More Museum Tower Drama: Washington’s Cultural Landscape Foundation Puts Nasher on ‘Endangered List,’ Blames Museum Tower
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The plot thickens!
The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Washington-based center bent on “increasing the public’s awareness and understanding of the importance and irreplaceable legacy of its cultural landscapes,” has included the Nasher Sculpture Garden in their Landslide 2012 list of endangered cultural landscapes.
In 2012 construction was completed of a high-rise condominium overlooking the Nasher Museum and Sculpture Garden site. The building, currently owned by the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System, was designed by Los Angeles architect Scott Johnson, and named “Museum Tower” in homage to its neighbor. The 42-story building – which was originally slated to be half its current size and is now one of the tallest residential buildings in the city – is sheathed in a reflective glass skin that acts like a mirror and reflects damaging and intense rays of sun into the Sculpture Center and Garden.
According to Michael Granberry’s report in Guide Live, Museum Tower officials were caught unwares by the Nasher’s inclusion on the Landslide 2012 list. Of course, Museum Tower and the Nasher are still trying to amicably resolve the issue while they both deny responsibility while, like schoolboys called to the principal’s office, surreptitiously pointing the finger of blame at the other.
“There was no indication that reflections from Museum Tower had caused or were causing adverse effects to plants in the Nasher landscape,” the consultant wrote in a report that was supplied to The Dallas Morning News.
Alternately, Museum Tower’s full-page ad in The News, which Candy reported on just days ago, was the telltale heart to Nasher officials.
So, does this help the Nasher’s argument? And do you think Museum Tower is any closer to fixing the glare from its 42-story building?
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Interesting, wonder what kind of resolutions they will come up with. Thanks for sharing!
The "resolution" will be that no one will ever want to buy there. What home owner would be proud to say they live at Museum Tower after this…not to mention paying $1,000 per square foot. BIG mistake…a $200,000,000 in tax payer's money mistake.
The Nasher surrogate PR machine appears to be working overtime today. There is no doubt there a reflection coming off of Museum Tower, but damage to the Nasher Garden? Please. I had my family down there a couple of weeks ago, middle of the afternoon on a very clear day, the temp was 92 on my car thermometer when I parked in the lot next door. There was no extra heat in the Nasher building from the light reflecting in from outside, none that we could detect, the place was almost empty and my little girl said it was cold. So we walked outside into the gardens. The kids enjoyed playing on the grounds, and the trees, bushes and grass are very green. Because of what I have read in Dallas papers and blogs I expected to find nothing but scorched earth, dried up grass and brown bushes and trees. Not so, in fact I wish I could get my yard even close to being that green. Have you even been down to the Nasher and looked at the garden yourself? I will bet not, because if you had you could not write the things you did in your article. Who is the Cultural Landscape foundation? Did they send experts down here to look at the Nasher garden? Who are their experts? I am not an expert, I only know what I saw with my own eyes. If that building next door is doing anything with its reflected light it might be causing the plants to grow even better. Do your own home work people, judge for yourself before some out of town outfit declares one of our places "endangered." It is not.
Interesting, wonder what kind of resolutions they will come up with. Thanks for sharing!
The "resolution" will be that no one will ever want to buy there. What home owner would be proud to say they live at Museum Tower after this…not to mention paying $1,000 per square foot. BIG mistake…a $200,000,000 in tax payer's money mistake.
The Nasher surrogate PR machine appears to be working overtime today. There is no doubt there a reflection coming off of Museum Tower, but damage to the Nasher Garden? Please. I had my family down there a couple of weeks ago, middle of the afternoon on a very clear day, the temp was 92 on my car thermometer when I parked in the lot next door. There was no extra heat in the Nasher building from the light reflecting in from outside, none that we could detect, the place was almost empty and my little girl said it was cold. So we walked outside into the gardens. The kids enjoyed playing on the grounds, and the trees, bushes and grass are very green. Because of what I have read in Dallas papers and blogs I expected to find nothing but scorched earth, dried up grass and brown bushes and trees. Not so, in fact I wish I could get my yard even close to being that green. Have you even been down to the Nasher and looked at the garden yourself? I will bet not, because if you had you could not write the things you did in your article. Who is the Cultural Landscape foundation? Did they send experts down here to look at the Nasher garden? Who are their experts? I am not an expert, I only know what I saw with my own eyes. If that building next door is doing anything with its reflected light it might be causing the plants to grow even better. Do your own home work people, judge for yourself before some out of town outfit declares one of our places "endangered." It is not.
Horton, thanks. Were you in the garden in the late afternoon? But you have a great point: who IS the Cultural Landscape Foundation?
Your other great point: as much as the reflectivity is doing something BAD, maybe in other areas it is doing something GOOD…
Horton, thanks. Were you in the garden in the late afternoon? But you have a great point: who IS the Cultural Landscape Foundation?
Your other great point: as much as the reflectivity is doing something BAD, maybe in other areas it is doing something GOOD…
To learn about the work and mission of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, please visit our Web site: http://tclf.org.
To learn about the work and mission of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, please visit our Web site: http://tclf.org.