Museum Tower
You may recall that in early November 2012, Museum Tower came out with a gutzy move to spur condo sales: offering buyers an unprecedented two-year, money-back price guarantee. George Zimmer’s voice kept circulating through my head. At the time, I remember thinking, wowsers, that’s bold and I need to know more about this! Well, Steven C. Sandborg, Vice…
Now here’s an idea for a solution to the Museum Tower/Nasher glare crisis, and it comes right out of one of the hottest spots in the world: Abu Dhabi. Get this: solar rays in this desert town can heat the outside surface of windows up to 90 degrees Celsius — um, folks that is 200…
As promised, here is the statement from the Museum Tower folks, followed by the Retractable Louvre presentation. As I suspected, insurability and liability are two pretty big reasons why they are say no:
Jeremy Strick, the director of the Nasher Sculpture Center, sent an email to the Nasher’s members, friends and supporters today asking them (and everyone who loves Dallas) to contact our council reps and get this issue resolved and yes, do the German louvre thing: Dear Friends,Yesterday, 11 prominent Dallas civic leaders lent their voices to…
Maybe. Brett Shipp over at Channel 8 has this cool video of Nasher’s proposed, computerized external louver system that would “open and close, cascading down the outside of the building, dulling the sun’s harshest rays.” “Our goal was not to detract from this building,” del Monte said. “Our goal was how can we respect it, and…
