Modern Style Architecture
Dallas Modern Architecture
Smitharc Designed Home in Bluffview
This house renovation reverses decades of ad-hoc additions to a midcentury modernist house while capitalizing on the uncommonly lush and secluded urban site. Working in the modernist language of the original house, long horizontal forms, dramatic cantilevers and large expanses of glass characterize the new 2-story structure.
9211 East Lake Highlands Drive, Dallas, Texas
The most exciting sites emerging for modern homes in Dallas are on East Lake Highlands Drive that overlook White Rock Lake and the forest and bicycling paths of White Rock Lake Park.
40 Braewood Place, Dallas, Texas
Architect Graham Greene of Oglesby•Greene Architects, recipient of the Dallas Chapter AIA 2010 Firm of the Year Award, designed this award-winning home. This home at 40 Braewood Place also received the 2010 AIA Interior Architecture Design Award.
4321 Valley Ridge Road, Dallas, Texas
Todd Hamilton, AIA, is an accomplished architect who designed this 6,000 sf modern home with acute awareness of the environment and design savvy that incorporated 900 sf of photovoltaic cells on the second floor roof, two planted green flat roofs facing the street, and eleven 200 foot deep geothermal wells for efficient heating and cooling.
Eagle Mountain Lake Residence
The house is positioned on the site’s upper plateau’s edge. Views to the west overlook Eagle Mountain Lake. Eastern daylight enters the depths of the house by lifting the roof plane and inserting clearstory glass above the living room and kitchen.
House of Three Rooms
The House of Three Rooms is an architectural project that I admire and Marc shared how he approached this modern home. Marc McCollom: I designed it to be gracious, with generously scaled spaces that were cleanly composed and clearly organized.
6730 Northaven Road, Dallas, Texas
Gary Cunningham, FAIA, designed this modern home for its site, a 1.51 acre peninsula. A private road for only two home owners crosses the private bridge and leads to the land surrounded by water on three sides. A long, stairstepped wall and gated entry leads to the garden and provides total privacy for the home surrounded by windows on three sides.
4330 Beechwood Lane, Dallas, Texas
Here is a Lionel Morrison architect designed 3,100 square foot home enjoying the luxury of a .70 acre Preston Hollow site. Open spaces and walls of glass looking into the garden convey modernism at its best.
20 Summit Place, Cedar Hill, Texas
George Woo, FAIA, protégé of I.M. Pei, selected this three acre site 19 miles south of Dallas to design this postmodern home. With 3,012 square feet, it is sited on the side of a hill to allow a view over the cedar trees to Joe Pool Lake seven miles away.
5112 Horseshoe Trail, Dallas, Texas
Green architecture, modern design, and Bluffview setting. The result is a dynamic home, environmentally sound, one that is bold and graceful, and a home that celebrates the attractiveness of the Bluffiview neighborhood.
5629 Bent Tree Drive, Dallas, Texas
Frank Welch, FAIA, designed this modern home for the prominent family who developed Bent Tree. It is no wonder they chose this lot for their own modern estate home. Preston Trails golf course and a greenbelt wrap around this home, providing several acre views of green with a backdrop of forest in the distance.
5970 Westgrove Drive, Dallas, Texas
Sited on two beautiful acres and backed up to a greenbelt, this asking price reflects just land value and the fabulous architect designed home is an incredible bonus. Located in Bent Tree, this is the finest International Style modern home built in Dallas since the International Style home designed by Roscoe Dewitt, AIA, for Stanley Marcus on acreage in 1937.
3424 Cornell Avenue, Dallas, Texas
This modern interpretation of a Beverly Hills home expresses itself perfectly in Old Highland Park. Built in the last 12 years, the Mediterranean home was totally refurbished, stylistically enhanced and the modernity accentuated.
4331 Travis Street, Dallas, Texas – B
Architect Lionel Morrison designed his finest modern town house at 4331 Travis. Beautiful natural light and low voltage light illuminate this stunning 3,865 square foot residence.
3201 Armstrong Avenue, Dallas, Texas
Tucked back from Travis and Armstrong there is an exquisite period piece of Modernism. This is the best Bud Oglesby designed condominium I have seen. The protected and intimate scale of these residences is quite elegant in a setting of restaurants and galleries.
4673 Christopher Place, Dallas, Texas
Architect Bill Booziotis designed this 3,760 square foot home in the small, gated enclave sharing a private park along Turtle Creek in Christopher Place. Recent renovations include a new kitchen, new bathrooms, and bamboo and Paduak wood flooring.
3404 Harvard Avenue, Dallas, Texas
Architect James Langford who worked with I.M. Pei on the Meyerson Symphony Center, designed this spectacular Highland Park three-story residence with a rooftop pool and view of the Dallas skyline and the Katy Trail.
3818 Turtle Creek Drive, Dallas, Texas
The stylish urban elegance of this home is combined with a 1/3 acre of land that stretches along the Katy Trail. The walls of split face cast stone and stucco further delineate the geometric composition of this three story home overlooking the greenbelt of Turtle Creek.
10740 Saint Michaels Drive, Dallas, Texas
Saint Michael’s Drive
Bob James designed this AIA award-winning home to blend into the neighborhood and provide dramatic views by the surrounding creek and woods. With 3,450 square feet, it is both stylish and practical sited on one-half acre overlooking Royal Branch Creek and a public wilderness park behind it.
5 Willowood Street, Dallas, Texas
This Dallas modern home was designed by architect, Antoine Predock who incorporated the client’s passion for collecting modern art and bird-watching into the concept of the home. While the Austin Stone front facade is perceived heavy, the interior opens up to reveal large open spaces created by 20 foot ceilings and windows, steel bridges shaded by a canopy of trees that connect the buildings and various points in the home and, surrounding the vaulted walkways, the ground transformed into a habitat filled in with lush vegetation to attract the birds.
3822 Turtle Creek Drive, Dallas, Texas
Turtle Creek Real Estate
We all know modern homes that have straight lines and sharp edges but they are tricky and ever contrived. This home has a simple shape, its design submits to the site and the exterior materials are honest and straight-forward – concrete, steel, stucco, glass and teak.
5423 Bent Tree Drive, Dallas, Texas
A Bent Tree lot was found overlooking the Preston Trails greenbelt. This home takes its cue from the modernism cubes of the Frank Welch home designed in the 1970s when this suburban neighborhood was first developed.
3509 Springbrook Street, Dallas, Texas
Modern Attached Single-Family in Northern Heights by Katy Trail
Architect Lionel Morrison energized the interest in modern homes with his series of modern single-family attached homes on Springbrook. Dallas has always had many of the best modern homes in the country. This modern home and the ones around it began the current wave of interest in modern architecture sweeping Dallas.
3511 Springbrook Street, Dallas, Texas
This modern townhouse was the architectural project that Dallas AIA Chapter selected as one of the Dallas 50 Significant Homes for their 50th Anniversary. The prestigious selected committee recognized Lionel Morrison’s use of space and natural light to create a delightful and sophisticated modern residence in a re-emerging neighborhood close to downtown.
3435 Normandy Avenue, Dallas, Texas
This modern townhouse was the architectural project that Dallas AIA Chapter selected as one of the Dallas 50 Significant Homes for their 50th Anniversary. The prestigious selected committee recognized Lionel Morrison’s use of space and natural light to create a delightful and sophisticated modern residence in a re-emerging neighborhood close to downtown.
9963 Rockbrook Drive, Dallas, Texas
Private Gallery
A most remarkable project is the gallery and guest house in Preston Hollow designed by Bill Booziotis. Bill has designed major museums and important houses, but this is definitely his best work. In collaboration with Andrée Putman, Bill has created a space that is at once a museum and a residence, intimate and voluminous, and one with diffused light and a subtle play of light.
4639 South Lindhurst Avenue, Dallas, Texas
Architects Braxton Werner and Paul Field Design
Wernerfield Architects designed this modern home for the site at 4639 South Lindhurst Avenue. In this Strait Lane area neighborhood, Braxton Werner and Paul Field were inspired by the original modernism and scale of the period homes in the neighborhood while advancing contemporary architectural design.
3215 Princeton Avenue, Dallas, Texas
Lionel Morrison is the starkest of the regional modernists. Reduction, not exuberance, is his goal. This 1994 home, while very elegant and precise, can be seen as a shed with a dogtrot and compound wall to accommodate the stairs, or as a simple rectangle with a two story glass appendage allowing the staircase to be an integral part of the design.
4428 North Versailles Avenue, Dallas, Texas
This modern Highland Park home on Versailles Avenue was a project of Dallas architectural firm Morrison-Seifert-Murphy. The house in the fifth section of Highland Park west of Preston features a window stretching across the front exterior on the second floor.
4608 Meadowood Road, Dallas, Texas
Edward Larrabee Barnes was selected to design the Dallas Museum of Art. Ralph and Nelba Greenley, who were very involved in the Dallas Museum of Art project, retained Edward Larrabee Barnes to design their home at 4608 Meadowood.
9839 Rockbrook Drive, Dallas, Texas
This home on Rockbrook was designed in 1993 by Steven Holl. Thin curved roof planes shelter open and closed spaces. Four sharply detailed concrete masses correspond to the dams on the creek. The effect is a structure firmly anchored and simultaneously in flight.
3601 Turtle Creek Boulevard, Dallas, Texas
Architect George Dahl designed this stark modern highrise in 1964.
3508 Springbrook Street, Dallas, Texas
Architects Boerder-Snyder designed this three and one-half story contemporary residence with full windows and balconies to take advantage of the surrounding towering trees. This home, built in 1992, is found in Northern Heights, a special neighborhood filled with architect designed homes around the corner from the parks of Turtle Creek and the retail of Knox Street.
4037 Druid Lane, Dallas, Texas
4037 Druid is public in scale, and architecturally exciting in a very traditional suburban neighborhood. A modern house is often looked at as stern, rather than as a warm accessible home in which to live.
3541 Colgate Avenue, Dallas, Texas
Howard Meyer arrived in Dallas in 1935. This coincided with the William Lescaze’s coming to Dallas to design the Magnolia Lounge at Fair Park. When he was still a student at Columbia, Howard Meyer worked for Lescaze on the UN Headquarters competition.
5400 Surrey Circle, Dallas, Texas
5400 Surrey Circle was designed in 1996 by Gary Cunningham and Sharon Odom. Beautifully placed on the lot, the interior accentuates the feel of the wooded exterior. Architect Daphne Perry was commissioned to do the custom tapestries.
Commerce Street Townhomes, Dallas, Texas
Architect, Ron Wommack has had a long and very productive career that has culminated this year with a series of high profile successes. Texas Society of Architects has presented him with two TSA awards, one for his Commerce Street Townhomes and the other for his McKinney Farm House.
5753 Berkshire Lane, Dallas, Texas
This home designed by Lionel Morrison and completed in 2003 departs from the stark white exteriors of Morrison’s other significant and award winning homes. This home reflects his use of windows and courtyards to erase exterior and interior boundaries.
Signe & Jason Smith Designed Home
This house renovation includes a requirement for a new elevator which opened the opportunity to showcase the Owner’s art collection and add drama and natural lighting to the existing diminutive and dark entry foyer.
Ron Wommack Dallas Garden House
Ron Wommack designed a home in the spirit of the neighborhood. It is precisely in scale with the 50 to 80 year old homes around it. The garage is detached, as are most of the original neighborhood garages, and the hardy plank is white to relate to the other neighborhood structures.
17 Royal Way, Dallas, Texas
Architect Bill Booziotis designed this modern home on a 10,000 square foot lot located on Royal Way, a cul de sac of 28 properties. An open floor plan with the floating wall between living areas creates bright and open spaces.
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center
The Meyerson is located in the Downtown Dallas Arts District and designed by award winning architect I.M. Pei.
Museum Tower
Museum Tower, a modern skyscraper, is the tallest new structure in the Arts District of Downtown Dallas.
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, located in Downtown Dallas in Dallas Arts District, was designed by three major architectural firms, Foster and Partners, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, and REX, each designing different parts of the Center.
715 Stevens Wood Court, Dallas, Texas
Beginning with a framework of a very simple contemporary home. Joshua Rice Design worked with the client’s goal was to build a cohesive collection of furniture, art and decoration that was rare, unique, and beautiful. Every item in the home was specifically selected with luxury and quality in mind.
10848 Strait Lane Circle, Dallas, Texas
The goal with this project was to expand on, and compliment Russell Buchanan’s prior remodel with important, but subtle and comfortable furniture in muted green, brown and taupe colors that compliment the beautiful exterior views of surrounding nature.
Modern Home on 16 Acres in Elgin
Architects Francois Levy and Kimberly Kohlhaas designed a modern home in rural Texas emphasizing design, sustainability and engineering.
3615 Amherst Avenue, Dallas Texas
In the heart of University Park, sits this modern home by SHM Architects with subtle use of materials to create phenomenal spaces.
7243 Tokalon Drive, Dallas, Texas
There are two dominant real estate trends in Dallas right now. One is the increasing desire of buyers for modern and contemporary homes.
4331 Travis Street, Dallas, Texas
Lionel Morrison received an AIA Honor Award for this 3,600 square-foot Travis townhouse located a block from Knox Street and Travis Walk that he designed in 1999. Now it is even better.
26 Vanguard Way, Dallas, Texas
Joshua Nimmo designed an architecturally significant modern home that furthers the evolution of good design. This home also clarifies and amplifies the vision of Urban Reserve, an enclave of modern homes in an ecologically and aesthetically enlightened neighborhood.
9326 West Lake Highlands Drive, Dallas, Texas
Cliff Welch has designed this home to be built on West Lake Highlands overlooking White Rock Lake. Resin panels, white stucco and concrete blocks create a simple but dynamic 3,600 square foot main home surrounded by porches and verandahs and a 1,000 square foot guest house.
16 Vanguard Way
Thad Reeves and Andrew Nance designed this home as the site dictated. This modern home is sited on the north edge of the main pond of Urban Reserve, a small, modern home development
60 Vanguard Way, Dallas, Texas
Architect Scott Marek has designed several modern homes in Urban Reserve, a Dallas enclave of modern homes. My favorite one is this modern home he designed at 60 Vanguard Way.
3217 Armstrong Avenue, Dallas, Texas
Bud Oglesby, FAIA, with Oglesby Architects, designed the best residential public spaces in Dallas. Bud Oglesby designed modern homes as large as 10,000 square feet or, like this modern Oglesby condominium on Armstrong and Travis, homes with 2,392 square feet.
3822 Turtle Creek Drive, Dallas, Texas
Turtle Creek Park Inspiration
This inspired modern home designed by architect Frank Welch expresses the best in a modern home. You will find it on an extraordinary site, in a fabulous neighborhood (Turtle Creek Park), and in a vibrant city (Dallas).
5543 Drane Drive, Dallas, Texas
Max Levy Architect Designed Modern Home in Greenway Parks
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Max Levy, FAIA, designed this home to embrace nature. He did this by designing the home to fully enjoy the five large live oak trees on the property and to reflect the greenways and the sense of nature in the neighborhood.
1717 Arts Plaza #2005, Dallas, Texas
This is the best one-bedroom home at One Arts. Beyond the best location, the best site is ultimately what determines the happiness a home provides and its future value.Here, the One Arts building designed by Lionel Morrison, has the best location in the Dallas Arts District.
9839 Rockbrook Drive, Dallas, Texas – Max Levy Addition
Max Levy, FAIA, designed the addition for this Steven Holl-designed modern home in Preston Hollow.
10434 Lennox Lane, Dallas, Texas
Max Levy designed this Texas Modern home in Preston Hollow with gabled roofs and front porches that reflect Texas. The deft design of the trellis over the front porch creates patterns of shadows and sunlight creating a delightful transition from the ample front garden of the Preston Hollow home to the interior of this modern home.
3801 Miramar Avenue, Dallas, Texas
At the beginning of his career, Joe McCall, FAIA, helped design for Oglesby Architects the home at 3727 Miramar, and now towards the end of his career Joe McCall designed this spectacular architecturally significant modern home at 3801 Miramar. Both of these homes enjoy a deep setback, enhancing their combined views of nature.
Highland Park Residence
Architect Kevin Alter designed this architecturally significant modern home in Highland Park in 2018.
