(emerzon– flickr/creative commons license) Santiago Calatrava designed the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas Texas, completed in March 2012. It crosses the Trinity River near the city’s downtown. The total length is 1,870 ft, maximum span 1,197 ft, and height …
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(Maura Teague– flickr/creative commons license) Morphosis Architects designed the Perot Museum in Victory Park in Dallas Texas, completed in 2012. The city fragments as the visitor enters, with tree canopies and free form gardens bringing him back to nature. From …
(rjhuttondfw– flickr/creative commons license) Phillip Johnson and engineer John Burgee designed the Water Gardens fountain near the Fort Worth convention center. It was completed in 1974. The landscape descends into three oasis pools and a knoll that blocks a noisy …
(steevithak– flickr/creative commons license) Larry Oltmanns of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill designed the Dallas Convention Center. It was completed in 1957 and an addition designed in 2005. George L. Dahl, Harrell & Hamilton, oschky, Marquardt, & Nesholm, and Omniplan designed …
(QuesterMark– flickr/creative commons license) Legorreta + Legorreta Architects designed the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, completed in 2007. It joins a neighborhood of classic American buildings by Louis Kahn, Tadao Ando, and Philip Johnson. Green elements include solar …
Antoine Predock Architects in collaboration with Cotera + Reed Architects and McKinney Kelley JV Landscape Architects designed the Austin City Hall, completed in 2004. The building earned LEED gold for its environmental features including extensive daylighting and green roofs. The …
(Architecture & Food– flickr/creative commons license) Alter Studio designed the Texas Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life in Austin, completed 2006. The steel panel extrusions with solid brick walls on one side of the building is interrupted by ribbons of windows. …
Tadao Ando designed The Modern Museum of Fort Worth, which opened in 2002. It is in the Cultural District near the Kimbell Art Museum. Five long rectangular bays extend into the water, similarly to the Kimball Museum, with solid concrete …
Louis Kahn designed the Fort Worth Kimbell Art Museum in 1972. A rectangle of parallel barrel vaults are inserted into an urban park. The landscaping scrapes under the concrete roof and water features further connect the spaces. A patch of …
(roy.luck– flickr/creative commons license) Gensler Architects designed this $93 million project Discovery Tower in downtown Houston, near the convention center. With between 600,000 and 1.2 million square feet of office space and at least 31 floors, this tower is part …