mark lamster

Architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News. Harvard Loeb Fellow. Author of The Man in the Glass House

[mark lamster @marklamster]

Friends: Please join me in the fight to save Dallas City Hall. Spread the word. 
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My full critique of the Obama Center will come next month. Here's what I wrote after touring the site last November. https://t.co/ye3faBzI4J

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Q: What do the Beatles, Doris Day, Raquel Welch, the Teamsters, Katrina refugees, a jail, the Roman empire, and affordable housing have in common?

A: The Cabana Motor Hotel.

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your eyes don’t lie, but architectural renderings sure do, especially in the age of aia. my latest is a short history of how we got to the dubious place we're at.
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[Dallas Morning News @dallasnews]

In City Hall's shadow, another neglected icon with an uncertain future | @marklamster

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FREE HENRY MOORE! this is NO WAY to treat one of the city’s jewels. save city hall, remove the barricades, and create a respectful and secure setting for the moore. my latest on this:

https://t.co/tUMYjh9p9W

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my latest on the future of dallas city hall after a 16-hour city council hearing. there are some reasons for optimism, but the process has been disingenuous, disorganized, rushed, and lacking in transparency. 

https://t.co/EbT9HRViDu

[Lee Bey @LEEBEY]

Today's column looks at what will be the final resting place of the Rev. Jesse Jackson: 19th Century landscape designer Adolph Strauch's solemn and picturesque Oak Woods Cemetery on the city's South Side. https://t.co/7ucNfvwSDm

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council meeting moving toward hour 12 since scheduled beginning with zero end in sight…maybe the meeting will outlast the building?

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LFG!!!!!!!!

[Deep Vellum @DeepVellum]

Cover reveal for WELCOME TO PARADOX CITY, a first-of-its-kind history of Dallas through the city’s most significant buildings, by Dallas Morning News architecture critic @marklamster!

[mark lamster @marklamster]

final count, 35-4-1.

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public speakers at the city council meeting on the future of city hall now running 19-2 in favor of preservation.

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now at 30-4, with 1 say what?

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@macmacmac the internet sux 🤷‍♂️

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taking a (short) break from the dallas city hall shenanigans to bring you this feature on one of the secret gems of dallas, phylls glazer’s lord of the rings inspired compound, complete with a full-on hobbit house and, of course, lots of dragons.
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[Dallas Morning News @dallasnews]

In Preston Hollow, a hobbit house inspired by ‘The Lord of the Rings’ | @marklamster https://t.co/melULQNX7K

[mark lamster @marklamster]

my latest on how to save downtown dallas: it ain’t a convention center, it ain’t an arena, and it certainly ain’t tearing down city hall. it is reversing generaitons of auto-centric urban planning.  

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with city hall on the block, here’s my list of the 20 most significact demoliions in dallas history. list could have been 10 times as long and still inadequate. obviously, pei’s city hall would top the list.

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here i am on the should-be-better-known dallas architect dan shipley’s wonderful, detail rich new library for rural marathon (pronounced: mara-thun) in the west texas desert.

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a brief appreciation of frank gehry. rip. 

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[mark lamster @marklamster]

omg it’s the annual architecture and design awards from @langealexandra, @cmonstah, and yrs trly (with a little help from chatgpt). our 16th consecutive year! enjoy!

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