Mark Lamster

Making Fair Park Work: Dallas Architecture Forum Panel Addresses Historic Amenity

By Leah Shafer / January 20, 2016 /

One of the architectural gems in Dallas is Fair Park, a 277-acre recreational and educational complex southeast of downtown Dallas. It is home to many George Dahl-designed Art Deco buildings constructed for the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936, and is registered as a Dallas Landmark and National Historic Landmark. But this park, home to the Texas State Fair each…

Mark Lamster Gives CD a Nice Nod on the DMN Arts Blog

By Candy Evans / August 20, 2015 /

He writes, of course, of the sad fate that is to befall 10330 Strait Lane, the “modern gem” designed by “Enslie” Bud Oglesby that we discovered is headed for a beheading, then a chop-down by bulldozer, with its final resting place to be some landfill in Lewisville. Hard to imagine Oglesby’s work meeting such a…

Preservation Task Force Aims to Protect Historic Buildings With 9 Recommendations

By Leah Shafer / April 2, 2015 /

  Last September, the Dallas preservation community let out a collective gasp as an entire block of century-old buildings was demolished by Headington Companies as part of the Joule’s expansion plans. Because of the way historic preservation is handled in Dallas, there was no time to discuss alternatives with the bulldozers or the company that…

Tour the Top Midcentury Modern Homes in Big D This Weekend With Preservation Dallas

By Joanna England / October 24, 2013 /

Don’t have plans for Saturday? Now you do. Why? Because you’re going to the Preservation Dallas Fall Home Tour sponsored by Briggs-Freeman Sotheby’s featuring eight of the most amazing Midcentury Modern homes in Dallas. Better get started early, too, because you don’t want to miss the breakfast reception and panel discussion with Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark…

Museum Tower Architect Scott Johnson Files His Response to DMN Architectural Critic Mark Lamster's Scathing Review: Architects Respond

By Candy Evans / October 2, 2013 /

A few weeks ago, Dallas Morning News architectural critic, Mark Lamster, wrote a pretty scathing review of Museum Tower. No fewer than five people, all in some form of real estate, told me they thought it was “obnoxious”; a few loved it, and of course, if critics were not “obnoxious” they would not be doing their…