Douglas Newby Insights - Page 41
Ranch Home on a Ranch
The population of Dallas exploded in the 1950s, along with the popularity of the suburban ranch house. Few people realized that Charles Dilbeck took credit for developing the genre of the ranch house. Simultaneously with David Williams and O’Neil Ford, Charles Dilbeck was using indigenous Texas forms and design even in his European-looking cottages. O’Neil Ford followed by Frank Welch, Lake Flato, and others kept moving Texas Modern architecture forward. We have so many good Texas Modern Homes in the city we forget there are also very good Texas Modern ranch houses built on a ranch. I find it remarkable how many of the architecturally significant Texas Modern homes Sebastian Construction Group has designed in the city, and then also takes the authenticity of this design back to the country. What better place for a ranch house than on a ranch.
#RanchHouse #design #RanchHome #CountryHouse #RanchHouseOnARanch #TexasModern #CountryContemporary #Design #Texas #Modern #Ranch #Indigenous Texas #TexasArchitecture #Architect #Architecture
@SebastianConstructionGroup #sebastianconstructiongroup
Protégé Revisits O’Neil Ford Site
On the Bluffview site that O’Neil Ford designed a small home and separate Texas Modern studio for artist Jerry Bywaters, is now this large Texas Modern home designed by the architectural firm Lake Flato. Ted Flato and David Lake both started their career working with O’Neil Ford in his firm in San Antonio. Just as O’Neil Ford brought attention to Texas with his Texas Modern Home, Flato and Lake have brought attention to Texas with the modern homes they have designed in Texas and across the country. @Sebastian Construction Group, they have been able to build this home that captures the imagination of the architect, the beauty of the site, and allows a large home to imbed itself in the bluff.
#TexasModern #Modern #ModernHome #TexasModernHome #Art #Bluffview #Dallas #Neighborhood #Architecture #architect #sebastianconstructiongroup #ArchitecturallySignificant #City #Urban #Bluff #Contractor #Site #Design #contemporary #city
Architectural Bridge over Terrain
This contemporary home embraces the site as the home bridges the creek. A triangular shaped topographically challenging lot with a creek running through it challenges and inspires both an architect and contractor. My emphasis has always been on the architect but increasingly I have understood the importance of the contractor in creating an architecturally significant home. An architect’s design can be pushed further forward and implemented when working with a talented contractor. I have seen examples of architecturally significant homes that are more successful because of the contribution of the Sebastian Construction Group. In a series of Instagram posts I will share examples of how their work has contributed to the architectural achievement of a wide variety of homes.
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@SebastianConstructionGroup #architecture #pool #window
Summer laps, Greenway Parks
Greenway Parks is one of the most popular neighborhoods in Dallas and one of my favorites. It bridges the neighborhood gap between downtown and the private school corridor. Even more enticing, the greenways and boulevard parkways traverse this small protected neighborhood. Architect David Williams knew what he was doing when he laid out this plan. The best site is this one in the middle of the neighborhood. It is an estate size lot, almost an acre, surrounded by green. The lap pool is over 35 yards!
#LapPool #Pool #SwimmingPool #Site #GreenwayParks #Architect #Architecture #DavidWilliams #ConservationDistrict #Dallas #PrivateSchools #City #Urban #Swimming #Neighborhood #LandscapeArchitecture #BackyardTree #Cypress #Landscape #Green #Terrace
#GuestCottage
Aquatic Perspective
The aquatic perspective point of the courtyard that architect Lionel Morrison, FAIA, designed disappears into the trees and gardens of a Preston Hollow site. The 30” x 60” black slab granite terrace and pool is built on a pedestal system that will make this surface along with the continuous interior black slab granite floor as level as a pool table. As a result, the swimming pool does not need coping and does not create any impediment to the smooth surface of the water and interior and exterior granite. The pristine perspective point is preserved. Looking forward to completion of this @morrisondilworthwalls
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@morrisondilworthwalls architects
Inner City Neighborhood Lemonade Stand
Lemonade stands bring images of 1950s suburbia and friendly neighbors stopping to buy a glass of lemonade from neighborhood children. I remember painting wood apple boxes red and giving out green stamps on my lemonade stand. Isn’t it something that an inner city neighborhood just 20 blocks from the downtown Central Business District can still have a suburban feel. Many cities that keep increasing density have cars parked bumper-to-bumper on their residential curbs. These cars would block any view of a lemonade stand or access to it. When other cities were adding density, Dallas took the opposite approach. Rezoning was passed that gradually decreased density over time. A trend towards more single family homes allows some Dallas neighborhoods the best of both worlds, a diverse urban neighborhood and a friendly suburban-like neighborhood filled with trees.
#LemonadeStand #1950s #HistoricDistrict #SingleFamily #Density #Revitalization #Suburbia #InnerCity #Urban #Family #Children #TexasFoodBank #Philanthropist #Dallas #City #Neighborhood #Neighbors #Charming #Adorable #lemonade #WhereIsTheBeach #pathtotrinitygroves #fundraiser
40 years of gentrification still affordable options
Gentrification—neighborhoods evolve slowly. Some well intentioned people decades ago were in high panic about where low income renters could live if artists started moving into the most deteriorated neighborhoods. Even here in Dallas in the most successful revitalization neighborhood in the country, there are still vacancies and low cost housing opportunities for the less fortunate 45 years after the gentrification began. Here pictured is a fellow who has a woman riding in front of him as they are in the process of moving their things from one inexpensive apartment to another. A diverse range of Dallasites still populate “gentrified” neighborhoods in Dallas.
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What Dallas has and SMU doesn’t
An outdoor pool of course! SMU is a school that has everything in a luxury arms race to attract students. However, SMU eliminated its 50-meter outside pool in the middle of campus that attracted SMU students, faculty, and Dallas children and adults. Fortunately, Dallas is still keeping their outdoor pools open in the parks. The country club atmosphere of SMU continues to evolve. A few years back, behind the original dorms, one found two soft tennis courts surrounded by crape myrtles where Chris Everett would practice when she was in town. These two clay courts were replaced by a football stadium at the entrance of SMU. The SMU outdoor pool, only 300 meters away from the two clay tennis courts was centered on Bishop Blvd. and surrounded on three side by dorms. This 50-meter pool and 10-meter platform diving well is being replaced by a new four-story indoor practice field for the football team. Some are already calling this practice football field the “great architectural curiosity at SMU.” I always thought the swim and tennis country club atmosphere of SMU was charming and appealed to students who could stay on campus to relax. Others probably find a four-story indoor practice field in the middle of campus charming. SMU evolves!
#SMU #Dallas #City #SwimmingPool #PathToTrinityGroves #Park #Neighborhood #Tree #Summer #ParkPool #ClimbingWall #Swimming #Landscape #LandscapeArchitecture #CityPark #DallasPark #EastDallas #laplanes
Modernity Takes Many Forms
The recent documentary on The Carlyle Hotel shows the time-honored classicism and tradition of The Carlyle. Across the street is The Mark Hotel bar known for its modernism, but I have found it almost Victorian with its dark rooms, modern sconces and accoutrements, in contrast to the open spaces and wide passageways of the Gallery at The Carlyle. Programmatically, the Gallery is my favorite modern space in New York. Five entrances including single, double, triple, and quadruple passageways open this intimate room in four different directions, providing sight lines to Café Carlyle, Bemelmans Bar, a dining room, and Gallery corridor from the hotel lobby. Celebrities, neighbors, performers, and New York visitors are continually drifting through the room as does the music from Bemelmans Bar. On a single evening, I sat next to the table of Miuccia Prada, across the narrow room from John Mayer and his entourage, and bumped into Paul McCartney as he was waiting for a friend outside Café Carlyle. And yet, on an American holiday where do some of those serving our country want to come when they are visiting New York for the first time—the Gallery, of course. From the Princess of England to an American sailor, everyone finds the Gallery, hosted by Mabrouk, to be historic, modern, elegant, and fun.
#Carlyle #Gallery #Modern #Open #Elegant #Sailor #BemelmansBar #CafeCarlyle #Neighborhood #NewYork #NYC #Hotel #Tradition #Contrast #NightLife #UpperEastSide #Passageways #Patriotism #InteriorDesign #Architecture #Art #architect #CarlyleGallery #Restaurant
@TheCarlyleHotel
Trapezoid + Hill = Perfect Rectangle
In the Turtle Creek neighborhood, a difficult site presented itself for a significant home. Here, on a street with some traffic, the lot is a trapezoid with a steep fall to the land, and has an elegant oak tree that needed to be protected and saved. The solution to this equation was a perfect rectangle surrounded by trees. The Roman travertine façade is hung on a rain screen so it does not trap water between the waterproof concrete block structure and the travertine. This architectural approach frees the stone from ever being discolored. The pristine white exterior of this architect Lionel Morrison modern home adds to the resulting serenity of the site and purity of design. Here is another example of an important home that might never have been built if the backyard rental house ordinance had been in effect attracting an investor to build two houses on the lot.
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@MorrisonDilworthWalls