The Beverly

Stylish Turtle Creek Pad Offers Tree-Top Views And High Design

By Joanna England / January 23, 2019 /

There are very few condos in which I could easily see myself living, mostly because I’m rather fond of backyards and front porches, as are my two dogs and rambunctious 7-year-old. That said, this particularly stylish unit inside The Beverly on Turtle Creek definitely has my eye.  “The designers who made this home so special…

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Through Thick and Thin: Why High-Rise Floor Plans Matter

By Jon Anderson / October 26, 2016 /

When I was a high-rise n00b, I didn’t consciously understand why I gravitated towards one floor plan versus another.  Sure, sometimes it’s easy to spot — one’s too small, one’s got an inconvenient pillar, another doesn’t have enough closet space, and yet another is on a too-low floor.  But why, when all things were relatively…

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1980s: Dallas’ Second Wave of High-Rise Living, Part 1

By Jon Anderson / May 22, 2015 /

I recently returned from a trip to Chicago where I walked around burning off calories and looking at the high-rises of my childhood dreams. Chicago had a golden age of residential high- and mid-rise construction from the 1880s to the crash of 1929. Some were co-ops but most were apartments billed as mansions in the…

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