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More interesting and surprising facts about Texas.
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THE TEXAS ECONOMY (AROUND THE STATE)
A snapshot of the economy of 10 Texas cities.
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REAL ESTATE
F THE FU URE Futuristic Sports Stadiums.
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ST. LOUIS
The architecture of the Gateway City is of monumental significance.
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TOPPING OUT
The DFW annual event recognizes projects and people that have transformed the region.
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How to re-engage retail customers.
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AMAZ NG BU LDINGS –THE VESSEL AND THE LUCKY KNOT
Contributing Editor Angela O’Byrne looks at two projects designed from the outset to become landmarks.
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THE ARCHITECT OF BARCELONA –ANTONI GAUDÍ
A pictorial tribute.
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What it is, what it does and how it came about.
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MORTARR - THE FUTURE OF COMMERCIAL DESIGN
A web-based company is uniting project inspiration, sourcing and collaboration.
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COLLEGE MINDSET LIST
– STATUE OF ROBERT E. LEE
Contributing Editor Rose-Mary Rumbley was there (in 1936) and here she traces to the famous statute’s relocation to Lajitas, Texas.
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THE PAGE–THE DRED SCOTT CASE
The last and most famous of the freedom suits took place in St. Louis.
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EGAL VIEW – DRONES –PRACTICAL AND LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR REAL ESTATE
Attorney and Contributing Editor Anthony Barbieri artfully examines things you probably haven’t yet thought about – but which you now will.
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is the president of national architecture, design-build, and real estate development firm Perez, APC. She champions the principles of smart growth in her home community of New Orleans and in her frequent travels across the country and abroad. Born in Cali, Colombia, Angela is a licensed architect in over a dozen states, a licensed general contractor in Louisiana, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a member of the National CREW Network (Commercial Real Estate Women) Board of Directors. A singer, golfer, music- lover, and globetrotter, she relishes spending free time with her three grown children and large extended family. She is a Contributing Editor of and her Amazing Buildings feature appears in every issue.
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holds a Ph.D. in communications from the University of North Texas. She is a wellknown speaker in Texas and enjoys researching each and every topic. She is a Contributing Editor of and Herstory appears in every issue.
is the author of Rethinking Real Estate: A Roadmap to Technology’s Impact on the World’s Largest Asset Class. He is also the co-chair of the Urban Land Institute’s Technology and Innovation Council in New York. He is a former real estate and technology executive who now dedicates his time to researching the impact of technology on urban life and the way physical assets are designed, used, and valued. Previously, he served as vice president of Kardan Land (where he oversaw the expansion of a $3b property portfolio in partnership with investors such as Blackrock MGPA and Frasers properties); as CEO of Otherz.com (an app development company) and as head of digital at Standards Group - a creative agency serving clients such as IKEA, Scandinavian Airlines and Shangri La Hotels.
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LIFE IS CYCLICAL
At age 4, success is not peeing in your pants.
At age 12, success is having friends.
At age 16, success is having a driver’s license.
At age 20, success is having sex.
At age 35, success is having money.
At age 50, success is having money.
At age 60, success is having sex.
At age 70, success is having a driver’s license.
At age 75, success is having friends.
At age 80, success is not peeing in your pants.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to go back in time to when…?
·Decisions were made by saying, “Eeny meeny miny moe.”
·Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, “Do over!”
·“Race issue” meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
·Money issues were handled by who ever was the banker in Monopoly.
BABY
The perfect high
Keg
Acid rock
Moving to California because it’s cool
You’re growing pot
Watching John Glenn’s historic flight with your parents
Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Elizabeth Taylor
Seeds and stems
Popping pills and smoking joints
US presidents struggle with Fidel
Paar
Killer weed
Hoping for a BMW
The Grateful Dead
Peace sign
Parents begging you to get your hair cut
Taking acid
Passing the driver’s test
“Whatever!”
HOW MANY DO YOU REMEMBER?
1. Candy cigarettes
Longing for hair
The perfect high-yield mutual fund
EKG
Acid reflux
Moving to California because it’s warm
Your growing pot belly
Watching John Glenn’s historic flight with your children
Trying not to look like Marlon
Brando or Elizabeth Taylor
Roughage
Popping joints
US presidents struggle with fidelity
AARP
Weed killer
Hoping for a BM
Dr. Kevorkian
Mercedes logo
Children begging you to get their heads shaved
Taking antacid
Passing the vision test
“Depends”
·Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.
·It wasn’t odd to have two or three best friends.
·Being old referred to anyone over 20.
·The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
·It was unbelievable that dodgeball wasn’t an Olympic event.
·Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
·Nobody was prettier than Mom.
·Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
·It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the ‘big people’ rides at the amusement park. Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
·Abilities were discovered because of a double-dog-dare.
·“Olly-olly-oxen-free” made perfect sense.
·Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.
·The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
·War was a card game.
·Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
·Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
·Taking drugs meant orangeflavored chewable aspirin.
·Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
3. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
4. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes
5. Blackjack chewing gum
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P. F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix or letter... (Drexel-5505 / WH 3-9965)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM Records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi’s
17. Metal ice cube trays, with levers
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flash Bulbs
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork pop guns
23. Drive ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0 to 5, you’re still young.
If you remembered 6 to 15, you are getting older.
If you remembered 16 or more, you’re older than dirt.
If it’s true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
HUMAN CAGE
BY ALBANE SIMON”Every fabulist has told how the human mind has always strug-gled like a frightened bird to escape the chaos which caged it.”
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
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It used to be only death and taxes were inevitable. Now, of course, there’s shipping and handling, too.
é (L-R) IREM Dallas Industry Partners of the Year Award (Blackmon Mooring –Keeley Wise and Kacie Griffith); Committee Member of the Year (Dan McLaughlin - FSG); Rising Star (Scott Cessac); Chapter Vice President Christie Clenney; Dallas Industry Partner Legacy Award (Guard Texas – Scott Frech and Andrea Saccamanno); Chapter President Debra Spears; CPM of the Year lliana McQuown; Industry Partner Legacy Award (Steve Broom - Fujitec); CPM Candidate of the Year Alyson Voutier; Not pictured: President’s Award (Vince Lovato - Kings III) and Committee Chair of the Year – Sharon Simmons.
The Bermuda Triangle (a/k/a the Devil’s Triangle) is a mythical section of the Atlantic Ocean roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico (about 500,000 square miles) where dozens of ships and airplanes have disappeared. Unexplained circumstances surround some of these accidents, including one in which the pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy bombers became disoriented while flying over the area; the planes were never found. Other boats and planes have seemingly vanished from the area in good weather without even radioing distress messages. Although myriad fanciful theories have been proposed regarding the Bermuda Triangle, none of them prove that mysterious disappearances occur more frequently there than in other well-traveled sections of the ocean. In fact, people navigate the area every day without incident.
Reports of unexplained disappearances did not really capture the public’s attention until the 20th century. An especially infamous tragedy occurred in March 1918 when the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship with over 300 men and 10,000 tons of manganese ore onboard, sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay. The Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress call despite being equipped to do so, and an extensive search found no wreckage. “Only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship,” U.S. President Woodrow Wilson later said. In 1941 two of the Cyclops’ sister ships similarly vanished without a trace along nearly the same route.
In December 1945, five Navy bombers carrying 14 men took off from a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, airfield in order to conduct practice bombing runs over some nearby shoals. But with his compasses apparently malfunctioning, the leader of the mission, known as Flight 19, got severely lost. All five planes flew aimlessly until they ran low on fuel and were forced to ditch at sea. That same day, a rescue plane and its 13-man crew also disappeared. After a massive weeks-long search failed to turn up any evidence, the official Navy report declared that it was “as if they had flown to Mars.”
Author Vincent Gaddis coined the phrase “Bermuda Triangle” in a 1964 magazine article. By then, additional mysterious accidents had occurred in the area, including three passenger planes that went down despite having just sent “all’s well” messages. Charles Berlitz, whose grandfather founded the Berlitz language schools, stoked the legend even further in 1974 with a sensational bestseller about the legend. Since then, scores of fellow paranormal writers have blamed the triangle’s supposed lethalness on everything from aliens, Atlantis and sea monsters to time warps and reverse gravity fields, whereas more scientifically minded theorists have
pointed to magnetic anomalies, waterspouts or huge eruptions of methane gas from the ocean floor.
In all probability, however, there is no single theory that solves the mystery. As one skeptic put it, trying to find a common cause for every Bermuda Triangle disappearance is no more logical than trying to find a common cause for every automobile accident in Arizona. Moreover, although storms, reefs and the Gulf Stream can cause navigational challenges there, maritime insurance leader Lloyd’s of London does not recognize the Bermuda Triangle as an especially hazardous place. Neither does the U.S. Coast Guard, which says: “In a review of many aircraft and vessel losses in the area over the years, there has been nothing discovered that would indicate that casualties were the result of anything other than physical causes. No extraordinary factors have ever been identified.” n
Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world (Sailing Alone around the World) is one of the most remarkable travel narratives of all time. Setting off alone from Boston aboard the 36-foot wooden sloop Spray in April 1895, Captain Slocum went on to join the ranks of the world’s great circumnavigators – Magellan, Drake, and Cook. But by circling the globe without crew or consorts, Slocum outdid them all: his three-year solo voyage of more than 46,000 miles remains unmatched in maritime history for its courage, skill, and determination. After gaining widespread fame for this feat, Slocum disappeared on a 1909 voyage from Martha’s Vineyard to South America. It’s unclear exactly what happened, but many sources later attributed his death to the Bermuda Triangle.
YOU NEED (OR MIGHT WANT) TO KNOW YOU NEED (OR MIGHT WANT) TO KN Wé Woodrow Wilson é Joshua Slocum Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same pattern.
FeBruary is The second month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and its predecessor, the Julian calendar. It was named after the Latin word februum, which means purification because the month was a time for purification. It did not exist in the 10-month Roman calendar and is considered the seasonal equivalent of August in the opposite hemisphere. It is the only month that can pass without a single full moon.
Once every six years and twice every 11 years, the month of February will have only four full seven-day weeks, where the first
day of the month starts on a Sunday and ends on a Saturday.
The month of February was added, along with January, around 700 BCE, so that the calendar would reflect a standard lunar year of 355 days. February became the second month of the year around 450 BCE, although it was originally the last month of the year (which is why it has less days than the other months – it has what was left over.).
February was shortened to either 23 or 24 days at certain intervals in the Roman calendar, and a 27-day intercalary month
A: They all do.
was inserted after February to realign the year with the seasons. As part of the Julian calendar reform, the intercalary month was abolished and every fourth year was declared a leap year where a 29th day was added to February.
A leap year (also known as an intercalary year or bissextile year) is a calendar year containing an additional day added to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. (Intercalary means: inserted into the calendar to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year.) n
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The original 13 colonies were a group of British territories in North America. They were founded in the 17th and 18th centuries and became The Thirteen Colonies in 1776, when they declared independence. The colonies became states of the new nation in 1788, when New Hampshire became the ninth and final necessary state to ratify the United
States Constitution. The date each state joined the Union is shown in the table below. Five states were added during the 20th century. Alaska and Hawaii were the last states to join the Union -- both in 1959.
Article 4, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution lays out how a new state can join the Union:
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Missouri
Florida
Texas
Iowa Dec. 28, 1846 1788
Wisconsin May 29, 1848 1766
California Sept. 9, 1850 1769
Minnesota May 11, 1858 1805
Oregon Feb. 14, 1859 1811
Kansas Jan. 29, 1861 1727
1776
Alaska Jan. 3, 1959 1784
Hawaii Aug. 21, 1959 1820
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THE DALLAS TV DRAMA SERIES RAN FROM 1978 TO 1991 AND HAS BEEN DUBBED INTO 67 LANGUAGES AND BROADCAST INTO MORE THAN 90 COUNTRIES. IT WAS FILMED ON LOCATION AT THE CLOYCE BOX RANCH IN FRISCO, TEXAS, OUTSIDE OF DALLAS
SAM HOUSTON (1793-1863)
The Texas Rangers is the oldest statewide law enforcement agency.
It was unofficially founded in 1823 by Stephen F. Austin
In Texarkana it’s illegal to ride a horse at night without taillights
The Texas flag is called the “Lone Star Flag” and has three colors: red to represent courage, white to represent liberty, and blue to represent loyalty. It was adopted in 1845 when Texas became a state. The large white star was first used on Texas flags in the 1830s during the battles between Texas and Mexico.
Texas was an independent nation from 1836 to 1845. When it was annexed in 1845, it retained the right to fly its flag at the same height as the national flag.
was the first president and first governor of Texas. The Cherokee, with whom he lived in Tennessee, called him “the Raven.” Though one of the most famous Texans, he was actually born in Virginia and served as governor of Tennessee. A statue of Sam Houston called a “Tribute to Courage” is the world’s largest freestanding statute of an American.
THE WORLD’S FIRST RODEO WAS HELD IN PECOS ON JULY 4, 1883
!*¢#&≠ IT’S ILLEGAL TO SWEAR IN FRONT OF A CORPSE IN TEXAS
Texas still owns all of its public lands. If the federal government wants to create a park or cut a stand of timber, it must first ask the state’s permission.
OSCAR, THE ACADEMY AWARD STATUETTE, WAS NAMED FOR TEXAN OSCAR PIERCE, WHOSE NIECE WORKED IN HOLLYWOOD FOR THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURES ARTS AND SCIENCES. WHEN SHE SAW THE GOLD STATUETTE, SHE REPORTEDLY SAID, “WHY, THAT LOOKS JUST LIKE MY UNCLE OSCAR.”
Emily West Morgan, an African American indentured servant, is the subject of the song ''The Yellow Rose of Texas.''
The Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is home to the world’s largest parking lot. The Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport has the third largest runway in the world and is the alternate landing site for the space shuttle. Texas has more airports than any other state in the country.
Texas was the 28th state in the U.S. and was admitted into the Union on December 29, 1845. All other states except Texas entered the United States by territorial annexation. Only Texas entered by treaty.
The deadliest natural disaster in the U.S. was the Galveston hurricane of 1900, which killed between 8,000-12,000 people.
The term “maverick” is derived from the name Samuel A. Mavericks (1803-1870), an early Texas lawyer and pioneer.
in The pasT year, Texas added about 300,000 new jobs, and about a third of those jobs have been in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The Texas unemployment rate is at a record low of 3.4 percent. CEOs have ranked Texas as the best state in the country for business for 15 years in a row, and Texas has led the nation in exports for 17 years. If Texas were its own country, it would have the 10th largest economy in the world, with a $1.8 trillion GDP. “To put that in context,’ said Governor Abbot, “the Texas economy is far larger than the economy of Canada, (and) it’s even larger than the economies of places like Australia and even Russia.
The US average is 3.9% In Amarillo, it’s 2.7% In Austin, it’s 2.7% In Dallas, it’s 3.6%. In El Paso, it’s 4.2% In Fort Worth, it’s 3.6% In Houston, it’s 4.2% In Laredo, it’s 3.8% In Lubbock, it’s 3.0% In San Antonio, it’s 3.3% In Waco, it’s 3.8%.
The
Job growth over the next ten years is predicted to average 33.5% throughout the U.S.
The
Winners of the 2019 Distinguished Building Awards and individual awards. (Pictures were not available at press time.)
General Superintendent of the Year: Don Livingston, Satterfield & Pontikes Construction
Specialty Superintendent of the Year: David Hollowell, TDIndustries
General Safety Professional of the Year: Juan Torres, The Beck Group
On December 12th, TEXO held its annual Holiday & Awards Gala at the Hyatt Regency Downtown Dallas to honor the hard work and achievements of its members throughout the past year. Members celebrated the 10th anniversary of the association and took a look back at its history, and all in attendance enjoyed an evening of camaraderie and pride in the DFW construction industry.
The one is a supertall skyscraper currently under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At 1,014 feet (with 85 stories), when completed it will be the tallest building in Canada. (The roughly $1 billion project will officially be the second tallest structure in the city, behind only the CN Tower.
It will also be Canada’s first supertall skyscraper, as defined by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Construction of the building is expected to be comple-
Specialty Safety Professional of the Year: Richard Northcutt, Prime Controls
Craft Professional of the Year: Artemio Sanchez, Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing
Magnolia Woman of the Year: Casey Mitschke, Adolfson & Peterson
Young Constructor of the Year: Michael Knapp, Skiles Group Volunteer Leader of the Year: EJ Guvernator, Humphrey & Associates
ted by 2022 or 2023, with the retail space anticipated for opening in 2020. Its first 18 floors are planned to house retail, restaurants, event spaces, and a boutique hotel that might comprise as many as 11 floors. According to developer Sam Mizrahi, an “international anchor” store will be one of the tenants. (The It is speculated that Apple is destined will take a prominent place.)
On the condo side, Mizrahi said that there is currently a waiting list of over 7,000 people, who are vying for one of only 416 units. The building was designed by Foster + Partners (which was featured in the January-February issue of in 2019). n
Build Texas Proud Award:
Ridgemont Commercial Construction
Vision Award:
Manhattan Construction Company, Toyota Stadium Renovation & National Soccer Hall of Fame
Lifetime Achievement Award: Greg Wilkinson, Hill & Wilkinson
Construction Group
2019 Challenge Cup Champions: BakerTriangle
we can “lick them,” or so the mailmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?
Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don’t they put their pictures on the postage stamps so
(PICTURED WITH CHAPTER PRESIDENT RICHARD M. MILLER, FAIA)
YOUNG ARCHITECT OF THE YEAR: Kyle Kenerley, AIA
INDUSTRY ALLIED PARTNER AWARD: Eggersmann USA
PRESIDENTIAL CITATION FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE TOUR OF HOMES COMMITTEE: Chris Anderson, Assoc. AI
PRESIDENTIAL CITATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL PROGRAMMING FOR SMALL FIRMS ROUNDTABLE: Ron Wommack, FAIA
PRESIDENTIAL CITATION FOR INNOVATIVE PROGRAMMING - COFFEE & CONVERSATIONS:
Ben Reavis, AIA and Katie O’Brien
PRESIDENTIAL CITATION FOR OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZING THE ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN COLLEGE FAIR: Jonathan Brower, P.E.
A man staggers into an emergency room with two black eyes and a fiveiron wrapped tightly around his throat. Naturally the doctor asks him what happened. “Well, it was like this”, said the man. “I was having a quiet round of golf with my wife when she sliced her ball into a pasture of cows. We went to look for it and while I was rooting around, I noticed one of the cows had something white at its rear end. I walked over and lifted up the tail and sure enough, there was my wife’s golf ball stuck right in the middle of the cow’s butt. That’s when I made my mistake.
‘What did you do?”, asks the doctor.
PRESIDENTIAL CITATION SPECIAL COMMENDATION FOR LEADERSHIP:
Cristina Fitzgerald
PRESIDENT’S MEDAL: Mike Arbour, AIA
“Well, I lifted the tail and yelled to my wife, ‘Hey, this looks like yours’.”
Thanks To Firms like Populous, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Zaha Hadid Architects, and MAD Architects (whose works often adorn these pages) modern stadiums (or ‘stadia’) have morphed into multiuse venues, serving as public parks, food markets, and concert stages, too. Here are just a few stadiums (some of which are completed, a few others of which are still in the construction stage) that are pushing the boundaries of architecture and entertainment in a bold new direction.
01/ This futuristic baseball stadium in Mexico City - Estadio Alfredo Harp
Helú - by architects Francisco Gonzalez Pulido and Alonso de Garay is a striking site. The jagged roof resembles the pointed trident logo of the Diablos Rojos del México team. It is built over the footprint of the 1968 Olympic complex, and is surrounded by an outdoor market, organic garden, and batting cages, all of which are open to the public.
02/ Populous (responsible for many wellknown stadium designs such as Kansas City’s Arrowhead, London’s Emirates, Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field, just to name a few) led the way for the all-new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, whose home team plays in the English Premier (soccer) League. Its retractable turf can easily be moved to accommodate other events and visitors are kept very occupied by
a sprawling atrium food hall, a microbrewery, a café, three pubs, and Europe’s longest bar (more than 200 feet long).
03/ Zaha Hadid Architects constructed Al Janoub Stadium for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which will be held in Qatar. It was inspired by the maritime history of the area as well as the aesthetic and function of a boat; the retractable fabric roof can be unfurled like a sail when there needs to be shade. The 40,000-person structure also comes equipped with custom underseat cooling systems to withstand Qatar’s intense heat.
04/ MAD Architects’ 7.5 million-squarefoot Quzhou Sports Campus truly looks extraterrestrial, with venues hidden below
the peaks of a landscaped park. Running trails link the hills and lakes that cover the underground arenas, which are brightened by skylights. Among the arenas are a 30,000-seat stadium, a swimming pool, a gym, a game hall, and, in its final stage of development, the campus will also have a science and technology museum.
05/ In designing the upcoming Oakland A’s baseball stadium – Howard TerminalBjarke Ingels Group transformed the bowl into an entire entertainment complex and outdoor space, featuring a multilevel
rooftop park that overlooks the diamond and harbor. Spectators will be able to watch the game from either the 27,000 seats or the 10,000-person standing room area among the park’s treetops. It is scheduled to be completed in 2023.
06/ Marc Mimram Architects dreamed up the new tennis stadium for the French Open at Paris’s Jardin des Serres d’Auteuil botanical garden – Court Simonne Mathieu. It is surrounded by custom-built greenhouses and glass walkways so fans can gaze at the lush collection of flora from around the world.
A Lexophile is one who enjoys using words in playful ways.
1. You can tune a piano, but you can’t tune a fish.
2. To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
3. When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate.
4. A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
5. When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.
6. The batteries were given out free of charge.
7. A dentist and a manicurist married; they fought tooth and nail.
8. A will is a dead giveaway.
9. With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
10. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
11. When you’ve seen one shopping center, you’ve seen a mall.
12. Police were called to a day care center where a 3-year old was resisting a rest.
13. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now.
14. A bicycle can’t stand alone. It’s two tired.
15. When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.
16. The guy who fell on the upholstery machine is now fully recovered.
17. He has a photographic memory that was never developed.
18. When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she’d dye.
19. Acupuncture is a jab well done.
20. Those who get too big for their pants will be exposed in the end.
07/ Billed as a modern-day colosseum, Bergen ByArena by the Danish firm 3XN will change the landscape of this coastal Scandinavian city. Around the concert and sports center will be a cinema, hotel, and housing complex to draw both locals and tourists alike to the neighborhood. The entire campus will have a timber edifice and green roof so that it will blend seamlessly into the historic wharf, waterfront, and mountainous backdrop. n
The International Photography Awards 2019
Winning Photo Entitled “Horse’s Ass and Clydesdale”
01/ St. Louis is known for the Gateway Arch (The Gateway to the West"), the tallest monument (630 feet) constructed in the Western Hemisphere and the world’s tallest arch. It was designed by FinnishAmerican architect Eero Saarinen (see page 36) and opened to the public in 1967. It cost $13 million (the equivalent of over $82 million today). Built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States,and officially dedicated to "the American people," the Arch, commonly referred to as " the centerpiece of Gateway Arch National Park” has become an internationally recognized symbol of St. Louis, as well as a popular tourist destination.
The city was home to a cluster of early skyscrapers during the late 19th century. 02/ One of Louis Sullivan's important early skyscrapers - the Wainwright Building (a/k/the Wainwright State Office Building) - was built in 1891. It is a 10-story, (135 ft) terra cotta office building in that is considered the first expression of a high rise as an early skyscraper. It was commissioned by and named for local brewer, building contractor, and financier Ellis Wainwright.
The building, listed as a landmark both locally and nationally, is described as "a highly influential prototype of the modern office building" by the National Register of Historic Places. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright called the Wainwright Building "the very first human expression of a tall steel office-building as Architecture." In May 2013, it was listed in an episode of the PBS series as one of "10 Buildings That Changed America" because it was "the first skyscraper that truly looked the part" with Sullivan being dubbed the "Father of Skyscrapers."
He wrote: "[The skyscraper] must be tall, every inch of it tall. The force and power of altitude must be in it the glory and pride of exaltation must be in it. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation that from bottom to top it is a unit without a single dissenting line." One of Sullivan's primary concerns was the development of an architectural symbolism consisting of simple geometric, structural forms and organic ornamentation. The Wainwright Building where
he juxtaposed the objective-tectonic and the subjective-organic was the first demonstration of this symbolism.
03/ The Old St. Louis County Courthouse was built as a combination federal and state courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri. Missouri's tallest habitable building from 1864 to 1894, it is now part of Gateway Arch National Park and operated by the National Park Service for historical exhibits and events.
Land for the courthouse was donated in 1816 by Judge John Baptiste Charles Lucas and St. Louis founder Auguste Chouteau. Lucas and
Chouteau required the land be "used forever as the site on which the courthouse of the County of St. Louis should be erected." The Federal style courthouse was completed in 1828.
It was designed by the firm of Lavielle and Morton, the first architecture firm west of the Mississippi River above New Orleans. As street commissioner in 1823–26, Joseph Laveille devised the city's street name grid, with ordinal numbers for north-south streets and arboreal names for east-west streets.
Missouri became a state in 1821, and the St. Louis population tripled in 10 years, so a new courthouse was needed. In 1839, ground was broken on a courthouse designed by Henry Singleton in the Greek Revival style, with four wings, including an east wing that comprised the original courthouse and a three-story cupola dome at the center. In 1851, Robert S. Mitchell began a redesign of the courthouse in which the east wing was torn down and replaced. From 1855 to 1858, the west wing was remodeled. The famous Dred Scott citizenship case was heard in the west wing before the remodeling. (See History article on page 49.)
In 1861, William Rumbold replaced the cupola with an Italian Renaissance cast iron dome modeled on St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. (The United States Capitol dome, built at the same time during the American Civil War, is also modeled on the basilica). The St. Louis dome was completed in 1864, and Karl Ferdinand Wimar was commissioned to paint murals, which are featured in the rotunda.
The last slave auction held at the Old Courthouse took place in 1861. Slave auctions were held in the Probate Courts of the Old Courthouse near the East Door. The Court ordered sales of slaves whose owners had died without a will or had declared bankruptcy. This was common practice in all Missouri courthouses.
04/ The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis (a/k/a the Saint Louis Cathedral) is a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church located in the Central West End area. Completed in 1914, the cathedral was built as a replacement for the previous Cathedral of St. Louis located along the Mississippi River; it was designated a basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1997. The church is known for its large mosaic installation (which is one of the largest in the Western Hemisphere), burial crypts, and the addition of an outdoor sculpture to promote racial harmony.
Planning for the cathedral began in the 1870s and 1880s, and by 1914, enough of the building was complete for a dedication ceremony. Even after consecration (1926), completion of the cathedral's mosaics was not accomplished until 1988 The grounds of the Cathedral also contain the distinctive circular Chancery Building, circa 1965, designed by the Peruvian-American modernist architect Wenceslaus Sarmiento.
05/ St. Louis Union Station is a National Historic Landmark train station which opened in 1894 and, at the height of early 1900's train travel, was one of the most important contributors to the growth of the United States. As airplanes became the preferred mode of long-distance travel and railroad passenger services declined in the 1950s and 1960s, the massive station became obsolete and too expensive to maintain for its original purpose. In 1985, after a $150 million renovation designed by HOK, Union Station was reopened with a 539-room hotel, shopping mall, restaurants and food court.
06/ At its height, the station combined the St. Louis passenger services of 22 railroads, the most of any single terminal in the world. In the 1940s, it handled 100,000 passengers a day. The famous photograph of Harry S. Truman holding aloft the erroneous Chicago Tribune headline, "Dewey Defeats Truman", was shot at the station as Truman headed back to Washington, D.C., from Independence, Missouri, after the 1948 Presidential election. n
Chapter awards announced at the Holiday Luncheon on December 10th.
The eva rosow award of Excellence is an award that recognizes a female member of CREWSan Antonio who is a model of excellence to the CREW membership and the commercial real estate community. Award recipients act as mentors within our organization and are committed to enhancing positions in the field of commercial real estate. The award is named for Eva Rosow, a pioneer for women in the field of commercial real estate whose career began in the 1930’s and spanned over four decades in San Antonio. n
Three commercial real esTaTe leaders were elected to the 2020 CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) Network Board of Directors, which will be led by Christine Gorham, Director of Development, CADDIS Healthcare Real Estate. The new leaders were introduced at the 2019 CREW Network Convention and Marketplace in Orlando, FL.
TIFFANY ENGLISH – PRESIDENT-ELECT
Principal, Ware Malcomb
CREW San Diego
English leads the growth and overall management of Ware Malcomb’s San Diego offices, including the architecture and interior studios. She has won various industry awards, including Southern California’s Most Powerful Women in Commercial Real Estate by Real Estate Forum in 2017 and Connected Women of Influence Women’s Advocate of the Year in 2015. English served on the CREW Network Board of Directors in 2018 and 2019.
ADRIENNE BAIN – DIRECTOR
Vice President, Citizens Bank
CREW Charlotte and CREW St.-Louis
Bain is responsible for the prudent underwriting and effective credit administration and risk management of a diversified commercial real estate portfolio. She is also a founding principal of B Squared Group, a real estate investment management firm based in St. Louis, Missouri. Bain has served on the CREW Charlotte and CREW Network Foundation boards.
01/ Outstanding New Member - Brianna Covington. 02/ Networking Award - Eva Osborne. 03/ Leadership Award - Laura Gilliland. 04/ Maverick Award - Ernest Brown. 05/ CREWnection Deal of the Year. 06/ 2020 Board of Directors Standing (L-R): Diane White, Treasurer; Laura Gilliland, UCREW Liaison; Kristin Savage, Director of Charity & Community Outreach; Natasha Sattler, Secretary; Jennifer Mansour, Director of Programs; Erin Salinas, Director of Special Events; Christy Rhone, Director of Membership; Emily Brown, Director of Communications; Martha Hardy, Legal Counsel; Debbie Mann, Director of Sponsorship. Seated L-R): Dawn Vernon, President Elect; Yesenia Marili, President; Katherine Howe-Frilot, Immediate Past President.
KATHY CARR – DIRECTOR
Corporate Real Estate, Abbott
CREW Austin
Carr has more than 20 years of commercial and corporate real estate experience, including specialization in tenant representation, direct thirdparty landlord representation, property lease and sale negotiations, and all aspects of corporate real estate. She has served on both the CREW Austin and CREW Network Foundation boards.
Members and officers continuing their service on the CREW Network Board of Directors in 2020 are:
HOLLY NEBER – IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT CEO, AEI Consultants
CREW East Bay
CHRISTINE CHIPURNOI - DIRECTOR
Senior Vice President, USI Insurance Service
CREW New York
ANGIE EARLYWINE - DIRECTOR
Managing Director, Lamar Johnson Collaborative
CREW Chicago and CREW-St. Louis
MOLLIE FADULE - DIRECTOR
Head of Affordable Housing, Katerra
CREW Seattle
JACKIE ORCUTT - DIRECTOR
First Vice President, CBRE Industrial & Logistics
AZCREW
KAREN WHITT - DIRECTOR
President, Real Estate Management
Services, Colliers International
CREW Atlanta and CREW Washington DC
WENDY MANN, CAE
CEO, CREW Network
President, CREW Network Foundation
01/ 2020 Board of Directors (L-R): Tim Martinez, Shalom Limon, Max Hosford, Adrian Contreras, Laurie Montgomery, Terry Liles, Damon Skelly, Cindy Chalker-Williams, Sonia Passey, Christy Rhone, and Michelle Bolt. Not pictured: Betty Lagred
02/ Honored with 2019 Achievement Awards for personal service to the association (L-R): Chas Angelini, Cindy Chalker-Williams, Terri Liles, and George Stuckey
03/ Honored with 2019 President’s Awards for outstanding vendor of the year – a threeway tie: Allied Fire Protection, American Fire Protection Group, and Western States Fire Protection. These three companies worked together to make the association’s first-ever Speed Networking Cocktail Party a success.
01/ Annual Holiday Party and Toy Drive (L-R): Pareena Trochesset (Fluor Corporation), Carlos Fraifeld (West Point Lincoln), Kelly Gregory (Chevron)
02/ Houston Chapter #3 recently attended the South Central Region Annual Fall Conference in Dallas, Pictured (L-R): Sandy Field (Meridian Constructors, LLC), Kathy Cernosek (Restoration Services Inc.), Pareena Trochesset (Fluor Corporation), Angela Robbins (C3), Hillary Mullins (ISEC Incorporated), Tracy Shoemaker (Maverick Development & Construction)
Topping ouT - a dFw Metroplex annual networking event and awards program in Architecture / Engineering / Construction (A/E/C) and allied fields that recognizes projects and people that have transformed the city – took place November 7th at The Statler in downtown Dallas. It is a benefit for local architecture students enrolled in the University of Texas at Arlington
College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs (CAPPA).
The mission of Topping Out is to celebrate outstanding built environments, while raising money for educational opportunities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area which foster the development of future leaders. The award program (in its 16th year) honors
the project’s entire construction team by celebrating the building team’s ability to confront tough issues and work together toward a successful project completion, provides a unique networking opportunity with peers from all disciplines, and gives the opportunity to give back to education and the local A/E/C community. n
The former kindergartners were trying to become accustomed to first grade. The biggest hurdle they faced was that the teacher insisted on no "baby talk." 'You need to use 'big people' words," she always remind them.
She asked Wendy what she had done over the weekend. "I went to visit my Nana," she said.
“No, you went to visit your GRANDMOTHER. Use big people words!" Then she asked Joey what he had done.
"I took a ride on a choo-choo," he said.
"No, you took a ride on a TRAIN. Use big people words," the teacher encouraged him. Then she asked Eddie what he had done.
"I read a book" he replied.
“That's wonderful!" the teacher said. "What book did you read?"
Eddie thought about it, then puffed out his chest with great pride and said, “Winnie The Shit."
The Ohio Burgee is a swallowtail flag and the only non-rectangular U.S. state flag.
Only four state flags do not include the color blueAlabama, California, Maryland, and New Mexico.
Oregon is the only state that has a two-sided flag, featuring the state seal on the front side and the state’s official animal — the beaver — on the backside. (Massachusetts had a two-sided flag up until 1971 when a single-sided version was adopted.)
Washington state has two unique features: It’s the only flag that features a green background and it’s the only flag with the likeness of an American president (George Washington).
The upper left-hand corner, or “canton,” of Hawaii’s flag features the British flag — a remnant of the British involvement in the islands.
There are about 15 state flags with blue backgrounds featuring some form of state seal or imagery on the front, making them a bit more difficult to distinguish from one another.
New Mexico’s striking flag features the sun symbol of the indigenous Zia people.
To this day, there is a debate about whether the crescent in the upper-left corner of the South Carolinian flag is a moon or a gorget, a silver crescent worn on the front of the caps of the South Carolina troops during the American Revolutionary War.
Oklahoma’s flag represents the melding of cultures. The flag shows a traditional buffalo-skin shield of the native Osage Nation, with seven eagle feathers on a blue background inspired by the flag of the Choctaw. On top of the shield, crossed, is a ceremonial pipe representing the Native Americans of the Plains, and an olive branch to represent European Americans.
Animals are popular for state flags, specifically the California bear, Oregon beaver, Wyoming bison, and Louisiana pelican.
The new decade ushers in a new era of technologies and trends in commercial real estate management. Enhanced insights and data are increasingly available to inform smarter business decisions and improve customer retention and attract long-term businesses. Architects and interior designers, for example, are being pushed to be more creative in their design of multi-use spaces. One result? Mega malls are increasingly being replaced by lifestyle centers where customers can indulge in a range of experiences – from spa treatments and personal training to physician visits. The goal, however, is still to draw people into these communal spaces and keep them there.
Blending the insights we can glean from customer habits today with the goals of commercial developers becomes critical to secure a return on investment. Often, the question for the owners and managers of commercial spaces becomes how do we mine consumer data to better understand how long customers stay, where they go first, what attracts them to various spaces, and what keeps them there? Pulling together large sets of formal and anecdotal data from various sources, and then making sense of these disparate data sets, can seem impossible.
A prediction from Zenreach, the WalkThrough™ Marketing platform based in San Francisco, is that businesses and developers will increasingly provide free WiFi to customers so both groups can own cross-market data within commercial mixed-use spaces.
“Historically we’ve looked to online clickthrough data on our websites, social cam-
BY BROOKE BRUMFIELDpaigns, and digital marketing pushes to inform us about customer behavior, but every smart marketer knows this is only reaching a fraction of our audience, and only telling us a sliver of the story,” said Zenreach VP of Marketing Mike Waite. “What we really want to know is: When did John Doe walk into our store? How long did he spend here? And where else did he shop or visit that day? We’re giving businesses a new way to understand, then engage with their customers.” A key difference between Zenreach and other digital advertising platforms is that consumers opt into the network and to receiving special offers.
Zenreach is informing marketers about brick-and-mortar shopper behavior in new ways. In 2019, it measured nearly eight million walk-throughs and helped its clients see an average return customer rate of 30.46 percent. Its growing database is nearing 17 million contacts collected and a network of around 68 million through free WiFi at its various retail and restaurant partner locations. Here are a few key takeaways: Mall retailers are more likely than other businesses to send promotional emails and their customer base is more likely to open email with non-promotional subject lines. And while mall retailers focus on weekend traffic, most of their traffic comes during the week.
“For the first time, these businesses can really draw the line between online efforts and offline, real world results. In 2020, I think we’ll be hearing fewer marketers talking about click throughs and more and more talking about walk-throughs because
it’s a much more meaningful indicator of customer engagement,” said Waite.
Walk-throughs are also a better investment for marketers. For the sake of comparison, the cost per walk-through is estimated to be less, on average than the cost-perclick in most industries which, in Google AdWords, is $2.69.
The Zenreach network crosses categories from retail to pizza restaurants, museums and places of worship, dispensaries and bars, hospitality hubs and more, enabling marketers to pursue informed collaborations or make choices around trends in industries that impact their own.
While American shopping malls are waning in popularity, e-commerce still only accounts for 10 percent of retail sales. As experiential marketing takes center stage and retail spaces blend with other offerings to meet changing demands, cross-pollinating tech that shows behavior across categories is becoming critical. Until now, online marketers had a leg up on customer behavior insights.
Multi-use spaces are getting smarter and can now put online tactics to use in offline spaces. Zenreach, for example, knows when a current or new customer walks into a retail space, how long they stay, and even what they buy. While a few competitors in this space exist, the broad-based US network Zenreach ensures its partners own their own customer data and it never resells that data.
As technology evolves, businesses must find ways to adapt and commercial real estate ventures are no exception. n
when FuTure archiTecTure TexTBooks are written, it seems as safe a bet as any that New York’s High Line project will mark an important turning point not just in the history of adaptive reuse but also in our popular engagement with urban design. It’s fair to call the elevated, 1.5-mile park a genuine phenomenon. It has driven Chelsea’s property values skyward, spurred a glut of real estate development, and inspired similar efforts in at least 19 other American cities.
The High Line also managed something exceedingly rare: it became an instant landmark, joining the pantheon of Gotham’s greats, alongside the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, and the New York Public Library. Like the slightly-more stately Brooklyn Bridge, it turns infrastructure into a tourist attraction. If you’ve spoken to any visitor to the city over the past few years, you’ve heard about their memorable jaunt to the west side of Manhattan to walk the High Line.
But can a landmark be planned ahead of time? Or does that kind of status require a kind of natural charisma or even luck? Is building a landmark like capturing lightning in a bottle? What elevates Chicago’s beloved Cloud Gate (or, if you prefer, The Bean) above every other art project languishing away in a public park? While it’d obviously be impossible to know for sure, we collected a valuable data point in our hypothetical study in March 2019 when New York’s Hudson Yards Redevelopment Authority opened a 16-story, honeycomb-shaped monument called The Vessel.
Designed by British designer Thomas Heatherwick, The Vessel is part sculpture, part viewing platform, and part poster from the M.C. Escher gift shop. It rises above Hudson Yards’ plaza, widening like a cone, clad in resplendent copper and glass—a marvel of symmetry and geometry. Assembled from 75 giant modular pieces manufac-
tured in Monfalcone, Italy, the Vessel feels expensive. And it was. The monument cost a reported $200 million. But in simplest terms, The Vessel is an intricately-conceived, very shiny staircase to nowhere in particular. And while one can catch a view of the Hudson River from many of its 80 landings, The Vessel is its own selfjustifying destination. One goes to the Vessel to marvel at its construction and snap Instagram photos of its 154 interlocking flights of stairs.
Funded by developer Related Companies, the Vessel sits at the High Line’s northernmost point, and it’s clear that the structure was meant to capitalize on both its neighbor’s traffic and its cultural ubiquity: “We said we want to design a 365-days-a-year Christmas tree,” Related CEO Jeff Blau said upon the Vessel’s opening, “so that every single person who comes here has to come to Hudson Yards.”
With a large Related shopping center sitting in the Vessel’s shadow, one can imagine precisely why one would want a landmark there. But the Vessel is more than just a mall advertisement. Taken together, Hudson Yards represents the most expensive private development in the history of American real estate with an overall price tag of $25 billion, with planned luxury residences, retail, and a state-of-theart performing arts center. Accordingly, Related has touted the Vessel as “America’s Eiffel Tower,” and implied that the monument should last for “hundreds of years.”
The idea of creating an intentional landmark is a flexible one, spanning from hypercapitalist developments in New York to largescale civic projects in communist China. A few years ago, a project in Changsa, China embodied many of the same goals (and a similar affinity for stairs) as the Vessel.
Designed by Amsterdam’s NEXT Architects, the striking Lucky Knot bridge offers pedestrians multiple undulating paths across the Dragon King Harbor River. Playful in its sensibility, the Lucky Knot invites pedestrians to choose their own path across the arcing, bright-red strands of the bridge that resemble a Möbius ring. The bridge has become a popular backdrop for wedding photos and a tourist magnet— while also managing to serve a functional need. Like the Vessel, the Lucky Knot is an argument for a certain vision of the future.
It’s far too early to know whether the Vessel’s bid for landmark status has been successful. Reviews have been somewhere south of mixed, with many criticizing the clear commercial intentions of the project. However, one may note that early reviews for the Eiffel Tower weren’t kind either. It’s entirely possible that the next time you talk to a recent visitor to New York, they’ll tell you about their memorable climb to the top of the Vessel.
anToni gaudí (1852 – 1926) was born in Barcelona - the most modern city in Spain at the time. His unique Gothic-Oriental aesthetic still color the landscape of Catalonia’s capital and he is remembered as the man behind some of the city’s most impressive buildings. In celebration of his enduring influence, we look at the stories behind his top ten structures.
Before he became an icon in his own right, Gaudí landed a series of commissions drawing up plans for some of Spain’s most famous architects. Josep Fontserè was one of his clients and they teamed up to design the mammoth Parc de la Ciutadella /01/ , a nine-year project which still stands today. Gaudí was tasked with designing the park’s entrance gate, water feature and bandstand balustrade, now named “Glorieta de la Transsexual Sònia” in memory of a trans woman murdered there by right-wing extremists in 1981.
In 1883, Gaudí set about building Casa Vicens /02/, the first house of his career. He was building a reputation for his innovative blend of Spanish, Oriental and Arabic influences – and the result was a distinctly modern blend of red brick wall and flashes of bold color, a contrast which characterizes the majority of his later work.
Eusebi Güell, commissioned Gaudí to design a custom mansion which still stands in Barcelona’s El Raval. The Palau Güell /03/, a towering mansion, is recognizable by its distinctive chimneys, each of which was pieced together from shards of broken ceramic tiles. It has since been classified a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Gaudí took on Le Collège Sainte Thérèse /04/ halfway through its completion. The original architect is unknown, but Gaudí took over in 1889 and subsequently stamped his visual influence on the project. The result is comparatively sober due to a lack of time and money, but the signature flashes of color remain intact.
Scholars usually describe Casa Calvet /05/ as the moment Gaudí went mainstream. The building was commissioned for the heirs of a cotton industrialist and is located in one of Barcelona’s wealthiest districts, so the results were not as ‘loud’ as his more spectacular, psychedelic creations. It is unusually symmetrical for a Gaudí building, but sporadic curvature lends a sense of Baroque drama.
When Jaume Figueres and Maria Sagues Molíns purchased Bellesguard /06/, a dilapidated castle, in 1900, they commissioned Gaudí and gave him full creative freedom which, as it transpired, was a complete mistake: Figueres died during its construction and, when it was finally finished, Molíns had no choice but to sell it to avoid bankruptcy.
One of the architect’s most famous creations is the imposing Casa Batlló /07/, a unique skeletal structure centrally located at Passeig de Gràcia. Visually, it’s one of his finest achievements - an eclectic mix of sculpted stone, haphazard windows and unconventional protrusions. The design, which still stands, was renovated in 1904. It remains one of Barcelona’s most distinctive buildings,
Motel 6 and Super 8 both got their names from the
instantly identifiable by its colorful curved roof, which bears a resemblance to a mythical dragon.
Dubbed “The Miracle Home”, Casa Milà /08/ was Gaudí’s last civil work; it was constructed between 1906 and 1912. The initial design outlined a constant curve punctuated with symbols of nature and religion. A sense of Spanish hospitality filtered into the interiors, too – there was only an elevator on every second floor, a decision made to ensure that neighbors would be made to communicate with one another on different floors.
The panoramic views of Park Güell /09/ are famous tourist attraction. Gaudí once live there himself. It has since been transformed into a museum of his life. The enormous complex took 14 years to complete and was finally opened as a public park in 1926
and its appeal is enduring, and the finished result is littered with symbols of Catalan nationalism, religion and mythology.
The only fitting conclusion to a Gaudí tribute is an exploration of his magnum opus, the Sagrada Familia /10/. His involvement began in 1883 and lasted until his death. The masterpiece is a combination of Gothic and Art Nouveau influences and it was only 15-25% complete when he died in 1926. He died after getting hit by a trolley car in Barcelona, only a few weeks shy of his 74th birthday. (While the structure remained unfinished at his death in 1926—only one trancept with one of four towers was built—the extraordinary structure has a final completion target date of 2026, to mark the 100th anniversary of his passing.) n
eero saarinen was Born in Finland in 1910 on his father's 37th birthday. His family immigrated to the United States in 1923, and he grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where his father taught and was dean of the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He had a close relationship with fellow students Charles and Ray Eames, and became good friends with Florence Knoll. Saarinen first received critical recognition (while working for his father) for The Tulip Chair designed together with Charles Eames for the Organic Design in Home Furnishings competition in 1940, for which they received first prize. Further attention came also while Saarinen was still working for his father when he took first prize in the 1948 competition for the design of the Gateway Arch National Park (then known as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial)
in St. Louis. The memorial wasn't completed until the 1960s. (See St. Louis on page 24.)
During his long association with Knoll he designed many important pieces of furniture including his most famous Tulip Chair. All of his designs were highly successful except for the Grasshopper lounge chair, which was not a big success.
In collaboration with his father, the first major architectural work by Saarinen was the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, MI. The campus has been the center of GM’s engineering effort since its inauguration in 1956. In 2000 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places; fourteen years later it was designated a National Historic Landmark, primarily for its architecture.
Saarinen was then invited by other major American corporations such as John Deere, IBM, and CBS to design their new headquarters and other major corporate buildings. The interiors usually contained furniture designed by him as well. In the 1950s he began to receive more commissions from American universities for campus designs and individual buildings.
After his father's death in 1950, Saarinen founded his own architectural firm – Eero Saarinen and Associates –which carried out many important works, including the Bell Labs Complex in Holmdel, NJ, the Gateway Arch National Park (including the Gateway Arch) and the TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport,
(See Amazing Buildings, , Sept 2018) and the main terminal of Washington Dulles International Airport.
Saarinen died in 1961 at the age of 51 while undergoing an operation for a brain tumor. He was criticized in his own time for having no identifiable style, one explanation for which is that Saarinen adapted his neofuturistic vision to each individual client and project, which were never exactly the same. Today, he is considered one of the masters of American 20th-century architecture. n
as reporTed in our January 2019 issue, the 22-year-old annual College Mindset List - which began as a creative way of its founders (English Professor Emeritus Tom McBride and Public Affairs Director Emeritus Tom Nief) - reminding their faculty colleagues to be mindful of the perspectives of their incoming students) moved from Beloit College (in Wisconsin) to Marist College (in New York) this year. Now in its 22nd year, it has mushroomed into a widely utilized annual guide to the intelligent, if unprepared, student consciousness.
This is the network’s 9th installment - a glimpse of the cultural milestones which mold the lives of those who entered college in the fall of last year – the class of 2023, most of whom were born in 2001. They learned of the attack on New York’s Twin Towers from parents and grandparents once they were old enough to handle it. They have lived in a world in which shedding shoes at airport security; capturing news from crawling headlines on the TV screen; flying Jet Blue; and recognizing that blackboards, pens, and watches are sometimes smarter than we are have all been routine occurrences
The entering class of 2023, variously known as Gen Z, Gen I, Gen Tech, and “The Plurals,” is the first class born in the 21st century. List contributor Tom Zurhellen, Associate Professor of English at Marist, said this generation has definite concerns about algorithms that predict their feelings and interests, even as facial recognition programs, Facebook, and smartwatches observe their every
Like Pearl Harbor for their grandparents, and the Kennedy assassination for their parents, 9/11 is an historical event.
Thumb, jump, and USB flash drives have always pushed floppy disks further into history.
The primary use of a phone has always been to take pictures.
move. They are also comfortable with evolving notions of gender and sexuality. Said co-author Tom McBride, Professor of English Emeritus at Beloit College, “At least a third of these students prefer to be addressed with gender-neutral pronouns such as ‘they’ or ‘them,’ and they are about as quick to judge sexual orientation as their folks were to question pot smoking.”
In terms of demographics, co-author and sociologist Charles Westerberg notes, "With half of this generation composed of people of color, they are among the most demographically significant cohorts in American history. American politics today is hard to comprehend without taking account of this major trend since, within a year, their generation will represent 25% of the U.S. population.”
"The Mindset List helps put into context the growing interest high school and college students have in social issues,” noted Shaffer. “We’re seeing a more engaged, more deeply involved student body on campus.” (The Marist Mindset List was created by Ron Nief, along with educators McBride and Westerberg, Shaffer, and Zurhellen.).
The incoming class in 2019 class of college students never shared the earth with Joey Ramone, George Harrison, Timothy McVeigh, or Ken Kesey. Among their classmates could be Billie Eilish, Sasha Obama, or Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s daughter Simone.
The nation’s mantra has always been: “If you see something, say something.”
Nearly half of their generation is composed of people of color.
Oklahoma City has always had a national memorial at its center.
The Tech Big Four – Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google – are to them what the Big Three automakers were to their grandparents.
Because of Richard Reid’s explosive footwear at 30,000 feet, passengers have always had to take off their shoes to slide through security on the ground.
They are as non-judgmental about sexual orientation as their parents were about smoking pot.
Heinous, sexually based offenses have always been investigated by the Special Victims Unit on Law and Order.
Snapchat has become their social media app of choice, thus relieving them of the dilemma of whether or not to friend Mom.
They may well not have a younger sibling, as the birth rate in the U.S. has been dropping since they were in grammar school.
PayPal has always been an online option for purchasers.
They have witnessed two African-American Secretaries of State, the election of a black President, Disney’s first black Princess, and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
As they crawled on the floor, TV headlines began crawling at the bottom of the TV screen.
“Pink slime” has always been a food additive.
Only two-thirds of this generation identify as exclusively heterosexual.
Segways have always been trying to revolutionize the way people move.
YouTube has become the video version of Wikipedia.
By their sophomore year, their generation will constitute one-quarter of the U.S. population.
Quarterback Troy Aikman has always called the plays live from the press booth.
It has always been illegal to use a hand-held cell phone while driving in New York State.
They have always been concerned about catching the West Nile virus.
Most of them will rent, not buy, their textbooks.
They have probably all been “gaslighted” or “ghosted.”
There have always been smartwatches.
They have grown up with a Patriot Act that has dramatically increased state surveillance to prevent terrorism.
Newfoundland and Labrador has/have always been, officially, Newfoundland-and-Labrador.
There has always been an International Criminal Court, and the U.S. has never been a signatory.
Except for when he celebrated Jeopardy’s 35th anniversary, Alex Trebek has never had a moustache.
Pittsburgh’s Steelers and Pirates have never played at Three Rivers Stadium.
Congress has always banned human cloning completely and threatened arrest for offenders.
Monica and Chandler have always been married on Friends.
Cal Ripken, Jr., has always been retired.
The U.S. has always been withdrawn from the AntiBallistic Missile Treaty.
Euthanasia has always been legal in the Netherlands.
Teams have always been engaged in an Amazing Race around the world.
Face recognition technology has always been used at public events.
The year they were born, the top NBA draft pick came directly out of high school for the first time.
Coke and Pepsi have always been competing in the sports hydration science marketplace.
See the rest of the list at: https://www.marist.edu/-/ marist-news-the-first-maristmindset-list-is-released n
in ocToBer oF 1966, the National Historic Preservation Act created the National Register of Historic Places and the corresponding State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPO). Initially, the National Register consisted of the National Historic Landmarks designated before the Register’s creation, as well as any other historic sites in the National Park system. Approval of the act, which was amended in 1980 and 1992, represented the first time the United States had a broad-based historic preservation policy.
The act required those agencies to work in conjunction with the SHPO and an independent federal agency, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), to confront adverse effects of federal activities on historic preservation. The National Register of Historic Places was removed from the jurisdiction of the National Park Service in 1978 and has grown considerably from its legislative origins in 1966. Of the more than one million properties on the National Register, 80,000 are listed individually. Others are listed as within historic districts. A listing on the National Register of Historic Places is governmental acknowledgment of a historic district, site, building, or property. However, the Register is mostly an honorary status.
The National Register of Historic Places automatically includes all National Historic Landmarks as well as all historic areas administered by the National Park Service. Landmarks such as these include National Historic Sites (NHS), National Historical Parks, National Military Parks/ Battlefields, National Memorials and some National Monuments. Occasionally, historic sites outside the country’s borders, but associated with the United States, such as the American Legation in Tangiers, also are listed.
Any individual can prepare a National Register nomination, which consists of a standard nomination form and contains basic information about a property’s physical appearance and the type of significance embodied in the building, structure, object, site, or district. For a property to be eligible for the National
Register, it must meet at least one of the four National Register main criteria:
• Criterion A, “Event”, the property must make a contribution to the major pattern of American history.
• Criterion B, “Person”, is associated with significant people of the American past.
• Criterion C, “Design/Construction”, concerns the distinctive characteristics of the building by its architecture and construction, including having great artistic value or being the work of a master.
• Criterion D, “Information potential”, is satisfied if the property has yielded or may be likely to yield information important to prehistory or history.
There are exceptions to this list, mitigating circumstances allow properties classified in one of those groups to be included.
The 12 properties shown here are a small (and random) sample of the magnificent buildings, sites, structures, districts, and objects that comprise the National regiter (which include bridges, ships, signs, lighthouses, railroads, guns – and, of course, buildings). Spend some worthwhile and very enjoyable time at United States National Register of Historic Places listings and List of U.S. National Historic Landmarks by state and the State Historic Preservation Offices (Texas alone has 3,349 listings including the Alamo, the Capitol, the Stockyards, Apollo’s Mission Control, and Dealey Plaza.)
The Chicago Board of Trade Building was first designated a Chicago Landmark on in 1977. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The structure is known for its art deco architecture, sculptures and large-scale stone carving.
There were two ships. One was painted red. One was painted blue. They collided. At last report, the survivors were marooned.
The Mohonk Mountain House is an American resort hotel located on the Shawangunk Ridge in New Paltz, NY just beyond the southern border of the Catskill Mountains. According to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, “Through its buildings and roads, its land, and its spirit, Mohonk exemplifies America’s history and culture. (It) has since managed to maintain its 19th century character into the 21st century.”
motivated bombing that killed four young girls in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The church is still in operation and is a central landmark in the Birmingham Civil Rights District. It was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 2006.
The Slater Mill is a historic textile mill complex on the banks of the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, RI modeled after cotton spinning mills first established in England. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966, and is the first property to be listed on the register.
The Houston Astrodome was the world’s first multi-purpose, domed sports stadium. It officially opened in 1965 and was home to the Houston Astros until 1999, and the home to the Houston Oilers from 1968 until 1996, and also the part-time home of the Houston Rockets from 1971 until 1975. When opened, it was named the Harris County Domed Stadium and was nicknamed the “Eighth Wonder of the World”. After the original natural grass playing surface died, the Astrodome became the first major sports venue to install artificial turf, which became known as AstroTurf. In another technological first, the Astrodome featured the “Astrolite”, which was the first animated scoreboard. By the 1990s, the structure was becoming obsolete. In 2005, it was used as a shelter for residents of New Orleans affected by Hurricane Katrina and in 2008 it was declared non-compliant with fire code by the Houston Fire Department. Parts of it were demolished in 2013 after several years of disuse. In 2014 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL was the target of the racially
Hamilton Hall is a National Historic Landmark in Salem, MA, Designed by Samuel McIntire - one of the earliest architects in the United States – it was built in 1805–07, and is an excellent instance of a public Federal style building. It was built as a social space for the leading families of Salem, and was named for Alexander Hamilton. It continues to function as a social hall today and was declared a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
of a free labor system. The house is a designated National Historic Landmark, primarily for its association with the Washington family, but also for the role it played in the historic preservation movement. It is now a museum property owned and managed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The Fargo Theatre is an art deco movie theater in Fargo, ND. It opened in 1926, was restored in 1999 to its historic appearance and now is an area center for the arts. It was added to the National Register in 1982.
Montpelier, located in Orange County, VA was the plantation house of the President James (and Dolley) Madison’s family. The 2,650-acre property is open seven days a week with the mission of engaging the public with the enduring legacy of Madison’s most powerful idea: government by the people. It was declared a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
Woodlawn Mansion is an historic house located in Fairfax County, Virginia. Originally a part of Mount Vernon, George Washington’s historic plantation estate, it was subdivided in the 19th century by abolitionists to demonstrate the viability
The Watergate complex is a group of six buildings in Washington, D.C. Built between 1963 and 1971 and covering about 10 acres, it is considered one of Washington’s most desirable living spaces. In 1972, the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, then located on the sixth floor of the Watergate Office Building, was burglarized; private campaign documents were photographed and telephones were wiretapped. The investigation into the burglary revealed that high officials in the administration of President Richard Nixon had ordered the break-in and then tried to cover up their involvement. Additional crimes were also uncovered. The ensuing Watergate scandal, named for the complex, resulted in President Nixon’s resignation on August 9, 1974. The name “Watergate” and the suffix “gate” have since become synonymous with and applied to controversial topics and scandals in the United States and elsewhere. The National Trust for Historic Preservation is headquartered in the Watergate complex. n
After 2018 losses, data center REITS bounce back at the start of 2019. As the energy sector in Houston continues to increase spending on technology and modernizing IT structures, the city experienced an uptick in demand and absorption. Health systems evaluating the shift from their traditional, onpremises model continue to represent a significant opportunity in the market.
Incoming demand for more edge locations brings construction considerations.
With demand driven by large anchor tenants, providers in the Austin and San Antonio markets are not speculatively building turnkey space. Market supply constraints may potentially yield increased rental rates in the future. Expansive tech-sector growth in Austin will drive new demand.
New locations and innovations spur recycling opportunity.
As providers complete construction on their latest builds, supply in the DallasFort Worth market remains well positioned to meet user demand. Absorption by traditional enterprises and major social media players in the market signals opportunity for providers.
The industry marks a slowdown in demand to start the year
Cloud increases its share of demand
Under
aFTer years oF BaTTling through inefficiencies within the commercial construction and design industry, three individuals teamed up to streamline the way industry professionals and clients alike again inspiration, source products, collaborate, and grow. The result of that effort is Mortarr, an imagery driven and search-based website and app that serves as an inspiration gallery, networking, and promotional tool for professionals, brands, and individuals in the commercial construction and design industry.
“We started Mortarr not just to solve a problem, but to revolutionize an entire industry for the better,” says Abby Murray, co-founder and Chief Brand Officer. “What has been done so well on the
residential side is now being applied to the commercial construction and design industry. Over 5 million Google searches are happening every month for services and ideas within the commercial space. We’re bringing those eyes to Mortarr, so they can finally find what they’re looking for on one single platform: photos that inspire and the products and services that bring those spaces to life.”
The stars on Mortarr are professionals and brands within the commercial construction and design space that showcase their services and products with a customized profile and unlimited project galleries. Those using Mortarr are people and professionals looking for commercial design ideas and the capabilities to carry out their project. Anyone can access Mortarr at no cost to gain inspiration, locate professionals and discover brands with
lives of an unserved market of more than 24.1 million Americans who live with a disability.
whom they may collaborate. Mortarr is not an e-commerce site. No prices are stated, and products and services cannot be directly purchased on Mortarr. It is a collaboration hub where commercial professionals can upgrade to a company or brand profile to become findable on the platform.
Architects, builders, designers, developers, facility directors and business owners use Mortarr to find project ideas, specify products and vet pros -bringing the industry together on a single platform making it easier to find, be found, and collaborate. In its simplest terms, Mortarr connects the commercial construction and design industry to build beautiful business. For more information go to mortarr.com. n
JeFFrey demure + associaTes archiTecTs has published Livable Design: From Commodity to Community with Affordable, Adaptable, Beautiful Home Design, the first book that presents readers with the steps for building a sustainable, beautiful, livable home that changes with the needs of its occupants –from raising young children to living in place vs. merely aging-in-place. DeMure, together with his team, has spent the last ten years developing Livable Design™, a collection of simple, cost-effective elements that can be incorporated into the design of any living space to make it more fully inclusive for residents and guests of all ages and mobility profiles. The book offers practical step-by-step instructions for builders, developers and homeowners who want to create homes and communities that can transform the
“In any given market, at least 70 percent of builders are building for less than 35 percent of homebuyers, so it’s no wonder there’s so much commonality and similarity among offerings,” said DeMure. “What Livable Design allows for is a broader penetration into something that has a deeper purpose and speaks the language of the people who are actually going to buy and live in these homes while creating multi-generational communities designed to be genuinely livable and inclusive for a much greater percentage of the population.”
Moving beyond the industry’s buzzwords of “aging-in-place” and “universal design” which to date have been geared mainly toward remodeling homes, the premise of Livable Design is that we should start with the idea of making homes livable from the outset.
Livable Design is not a single feature, but a series of elements that likely escape conscious notice, but work in concert to enhance the functionality, flow, beauty and safety of your home. Livable Design has already been incorporated in more than 20,000 residences across the United States, including homes at The Cannery,
the award-winning farm-to-table community in Davis, California. Demure aims to have one million Livable Design homes across the country in the next five years.
The book, illustrated by Hugh MacLeod of Gapingvoid, is available for purchase on Amazon.com both on Kindle and hard copy. For more information about Livable Design please visit www.livabledesign.com.
Jeffrey DeMure is the founder of Jeffrey DeMure + Associates Architects Planners. A nationally recognized speaker on topics ranging from architecture to entrepreneurism, DeMure has addressed such notable forums as PCBC, ULI, NAHB, The Seaside Institute and many aging services associations nationwide. He serves on numerous boards and advisory committees with the goal of sharing his vision for the future of the housing industry – a world where our homes and communities are built to grow with us over the course of an entire lifetime. You can learn more about JD+A at www.jdaarch.com n
By Dror Poleg
answers that call, exploring the impact of technology on all asset types―from retail and hospitality projects, through office and residential buildings, to industrial facilities and even agricultural land. It is based on the author’s two decades of experience working across four continents alongside the world’s leading real estate investors, as well as hundreds of conversations with start-up founders and venture capitalists. It provides practitioners with key insights, methodologies, and practical strategies to identify risks, take advantage of emerging opportunities, evaluate new competitors, and transform their organization, project, or venture.
CRETech, MIPIM, Real Estate Weekly, and Estates Gazette. Previously, he served as vice president of Kardan Land, where he oversaw the expansion of a $3b property portfolio in partnership with investors such as Blackrock MGPA and Frasers Properties; as CEO of Otherz.com, an app development company; and as Head of Digital at Standards Group, a creative agency that served clients such as IKEA, Scandinavian Airlines, and Shangri La Hotels.
“Dror Poleg has once again shown that his innate grasp of complex concepts within our dynamic industry is second to none.”
—Zach Aarons, Co-founder and Partner, MetaProp Ventures; co-author of Proptech 101
“A must-read for anyone interested in learning about the evolving relationship between the digital and physical worlds.”
—Matthew Boras, Investor, RXR Properties
Technology is revoluTionizing The way real estate is designed, operated, and valued. It is democratizing access to capital and information, changing the way tenants use space, and eroding the power of regulation. Billions of dollars are funding these new real estate technologies and operating models. “Value is shifting away from the assets themselves toward those who understand the needs of specific end-users and can use technology to deliver comprehensive, on-demand solutions,” says Dror Poleg, author of RETHINKING REAL ESTATE:A Roadmap to Technology’s Impact on the World’s Largest Asset Class (Palgrave Macmillan; December 2019), which explores the evolution of all asset types — from retail and hospitality projects, through office and residential buildings, to industrial and logistics facilities. It provides readers with key insights, methodologies, and practical strategies to identify risks, take advantage of emerging opportunities, evaluate new competitors, and transform their organization, project, venture, or career.
With all of these changes, there is a need for a resource that helps those in the industry think differently about their investment, customers, and competition. This book
Dror Poleg is a former real estate and technology executive who now dedicates his time to researching the impact of technology on urban life and the way physical assets are designed, used, and valued. He advises executives across the real estate universe on emerging business models and consumer behaviors. His clients include multibillion dollar companies such as AvalonBay Communities, British Land, Liberty Mutual, Dubai Holding, and Cushman & Wakefield, industry organizations such as the National Multifamily Housing Council, NAIOP, EPRA, and INREV, as well as venture-backed startups such as Breather, Bumblebee Spaces, and Carson. His work draws on his experiences living and working in some of the world most vibrant cities — Paris, London, Tel Aviv, Beijing, Melbourne, and New York — as well as his formal training at the London School of Economics, INSEAD, and Swinburne University of Technology. His insights and research have been featured in reports and events by KPMG, PwC, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, PERE, JLL,
“Dror offers a framework to understand how quickly technology can be used to challenge existing assumptions.”
—Shaun Abrahamson, Managing Partner, Urban US Ventures
“Sometimes you ‘should’ read a book and other times you ‘must’ read a book. If you are in the real estate industry, at any level, this is a must read.”
—Bruce Stachenfeld, Chairman, Duval & Stachenfeld LLP
“If you’re even remotely interested in commercial real estate, this book will force you to rethink this sector from a whole new perspective.”
—Marcin Pokorski, VP of Strategic Marketing, Eastdil Secured. n
Q3 2019 Retail MarketViews
AUSTIN: Development heats up as demand for retail spikes
Occupancy: 95.9%
Net Absorption: 173,812 sq. ft
DALLAS/ FORT WORTH: Fitness and entertainment tenants drive high leasing activity in Q3
Occupancy: 94.7%
Net Absorption: 950,925 sq. ft.
HOUSTON: Retail posts strong fundamentals heading into the end of 2019
Occupancy: 93.9%
Net Absorption: 936,864 sq. ft.
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The Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines what students know in reading, mathematics and science, and what they can do with what they know. It provides the most comprehensive and rigorous international assessment of student learning outcomes to date. Results from PISA indicate the quality and equity of learning outcomes attained around the world and allow educators and policy makers to learn from the policies and practices applied in other countries. This is one of six volumes that present the results of the PISA 2018 survey, the seventh round of the triennial assessment. Volume III, What School Life Means for Students’ Lives, focuses on the physical and emotional health of students, the role of teachers and parents in shaping the school climate, and the social life at school. The volume also examines indicators of student well-being, and how these are related to the school climate. www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/acd78851-en.pdf? expires=1575561277&id=id&accname=guest&checksum =106F74FD26A8C0006922F6F1AD55B22B
As communities across the U.S. grapple with worsening housing affordability, there is growing interest in how zoning rules could be relaxed to allow smaller, less expensive homes, as in Minneapolis. Often, the choice is posed as a trade-off between detached homes with big yards or skyscraping apartment towers. In reality, the housing stock in most communities is much more diverse than these two extremes. While high-rise apartments in strategic locations should be part of the solution, many single-family neighborhoods could easily yield more housing—and more affordable housing—if land use rules allowed “gentle” increases in density, such as townhomes, two- to fourfamily homes, and small-scale apartment or condominium buildings. See this report by the Brookings Institution: www.brookings.edu/research/gentle-density-can-save-our-neighborhoods/?utm_campaign=Metropolitan%20Policy%20 Program&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=80415838
Oxford Economics issued its annual Global Cities report examining the prospects of the 900 most important city economies around the world. The report provides extensive analysis alongside charts and tables. Some of the most marked slowdowns projected for major cities are in the US, which features three of the 10 largest slowdowns projected for the 900 major urban economies we examine around the world. Notably, San Jose, the center of Silicon Valley, is projected to see its growth rate in 2020-21 more than halve to a projected 3.3%, down from the buoyant 7.6% average annual pace of expansion over 2015-19. Notable US slowdowns are also forecast in Austin-Round Rock in Texas, where growth is also expected to drop sharply to 2.5% in 2020-21 from the 5.7% pace in 2015-19, and in San Antonio-New Braunfels, with a slowdown there to 2.3% from 5.5%. San Francisco is still expected to remain the fastest growing of North America’s 10 largest cities over the 2020-21 period, with projected expansion of 2.4%, even if this will be sharply lower than the 5% rate from 2015-19. And Dallas is not far behind in 2020-21, with forecast growth of 2.2% (down from 3.4% in 201519). New York remains the biggest city in the US and worldwide, and notably its growth of 1.8% in 2020-21 is expected to match the rate seen over the 20152019 period. Los Angeles is expected, by contrast, to see growth slow by 0.9 percentage points over the next two years, to 2%, compared with the 2.9% rate of the previous five years. See the entire report at: resources.oxfordeconomics.com/global-cities-2035-nov2019?source=Media_News_release
In the past year, a previously obscure topic has drawn new public attention: zoning. Local regulations over how land can be developed are under fire for their role in escalating housing costs. Research shows that overly restrictive zoning makes it hard for developers to build new housing, driving up rents and prices. State and federal policymakers—including the White House and several of the Democratic presidential candidates—have voiced interest in creating carrots and sticks to nudge local governments into reducing “regulatory barriers,” starting with zoning. But to design policies that are effective are reducing these barriers, we need to answer several questions. How exactly does zoning drive up housing costs? How can we tell whether zoning is excessively restrictive? The answers to these questions are complicated—not unlike zoning laws themselves. Jenny Schuetz, a Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, Future of the Middle Class Initiative describes how zoning laws regulate housing, discuss the strengths and limitations of different approaches to measuring zoning stringency, and outlines an alternative framing of the problem facing policymakers who are concerned over escalating housing costs. www.brookings.edu/research/is-zoning-a-useful-tool-or-a-regulatory-barrier/?utm_campaign=Metropolitan%20Policy%20 Program&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=78820231
Trepp, LLC, a leading provider of information, analytics, and technology to the structured finance, commercial real estate, and banking markets, has released its research report titled “What Factors Have Driven Multifamily NOI Growth?” As the affordability of single-family homes continues to decline and preferences for renting over homeownership surges, the multifamily sector has displayed the strongest growth among property types in recent years. To determine the effect of shifting market factors on the market’s performance, Trepp ran an analysis on the net operating income (NOI) levels of outstanding multifamily loans and segmented the results by property subtype, geographic region, occupancy, and agency and non-agency performance. Access the full report here: www.trepp.com/multifamily-noi-research-november-2019
Rose-Mary Rumbley has written three books about her native city – Dallas. She has also written “WHAT! NO CHILI!” and a book about the 300th anniversary of the invention of the piano. She has appeared on the stage at the
Dallas Summer Musicals and at Casa Mañana and was head of the drama department at Dallas Baptist University for 12 years. Today she is on the speaking circuit and teaches drama classes at Providence Christian School. Her loving views of Texas history appear in every issue of
soldier at his side. Later, the Southern Memorial Association collected enough money to build Arlington Hall, a replica of Lee’s home in Lee Park.
The corner of Hall Street and Turtle Creek Blvd. featured a show spot for Dallas. However, “THE REMOVAL OF CONFEDERATE STATUES FEVER HIT THE COUNTRY,” and the Dallas City Council demanded the removal of the statue. I couldn’t believe it. Why not place a statue of FDR next to Lee? Then there would be a history of the whole day in Dallas. But no one listened to me.
The statue of Robert E. Lee was removed and was put up for sale.
the Lajitas International Airport for private planes to land. The golf course and most of the city is owned and operated by Dallas businessman, Kelcy Warren.
in 1936, presidenT Franklin Delano Roosevelt came to Dallas to dedicate a statue of Robert E. Lee that was placed in Oak Lawn Park (later to be called Lee Park). What a day that was! I went with my family, not to see Robert E. Lee, but to see the President of the United States. Roosevelt suffered polio and could not walk, so his touring car was driven up a ramp that was built so that the President could pull the cord and reveal the gorgeous piece of art. A grandson of Lee’s was there.
The Southern Memorial Association, in the middle of the Depression, collectedthe money for this remarkable statue, created by renowned sculptor, Alexander Proctor. There in bronze was Robert E. Lee on his beloved horse, Traveler, with a Confederate
The winning bidder was first simply known as ‘The Law Dude’, but it was later revealed that lawyer Ronald Holmes of Dallas bought the statue for $1,435,000. The next question, “Where is Robert E. Lee going?” This is a great story, I think. Robert E. Lee is on a golf course in Lajitas, Texas.
When a golfer gets to the 18th hole, he has a choice. He can play on in Texas, or he may choose to play that last hole over the Rio Grande in Mexico. The scene there is unique! And that’s where Robert E. Lee is standing. One of the amazing features of that area is “star gazing.” Yes, the “Stars at night are big and bright, Deep in the Heart of Texas.” In the evenings one can see almost all of the stars God has placed in the universe. When one is at Big Bend, there is no added light, smog, fog, clouds. Nothing comes between the viewer and the stars.
Lajitas, Texas is an unincorporated little town very near to Big Bend National Park. It was named for the flagstone that is there. (Lajitas is Spanish for “little flat rocks.”) People there enjoy hot summers and very mild winters.
I had the pleasure of visiting Lajitas several years ago, and I got to meet the mayor, a goat named Clay Henry. One would purchase a bottle of beer and offer it to Clay Henry who loved drinking the beer straight from the bottle. There were several mayors, because the goats would die of alcoholism. Today, there is no goat, and I guess no mayor. Doesn’t matter, because the city consists of a luxurious hotel, a fine store, an unusual golf course, and
I have talked with several people who have been down to see Robert E. Lee. The pictures they took are magnificent. One shows Robert E. Lee surrounded by all the stars. I think the General would like that! n
“Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.”
(Yogi Berra)é Terlingua night sky ç General Robert E. Lee é Dressed for a celebratory occasion, members of a crowd mill about the newly unveiled statue of Robert E. Lee after President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated it at Lee Park in Dallas on June 12, 1936. Roosevelt also spoke at the Texas Centennial Exposition at Fair Park earlier in the day. (Dallas History & Archives Division / Dallas Public Library) é Alexander Phimister Proctor é General Lee Statue now at Black Jack’s Crossing near Terlingua owned by oil and gas billionaire Kelcy Warren é Arlington Hall at Lee Park
time the case was originally filed, which was the age when younger slaves became more valuable assets for slave owners to sell. To prevent the family from being broken up, Harriet urged Dred to take action.
The dred scoTT case of the U.S. Supreme Court denied Scott his freedom by ruling that African-slave descendants were not U.S. citizens. It was the last in a series of freedom suits from 1846–1857, that began in Missouri courts, and were heard by lower federal district courts. The Supreme Court overturned the lower courts' rulings, which had upheld the precedent of "once free, always free." Missouri had generally abided by the laws of free states and territories, which had held that a person voluntarily bringing a slave to that jurisdiction and staying for an extended period of time, gave up their ownership of the slave. And if the slave achieved freedom in a free state, that freedom could be confirmed by the court after return to a slave state. Dred Scott had gained freedom for about 2 years, but it was overturned by the last decision to the Supreme Court.
In 1846, having failed to purchase his freedom, Scott filed a freedom suit in St. Louis Circuit Court. Missouri precedent, dating back to 1824, had held that slaves freed through prolonged residence in a free state would remain free when taken back to Missouri. The doctrine was known as "Once free, always free." Scott and his wife had resided for two years in free states and free territories, and his eldest daughter had been born on the Mississippi River, between a free state and a free territory.
The case centered on Dred and Harriet Scott and their children, Eliza and Lizzie. Dred Scott was listed as the only plaintiff in the case, but his wife, Harriet, played a critical role, pushing him to pursue freedom on behalf of their family. She was a frequent churchgoer, and in St. Louis, her church pastor (a well-known abolitionist) connected the Scotts to their first lawyer. The Scott children were around the age of ten at the
The Scott v. Emerson case was tried in 1847 in the federal-state courthouse in St. Louis. (See companion article on the St. Louis Courthouse on page 24.) Scott's lawyers were originally Francis B. Murdoch and later Charles D. Drake. (More than a year elapsed from the time of the initial petition filing until the trial, and Drake had moved away from St. Louis during that time.) Samuel M. Bay tried the case in court. The verdict went against Scott, as testimony that established his ownership by Mrs. Emerson was ruled to be hearsay. But the judge called for a retrial, which was not held until January 1850. This time, direct evidence was introduced that Emerson owned Scott, and the jury ruled in favor of Scott's freedom.
ruled, with 3 major issues, that: 1)Any person descended from Africans, whether slave or free, is not a citizen of the United States, according to the U.S. Constitution; 2) The Ordinance of 1787 could not confer either freedom or citizenship within the Northwest Territory to non-white individuals; and 3) The provisions of the Act of 1820, known as the Missouri Compromise, were voided as a legislative act, since the act exceeded the powers of Congress, insofar as it attempted to exclude slavery and impart freedom and citizenship to non-white persons in the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase.
The Court had ruled that African Americans had no claim to freedom or citizenship. Since they were not citizens, they did not possess the legal standing to bring suit in a federal court. As slaves were private property, Congress did not have the power to regulate slavery in the territories and could not revoke a slave owner's rights based on where he lived. This decision nullified the essence of the Missouri Compromise, which divided territories into jurisdictions either free or slave. Speaking for the majority, Taney ruled that because Scott was considered the private property of his owners, he was subject to the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the taking of property from its owner "without due process".
Irene Emerson appealed the verdict. In 1852, the Missouri Supreme Court struck down the lower court ruling, arguing that, because of growing antislavery sentiment in the free states, Missouri no longer had to defer to the laws of free states. By this decision, the court overturned 28 years of precedent in Missouri. Justice Hamilton R. Gamble, who was later appointed as governor of Missouri, sharply disagreed with the majority decision and wrote a dissenting opinion.
In 1853, Scott again sued for his freedom; this time under federal law. Irene Emerson had moved to Massachusetts, and Scott had been transferred to Irene Emerson's brother, John F. A. Sanford. Because Sanford was a citizen of New York, while Scott would be a citizen of Missouri if he were free, the Federal courts had diversity jurisdiction over the case. After losing again in federal district court, the Scotts appealed to the United States Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford. (The name is spelled "Sandford" in the court decision due to a clerical error.)
On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the majority opinion. Taney
While Chief Justice Roger B. Taney had hoped to settle issues related to slavery and Congressional authority by this decision, it aroused public outrage, deepened sectional tensions between the northern and southern states, and hastened the eventual explosion of their differences into the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and the post-Civil War Reconstruction Amendments—the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments—nullified the decision.
The Scotts were manumitted by a private arrangement in May 1857. Dred Scott died of tuberculosis a few months later. (Manumission is the act of an owner freeing his or her slaves.) n
Most of us can’t wait for good things to start falling from the sky... that is, things we order online and have delivered to us in real-time by drones. Imagine how much easier life would be if we could order hot pizza and cold beer online and literally have it dropped at our doorstep in minutes by a drone. Better yet, consider how much more efficient and productive society would be if we could buy groceries, do our holiday shopping, and tackle weekend chores via the Internet and then have everything safely delivered by a drone to our front porch in minutes. These same drones could also handle any returns of defective merchandise or inaccurate orders, thereby increasing our productivity even more. Well, we don’t have flying cars yet, but drones might be the next best thing, and by 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration estimates that over 30,000 drones – or as the FAA calls them “unmanned aircraft systems” or “UAS” – will be navigating our skies.
In addition to our personal lives, drones will significantly change the commercialreal estate profession. Drones will drastically alter the product-delivery process thereby impacting retailers and everyone in the supply-chain. There will be many other applications as well, for example, developers and real-estate sales/leasing professionals are using drones right now to help sell and lease their properties. By giving prospective investors, buyers and tenants a bird’s-eye view of our real-estate projects, surrounding/competing properties, and nearby communities, drones are changing how we look at real estate by providing us with a level of detail that was previously very difficult and expensive to obtain.
But drones are not just about giving us a bird’s-eye view. In addition to static pictures, high speed/high definition videos, infrared cameras, thermal scanners, super-sensitive microphones, and many other data-capturing devices can be strapped to drones and used to eavesdrop and gather data on just about anyone, anywhere at any time. How would you feel if the friendly drone that dropped off hot pizza and cold beer on your doorstep also picked up some things for its ride home: such as pictures of your house and yard, a scan of your car’s license plate, and perhaps audible data from inside your house, and then sold that data? Worse yet, what happens when drones start inevitably malfunctioning and crashing to the earth with all of our groceries being thrown around like a jet-fighter’s weapons payload? Suddenly, that pizza and beer wielding drone doesn’t seem so friendly after all.
Ordinarily, the law is slow to catch up with technology. But when it comes to drones, the law has already taken flight. For many years now, the Federal Aviation Administration has been tasked with overseeing civilian aircraft operation (including UAS operation) in the national air space (the NAS). In addition to the FAA, many state and local governments have enacted laws and ordinances to regulate the use of drones to protect our safety and privacy. To date, nearly half the states in the USA have either passed laws related to drones, or are in the process of crafting legislation to address the issue. But no two states’ laws are alike - some laws prohibit voyeurism, limit the news media’s use of drones, and some even prohibit wildlife hunting or fishing from drones.
As far as the Federal law is concerned, the FAA requires any aircraft, include a drone, to receive a certificate of airworthiness (or COA) before the aircraft can be legally flown in the NAS. The process of obtaining a COA can be time consuming and costly; however, under certain circumstances, an aircraft operator can request that the FAA issue an exemption to the COA requirement. This exemption is known as a “Section 333 Exemption”. Since most drone operators do not want to wait too long or incur too much expense to fly drones, the FAA has been bombarded with tens of thousands of 333 Exemption requests in the past couple of years. In the spring of 2015, the FAA had only approved
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less than 10% of these exemption requests; however, by the end of 2015, the number of approved Section 333 Exemptions skyrocketed to over 2,200. The FAA is also revising their rules to streamline the process for obtaining drone-related Section 333 Exemptions. The FAA hopes to have these streamlined rules finalized by June, 2016. The FAA is also considering whether or not to provide COA exemptions for drones that can fly “beyond visual line of sight” or at night. It will be interesting to see what is approved and if so, what the requirements are.
states) is focusing on protecting its citizens’ privacy rights. To that end, in 2013, Texas enacted Chapter 423 of the Government Code, called “Use of Unmanned Aircraft”, to protect the privacy expectations of Texans while establishing guidelines for the legitimate use of drones in Texas. This new law is sometimes referred to as the “Texas Privacy Act”.
Even though the FAA is moving at Mach 1 speed to approve exemptions, thus allowing more drones to dot our skies, they have also been busy on the enforcement front. These enforcement actions are largely aimed at unsafe drone operation, because, after all, according to the FAA’s latest proposed rules regarding drones, they want to reduce the “risk of unsafe [drone] operation... as more small unnamed aircraft enter” the national airspace. To that end, in October, 2015, the FAA announced a $1.9 million civil penalty against a drone operator for operating a UAS “in a careless or reckless manner so as to endanger lives or property”. So far, this has been the largest FAA penalty related to drones, and should serve as a warning to all operators that the FAA’s enforcement agents are not just on autopilot. The operator who was tagged with this $1.9 million fine, a company called SkyPan, is a fairly small Chicago photographer, who operated 65 drone flights over Chicago and New York City, two of the nation’s most heavily trafficked airspaces. These flights occurred prior to SkyPan receiving any type of COA exemption. Despite the hefty fine, none of SkyPan’s drones injured anyone, damaged any property, or caused any commercial aircraft diversions. This is clearly the FAA’s way of telling drone operators to hit the airbrakes when it comes to flying over unauthorized commercial airspace and operating without a Section 333 Exemption.
With the FAA keeping drone safety on their radars, Texas (and many other
The Texas Privacy Act understands that drone usage will be very broad and creative, and so will the ways that the drones capture data and images. The Act defines “images” to be “any capturing of sound waves, thermal, infrared, ultraviolet, visible light, or other electromagnetic waves, odor, or other conditions existing on or about real property in this state or an individual located on that property.” The Privacy Act states that it is only lawful to capture “images” in the state of Texas using an unmanned aircraft in certain permitted circumstances. Some of these permitted purposes involve research and education, law enforcement, governmental agency use, utility company mapping; and several permitted purposes involve real estate. For example, in the real-estate world, it is permitted to capture images with a drone in the state of Texas in the following instances:
• With the consent of the owner or lawful occupant of the property.
• By a Texas licensed real-estate broker in connection with the marketing, sale, or financing of real property, provided that no individual is identifiable in the image.
• If the real property (or a person on the real property) is within 25 miles of the United States border.
• From a height no more than eight feet in a public place, if the image was captured without using any electronic, mechanical, or other means to amplify the image beyond normal human perception.
• Public property or a person on public property.
• Professional land surveyors.
If anyone violates the Privacy Act, Chapter 423 creates two types of criminal offenses. First, it is a Class C misdemeanor for anyone to capture images using drones, or possess the images, if they are in violation of the Act. Second, if anyone illegally captures any images and then displays, discloses or distributes the images, that is a Class B misdemeanor. In addition to criminal headwinds, violators can face civil penalties of up to $10,000 for each image
captured in violation of the Privacy Act. However, prosecuting these cases might be challenging because the Privacy Act states that capturing images is only unlawful if the person did it with the “intent to conduct surveillance”. This could give rise to various defenses, such as the voyeur who creatively stages drone-captured images to look like they are taking pictures of the landscape, birds, or the sunset. Additionally, if a person illegally captures an image, they can avoid prosecution if they destroy the images as soon as they realize they violated the Act, but before they disclose, display or distribute the ill-gotten booty (or “bootie”... as the case might be).
As you can see, there are a lot of significant issues surrounding the use of unmanned aircraft. I could drone on and on about them, but this article merely provides a 30,000-foot view of the basic federal and Texas state laws governing drones. There are, however, many other practical and legal issues to consider. For example, many commercial general liability policies do not cover drone operations, so operators will have to obtain specific coverage. Further, in addition to personal privacy rights, business operators must also protect their intellectual-property rights from competitors using drones to gather data in order to obtain a business advantage. Still further, there are constitutional privacy issues to consider when using drones. In both our business and professional lives, if we don’t understand these issues and the laws governing them, then all of the drones whizzing through the sky might turn into bogeys someday.
Ed. Note: This piece originally appeared in the March 2016 issue of . Tony Barbieri’s article on legal issues involving service animals will appear in the next issue. n
imagine a world where linear time has lost all relevance - a place where past memories and future visions dance in a familiar present gone awry, where nightmares collide with lucid clarity and touch upon topics as diverse as ecology, science, architecture and spirituality. Welcome to the land of eminent art the surreal collagist.
Albane Simon’s imagination unfolds in a world of strange, surrealist figures. Mixing vintage and fantasy, she stages apocalyptic themes within whimsical settings packed with evocative details, creating a style in which antique tragedy and futurist delirium intertwine.
An unconditional lover of hip-hop, she seeks inspiration from primary sources. The independent labels of the Californian coast became the post-modern muses of her first creations, and she has produced a number of timeless collages to illustrate concert posters as well as the albums of
international artists whose rhythms have inspired her work.
Her talent extends beyond the world of music to confront a variety of different themes such as ecology, architecture and spirituality. She has staged several exhibitions and in each, her cabinet of curiosities – a mixture of trivial antiques and vintage-style objects – invite the spectator to enter a new spatio-temporal realm.
From an early age, Albane knew her love of art would become her life’s pursuit. She studied 3D animation and graphic arts, but her imagination made her feel that no one particular skill could satisfy her need to create. ”I wanted to be free to create, to invent my own new world,” she said. “I loved drawing characters, but I hated setting the scene around them.”
“At first, I was interested in photos of abandoned factories and I used Photoshop to
embed my characters in these photos. After some time, I stopped drawing the characters and began making just digital collages. I got old magazines in my grandma's house and from flea markets, and I scanned and took pictures. And later I discovered so many old pictures on internet. I'm very tuned in to images of the 60s and 70s, images, with very colorful elements. I really love the architecture, furniture, clothing and characters of this period.”
Albane lives in Paris, is the mother of two young children, and is a professional illustrator. She has worked extensively for lifestyle, history and (not surprisingly) science publications as well as creative advertising campaigns for liquors and spirits . She admits to having been significantly influenced by Magritte, Dali and the surrealism movement, as well as by graffiti and sci-fi books. n
See more of her work at www.albanesimon.com
To purchase, contact the artist directly at albane.simon@gmail.com
Great art is among the most sublime, meaningful, and redeeming creations of all civilization. Few endeavors can equal the power of great artwork to capture aesthetic beauty, to move and inspire, to change perceptions, and to communicate the nature of human experience. Great art is also complex, mysterious, and challenging. Filled with symbolism, cultural and historical references, and often visionary imagery, great artworks oblige us to reckon with their many meanings.
Architects and designers (many of our readers) have a lot of influence on the way we perceive the world. A structure often plays a significant part in how we experience a place. (Think of a restaurant, a museum, an arena, a stadium... even an office building - virtually anywhere!) The interior design impacts our sensory perception, our comfort, and our physical connection and there is also artistry in the exterior design. (That’s why we call it artchitecture.)
The naTional museum oF Qatar, in the works since 2010, opened in March of last year. Designed by Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel the museum was inspired by the desert rose, a type of crystal formation found in arid, sandy environments, and features an interlocking disk motif. Made of steel, glass, and fiber concrete, the 225,000-square-foot complex has a 220-seat theater, a research center, laboratories, two shops, two restaurants, and a café. The grounds include a park landscaped with indigenous plants, and a 70-seat forum dedicated to preserving Qatar’s culinary traditions.
Nouvel wanted to immerse visitors in the duality of Qatar’s landscape, which includes both the desert and the sea. The nation’s maritime history will be showcased, and the institution is particularly interested in preserving and re-creating the dhows that once sailed the Persian Gulf for trade, pearls, and fishing. Historic objects will be on display within exhibits about the country’s ancestors, early cities, and modern society. n
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“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.” (e.e. cummings)
Celibacy can be a choice in life, or a condition imposed by circumstance.
While attending a ‘marriage weekend’, Frank and his wife Ann listened to the instructor declare, “It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other.”
He then addressed the men. “Can you name and describe your wife’s favorite flower?”
Frank leaned over, touched Ann’s arm gently and whispered, “Gold-Medal-All-Purpose, isn’t it?”
And thus began Frank’s life of celibacy.
It is important that a man helps you around the house and has a job.
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It is important that a man loves you and spoils you.
It is important that these four men don’t know each other.
With application season in full gear and college living costs reaching $27,200 per student for a 12-month period, the personalfinance website WalletHub released its report on 2020’s Best & Worst College Towns & Cities in America, as well as accompanying videos. To help college-bound high school seniors determine their future home for the next several years, they compared more than 400 U.S. cities – also grouped by city size – based on 31 key indicators of academic, social and economic growth potential. The data set ranges from cost of living to quality of higher education to crime rate. Kudos to Austin on being ranked the #1 large college city in the nation! To view the full report and your city’s rank, visit: wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-collegecities-and-towns-in-america/8974
In December, LinkedIn released its third annual list of emerging jobs highlighting the fastest-growing jobs around the world, skills associated with them, and the cities and industries where these jobs are located. Its insights show how jobs, careers, and skills are changing so individuals can explore the right next step for themselves. Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to make a strong showing, and, not surprisingly, the demand for soft skills is likely to increase as automation becomes more widespread. Skills like communication, creativity, and collaboration are all virtually impossible to automate, which means if you have these skills you’ll be even more valuable to organizations in the future. The Emerging Jobs analysis is done on all LinkedIn members with a public profile that have held a full-time position within a given country during the past five years. More than half of the top 15 jobs are tied to engineering in some way. Check out the whole report at: blog.linkedin.com/2019/december/10/the-jobs-of-tomorrowlinkedins-2020-emerging-jobs-report
CallisonRTKL used custom design, 3D printing and 1000+ tennis balls in its entry for AIA Dallas & TEXO’s 2019 Bark + Build Competition – and it won Best in Show and the jurors’ overall favorite.! Congratulations! (The competition benefits the SPCA of Texas.) Fetch House was on exhibit at NorthPark Mall in Dallas from November 21st – December 8th. FETCH House is an interactive shelter for the
modern dog, exploring how digital design and fabrication can change the way we think about how we build and live. The design uses technology to promote an active lifestyle thru a continuous facade of over 1000 standard tennis balls which is then interconnected by a modular support structure 3D printed using lightweight plastic. The balls, which are held in place by compression, can be pulled out so you can play fetch with your dog. After hours of enjoyment, the balls can be reinserted into the doghouse. The cellular nature of the design allows you to remove balls randomly or you can create unique patterns which allow more light and air to filter into the doghouse. See all of the entrants at: dallasbarknbuild.org/entrants
At its annual Global Awards and Recognition Dinner, held on Tuesday, 22nd October at the Global Summit in Orange County, Calif., CoreNet Global recognized outstanding achievement and presented awards in the following
categories: Luminary Awards; QPCR, MCR, MCR.w and SLCR Graduates; Top-Rated Faculty; Special Recognition for Faculty; Employer Support; Chapter of the Year Global Innovator’s Award; Academic Challenge; H. Gordon Wyllie, MCR, Young Leader of the Year Award; Corporate Real Estate Executive of the Year Award; and Distinguished Leaders Circle Inductees. Congratulations to all and check them out here:
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I Hate Every Bone in Her Body but Mine 9. I Ain’t Never Gone to Bed with an Ugly Woman but I Woke Up With a Few 8. If the Phone Don’t Ring, You’ll Know It’s Me 7. I’ve Missed You, But My Aim’s Improvin’ 6. Wouldn’t Take Her to a Dog-fight ‘Cause I’m Scared She’d Win
5. I’m So Miserable Without You It’s Like You’re Still Here
4. My Wife Ran Off with My Best Friend and I Miss Him
3. She Took My Ring and Gave Me the Finger
2. She’s Lookin’ Better with Every Beer
1. It’s Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night That Chewed My Ass All Day
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01/ Chris McCluskey was promoted to Vice President of Development by VanTrust Real Estate in its Frisco office
02/ Stephen Schwalb joined Newmark Knight Frank in Dallas.
03/ Josh Meredith was promoted to Director of Development by VanTrust Real Estate, LLC in its Frisco office.
04/ Chris Hillman has joined Lee & Associates in Dallas as an associate.
05/ Peter Danna was promoted to Executive Vice President at CBRE in Dallas.
06/ Jackie Marshall was promoted to Senior Vice President at CBRE in Dallas.
07/ Clay Gilbert was promoted to Senior Vice President at CBRE in Dallas.
08/ Katie Rambie was promoted to First Vice President at CBRE in Dallas.
09/ Leslie Brennan, Associate AIA, joined the Devenney Group as DFW Executive Director.
The Bridge-shaped museum designed by Danish architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) at Kistefos Art Park (about 50 miles north of Oslo, Norway) opened in September 2019. The building adds an impressive new venue to this industry and contemporary art museum.
Kistefos is a very peculiar institution, located on the site of a disused mill, founded in 1889 to produce wood pulp for the paper industry. The mill closed in 1955 but all machinery and tools remained in place, in the false hope that the plant could return to production someday. In 1993, Christen Sveaas, a Norwegian businessman and art collector, grandson of the mill’s founder, acquired the complex - various buildings in an almost derelict state and several acres of land - to revamp it as an industrial museum and a sculpture park based on his collection.
“The Twist is a 10,700 square-foot hybrid spanning several traditional categories: it’s a museum, it’s a bridge, it’s an inhabitable sculpture,” said Bjarke Ingels in a press release. “As a bridge it reconfigures the sculpture park turning the journey through the park into a continuous loop. As a museum it connects two distinct spaces–an introverted vertical gallery and an extraverted horizontal gallery with panoramic views across the river. A third space is created through the blatant translation between these two galleries creating the namesake twist. The resultant form becomes another sculpture among the sculptures of the park.” n
OUR GANG
Our Gang (known subsequently to television syndication as The Little Rascals was an American series of comedy short films chronicling a group of poor neighborhood children and their adventures. Created by comedy producer and studio executive Hal Roach, the series was produced in various forms from 1922 to 1944 and is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively natural way. Here are a few of the betterknown child stars. Do you remember their names? (Answers on page 62)
The TrusT For puBlic land works to protect the places people care about and to create close-to-home parks— particularly in and near cities, where 80 percent of Americans live. Its goal is to ensure that every child has easy access to a safe place to play in nature. They also conserve working farms, ranches, and forests; lands of historical and cultural importance; rivers, streams, coasts, and watersheds; and other special places where people can experience nature close at hand.
Founded in 1972 with the goal of protecting land in and around cities and pioneering new
land conservation techniques, its work has expanded to include projects from the inner city to the wilderness. In cities, they’re turning vacant lots into community-designed parks and playgrounds. And we’re addressing the looming climate crisis with strategies to help reduce greenhouse gasses, promote climate adaptation, and create park-rich, climate-smart cities.
The Trust for Public Land’s ParkScore® index is the most comprehensive tool available for evaluating park access and quality in the 100 largest U.S. cities. Over the next
several issues of , with permission from and thanks to The Trust for Public Land, we will publish the results of that study for 13 Texas cities: Arlington, Austin (which appeared in our the last two issues), Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Garland, Houston, Irving, Laredo, Lubbock, Plano and San Antonio. If you can’t wait to see all of the results – or want to see where your or another city rates, go to: https://www.tpl. org/node/110916 n
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7 George ‘Spanky’ McFarland was born in 1928 in Dallas.
8 Billie ‘Buckwheat’ Thomas was born in 1931 in Los Angeles.
Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer was shot dead age 31, Darla Hood contracted hepatitis in hospital and died aged 47, Robert ‘Bobby’ Blake was tried and acquitted of his wife’s murder, Tommy Bond and his wife were severely injured in a car crash in 1996 and Pete the Dog was fatally poisoned.
Karen Corrado of Austin and DeMarcus Adams of Sugarland each won a Tiki Torch wireless speaker.
MG Cox of Plano won a ChargeHubGo.
Heather Galpin of Wichita Falls won a copy of Outliers by Malcom Gladwell.
Ellen Ziegler of Weatherford won a Lumenology motion-activated light fixture.
In Herstory, Contributing Editor Rose-Mary Rumbley tells the story of The Timely Death of Warren G. Harding. The impeachment papers were on their way, but he dropped dead before they reached him. In our companion History page, we look at the impeachment and trial of Andrew Johnson which had important political implications for the balance of federal legislative–executive power Johnson remained the only U.S. president to have been impeached and face a Senate trial for over a century, until Bill Clinton became the second in 1998 and now, of course, Donald Trump is the third.
In Amazing Buildings, Contributing Editor Angela O’Byrne explores the Squamish Nation’s proposed $3 billion
housing development in Vancouver. And Contributing Editor Tony Barbieri’s Legal View will examine legal issues involving service animals.
With permission from and thanks to The Trust for Public Land, we will continue to publish the results of their study on parks for the fifth of thirteen Texas cities – this time for Fort Worth. We will have our 4th installment of Lake Superior University’s List of Banished Words and Wayne State University Word Warriors’ list of words that they would like to see returned to our lexicon.
We will offer a pictorial tribute to Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and we’ll explore the architectural treasures of another American city, this time Columbus, Indiana
Nowhere else in the world can you experience so many award-winning architects in such close proximity. A town of only 40,000 people, it boasts the work of I.M. Pei, Eero Saarinen (featured in this issue), Eliel Saarinen, Richard Meier, Robert A M Stern, Gwathmey Siegel, Cesar Pelli, and many more. It is a small-town architectural mecca — the only one of its kind in America.
Of course, we will have our affiliates’ news and events, the Wow Factor, Diversions, By the Numbers, True Dat, You Need to Know, Political Corner, Professionals on the Move, The Resource Page, Shout- Outs, In the Loop, Real Estate of the Future, our bimonthly contest and much MUCH more
The newest Major League Baseball (MLB) ballpark is SunTrust Park in Cumberland, Georgia, which opened for the 2017 season. Fenway Park in Boston is the oldest, having opened in 1912. Nine MLB stadiums don’t have corporate naming rights deals so they should be easy to figure out. Can you name the team that plays its home games in each of these stadiums? Write the answers in the space provided.
Oriole Park at Camden Yards:
Fenway Park:
Yankee Stadium: New York Yankees
Tropicana Field:
Rogers Centre:
Marlins Park:
SunTrust Park:
Citi Field:
Citizens Bank Park:
Nationals Park:
Wrigley Field:
Great American Ball Park:
Miller Park:
PNC Park:
Busch Stadium:
Then, scan or copy this page and send your entry to editor@crestnetwork.com or fax it to 817.924.7116 on or before February 10th for a chance to win a valuable prize. (The answers will appear in our March-April issue.)
Guaranteed Rate Field:
Progressive Field:
Comerica Park:
Kauffman Stadium:
Target Field:
Minute Maid Park:
Angel Stadium of Anaheim:
Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum:
Safeco Field:
Globe Life Park in Arlington:
Chase Field:
Coors Field:
Dodger Stadium:
Petco Park:
AT&T Park:
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