Douglas Newby Insights - Page 42
Lionel’s Arc
The power of a red oak! Architect Lionel Morrison is known for reductionist white box modern architecture. A tree this magnificent can totally change the entire geometry of a home. Here a celebrated straight line architect designed one of the most graceful residential arcs in Dallas. It frames and protects the tree and becomes the inspiration or the design of the entire glass-walled home curving around the pool. At a time when the Dallas City Council voted to allow backyard rental houses, it is comforting to know the present owner will not cut down this backyard tree and replace it with a 2,500 sf rental house in its place which is now allowed.
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Becoming one with exhibit
A museum guard is the one silently introducing a visitor to their space. The energy and look of a guard subliminally energizes or diminishes the experience. Here I was fascinated by how this guard immediately felt like part of the piece. The shared palate, the spacing, the look of forlorn detachment enhanced the mood of the installation by artist Zoe Leonard @WhitneyMuseum.
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Lionel Morrison Modern Impacts Northern Heights
Lionel Morrison was the architect who introduced modern architecture to Northern Heights in 1982 when trains were still running down the tracks, now the Katy Trail. Northern Heights has attracted many of Dallas’ best architects to design homes here. Having completed eight modern single-family or attached single-family homes in this neighborhood adjacent to Highland Park and Northern Hills, architect Lionel Morrison still leads the way. Lionel Morrison, FAIA, sets the architectural tone for the street and neighborhood. His characteristic plain lines and graceful geometric shapes are evident in this home. The horizontal teak brise-soleil visually connects this modern home to the forest and neighborhood of Northern Heights and the Katy Trail.
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A building comes into focus
When one is in a city, it is easy to view the streetscape as an impressive composition of imposing buildings and not focus on the specific architecture of each. How fitting that this building came into focus as I stepped out of the 66th Street Barton Perreira shop to try on a new pair of glasses in the sunlight. I looked up and this glorious building comes into focus.
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Smaller the Home Bigger the Tree
In Mexico, the smaller the village, the bigger the festival. In Dallas, the smaller the house, the bigger the tree. While some of the largest trees are at original estate homes, it is increasingly true that the smaller homes often have the largest trees. The Craftsman bungalows in Mt. Auburn, Midway Hollow, and Junius Heights are small enough to have a proportional backyard where a 100-year-old tree can thrive. The City of Dallas’ proposal is to allow new backyard 700 sf rental houses which essentially condemns this size house and this size tree. Investors would have incentive to tear down the 1100 sf houses to build new 2800 sf houses with a 700 sf backyard rental house. Enacted, this ordinance would give investors incentive to add a 1000 sf popup addition to 1800 sf Craftsman bungalows to make them 2800 sf, large enough to allow them to build a 700 sf rental house in the backyard. Either way, the small house goes, as does the tree, and it is replaced with a 2800 sf/700 sf investor template. Housing and price diversity in older neighborhoods disappears with 50 ft x150 ft sflots. See article Backyard Rental Houses will Devastate Neighborhoods. http://douglasnewby.com/2018/06/backyard-rental-houses-devastate-neighborhoods/
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Rough, Prickly and Refined
A rugged approach to a home located close to downtown Dallas emphasizes the refinement of Frank Welch-designed Texas Modern architecture. When Frank Welch first saw the limestone outcroppings of a remnant railroad embankment, he immediately visualized a modern home that responded to this site. Frank’s gentle touch and elegant lines of the modern home he designed here are contrasted and accentuated by the landscape adjacent to the front door – gnarly rock, cactus, concrete. This three-story home with sweeping balconies and elevated terraces and pool has been further refined by interior designer David Caldwallader who also responds to the robust natural edge of the site for his graceful and minimal interior design.
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Brise-Soleil Invites Sunshine
A brise soleil is named for screening the sun. The best known is the one architect Howard Meyer designed to encase the highriseat 3525 Turtle Creek and the brise soleil Edward Durell Stonedesigned that wraps around the modern home on Park Lane. At Houndstooth, a simple herringbone pattern brise soleil filters sun and creates shadows in both the outside terrace and inside the coffee house. While we think of a brise soleil in this way as shielding a room from the sun, it is actually an architectural invitation for sunlight. Glass walls on two sides of a building facing west would subject those inside to severe sun and heat or to window shades blocking the sun and the view. Here, the brise soleil lets one enjoy the delightful patterns of sunlight and shadows as well as the views outside.
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Architect’s Mind’s Eye Revisited
Architect Joshua Nimmo had in his mind’s eye an elevated view of the garden from the master bath when he designed the home. When visiting the home when it was featured on the Dallas Architecture Forum’s 365 Modern Living Series, Joshua Nimmo had the opportunity to contemplate and match this modern home’s completed view with what was in his mind’s eye when he added on to the original Howard K. Smith designed modern home. Joshua Nimmo created this room that opens to nature and relies on nature to provide the veil of privacy for this serene space sans window coverings. Studio Outside Landscape Architects designed the gardens and paths framed by trees.
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Impressionist Paintings Find New Home
The Impressionist paintings of Margaret McDermott look best in the Scott Lyons architect-designed Texas Modern home that she loved. They also look fabulous in their new home at the Dallas Museum of Art where generations of art lovers will be able to enjoy them. Mrs. McDermott was known for her contribution of insights, probing questions, and conviviality. In the spirit of how DMA patrons might have viewed the 32 donated Impressionist paintings in Mrs. McDermott’s home, the museum took unprecedented opportunity to serve Martinis in the Barrel Vault Gallery at the patron opening of the exhibition, An Enduring Legacy: The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Collection of Impressionist and Modern Art. Many Margaret McDermott affectionate stories floated across the galleries. Former Mayor Ron Kirk, known for his strong City leadership including his nurturing the building of the Calatrava bridges and revitalization of the Trinity River and Park, quietly mentioned that he and the former City Manager, John Ware, would occasionally have lunch with Mrs. McDermott in her home. On the way from City Hall, Mayor Kirk smilingly recounted how John Ware would tell him, “Now, don’t let this nice woman serve you Martinis at lunch and then you agree to everything she asks of you.” Ron Kirk mentioned he would arrive with resolve and the moment he sat down with her at lunch he would immediately agree to all of her suggestions. Margaret McDermott had a powerful gift of persuasion. And, of course, her suggestions would be good ones.
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Now Our Turn to Enjoy and Reflect
Margaret McDermott always said she enjoyed looking at her pictures every day. When The Tea Service by Monet was lent to the Kimbell Museum, she went to the opening of the exhibition Monet: The Early Years on October 16, 2016. Even a few days before the painting was returned at the end of January 2017, Mrs. McDermott said she missed looking at it and would like to visit the Kimbell Museum to see it. When there at the museum, it was as if she was looking at the painting for the first time, only filtered by decades of memories, sentiments, and an ever-abounding appreciation. Now it is our turn to visit Mrs. McDermott’s The Tea Service and the rest of her fabulous Impressionist paintings and art collection that has been donated to the Dallas Museum of Art. This collection of Impressionist art, An Enduring Legacy: The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Collection of Impressionist and Modern Art, will be unveiled tonight, June 11, at the DMA for patrons, and June 12 11:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m. for DMA members. At a new setting, an old and new audience will see these 32 extraordinary works by artists including Claude Monet, Pierre-August Renoir, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, George Braque, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Henry Moore. Everyone looks at a painting in a different way. I think we will all feel the energy of Mrs. McDermott’s affectionate gaze on these pictures all these years.
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