Douglas Newby Insights - Page 43
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.
www.architecturallydougnewby.com
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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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Trees, Breezes, Birds or backyard rental houses
The life force of Dallas is its original neighborhoods, which have layers of towering trees, lush landscape, and gardens, a natural habitat for wildlife and singing birds. This is in contrast to most cities where urban planners strive to make cities denser and grittier. The Dallas City Manager and Housing Director are trying to do the same by proposing a devastating zoning change: blanket backyard rental house zoning in single family zoned neighborhoods that would allow 40-foot wide by 30-foot tall rental houses to be built in the backyards of single family homes. This rental house zoning encourages landlords to replace homeowners and concrete to replace trees, unraveling the stability of neighborhoods.
For those interested in the environment, the repercussions of this proposal are even more consequential.
Global Warming: A canopy of trees keeps homes cooler requiring less air conditioning and encouraging homeowners to spend time outside. The rooftops and concrete that replace these backyard trees collect heat and radiate that heat outward.
Pestilence: Summer breezes from the southeast flow through trees. Backyard 40-foot wide rental houses on 50-foot wide standard lots block any breeze. Breezes are the best defense against the small West Nile Virus-carrying mosquito. The large mosquito can fight through wind. The West Nile mosquito cannot. This makes South Dallas and East Dallas much safer than the neighborhoods with larger footprints of homes and development. Backyard rental houses invite the West Nile mosquito. Environmental Impact: In the older neighborhoods of Dallas with layers of flowering trees, one will see Cooper hawks, egrets, and owls. Also seen are songbirds of many varieties, pollinating hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies, along with much wildlife. This natural environment is eradicated with backyard rental houses. These rental houses might be a short-term solution but have dire long-term consequences.
https://architecturallysignificant.dougnewby.com/neighborhood/east-dallas/
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Luxury of Land Pop of Architecture
Howard (Nick) Glazbrook III, whom I met early in my career, had already received many Dallas AIA awards. His work today continues to inspire. Here on a several-acre site, a few miles away from downtown Dallas, Nick Glazbrook was able to design additional structures to preserve the original size of the 1939 Texas Modern home and to celebrate its architecture by Arch Swank and O’Neil Ford and the land on which it sits. Relating to, but removed from the main house, these structures allow one to become more acquainted with the forested land. This luxury of land allows a pop of architecture which serves as an exercise room in the forest, an architectural sculpture, and an enticing destination for the homeowners.
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Parallel Open Corridors Lawn, Aquatic, Glass
Corridors are normally associated with a dark labyrinth of passageways to rooms people are not that interested in. In this modern home, architect Joshua Nimmo creates three visual corridors running parallel and open to each other. Glass the length of the home allows the interior corridor to share a boundary with the aquatic corridor, a pool the length of the home. This aquatic corridor shares a boundary with the long green lawn. These three corridors, all visually open to each other, provide a horizontal presence to the home, divided into three elements of interior and exterior space. Sunlight from three different directions ties these three corridors together.
https://architecturallysignificant.dougnewby.com/architecture/architects-dallas-and-regional/
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Modern Reflection on Mid Century
Architect Howard Meyer made his modern design in the midcentury look current in the 21st century. Today, there is a greater emphasis on sunlight, shadows, and incorporating a modern residence into the site. This can be seen at 3525 Turtle Creek. This high-rise residence was the epitome of sophisticated modern design, luxury and living. After all, the celebrated interior designer and civic leader, Louise Kahn, lived at 3525 Turtle Creek. As we reflect on the inspiration and importance of this corridor of trees and parks along Turtle Creek, we see the sustained results over 60 years. In this Turtle Creek corridor, the first high-rises of Dallas had become integrated into the Turtle Creek neighborhood of architect-designed homes, historic homes, and retail that is of a desired scale of this close-in city neighborhood. Along Turtle Creek we see the most sensitivity to preservation of original homes, the creation of architect-designed homes and interesting mixed use that links Highland Park to the Arts District and downtown Dallas. Few cities have the combination of a neighborhood with a bucolic background for architect-designed residences and city vibrancy all around it.
https://architecturallysignificant.dougnewby.com/neighborhood/turtle-creek-corridor/
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