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Hlavaty Architects Above left and right This fully renovated structure, restored both for hospitality and additional office space, maintains its original beauty and period details, including functioning fireplaces and original moldings. The Pecan Room exemplifies the drama created when existing floors were removed to create doubleheight spaces.
sculpture, and many of these were part of the delightful sculpture garden that formerly ringed the Trammell Crow Center in the Dallas Arts District. Now removed from their former setting, they sit beneath the trees in a kind of Arcadian paradise, appropriate to the mythical themes many of them depict. The campus now includes new buildings and more are scheduled to begin construction soon. Crow is excited and energized by the new projects now in design and construction, which mark the fulfillment of the completed vision for the site. Proposed new structures are in a decidedly Georgian style, reminiscent of those there now, but with more overt Jeffersonian influences. The University of Virginia and the central mall of Southern Methodist University are evoked by Crow and discussed as models, but with a twist: at UVA and SMU the buildings front formal greens and have structured relationships with one another. At Parkland, the siting is largely informal (but intentional) and the response to the acute angle formed by the intersection of Oak Lawn and the Tollway is reinforced.
Counterclockwise from right The Adirondack fireplace made of massive imported stones is one of many whimsical social settings provided by Crow throughout the campus. Meandering paths amid manicured lawns encourage perambulation, the act of walking to think, central to the ethos of Old Parkland (planter wall by Good Fulton & Farrell). “Getting Involved,” by J. Seward Johnson, is one of many sculptures that dot Old Parkland’s grounds.
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is a large domed hall with two projecting wings. These newer buildings are being designed by a team of Beck Architecture of Dallas and Dalgliesh, Gilpin & Paxton of Charlottesville, Virginia. Combined with a new entry to the site and significant new paving and landscape, these buildings will create a sense of arrival and modulated movement through the campus. The buildings will be connected by interior and exterior walks and loggias that will front a new arrival court
The centerpiece of the next phase
11/12 2012