Marc McCollum, AIA, redefines urban location and difficult site to create a modern home that captures nature in a dense Dallas urban neighborhood.
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Marc McCollum, AIA, redefines urban location and difficult site to create a modern home that captures nature in a dense Dallas urban neighborhood.
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The history and direction of older Dallas neighborhoods in a book by Douglas Newby launched at Texas Sesquicentennial celebration.
The future owner of the Crespi Hicks Estate home is identified and has the resources to further enhance and maintain a home of the magnitude and architectural significance of the Crespi Hicks Estate home.
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For the people who really love their home, 10 characteristics that make them happy come up over and over again…
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See how early 20th century modern homes built in the 1900s are more modern than 21st century modern homes that invoke a Victorian sensibility.
How modern home inspired by early 20th century modern, Texas modern, midcentury modern, stark glass modern is a good family home
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Find Out Why Greenway Parks Has Always Been a Very Popular Dallas Neighborhood and Now is Receiving a Whole New Wave of Interest by the Smart Money and Culturally Committed.
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Driverless Cars Change Everything! Planners Last Century Thought Toll Roads Essential for City to Grow. Now Toll Roads are Evacuation Routes, strangling the city.
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The Delicate Colling of an Architect Respecting, Honoring and Improving the Previous Design of an Exalted Architect’s Residential Design.
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See why Dallas AIA , for their tour of homes, selected this Oglesby-Greene modern home for their Premiere Party.
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Density is the Holy Grail of New Urbanism, from creating new zoning for granny flats, rooming houses, townhouses, duplexes, fourplexes and backyard two-story rental houses in established neighborhoods to encouraging dense mixed use development on undeveloped or redeveloped land. The advantage of urban density and the idyllic effect of density has been the battle cry…
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Dallas is selected for international New Cities Summit, exploring the fragility of cities and potential of 21st century city.
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The largest estate property in Dallas has potential to be destroyed by development or the architecturally significant home accentuated.
Here are examples of modern and traditional homes that share boundaries with massive private gardens or public parks.
What appears to be a conventional lot from street magically transforms itself into most extraordinary dramatic site for a modern home.
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