Douglas Newby Insights - Page 42
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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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.
#BackyardTree #courtyard #Travertine #White #OpenRooms #TurtleCreek #Neighborhood #GlassDoors #PocketDoors #City #PathToTrinityGroves #ModernHome #Modern #Contemporary #Interior #Architecture #Architect #City #Dallas #Design #RainScreen #OakLawn #LionelMorrison #art
@MorrisonDilworthWalls
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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@MorrisonDilworthWalls
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.
#space #packing #architecture #city
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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.
#Architect #Architecture #ModernHome #TexasModernHome #Contemporary #Art #Design #BriseSoleil #Teak #Windows #Sunlight #Neighborhood #Dallas #City #PathToTrinityGroves #HomesThatMakeUsHappy #NorthernHeights #NorthernHills #KatyTrail #AIADallas #LionelMorrison #Glass #Geometric #BlueSky #White
@MorrisonDilworthWalls
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.
#BartonPerreira #Focus #Detail #ArchitecturalDetail #Brick #Stone #Historic #Style #Manhattan
#Architecture #Architect #Eyeglasses #Windows #ArchitecturalPhotography #Design #Art #History #Neighborhood #Residence #Shop #Store #NYC
@BartonPerreira #architecturephotography #neighborhood