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As continued from Part I...
Perhaps surprising to some, but the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex houses an incredible amount of cultural facilities This was my first of the trip. The Dallas Museum of Art.
James Pratt and Partners were the Managing Architects for the extensions built between 1978 and 1984.
The installation in front is called "Ave" and is a painted steel piece by Mark DiSuevero - famous for designing pieces that move and sway.
Photography was not allowed in the museum, but I managed to sneak a photo of this Zaha Hadid bench in the building's courtyard.
I also snuck a picture of this too. I thought it might be a Richard Serra, but couldn't find a plaque to denote who it was exactly.
My only picture from inside the DFA.
Then it was a quick trip across the street to the Nasher Sculpture Center.
NSC (cont.)
Jonathan Borofsky's "Walking to the Sky" (2004)...
Tony Smith's "Ten Elements" (1980)
George Segals' "Rush Hour" (1983)
Auguste Rodin's "Eve" (1881)
Barbara Hepworth's "Squares with Two Circles" (1964)
Joel Shapiro's (untitled - 1999)
Another Mark di Suevero. This one is called "Steel" and is from 2001.
Magdalena Abakanowicz's "Bronze Crowd" (1991)
Richard Serra's "My Curves Are Not Mad" (1987)...
Joan Miro's "Caress of a Bird" (1967)
The Nasher Sculpture Center's Garden is honestly one of the nicest outdoor spaces I've ever set foot in. It's honestly up there with MoMA's courtyard.
James Turrell's "Tending" (2003)
You actually go through a little door and enter a room at one side of the Gardens to see this installation. It took me a moment to realize why the ceiling was so vividly blue until I realized I was looking at the open sky!
One of many Henry Moore's I'd encounter on this trip. This is "Working Model" (1968)
A digital zoom of the new Pegasus sitting atop the Magnolia Building.
I.M. Pei's "Fountain Place."
Despite looking like a relatively dense CBD from a distance, it's actually a bit deecptive. Most buildings are fairly spread-out and surface parking abounds.
I then headed to what the tourist maps called the "West End Historic District." I asked in a Starbuck's about a five minute walk away which direction I should be walking and the employees all shrugged at me and said they'd never heard of such a district. Anyway, I trusted my senses and continued along and eventually found it.
Here's some typical housing vernacular for the area.
This historic district is pretty much the only area downtown that has any significant residential usage. From wiki...As Downtown Dallas's skyline was changing and the history was being demolished. Local developer Preston Carter Jr. revitalized the West End Historic District to preserve the history of an important area in June 1976. Old warehouses and other brick buildings were converted to restaurants and shops. The West End is one of the better urban areas in Dallas thanks to the set-up of the historic district.
It's also not without generous amounts of surface parking. Also interesting to note in this picture is that almost all of Dallas' "condo boom" took place not downtown, but a little north in an area that is generally referred to as Uptown.
West End Historic District (cont.)
The area seems to be in a bit of a decline despite the heritage preservation. Despite some nice urban-like streets, the area was very dead and this West End Marketplace closed its doors in 2006 and now sits abandoned (although I got a kick out of the never-changed early 90s font).
The closed West End Marketplace.
The closed West End Marketplace (cont.)
The area still houses a fair amount of restaurants, but many seemed geared to the convention crowd and not where most Dallasites would eat. Still, I took a chance on a seafood meal at Landry's and it was fine and not quite highway robbery.
Just north of the West End Marketplace is the Woodall Rodgers Freeway (sort of their version of the Gardiner Expressway, but much larger). They've done an o.k. job though of reclaiming some of the space under the freeway.
Dallas founder John Neely Bryan's log cabin sits at Founder's Plaza and is considered the oldest structure in Dallas.
On the south-east side of downtown (near the Convention Center) is the Pioneer Plaza Cattle Drive. Robert Temple Summers II was commissioned in 1992 to sculpt three cowboys on horseback and 70 longhorn steers - each 130 percent of life-size. The installation covers four acres in downtown Dallas and is simply awesome.
Pioneer Plaza Cattle Drive (cont.)...
To be continued in Part III.
Perhaps surprising to some, but the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex houses an incredible amount of cultural facilities This was my first of the trip. The Dallas Museum of Art.
James Pratt and Partners were the Managing Architects for the extensions built between 1978 and 1984.
The installation in front is called "Ave" and is a painted steel piece by Mark DiSuevero - famous for designing pieces that move and sway.
Photography was not allowed in the museum, but I managed to sneak a photo of this Zaha Hadid bench in the building's courtyard.
I also snuck a picture of this too. I thought it might be a Richard Serra, but couldn't find a plaque to denote who it was exactly.
My only picture from inside the DFA.
Then it was a quick trip across the street to the Nasher Sculpture Center.
NSC (cont.)
Jonathan Borofsky's "Walking to the Sky" (2004)...
Tony Smith's "Ten Elements" (1980)
George Segals' "Rush Hour" (1983)
Auguste Rodin's "Eve" (1881)
Barbara Hepworth's "Squares with Two Circles" (1964)
Joel Shapiro's (untitled - 1999)
Another Mark di Suevero. This one is called "Steel" and is from 2001.
Magdalena Abakanowicz's "Bronze Crowd" (1991)
Richard Serra's "My Curves Are Not Mad" (1987)...
Joan Miro's "Caress of a Bird" (1967)
The Nasher Sculpture Center's Garden is honestly one of the nicest outdoor spaces I've ever set foot in. It's honestly up there with MoMA's courtyard.
James Turrell's "Tending" (2003)
You actually go through a little door and enter a room at one side of the Gardens to see this installation. It took me a moment to realize why the ceiling was so vividly blue until I realized I was looking at the open sky!
One of many Henry Moore's I'd encounter on this trip. This is "Working Model" (1968)
A digital zoom of the new Pegasus sitting atop the Magnolia Building.
I.M. Pei's "Fountain Place."
Despite looking like a relatively dense CBD from a distance, it's actually a bit deecptive. Most buildings are fairly spread-out and surface parking abounds.
I then headed to what the tourist maps called the "West End Historic District." I asked in a Starbuck's about a five minute walk away which direction I should be walking and the employees all shrugged at me and said they'd never heard of such a district. Anyway, I trusted my senses and continued along and eventually found it.
Here's some typical housing vernacular for the area.
This historic district is pretty much the only area downtown that has any significant residential usage. From wiki...As Downtown Dallas's skyline was changing and the history was being demolished. Local developer Preston Carter Jr. revitalized the West End Historic District to preserve the history of an important area in June 1976. Old warehouses and other brick buildings were converted to restaurants and shops. The West End is one of the better urban areas in Dallas thanks to the set-up of the historic district.
It's also not without generous amounts of surface parking. Also interesting to note in this picture is that almost all of Dallas' "condo boom" took place not downtown, but a little north in an area that is generally referred to as Uptown.
West End Historic District (cont.)
The area seems to be in a bit of a decline despite the heritage preservation. Despite some nice urban-like streets, the area was very dead and this West End Marketplace closed its doors in 2006 and now sits abandoned (although I got a kick out of the never-changed early 90s font).
The closed West End Marketplace.
The closed West End Marketplace (cont.)
The area still houses a fair amount of restaurants, but many seemed geared to the convention crowd and not where most Dallasites would eat. Still, I took a chance on a seafood meal at Landry's and it was fine and not quite highway robbery.
Just north of the West End Marketplace is the Woodall Rodgers Freeway (sort of their version of the Gardiner Expressway, but much larger). They've done an o.k. job though of reclaiming some of the space under the freeway.
Dallas founder John Neely Bryan's log cabin sits at Founder's Plaza and is considered the oldest structure in Dallas.
On the south-east side of downtown (near the Convention Center) is the Pioneer Plaza Cattle Drive. Robert Temple Summers II was commissioned in 1992 to sculpt three cowboys on horseback and 70 longhorn steers - each 130 percent of life-size. The installation covers four acres in downtown Dallas and is simply awesome.
Pioneer Plaza Cattle Drive (cont.)...
To be continued in Part III.
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