A Rare Northern Heights Modern Treehouse Designed by Gary Cunningham

Northern Heights is an extraordinary neighborhood known for significant modern homes designed by the best architects in Dallas. It’s a beautiful little area surrounded by nature yet within walking distance of every amenity in the Knox Park area. That’s why it can be challenging to find a home here. But, once in a while, a true gem pops onto our radar.

Gary Cunningham designed this modern tri-level custom Northern Heights home. He’s best known for the reinvention of a nearby 1920s neighborhood electrical substation, dubbed the Power House, and designed for Morton H. Myerson.

Of course, Cunningham is also known for designing Cistercian Abbey Chapel, the Half Price Books flagship store on Northwest Highway, and most recently, their dramatic, head-turning office building on Shady Brook.  

In 2019, the Texas Society of Architects awarded Cunningham the O’Neil Ford Medal for Design Achievement, which recognizes work produced over at least 20 years.

As you can see, living in a Cunningham-designed home is a rare and wonderful opportunity.   

A Northern Heights Modern Treehouse

Cunningham deftly designed this 3,552-square-foot Northern Heights home to take full advantage of its setting, essentially creating an understated, graceful, modern tree house. 

The views are spectacular, and the home is sited to capture light from every angle. The architectural focal point is a striking staircase surrounded by a vertical ribbed screen reminiscent of the Japanese shoji screen. It’s a clever way to divide rooms yet allow light to permeate through them.

Cunningham is known for his use of natural materials and integrating homes into nature, and both are beautifully executed in this Northern Heights home.

Sustainable building practices are inherent to our approach, and each project is conceived with careful consideration of its context and user. The integrity of our buildings comes from the appropriateness of our design methods. Not only should the design and resulting buildings and spaces be responsible to the Earth and its resources, but they should also be responsible to their occupants and neighbors.

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Award-winning landscape architect David Hocker designed the grounds to reflect the nature of the home and enhance the privacy of this urban oasis. You would never suspect the Katy Trail is right out the back door! 

Finding an architecturally significant home in such a wonderful location is truly rare.

If you can’t make the Open House on Sunday, April 21, from 1-3 p.m. to see this spectacular Northern Heights modern treehouse in person, be sure to watch the video!

Ryan Streiff with the Perry-Miller Streiff Group has this treetop beauty in Northern Heights at 3503 Edgewater St., available for $3.995 million.