Douglas Newby Insights - Page 35
Architectural Slow Note
Subtle, powerful, prolonged pleasure is created by this home design by architect Joshua Nimmo. Sitting in this house, I was reminded of a grade school talk and demonstration by a symphony violinist. He played a gypsy piece with what sounded like a thousand notes a minute. Then he played a piece with a long note that seemed to last a minute. He then explained that the fast notes seem more difficult but they are much easier to play than the sustained long note. This story came back to me as this modern home resonated on many levels. The finesse of the architectural note is deep, complex, and yet the home appears so simple and straightforward. That is when my eyes started searching for the clues – an architectural treasure hunt.
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Urban Reserve Arrives
There is always something chimerical about a new residential concept – Urban Reserve, an environmentally sensitive development with design guidelines encouraging modern homes. Now, a dozen years later, a modern home designed by Joshua Nimmo confirms that Urban Reserve has arrived. The vision of a modern architect-designed community of 50 modern homes is a reality. Joshua Nimmo designed the home, filled with sunlight, with parallel walls of windows to capture the sun and garden on one side and a delightful view of modern homes across the pond on the other side. Modern homes are seldom associated with front porch neighborhoods. Here the owners on a quiet protected street are spontaneously joined by their neighbors when they sit on their front porch cantilevered over the pond. The trail running along Urban Reserve allows immediate access to ride a bike to White Rock Lake. Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, when these contemporary houses are all placed, the aesthetics and livability of Urban Reserve reveals itself. Now the desirability of Urban Reserve is a certainty.
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Stonebridge spans Vibrancy – Tranquility
People living in a city seek out two things—vibrancy and tranquility. This is the reason Turtle Creek Park is such an enchanting neighborhood, entered over the stonebridge. This bridge does more than span Turtle Creek. It connects the density of the high-rise condominiums of Turtle Creek Boulevard, the vibrancy of nearby Downtown Dallas, Oak Lawn, Knox, and the West Village with a secluded private neighborhood of 39 homes embraced by Rock Creek, Turtle Creek, and the Katy Trail. Here one is in the vibrant heart of the city and removed from the city.
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Bridge to Neighborhood
Just as a footbridge is a romantic path to a front door, an intimate bridge is a romantic path to a hidden neighborhood. A small bridge creates a sense of destination, privacy, serenity, in an urban setting, removing it from the city and enhancing the sanctuary of a small neighborhood surrounded by hills and creeks.
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A little Country A bit Rock and Roll
Does this house revolve around the television, or does the television spin around in the house? Many architects try to hide a television. Here architect Thad Reeves of A. Gruppo Architects makes the television a cool design element in the middle of a modern farmhouse in an older Dallas neighborhood. You will be able to see this house on the 2018 Dallas AIA Tour of Homes on October 20th and 21st.
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American Home – Modern Interpretation
This home is a triumph for the middle class living well. Here architect Thad Reeves designed a classic 3-bedroom 2-1/2-bath home with the American average 2,600 sf on a standard 50 ft x150 ft lot. Rather than trying to further dumb-down a McMansion, decorate a McModern, or contort a modern design, this home has architectural grace and interest. It is a simple house with a lot of design. AIA Dallas Tour of Homes will present an opportunity to see this home found in an older Dallas neighborhood with the bike path running behind it, on October 20th and 21st.
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A Room Without Walls
There are all kinds of outside rooms and spaces that extend the joy and livability of a home—terraces, porches, gardens, yards, balconies, verandas, atriums, and courtyards. Here is what I really do consider a room with no walls. However, it has all the comforts of an interior room. It has a fireplace, kitchen, living area, dining area, central air and heat, additional built-in auxiliary heaters, receding screens that disappear, a sound system, ample electrical and elaborate lighting. Now, it might seem extravagant to have central air and heat for an outdoor space, kind of like turning on the air conditioning with the top down on your convertible. On the other hand, think how environmentally beneficial it is to be able to turn off the three central air and heat units inside a 5,700 sf home as you are able to go outside and just turn on one central air unit to supplement the breezes coming across the 30-meter pool. Outside comfort and maybe even a net environmental advantage!
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Bus Stop Cheer
As Henderson, the surrounding historic districts, and houses in the conservation districts become more fashionable, what doesn’t change are the smiling faces at the bus stops that dot the area. Urbanists don’t consider Dallas to have inner city housing because the homes 10, 20, or 30 blocks from the Dallas Art Museum have front porches and tall backyard trees. Still, for the last forty years of rejuvenation, gentrification and renovation, the bus lines running straight from the downtown Dallas streets through the neighborhoods every few blocks have remained constant. Even when the City Council voted years ago to rezone 100 blocks of Old East Dallas to single family zoning as the economic foundation of its revitalization, the planners were able to keep Columbia zoned for new apartments so that historic homes could be torn down and new apartments added to increase bus ridership. I haven’t seen an increase in bus ridership. With the cost of Uber increasingly competing with the cost of a bus ticket, we can only anticipate less bus travel in the future. In the meantime, one of the joys of living in an older neighborhood, regardless of how many suburbanites fretted about gentrification, is the diverse strata of the economic means and lifestyles one sees on the streets of an urban neighborhood.
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Every Town Needs a Quinlan Terry
Almost every town has modern homes, historic homes, and generic homes. But I have come to realize every town needs a Quinlan Terry designed home to put everything else in perspective. While sorbet is considered a small refreshing serving between courses, this large monumental home almost serves as an architectural palate cleanser. Its simple materials, elegant, smooth-faced stone construction, and clean lines overlook an immense piece of property as an architectural breath of fresh air. Imposing but relaxed, it exudes architectural significance with dignity.
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Bridge to Tradition
Architect Robert Johnson Perry was a dynamic mid-century modern architect in Dallas who designed many significant modern homes. Here he designed a home for the Schepps who lived much of each year in France and loved the French aesthetic. I love when I find a traditional home designed by a modern architect. At first glance it looks traditional. A more penetrating look sees modern influences of the floor plan, proportions, and the home’s relationship to its environment. This home with a footbridge over White Rock Creek to the front door is universally enticing. It has captured imaginations for decades and has survived because this architectural design is still so well suited and well placed in the 21st century.
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