Temple of Stone Creates Divine Architecture
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Commercial Residential P.O. Box 38 Garden City, TX 79739 915-354-2569 www.texastone.com Circle 62 on the reader service card TexaStone ads 1 8/14/03, 4:24:58 PM Circle 14 on the reader service card 03 AIA Trust 1 8/14/03, 2:46:09 PM Temple of stone creates divine architecture A 1930s menorrah blended with new limestone. Ancient Jerusalem inspired gated entries and courtyards. A brush-hammered fi nish created an aged texture. Beth-El Congregation Temple, Fort Worth architect Hahnfeld Hoffer Stanford, Fort Worth general contractor DeMoss Co., Fort Worth masonry contractor DMG Masonry, Arlington TX Photography: Ray Don Tilley, Bastrop, Photography: Ray Don Tilley, hroughout history, no other building material has “Beth-El is an established congregation, so the design for its new matched the endearing and enduring beauty of natural temple had to refl ect a sense of permanence. We used Texas Quarries T Cordova Cream limestone with a brush hammered fi nish to recall stone. Since 1929, architects have specifi ed Texas antiquity. We even integrated carved limestone menorrahs from the Quarries’ distinctive limestone for prominent projects original building seamlessly into the new design. The layout was inspired by Solomon’s Temple. Gated entries lead you from street to around the world. Cordova Cream, Cordova Shell, and courtyard to the sequence of spaces inside, which progressively become Lueders varieties blend beautifully today with limestone more sacred. Each enclosure opens onto a courtyard and is scaled an Acme Brick company taken from our quarries decades ago. You can trust Texas to create a sense of ancient Jerusalem. Despite these allusions, this is Please call or visit us on the internet: clearly a modern structure, one particularly well-suited to the timeless www.texasquarries.com Quarries for natural materials that defi ne our past and and comforting qualities of Texas Quarries limestone.” 512-258-1474 800-792-1234 ensure a beautiful future for today’s fi nest buildings. — David Stanford, AIA, Hahnfeld Hoffer Stanford, Fort Worth [email protected] Circle 16 on the reader service card or visit booths 607 and 609 in Fort Worth Acme_Temples 1 8/6/03, 3:42:34 PM TexasArchitect S EPT EMBER/OCT OBER 2003 2003 TSA Design Awards Overview of this year’s competition by Donna Kacmar, AIA 26 Watercourse House by a Pond, Dallas Max Levy Architect 28 Conventional Wisdom Austin Convention Center Expansion, Austin Page Southerland Page 32 Ancestral Archive Marcos B. Armijo Library Addition, El Paso Alvidrez Architecture 36 Jewel Box for Bargains Retail Protoype: Goodwill, Austin Team Haas Architects 40 Speculative Success Round Valley Texas Office Building and Garage, Bellaire Architect Works Inc. 44 Modernist Treasure Sunlit House, Dallas Max Levy Architect 48 Urban/Suburban Hybrid Twin Peaks, Austin M.J. Neal Architects 52 2003 TSA DESIGN AWARDS 05 EDITOR’S NOTE 12 NEWS UPCOMING ISSUES 20 EULOGY Doug Michels (1943-2003) We invite submissions of project and story ideas for upcoming issues of Texas Architect. 21 EXHIBIT Seminal Assemblies If you have ideas for “News” call us at (512) 478-7386, fax to (512) 478-0528, 60 SPECIAL SECTION Amon Carter Museum Expansion or e-mail [email protected]. cover image by Charles Davis Smith, AIA 74 EXPO REVIEW 64th Annual TSA Design Products & Ideas Exposition 92 BACKPAGE TEXAS ARCHITECT 3 TTexasArchitectexasArchitect SSeptember/Octobereptember/October 2003 Volume 53,53, NumberNumber 55 Texas Architect (ISSN:(ISSN: 0040-4179)0040-4179) isis publishedpublished sevenseven timestimes perper yearyear (bimonthly(bimonthly andand inin April)April) byby thethe TexasTexas SocietySociety ofof ArchitectsArchitects (TSA),(TSA), 816816 CongressCongress Ave.,Ave., SuiteSuite 970,970, Austin,Austin, TexasTexas 78701,78701, www.texasarchitect.org. 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