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Highland Park Students Reimagine a Streamline Moderne for Dallas CASA’s Parade of Playhouses

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / May 29, 2025 /

By Mindy Baxter Special Contributor For students in Highland Park High School’s environmental architecture class, work meets play for their entry into the 2025 Parade of Playhouses. Parade of Playhouses, the signature awareness event for Dallas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), features custom-designed and built children’s playhouses on display at NorthPark Center and available to…

Highland Park High School’s Parade of Playhouses Entry is Inspired by Charles Dilbeck

By Nikki Barringer / July 18, 2023 /

Highland Park High School means business. They have a MAPS program that stands for “Moody Advanced Professional Studies.” It’s a three-pronger that includes brain science and health, engineering design, and environmental architecture. The program was designed to create a “profession-centered approach to education.” Now here’s where I’m about to tie it all up in a…

Developer KDC Joins Dallas CASA For Parade Of Playhouses 2022

By April Towery / July 11, 2022 /

Twelve custom playhouses — including a lighthouse with working lights and windows, a Dutch windmill, a Mars space ship, a rocket, an aquarium, a Dallas Mavericks basketball court, and a replica of a historic home — will be on display at NorthPark Center for more than two weeks starting Friday.  Dallas-based commercial development company KDC…