Douglas Newby Insights - Page 30
Direction of Dallas?
Is wealth creation for low-income families thwarted by the city moving them to high-income North Dallas? Is a fashionable renter society of transients good for Dallas or does it subvert middle-income neighborhoods? Should middle-income neighborhoods, the lobby for good public schools, police and city services, be a priority or should they be allowed to continue to dwindle? Should affordable homes be built in South Dallas where low-income people now live or they should be built in North Dallas closer to jobs? Is it better for a low-income family to have higher income in North Dallas or a chance of wealth creation in South Dallas. The SMU/George W. Bush Institute conference on Policies To Promote Inclusive Urban Growth provoked these questions? Cullum Clark and Joel Kotkin pictured above, initiated the conference and invited speakers from across the country to discuss cities. You can see my summary of the thoughts and ideas that were generated at the conference on the Dallas Architecture Blog Direction of Dallas and Urban Growth: http://douglasnewby.com/2019/02/direction-of-dallas-determines-growth/
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Katy Trail Kitchen
A kitchen might almost seem superfluous in a house next to the Katy Trail that leads to many of the best chef-owned restaurants in Dallas. A Max Levy kitchen and breakfast room framed by the nature of the Katy Trail does entice one to stay home. This Northern Heights modern home built in 2012 adds to the collection of architecturally significant homes in Northern Heights.
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Lifted Living Spaces
Architect Max Levy designed a linear progression of rooms to give each one views of trees and dense foliage. Proceeding through the floor plan culminates in a screen porch on the second floor. The open and screen porches found in many of Max Levy designed homes, I often think of as the Holy Grail of Max Levy architecture.
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Trail House
Swaddled by the Katy Trail foliage on one side and an allée of trees on the other side, Max Levy designed this home in 2012 to be immersed in urban nature. Lifting the principal living spaces to the second floor allows the homeowner to look over the trail with a view filtered by the treetops. Northern Heights is the first neighborhood where architects designed award-winning attached single family modern homes. This Max Levy designed single family modern home solidifies the architectural importance and modernity of Northern Heights.
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Rooftop Prairie
Architect Max Levy has always been fascinated and attracted to the endless open spaces of the Texas prairie. This penthouse is in such an interesting location. It is right in the heart of a vibrant urban neighborhood of restaurants, bars, galleries, offices, and apartments, but just far enough from the dense cluster of downtown high-rises to create a visual plateau that extends from the extraordinarily deep and wide terraces of The Centrum. The rooftop is planted with prairie grasses which further creates the illusion of endless uninterrupted space looking into the horizon.
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Translucent Partitions
Translucent partitions is another way architect Max Levy diffuses and directs light. In this downtown Dallas penthouse, Max has deployed translucent partitions throughout the penthouse, creating definition and privacy for specific rooms and spaces while maintaining the open floor plan and light-filled residence.
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Connecting Sky
Max Levy connected the sky with an arced blue plaster ceiling of this Dallas penthouse. Max Levy also in 2010 connected a tired building from the 1980’s, often ignored, to the imagination of those in Dallas. The merits and desirability of the building with its massive terraces and balconies was rediscovered when the penthouse of The Centrum became an architecturally significant residence surrounded by a vibrant downtown neighborhood.
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Little Mexico 1960’s Water Source
Priscilla Escobedo, archivist at the Dallas library, presented at the Legacies Dallas History Conference in the Hall of State, a talk on how water was delivered first by mule-drawn water wagons and then by water trucks to Little Mexico well into the 1960s. This was not just drinking water—this was water for all household needs as there was no indoor plumbing. Even those with backyard wells risked being contaminated by the outhouses next to them. Priscilla Escobedo has done incredible research on these neighborhoods where little published information exists except for Sanborn fire maps showing water sources from creeks in Dallas. She was very cute when she said to an audience predominantly born in the 1940s and 1950s that she did not know how many of the audience might have been born by the 1960s but the 1960s was not that long ago. She made the point we had put a man on the moon by the 1960s when Little Mexico and parts of West Dallas had no piped-in municipal water.
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Materials Reflect Nature
materials inside the house reflecting the materials on the exterior of the home and nature, along with continuing the sleek horizontal lines inside the home suggests the architecture of Max Levy. Max Levy designed the renovation and extension of the home in 2005.
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Cantilever Over Creek
Creek lot. Decks were cantilevered over the creek to draw in nature and project the home into nature.
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