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Non-uniform city workers in Dallas are about to get some unexpected time off, and it’s ruffling some feathers on the city council. Dallas employees will soon begin taking unpaid furlough days as City Manager Kimberly Tolbert moves to offset the year’s roughly $30 million budget shortfall. Under the plan announced last week, General Fund employees…
Dallas City Hall was named by the World Monument Fund as one of the sites on its new Irreplaceable America List last week. “As the nation approaches its 250th anniversary, Irreplaceable America is a call to protect the places that reflect the richness of that history, and the role heritage plays in education, community memory,…
East Dallas’ Little Forest Hills isn’t a neighborhood known for homes that blend into the background. Big or small, modern or let’s say “eclectic,” you’ll find all styles of homes in this highly sought-after neighborhood near White Rock Lake. Even so, this contemporary custom home manages to stand out even in this motley collection of…
Happy Fourth of July, Dallas! While everyone else is gearing up to fight for a patch of grass to watch neighborhood pyrotechnics from, we’re swooning over a different kind of firework: the spectacular, rare midcentury-ish modern masterpiece hidden in plain sight at 5205 Royal Lane in Russwood Acres. KABOOM! Let’s be honest. Nothing says American…
Whether you’re the type to spread out a blanket beneath a sky full of fireworks, wander through a neighborhood block party with a snow cone in hand, or spend the evening listening to live music before the grand finale lights up the night, North Texas has no shortage of ways to celebrate the Fourth of…
Math and architecture have always been intertwined, and not simply from an engineering standpoint. Geometry defines the space and form of buildings, and in residential architecture, it became the backbone of Midcentury Modern styles. Math allowed architects to break traditional boundaries and create cool houses. By using post-and-beam construction, traditional load-bearing walls were no longer…
