Architecture critic Mark Lamster flags historic architecture in the Cedars, Medical District and West Dallas in the path of development.
would drop up to 440 apartments on the site, with retail space at the Singleton-Sylvan corner. Of those units, 10% would be affordable, at the rate of 61% to 80% of the area’s median family income.
The city is in a housing shortage, and especially an affordable housing shortage, but it should not and need not destroy its history to ameliorate that problem. A proposal to shift the zoning of the property from industrial-research to multifamily residential will come before the Dallas City Plan Commission in March.
The two towers were linked by broad, skylit corridors — “weather conditioned streets” — with shops and other services. As Preziosi notes, those tunnels were the “forerunner to the modern mall,” and no doubt a direct influence on the design of NorthPark Center, which borrowed its language of planted passages lit from above.
In addition to its pioneering architecture, the complex boasted one of the city’s most influential and inventive restaurants. The Tunisian, which opened in 1959, had a North-African themed interior, with fabric-draped ceilings meant to evoke a tented desert oasis. The restaurant’s 7-foot-tall doorman wore the robe of a Watusi chieftain, and became something of a local celebrity. Cocktail waitresses were costumed as veiled “harem girls.
Again, there are good examples, and in Dallas, for how a large commercial project like this might be reinvigorated. In 2016, developers planned to demolish a wing of the landmark Meadows Building, the midcentury icon just off U.S. Highway 75. Instead,The city’s autobiography
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