Douglas Newby Insights - Page 37
Confluence – Site, Architect, Land
Here in the heart of Greenway Parks is a home and site that cannot be replicated. First, this architect-designed home is on the largest lot in Greenway Parks – .951 acres. Beyond being on the largest lot, it is on the corner of the Greenway Parks Blvd. extending the green views. In addition, it is next to the flag-flying triangle park which further buffers the home from other residences. Besides being on a Preston Hollow estate sized lot, the lot is extremely wide, pushing any other houses out of sight. In fact, from the backyard it is hard to see another home. The width of this lot also creates the space for maybe the largest residential lap pool in Dallas—30 meters. The attractive proportions and design of the home can be attributed to architects Fooshee & Cheek. These are the architects best known for designing Highland Park Village shopping center and large, gracious, Highland Park homes. Fooshee & Cheek were originally partners with architect Hal Thomson, considered the godfather of architects who designed prominent Dallas and Highland Park classic homes. By 1951, Marion Fooshee and James Cheek were the most important and elegant architects in Dallas. They understood large rooms, rooms even larger than many of the rooms found in today’s 10,000 sf homes. Fooshee & Cheek were also accustomed to creating double and triple passageways between the rooms so one could look out and see sunlight in four different directions as you can in the middle of this home. This home has more windows than most modern homes of similar size. Extraordinarily talented interior designer Allen Kirsch designed the interior finishes and the exterior living spaces including a porch with electric screens, air conditioning, and a fireplace to be enjoyed according to the seasons.
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Mary Vernon looks back, forward
What fun to visit a retrospective exhibition of Mary Vernon at SMU. Mary is an iconic figure at SMU from her vibrant and legendary art history lectures early in her career to being a teacher, mentor and professor in the Studio Art department including being its Chair. Finally, after 40 years, Mary is able to look forward to devoting all of her time to painting. An even stronger point of view and greater clarity is emerging in her fabulous work. Art and architecture are professions and pursuits where the eye becomes better and the life experience allows the work to dig deeper. I am excited about the future work that will emerge.
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Portrait on Portraits
Photographer and SMU professor Debora Hunter explores the parameters of life at the retrospective SMU exhibition of her work. On parallel walls was a wonderful exhibit of babies on one wall shown in myriad environments starting life, and on the opposite wall portraits of the elderly in hospice finishing life. In the middle wall are portraits of people attending an NRA convention. Here Debora is shown laughing with a friend.
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Terraced – Porch, Pool, Patio
Front porches have historically been the public link between the neighborhood and the home. Porches are the private/public space for the homeowner, friends, and neighbors. A porch can be used intimately or to vet a visitor. A terrace or patio is more often uncovered and intimates a use more likely reserved for the homeowner and specific guests. A pool is an even more personal space. At this modern home the terrace levels provide some of the distinction as the subsequent levels and the distance from the street help delineate the transition from more public to more personal space. When a homeowner entertains, the spaces become one with each level evoking a certain mood or emotion. These spaces also become an entry into different parts of the home. The integration of these interior and exterior rooms is what makes a small modern home live big.
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Small Home – Lives Big
The floor plan of this small modern home designed by Seattle architect Ryan Grey Smith conveys a commodious space. Accentuating the openness of this contemporary home are the six outdoor living spaces. Almost every room opens into an outdoor room or looks into several outdoor spaces: the terraced lawn, the modern terrace with a curved hedgerow wall, the upper terrace with a more expansive view of the park and meadow, the open atrium terraced dining area, the swimming pool and terrace shielded by a half wall, and a sitting area on the rear terrace. Maybe my favorite detached office is found at the end of the footbridge at the rear of the home. This office is less than 100 sf but with a wall of glass that provides sunlight and views of the garden, and the intimacy of a small quiet office.
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Machine Propels Art
Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art at the DMA is a fascinating reminder that architecture, art, and design are shaped by the technology and culture of our time. Even artist Georgia O’Keefe’s work shown here is stark, simple, colorless, and angled shapes versus the flowers and free forms of the desert of which she is more closely associated. The architecture and art of overlapping eras is at its best when it reflects its time and is timeless.
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Modern Perch Over Park
“It is not how much land your home is on, it is what you are next to or across from.” This is something I stressed in my TEDx talk, Homes That Make Us Happy. It is also something I always emphasize to my clients that I represent who are looking for the perfect home. This small architect-designed modern home is a great example. First on a winding hill, it has expansive views of rolling topography, flowering meadows, and trails passing through forests. While one will seldom see a car go by, bikes are a familiar sight either on the road or on the upper or lower bike paths in the distance.
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Modern Terrace
This contemporary porch is the architectural introduction to this modern home.
The front porches of Munger Place are my favorite architectural element of that neighborhood. The formal terraces of historic homes like the Crespi Estate are my favorite architectural element of those homes. Balconies on townhouses are the architectural attraction in denser neighborhoods. This modern terrace captivates me with its curved garden wall that provides privacy as friends enjoy each other and the fire pit. This terrace is also just steps away from the running and biking paths that give this natural White Rock Lake park a physical vibrancy.
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White Rock – More than Lake
White Rock Lake is the centerpiece of White Rock but just one of its attractions. The forest, meadows, lagoons, and multiple paths through the park that connect the lake add to the enjoyment of visitors, or even better, living in the White Rock Lake Peninsula neighborhood. East Lake Highlands Drive is a quiet neighborhood street that is the chosen path of cyclists and is only a short walking distance from the Cultural Center, Bath House theater, and myriad entertainment spaces around the lake. This part of the Peninsula neighborhood might have the most extended views of rolling meadows and woods in Dallas.
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Steps from White Rock
There are many dimensions of White Rock Lake. There are estate homes on West Lawther overlooking the lake. There are modern homes on East Lake Highlands on the other side of the lake overlooking the park and forest. These modern homes on smaller East Lake Highland lots are a good example of how it is not as important how much land a home is on as what the home is across from. Here a homeowner has endless views of the park, paths and forest and still is just steps away from White Rock Lake. There are reasons cyclists leave the bike path along the lake to ride up into the Peninsula neighborhood along the park before they descend back to the lake. East Lake Highlands Drive is a quiet, hilly, tree-lined street capturing breezes and providing beautiful views of nature.
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