Architectural Wonders
“This is the end of a long journey,” said Craig Hall Tuesday morning, cutting a red ribbon draped across the free-standing lobby staircase of his newest gem, the HALL Arts Hotel. “It’s got a lot of soul. A lot of hotels are bland and not unique: we have 28 different room types!” It not only…
Read MoreColumbus, Indiana, is about 45 miles south of Indianapolis and about 70 miles north of Louisville. In such a largely rural state, Columbus is definitely in the boonies. Its 46,000 residents hold a secret that Indiana University, 35 miles west in Bloomington, tapped last week. You see, beginning this fall, Indiana University’s new master’s in…
Read MoreIn 1951, when Dallas was still learning to embrace the midcentury modern design movement, oilman Grady Vaughn, Jr. commissioned architect Robert Goodwin of Goodwin & Cavitt to design his waterfront dream home in what we now call the honeypot of Preston Hollow. The home is 9,500 square feet with six bedrooms, seven and a half baths, several…
Read MoreSince the days of our 1980s architectural dalliance, I’ve panned 30-plus years of lackluster Dallas building many times. I mean, of Dallas’ tallest 20 buildings, just one … one … has been built since 1988 … what world-class city’s skyline does that? (Psst … it’s Museum Tower and it’s only 15th tallest. Pretty sad, eh?)…
Read MoreOn Monday, preservationists launched the process of designating the Eagle Ford School building as a historic landmark. If you’ve driven down Chalk Hill Road just south of Interstate 30, you may have wondered about the rather small, oddly out-of-place concrete building, brightly colored with lavish details at the entry. Above the front entrance is inscribed…
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