areas to explore.
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