A Recycled Glass House

Up in the north Dallas exurbs, sculptor George Tobolowsky has done something that will surely drive architectural purists batty: he has smushed together Mies’s Farnsworth House and Philip Johnson’s Glass House, and somehow doing this while using metal recycled from RedBird Mall. Amazingly, it works. My story on it is here. Another recent feature looks at Pratt Box and Henerson’s St. Stephen United Methodist Church, one of the most avant-garde works of American ecclesiastical architecture of its era (1962), which somehow found its way to suburban Mesquite. It’s what you get when you combine Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel with the adobe architecture of New Mexico. Wild. Other recent work: The foolishness of Donald Trump’s executive order on architecture; a bad plan for Philip Johnson’s Comerica Tower; what a Texas Flood memorial should be; Dallas continually getting in its own way; how to make a safer downtown; the latest plans for the Dallas Convention Center; DFW’s plans for a modular new terminal; Some advice for the new Nasher director; a step forward for Dallas planning (say what?!); the good and the bad at the remade Alamo; the new Medal of Honor Museum; the endless dickering over plans for Thanks-Giving Square; crap movies about architecture; a handsome home for LGBTQIA seniors; and why it’s about time to landmark Dallas City Hall.

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