Douglas Newby Insights - Page 46
A City Evolves
Dallas has been erupting with new buildings for the last 10 years, from rapidly built banal buildings to the Pritzker Prize architecture of international architects. It is remarkable that a vignette view of the city reveals landmark buildings from many decades chronicling the personality and growth of the city. One gets the sense that over 100 years of development is just an architectural nudge for Dallas to become a massive city. So much space still in downtown and unlimited space across the river that will attract the 21st century center of Dallas. My hope is that the Dallas spirit of architectural ambition, aesthetic daring, risk taking, and creativity will win the economic race with those rushing to build and invest in Dallas. There will always be big dense cities. May Dallas continue to keep its character, good and bad, to perpetuate the personality of the city as it booms.
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Surprise of a city lot
When on a city street a lot might seem generic even dull. One of my favorite things is to discover the true nature of a lot behind a hedge row, beyond the house, at the end of a private drive when a creek, a lake, a forest appear. Statistics and amenities never reveal the full impact of the home and its architecture and site.
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Tiny Home Big Idea – EarthX
EarthX is a big idea – the largest Earth Day celebration in the world. The tiny homes exhibition is just a tiny part of this celebration at Fair Park in Dallas. Trammell S. Crow initiated EarthX, a multidisciplinary celebration that emphasizes the interest in our earth, conservation and best products, is enhanced by those of all political stripes and interest, from classic tree huggers to major corporations. Dallas, a collegial city, is a perfect place for Earth Day. “Big Blue,” pictured above is one of several tiny homes available to visit. One of my favorite things about my home is the 100-year-old quarters over the one-car garage. I think of the many now prominent people that at one time rented the space from museum quality artists, business owners and executives. Some people with vision choose to live in tiny homes.
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Dance is the Measure of Architecture
“Baroque dance is based on proportions, angles and geometry,” Catherine Turocy writes. Roman Architect Vitruvius in the first century writing about architecture,and Leonardo da Vinci in the Renaissance writing about architecture and the body and now Catherine Turocy in the 21st Century continues to make the correlation between architecture, the golden ratio, the golden spiral, the body, and the geometry of dance. The patterns of parquet floors of ballrooms and the proportions of formal gardens have been determined by the measure of dance. The spiral paths of dance mimic the geometry of the spiral staircase. Dance adds thoughts and emotions to these mathematical formulas that are expressed by angles within the body and by the moving body. The aesthetic system of math, science, and arts can be measured by formal gardens and dance. The proportions of architecture that make us happy in a home make us happy in Dance. https://nybaroquedance.org/
Photo by Julie Lemberger, compliments of @NYBaroqueDance
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Architecture Frames Nature as Art
Architects Jason Smith and Signe Smith of @smitharc architects recognize that a home that immerses one in the environment is more important than the size of the rooms, the home, or the lot. Windows here frame nature as art. This corner, with sunlight streaming across the room, frames architecture and design as art.
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Architecture Propels Art
Architecture is more than art. Architecture propels art. The late architect, Bill Booziotis, FAIA, was a master at designing homes that created happiness, propelled art, and heightened our sense of aesthetic. This residential art gallery space in Preston Hollow that he designed does all this and more.
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Stone, wood, water
Contrasting elements add depth and texture to a home and are even more engaging when they reflect the region and the environment. A peek at the lake through the trees makes the water in the foreground all the more appealing.
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Sightlines into several rooms generate happiness
A consistent characteristic of homes people love allow a person to stand in one room and look into several other rooms. Architects Kelly Mitchell and Sean Garman create homes that are composed beautifully architecturally and have characteristics that make people happy. In this home, one can stand in one room and see into and through several other rooms or can even stand in the courtyard and look through several rooms of the house. One finds an intimacy of each defined space and an openness and connection with nature and related rooms.
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Dallas, part of TED conversation
The TED conference has increasingly emphasized cities in their talks and conversations. TED 2018 speakers include: Vishaan Chakrabarti, the Dallas Festival of Ideas keynote speaker a few years back who said Dallas should not be tamed; Ian Firth, who has designed many of the world’s most amazing bridges emphasizing elegance and beauty; Renzo Piano, the architect who designed the natural light-filled Nasher in Dallas; Ingrid Fetell Lee, a speaker I am hosting whose book The Aesthetics of Joy is coming out this year; and in addition there is a Target private dinner discussing design’s role in the city’s greater good, in conjunction with the public art project, the Mile Long Opera. At TED, whether it is housing, autonomous vehicles, education, criminal justice, technology, health, or art, these topics increasingly relate to cities, a primary interest of many attending TED. My badge invites those here to ask me about HQ2=Trinity Groves, cities. While the competing cities’ pitch for Amazon HQ2 might homogenize the attributes of these various cities, in my opinion this search highlights the differences in the cities. Dallas is open and innovative which will allow individual Amazon employees to make an impact on the city. Dallas is dynamic, so it will be able to make a positive impact on the Amazon employees.
http://douglasnewby.com/2018/02/amazon-hq2-site-trinity-groves/
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Courtyard contains and expands space
Courtyards define a contained exterior space and can also extend interior space. In this home designed by Architects Kelly Mitchell and Sean Garman of Mitchell Garman Architects, the gardens surrounding the home become visually linked with the courtyard garden and pool, by the house that has many glazed walls, windows and glass doors that allow one to stand in the home and look outside in every direction, or stand outside and look through the home to see the surrounding landscape. Sight lines have created a series of visual planes of interior and exterior spaces that are intriguing and enticing. This balance and blending of nature and structure creates a modern home that one lives in with great pleasure.
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