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This Dallas modern home in Greenway Parks was designed by architect Max Levy who has won more AIA awards than any other living architect in Dallas. Call Douglas Newby to find out more about this architecturally significant home and how Douglas Newby can best help you purchase an architecturally significant home of this caliber.

Dallas Modern Home is Sold in Greenway Parks

5543 Drane DriveDallas, Texas 75209Listing Price: $5,895,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby

A home with the architectural pedigree of architect Max Levy and its architectural significance is obviously special and desired. Douglas Newby consistently offers homes of the greatest significance and represents smart buyers with a heightened aesthetic and economic understanding. Douglas Newby also best understands neighborhoods and homes that make you happy. We also increasingly realize the desirability of a home filled with sunlight, the joy that comes from living in a neighborhood where one can say hello to neighbors walking along a greenway or parkway, the happiness generated by a home relating to nature, and the satisfaction of living in a home that is an aesthetic achievement. This Max Levy-designed modern home in Greenway Parks expresses all of these characteristics.

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5531 Walnut Hill Lane

Dallas, Texas 75229$15,995,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Architect: Brant McFarlainAcreage: 1.9350Year: 2022Square Feet: 10,577Lot Size: Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 10Neighborhood: Preston HollowSchool District: Dallas ISD

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4301 Armstrong Parkway

Highland Park, Texas 75205$15,000,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Acreage: 0.5740Year: 2023Square Feet: 10,860Lot Size: 115 x 220'Bedrooms: 6Bathrooms: 9Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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1747 Leonard Street

Dallas, Texas 75201$15,000,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Acreage: 0.0000Year: 2020Square Feet: 11,115Lot Size: Bedrooms: 4Bathrooms: 6Neighborhood: Downtown DallasSchool District: Dallas ISD

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3639 Beverly Drive

Highland Park, Texas 75205$13,900,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Acreage: 0.4030Year: 2022Square Feet: 9,488Lot Size: 100 x 185Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 8Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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10333 Woodford Drive

Dallas, Texas 75229$9,995,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Acreage: 1.0220Year: 2011Square Feet: 12,379Lot Size: Bedrooms: 6Bathrooms: 10Neighborhood: Preston HollowSchool District: Dallas ISD

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6740 Northaven Road

Dallas, Texas 75230$9,500,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Acreage: 1.4200Year: 2023Square Feet: 11,000Lot Size: Bedrooms: 6Bathrooms: 8Neighborhood: Preston HollowSchool District: Dallas ISD

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4700 Dorset Road

Dallas, Texas 75229$8,999,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Acreage: 1.1870Year: 9999Square Feet: 13,104Lot Size: 51706Bedrooms: 6Bathrooms: 9Neighborhood: Preston HollowSchool District: Dallas ISD

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5233 Yolanda Lane

Dallas, Texas 75229$8,995,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Architect: SHM ArchitectAcreage: 1.0400Year: 2020Square Feet: 11,367Lot Size: Bedrooms: 6Bathrooms: 9Neighborhood: Preston HollowSchool District: Dallas ISD

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3620 Princeton Avenue

Highland Park, Texas 75205$8,975,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Architect: SHM ArchitectsAcreage: 0.2760Year: 2019Square Feet: 8,789Lot Size: 80 x 150Bedrooms: 4Bathrooms: 8Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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5969 Westgrove Circle

Dallas, Texas 75248$7,500,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Acreage: 2.2900Year: 2008Square Feet: 12,180Lot Size: Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 9Neighborhood: Bent Tree, Far North DallasSchool District: Dallas ISD

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1918 Olive Street

Dallas, Texas 75201$7,000,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Acreage: 1.5530Year: 2011Square Feet: 4,975Lot Size: Bedrooms: 2Bathrooms: 3Neighborhood: Downtown DallasSchool District: Dallas ISD

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Contact National Award-Winning Realtor Douglas Newby To Determine if He should represent You to Find an Architecturally Significant Dallas Modern Home

Douglas Newby, a realtor who has won national awards for success in selling architecturally significant modern homes, understands your desire for modern design, a great site, good value, and a home that will make you happy living, working and playing in the home.  Here, you will find modern homes listed for sale in MLS.  In addition, real estate broker Douglas Newby is aware of the great modern homes in Dallas that might be available to purchase. Contact Douglas Newby to see how he can provide you with the best representation as you secure an architecturally significant home.

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Dallas has one of the best collections of modern homes in the country.

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5543 Drane Drive

Dallas, Texas 75209Listing Price: $5,895,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Architect: Max LevyAcreage: 0.4660Year: 2017Square Feet: 6,577Lot Size: 105 x 183Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 8Neighborhood: Greenway ParksSchool District: Dallas ISD

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26 Vanguard Way

Dallas, Texas 75243Listing Price: $1,095,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Architect: Joshua NimmoAcreage: 0.2710Year: 2015Square Feet: 2,600Lot Size: 50 x 237Bedrooms: 2Bathrooms: 2Neighborhood: East Dallas, Urban ReservesSchool District: Richardson ISD

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6601 Hunters Glen Road

University Park, Texas 75205Listing Price: $22,500,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Acreage: 1.8020Year: 1927Square Feet: 12,957Lot Size: Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 9Neighborhood: Park Cities, University ParkSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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10602 Bridge Hollow Court

Dallas, Texas 75229Listing Price: $11,995,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Acreage: 1.6990Year: 2020Square Feet: 13,043Lot Size: Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 8Neighborhood: Preston HollowSchool District: Dallas ISD

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4436 Belclaire Avenue

Highland Park, Texas 75205Listing Price: $10,950,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Acreage: 0.2600Year: 2022Square Feet: 8,042Lot Size: 85 x 133Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 8Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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11333 W Ricks Circle

Dallas, Texas 75230Listing Price: $9,995,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Architect: William Briggs and CollinsAcreage: 1.1610Year: 2008Square Feet: 10,788Lot Size: 142x340x157x336Bedrooms: 6Bathrooms: 9Neighborhood: Preston HollowSchool District: Dallas ISD

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3508 Crescent Avenue

Highland Park, Texas 75205Listing Price: $9,950,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Acreage: 0.5450Year: 2018Square Feet: 12,266Lot Size: 115x200Bedrooms: 4Bathrooms: 8Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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3701 Lexington Avenue

Highland Park, Texas 75205Listing Price: $9,450,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Architect: David StockerAcreage: 0.3930Year: 2005Square Feet: 8,156Lot Size: 95x198Bedrooms: 3Bathrooms: 7Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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1918 Olive Street

Dallas, Texas 75201Listing Price: $9,150,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Acreage: 1.5530Year: 2020Square Feet: 4,678Lot Size: 0x0Bedrooms: 3Bathrooms: 4Neighborhood: Downtown DallasSchool District: Dallas ISD

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10240 Gaywood Road

Dallas, Texas 75229Listing Price: $8,500,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Architect: Scott LyonsAcreage: 2.6320Year: 1985Square Feet: 9,741Lot Size: IrregularBedrooms: 4Bathrooms: 11Neighborhood: Preston HollowSchool District: Dallas ISD

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4350 Rheims Place

Highland Park, Texas 75205Listing Price: $8,495,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Architect: Richard Drummond DavisAcreage: 0.4440Year: 2020Square Feet: 8,243Lot Size: 110x171Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 9Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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2555 N Pearl Street

Dallas, Texas 75201Listing Price: $8,295,000Contact Realtor Douglas Newby
Acreage: 1.2160Year: 2007Square Feet: 5,666Lot Size: Bedrooms: 4Bathrooms: 6Neighborhood: Turtle Creek AreaSchool District: Dallas ISD

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How to Design a Tasteful Modern Home by Mike Cahill

Blog Article Contributor—National Award-Winning Realtor Douglas Newby

Mike Cahill of Redfin asked experts from across the country, including architects, builders, designers and me, a realtor, to add to their thoughts and further illuminate the major considerations for homeowners to keep in mind when designing a home. Each modern home expert contributed an insight that I agreed with and that gave a meaningful direction to modern homeowners in different voices. I chose to emphasize proportions over modern ornamentation, and views in many directions versus an exaggerated window or tricky modern façade.

The other contributors emphasized Modern Architecture at Its Core; Think Big Picture; Bring the Outdoors In; Make It Uniquely You; Less Is More; Lean on Form and Function; Design In Harmony With Your Surroundings; Know What You Want; Understand Taste May Change; Focus On Fundamentals.

Please enjoy this excellent article by Mike Cahill written for Redfin, How To Design A Tasteful Modern Home.

It is much more important for a home to live and feel modern than look modern.

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Howard Meyer and Top Dallas Architects Have Designed Fabulous Modern Homes in Greenway Parks for Decades

Modern architects Howard Meyer, Bud Oglesby, Max Levy, Bodron Fruit, Bentley Tibbs, Hidell & Decker and many others have designed modern homes in Greenway Parks.

Dallas is Home to the Best Modern Architecture in the United States

Realtor Douglas Newby recognizes that modern homes for sale in Dallas reflect some of the best modern architecture in the country. Dallas is home to the work of the greatest modern architects of the last century and today. Architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, François Lévy, David Williams, Edward Durell Stone, Harwell Hamilton Harris, Michael Linehan, Arch B. Swank, Scott Lyons, Philip Johnson, and Bud Oglesby have all contributed to the modern architectural landscape of Dallas and influenced the architecture around the world. Dallas modern homes are built in many different modern styles from classical modern to mid-century modern, Texas modern to “green” modern and some eclectic homes transformed into a more modern style. Here you will discover modern homes for sale throughout Preston Hollow, Turtle Creek, Bluffview, Greenway Parks, Lakewood, White Rock Lake, Glen Abbey, North Dallas, East Dallas, Highland Park, and University Park.

Douglas Newby identifies and illuminates the architects that have designed the best modern homes in Dallas. Many of the modern homes for sale in MLS or homes that are for sale and not in MLS have been designed by award-winning modern architects. These talented architects might design classically modern homes, Texas modern homes, white boxes, contemporary homes reflecting a midcentury vibe, or a modern home that has been predominantly influenced by its site and environment.

Architecturally Significant Dallas Modern Homes

National award-winning realtor Douglas Newby did the first Dallas architectural survey of architecturally significant Dallas modern homes. Douglas Newby revealed that Dallas has a tremendous collection of modern homes. Dallas has a tremendous collection of modern homes. Architecturally significant homes provide the foundation and examples of good modern architecture as it advances in modern design.  Architecturally significant modern homes have been designed in Dallas by the finest modern architects in the city, the region and in the country.

In Dallas you will see modern architecture from the early work  of architects David Williams and O’Neil Ford in the 1930s, to the midcentury modern architecture of architects Howard Meyer, Bud Oglesby and Max Sandfield in the mid-century to the late Bill Booziotis and James Pratt, to current AIA fellows like modern architects Max Levy, Gary Cunningham, Lionel Morrison, Dan Shipley, and Ron Wommack, to younger architects making a modern architectural impression in Dallas and across the country such as architects Braxton Werner, Paul Field, Joshua Nimmo, and Jason and Signe Smith, and national modern architects like Scott Specht.

On DallasModernHomesForSale.com by Douglas Newby, you will be able to find the architecturally significant homes for sale by these celebrated architects in Dallas.

Douglas Newby is the Best Resource for Off-Market Dallas Modern Homes

Many of the great homes purchased in Dallas are the off-market modern homes. Sometimes an owner of an architecturally significant off-market modern home in Dallas is just toying with the idea of selling their modern home. Other homeowners in Dallas who have an exclusive Dallas modern home are only wanting to offer it as an off-market modern home for sale as they do not want a parade of people eager to see their home that are not a good match for their modern home. When we specialize in the finest homes it is as important to curate those with whom we work as it is the modern homes we offer for sale. This Off-market Modern Homes in Dallas page helps match intelligent buyers with smart modern homes.

MLS Dallas Modern

Searching for Dallas modern homes in MLS is an important foundation to finding and ultimately selecting a Dallas modern home for sale. Here you will be able to search for Dallas modern homes offered for sale in MLS. Douglas Newby created the MLS Dallas Modern Homes search that curates just Dallas modern homes for sale, but does not make you slog through the traditional homes in MLS just to find a Dallas modern home in your price range.

For Sale Dallas Modern Homes

Douglas Newby & Associates has always curated the featured for sale modern homes that we offer. Whether it is a $20,000,000 Dallas modern home or an architect-designed modern home under $1,000,000, we will feature for sale modern homes in Dallas with the architectural and aesthetic quality that will make you happy living in the home.

Architecturally Significant Dallas Modern Homes for Sale

Dallas modern homes for sale that are architecturally significant are as rare as architecturally significant historic homes. Douglas Newby created DallasModernHomesForSale.com to be a place where you will be able to identify and find Dallas modern homes in MLS that are offered for sale. Here you will also be able to find fabulous Dallas modern homes for sale that are not in MLS.  In addition, you will be able to discover Dallas modern homes that will be offered for sale in the future. 

Marc McCollom, Modern Architect

A self described “quiet modernist”, architect Marc McCollum’s style is refreshing and free designed to nurture and not overwhelm. He’s trained with two of the greats, Frank Welch and Max Levy. The modern homes he’s designed can be seen throughout Dallas including the award winning “House of Three Rooms.” Read architect Marc McCollom’s thoughts on his work

Oglesby·Greene, Modern Architectural Firm

Dallas AIA 2010 Firm of the Year, Oglesby·Greene, has influenced and trained many of the best modern architects in Dallas. Oglesby started as a firm in 1950 and became incorporated in 1968. In 1995, it merged with the office of modernist architect Graham Greene, and continues to design award winning modern homes. Read about one of Oglesby·Greene’s most stunning homes

Bentley Tibbs, Contemporary Architect

Bently Tibbs, a graduate of Texas A&M, studied under modern architect Frank Welch. Tibbs is a modern architect who’s known for designing and renovating modern residential and commercial buildings utilizing simple materials and natural light. Read more about architect Bentley Tibbs

Bill Booziotis, Modern Architect

Architect Bill Booziotis is a civic leader who has designed museums, churches, university buildings, modern homes, and historic homes. His clean and elegant designs can be seen in many modern homes in Dallas as well as many of Dallas’ prominent high-rises like the Mansion Residences and The Claridge. See images of the Hoffman Gallery designed by Bill Booziotis

François Lévy, Modern Architect

François Lévy graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a master’s degree in architectural engineering. His work with modern homes reflects his academic interests and passion for technology and design. Levy is a modern architect known for his contemporary homes that incorporate modern design, sustainability and an open floor plan. More on François Lévy

Signe & Jason Smith, Modern Architects

A husband and wife architectural team and graduates of the University of Texas, the Smiths created their own modern architectural firm after working with many other extraordinary firms in Dallas. Their clean, refined aesthetic blends seamlessly with the needs of their clients and their modern homes. See a gallery of Homes From the AIA Dallas Chapter’s 2013 Modern Home Tour featuring homes designed by Signe & Jason Smith

Michael Linehan, Modern Architect

Dallas born and raised architect Michael Linehan graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in architecture. Linehan brings to Dallas unique ideas and perspectives from the East Coast, where most of his work can be found. More on Michael Linehan

Frank Welch, Modern and Texas Modern Architect

Designing homes, schools, sacred spaces and commercial buildings, Frank Welch propelled Texas modern architecture in a profound way.  Frank Welch, FAIA, continued defining Texas Modern architecture as the starting point for modern architecture in Dallas and as a current modern architecture in Dallas. Watch architect Frank Welch receiving the Lamplighter School Spirit Award

Gary Cunningham, Modern Architect

Modern architect Gary Cunningham, a graduate of the University of Texas, worked for the St. Louis firm Helmut-Obata-Kassebaum. His style tends to be exuberant and explosive, creating open and exciting modern homes and buildings.
Read about the first home architect Gary Cunningham designed

Lionel Morrison, Modern Architect

Modern architect Lionel Morrison can be credited with introducing the first modern single-family attached home in Dallas. Morrison and architect Mark Dilworth, AIA, left larger architectural firms to create their own, smaller firm, Morrison Dilworth + Walls.
See a gallery of homes designed by Lionel Morrison

Mark Domiteaux, Contemporary Architect

Architect Mark Domiteaux has designed modern homes throughout Dallas in neighborhoods like White Rock Lake and in Far North Dallas. His work includes the renovation of the oldest home in University Park.
Read about the 2013 AIA Tour of Modern Homes featuring homes designed by Mark Domiteaux

James Langford, Contemporary Architect

Architect James Langford, a graduate of Texas Tech, has worked on a number of important projects including the Meyerson Symphony Center and the all Saints Chapel at the Episcopal School of Dallas. He’s also designed many of the finest modern homes in Dallas.
See architect James Langford’s portfolio

Modern Design Preserves Historic Homes

Historic designed homes and modern designed homes from other eras are increasingly vulnerable to being torn down.  Architects can make an old home current and valuable with simple modern design revisions like this home has that was renovated to the specifications of architect Cliff Welch, FAIA.

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Dallas modern homes for sale are provided by national award-winning agent Douglas Newby specializing in architecturally significant homes. Douglas Newby knows the potential inventory of architecturally significant homes and the nuances of neighborhoods better than any real estate agent in Dallas. Understanding inventory is more than relying on MLS or “hip pockets.” It is approaching the market as if every home in Dallas is for sale. When a buyer looks for a home from that perspective, they are not constrained by a random slice of what is presently on the market or hoping something better will magically come on the market. A traditional approach leaves economics and aesthetics to chance. For decades Douglas Newby has identified architecturally significant homes and helped clients select neighborhoods in good locations that make them happy. The majority of Douglas Newby transactions are not through MLS. Values are determined by more important criteria than what has sold in the last six months. Homes are more important now than they have ever been.

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If you want more than an agent who will point out amenities and statistics, if you want an advisor, someone knowledgeable, experienced and someone you would like to collaborate with, then you should contact Douglas Newby. He loves working with smart people who understand a home is an important economic investment and an important investment in a place that will make them happy living, working or playing in the home.

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A home an architect designed for himself and his f A home an architect designed for himself and his family is always one of my favorites. This architecturally significant and historically significant home at 4511 Highland Drive in Old Highland Park is even more special because it was designed by the iconic Highland Park and Dallas architect, Herbert M. Greene, who also designed the Cox/Beal Beaux Arts style estate home on Beverly and Preston. Adding to the legacy of this home overlooking Hackberry Creek and backing up to Lakeside Drive estate properties, is a home that was passed down successfully to family members over three generations. Until only recently when he died at 97, John Greene Taylor owned and lived in the home. I first met John Greene Taylor 20 years ago when he gave me a call and asked if I would like to see his home that his grandfather designed. I was thrilled to see this 1920s home with very high ceilings and graciously proportioned formal and informal rooms. The architectural detail and woodwork were still intact. Apparently, the beneficiary of the estate had no real interest in preserving the home, which does not bode well for its future. I don’t know if Preservation Park Cities has this historic home on their list of 100 Architecturally Significant Historic Homes? I do know that the high-profile real estate firms thought the home only had land value as a lot. Here is a perfect example of how an early proactive preservation effort might have made a difference. I will remember John Taylor Greene with admiration and appreciation for saving this architecturally significant historic home for as long as he did – his entire life. *Architectural Legacy Ends
 
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I have always been a huge advocate of the City Man I have always been a huge advocate of the City Manager form of government until now -- I realized it exacerbates and feeds off of a ward system that needs reform. You can see my latest blog article, "City Manager Ward System Form of Government Needs Reform" on DouglasNewby.com. The current City Manager Ward System takes away the voters' control, hinders the progress of Dallas priorities, and the Mayor's initiatives. My conversion on this topic over the last two months has come from the Dallas Mayor's good initiatives being thwarted, and the City Manager's public and private disrespect for the Mayor and now many on the City Council. I wrote "City Manager Ward System Form of Government Needs Reform" before the Dallas Morning News broke the story that the City Manager's future will be reviewed by the City Council when they meet on Wednesday. The reason this called meeting has been so long coming is because a majority of the City Council cannot fire the City Manager. The City Manager only needs to keep six City Council members happy to keep his job. It will be interesting if the Mayor and the four City Council members that are on record for wanting to fire the City Manager will have a super-majority of the City Council to do so. I have tried in my blog article to give a fresh perspective of the history of the City Manager form of government and single member districts, and what has been brewing at City Hall between the Mayor and City Manager. The current City Manager ward system form of government needs reform if Dallas is going to continue to flourish. *City Manager Ward System

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What is one going to do when one becomes fond of t What is one going to do when one becomes fond of the orchid that comes floating in a pre-dinner cocktail, the Serrano, ordered in the gallery from Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle overseen by Manager Dimitrios Michalopoulos? When the drink is finished, rinse the orchid off in chilled water and place it in one’s lapel buttonhole for the evening’s dinner at Antonucci’s. Seated outside close by was a prominent hedge fund partner that I casually know from TED. I went by to say hello to him and his grown family dining with him. After a brief fun exchange, he complimented me on my orchid. This allowed me to explain the origin story of the orchid to him and his family’s amusement, which inspired this post. I did not mention that I now have an inclination where John Reoch sources his buttonhole flowers he wears when he knows paparazzi will be close by. *Cocktail Orchid
 
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Urban planners and architects often create digitiz Urban planners and architects often create digitized renderings to show how a plaza becomes a human space – a reflection pool, a piece of sculpture, spotted trees, and three people placed in the hardscape between buildings. And when I see these renderings, I say to myself, “Yeah, like that is ever going to happen.” And yet in real life at the MoMA, when I turned and looked at what seemed to be a large computer rendering, it was really a MoMA sculpture garden with a pool, a sculpture, spotted trees, and three sunbathers with their feet dangling towards the pool, with chairs strewn about inviting more to join them. Before long, as I often do when I am visiting the MoMA, I found my way to a chair under a tree with dappled light to relax and enjoy the day. The musing I have written across the photograph maybe should have been – “When life mimics renderings.” *Three Bathers
 
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An exhibition in a museum with an enjoyable scale, An exhibition in a museum with an enjoyable scale, mask optional, beautiful paintings, presented in a way one learns more about the artist, the artistic period, and the history of its time is my favorite way to view art. The MoMA exhibition, “Matisse: The Red Studio,” captures all these positive components. Sometimes looking at a series of paintings in a museum can make one a bit weary. This “Matisse: The Red Studio” exhibit exhilarates and energizes the viewer. It also propels one to see the other floors of the permanent collection with a fresh eye and a deeper insight on how to look at and think about art. “The Red Studio” becomes a studio index for the other paintings on the walls surrounding the 6 foot x 7 foot Red Studio panel.  MoMA was successful in assembling and displaying all the paintings pictured in “The Red Studio.” This commissioned painting of a studio was originally painted in the natural colors of the studio’s blue and green walls and wood floors. Matisse then did a reset of not just this painting but of his art. He rapidly repainted all the walls, ceilings and floor in red. His patron who commissioned the piece, upon seeing it, rejected it as did the art critics when the piece was exhibited in Paris, the Armory in New York, and at the Art Institute of Chicago. Matisse, who was a favorite fauve painter at the time, was ridiculed for this piece that went unsold for years. Hidden from view for years and only some 20 years later, found a buyer who placed it in his fashionable nightclub. Matisse did not include any of his earlier fauve paintings in “The Red Studio” but instead included his more recent calmer and more decorative paintings that he hung on his studio wall, some shown as you scroll through. Creativity is ideas that come in many forms. Sometimes it takes months, sometimes years, and sometimes generations for an expression of creativity to resonate with the public at large. “The Red Studio” resonates with us now. Congratulations to MoMA for another great show. *Studio Index
 
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Doors will open and the new owners, a delightful y Doors will open and the new owners, a delightful young couple, will be embraced by a warm, sun-filled home, designed by architect Max Levy, that will provide them generational happiness. The front five-foot wide frosted pivot door opens to an entertainment gallery that links the glass-walled wings of the home—the open kitchen, dining and living areas, and the two-story wing of bedrooms. From almost every room there is a visual connection to every other room, the garden, and at least one of the five mature live oak trees framed by a window. Across the gallery from the front door, is a wide, sliding glass door, framed in white oak, that opens to a room surrounded by windows on three sides that protrudes into the garden.  Above the center room is a screened room only accessible to the garden, making these two stacked rooms the center of this residence and the center of the property, so one can fully enjoy nature and the trees that inspired the design of this modern home in Greenway Parks. No wonder many consider this the finest home sited on less than .5 acres in Dallas. *Doors Open
 
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