{"id":3135,"date":"2025-09-16T17:16:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:17:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:17:41","slug":"a-recycled-glass-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=3135","title":{"rendered":"A Recycled Glass House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Up in the north Dallas exurbs, sculptor George Tobolowsky has done something that will surely drive architectural purists batty: he has smushed together <\/a>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 <\/a>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<\/a> of Donald Trump’s executive order on architecture; a bad plan<\/a> for Philip Johnson’s Comerica Tower; what a Texas Flood memorial should be<\/a>; Dallas continually<\/a> getting in its own way; how to make a safer<\/a> downtown; the latest plans<\/a> for the Dallas Convention Center; DFW’s plans for a modular new terminal<\/a>; Some advice<\/a> for the new Nasher director; a step forward<\/a> for Dallas planning (say what?!); the good and the bad <\/a>at the remade Alamo; the new Medal of Honor <\/a>Museum; the endless dickering<\/a> over plans for Thanks-Giving Square; crap movies<\/a> about architecture; a handsome home <\/a>for LGBTQIA seniors; and why it’s about time <\/a>to landmark Dallas City Hall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 … Continue reading A Recycled Glass House<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3140,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}