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Big name buildings Calatrava joins the list of Dallas favorite starchitects

By SCOTT CANTRELL ers The Nasher s five parallel pavilions clad Staff Critic scantrell@dallasnews com in honeyed marble have cable stayed roofs of glass and egg crate deflectors that admit lots Photos by LARA SOLT ofnatural light but never direct sunlight The Staff Photographer garden out back by landscape architect Peter Walker is downtown s most sublime space prestige Santiago Calatrava 2001 Flora St at North Olive Perot Museum of Nature Science Indesignera city everofthecravingMargarethigh profileHunt Thom Mayne Morphosis opening 2013 Hill Bridge isjust the latest in a The Los Angeles architect has designed what s looking like the edgiest building in all series of starchitects tapped to design ofNorth Texas A cube clad in striated precast signature structures Among others concrete rises above swoops that will be cov ered in native plantings On the outside a Nasher Sculpture Center Renzo Piano glazed escalator enclosure adds a techy 2003 The Italian architect has become one diagonal ofthe world s premier go to museum design Woodall Rodgers Freeway and Field Street

Latino Cultural Center Ricardo Legorreta 2003 The highest profile Mexican architect after the 1988 death ofLuis Barragan the late Ricardo Legorreta brought his signature pueblo influenced geometries and bright colors to this mix ofperformance meeting and display spaces

2600 Live Oak St at Good Latimer Dallas City Hall I M Pei 1978 The brutal ist style pioneered by Le Corbusier with bold geometries in cast in place concrete came to Dallas with Pei s forward leaning facade punc tured by rounded stairwells It cuts a striking figure but window ledges stuffed with books and papers cheapen the effect

1500 Marilla St at South Akard

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Ritz Carlton Hotel and Residences Robert A M Kalita Humphreys Theater New heights Stern 2009 Specializing in Frank LloydWright 1959 historicist pastiche Stern has Wright s penchant for organic designed some beautiful architecture was a natural fit homes But while atownhome for this sloping wooded site grouping in this Uptown Busy at the end ofhis career complex does suggest curva the architect recycled an un ceous Regency architecture built design originally planned the two towers look value for the West Coast It proved engineered out ofanybut as functionally problematic as superficial character many other Wright buildings 2121 McKinneyAve at North Pearl and has been considerably altered over the years Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House Foster Part 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd at Black burn ners 2009 With its vast spreading sunshade and deep NorthPark Center Eero red glass inner drum this is a Saarinen and Kevin Roche Soaring ambition building that demands to be 1965 Developer Ray Nasher An eight page special section noticed Welcoming outside tapped Saarinen to design today on the new Margaret what then would be the Hunt Hill Bridge includes and acoustically satisfying reviews of Santiago inside it has some surprising world s largest climate con Calatrava s design an analysis bottlenecks though and not trolled shopping mall After on whether it can achieve icon enough restrooms Saarinen s 1961 death plans status and a list of events to 2403 Flora St at Jack Evans were completed by Roche his commemoratethe bridge s design associate Much en opening Section F Dee and Charles Wyly larged over the years but still Theatre REX OMA 2009 cool and calm NorthPark Rem Koolhaas was tapped as remains the rare shopping dressed up with New Orleans architect here but he assigned mall that can be called archi style wrought iron much ofthe work to his U S tecturally distinguished Cedar Springs Road and North partner Joshua Prince Ra punctuated with major mod Pearl mus During the design pro ern art from Nasher s collec Morton H Meyerson Sym cess the two split and it s tion phony Center I M Pei anyone s guess who did what 8687 N Central Expressway at 1989 Pei s only concert hall on the Wyly plans The tower s Northwest Highway remains an elegantly un aluminum tube cladding is The Crescent Philip John derstated presence in the striking and the interior can son 1985 Johnson didn t Dallas Arts District a subtle be quickly converted from hide his low opinion ofDallas counterpoint ofangles and proscenium to thrust to in tastes and he gave us what he curves The interior is darkly the round configurations But figured we wanted postmod luxurious with extensively the building s stacked config ern kitsch on a grand scale adjustable acoustics byArtec uration means you have to The hotel office retail com Consultants among the finest climb stairs or take elevators plex is a French chateau blown anywhere to do anything

up to gigantic proportions 2301 Flora St at North Pearl 2400 Flora St at Jack Evans

¦ Dallas has a lengthy starchitect honor roll

NorthPark Center Eero Saarinen and Kevin Roche

Ritz Carlton Hotel and Residences Robert A M Stern

Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House Foster Partners Photos by Lara Solt Staff Photographer

THE KALI IA HUM TH EATER

Morton H Meyerson Symphony Center I M Pei Kalita Humphreys Theater Frank Lloyd Wright Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre REX OMA

The Crescent Philip Johnson

Dallas is full of signature works from starchitects Clockwise from top left Nasher Sculpture Center Renzo Piano 2003 Perot Museum of Nature Science Thorn Mayne Morphosis opening 2013 Latino Cultural Center Ricardo Legorreta 2003 and Dallas City Hall I M Pei 1978