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Lamster: Plans to abandon Dallas City Hall are a tragic farce City leaders seem bent on leaving the iconic building without consulting voters.

stop the steal: my latest on the movement to demolish i. m. pei’s iconic dallas city hall based on inflated deferred maintenance estimates and a misguided dream of economic development.

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The enigmatic artist James Magee built a West Texas landmark. What happens to it now? El Paso’s arts leaders face the challenge of preserving the work of Magee and his multiple personas.

when james magee died last year he left one of the most important but least known works of 21st century american art unfinished. what happens to it now.

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if max scherzer asks you to check out his wood chipper, run.

thanks!

Lamster: Keep your hands off Dallas City Hall Why demolishing I. M. Pei’s iconic building would be a financial boondoggle and an architectural travesty.

Friends: Please join me in the fight to save Dallas City Hall. Spread the word. 
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if omly there was an organization dedicated to classical architecture that could fight this monstrosity!

thanks brian!

Lamster: How not to make American architecture great The Trump executive order on federal building is a terrible, Soviet-style mistake.

here i am on the cynical, hypocritical and un-american trump executive order mandating classical federal architecture. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

always good to be on the cover!

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How a Dallas sculptor turned RedBird Mall scraps into an homage to modern architecture George Tobolowsky’s “Recycled Glass House” fuses works by Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson.

icymi, here’s what happens when you take the farnsworth house and the glass house and mush them together. like chockolate and peanut butter, two great tastes that taste great together. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

How a Dallas sculptor turned RedBird Mall scraps into an homage to modern architecture George Tobolowsky’s “Recycled Glass House” fuses works by Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson.

what happens when you combine mies’s @edithfarnsworth house and philip johnson’s @PJGlassHouse using steel recycled from a dying mall? this: www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

At ‘transformative moment,’ Dallas Museum of Art appoints new director Brian Ferriso, director of the Portland Art Museum in Oregon, will be tasked with leading the DMA through an expansion of the downtown building.

the @DallasMuseumArt has a new director. brian ferisso arrives from portland, and will now be tasked with getting the museum’s expansion by nieto sobejano built. www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

thanks!

15 must-visit sacred buildings in and around Dallas (plus a bonus) Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster lists his favorite religious buildings in North Texas.

listicle time! following up on my story on amazing st. stephen of mesquite, here are my 15 (+1) favorite sacred buildings in/around dallas.

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What is that?! The most radical church in Texas gets a facelift Mesquite’s St. Stephen United Methodist Church, an icon of organic modernism, is restored to its original grandeur.

how one of the most radical churches, in architecture and politics, wound up in a dallas suburb. the story ot st. stephen of mesquite, part ronchamp, part pueblo, from the most inventive archittecture firm you’ve probably never heard of.
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Cothrum: Stop thinking small, Dallas Dallas Cothrum: Why is Dallas afraid of tall buildings? I hope citizens can be taught that height creates better buildings in design, sustainability, and with...

i have no baseline issue with tall buildings but i certanly never said anything like this baloney.
"Lamster and practicing architects all rightly agree that taller buildings allow for better architectural shapes and superior design.”

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LATEST: never thought i’d be arguing to preserve this architectural peaen to reaganomics but…https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/architecture/2025/07/28/i-wrote-a-book-on-philip-johnson-his-dallas-skyscraper-does-not-need-a-tacked-on-garage/

Lamster: What should a Camp Mystic memorial look like? The families and communities suffering from the Central Texas flash floods face more questions than answers.

beyond thoughts and minds: wrote a bit about what it means to build a memorial in these times, and the challenges communities and architects in central texas will face as they begin to think about this process.

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that’s kobe bryant!

never noticed but a ringwr for jack black

Lamster: Can the DMA finally connect to Klyde Warren Park? Field Operations, landscape architects of New York’s High Line, to join the effort to reimagine the museum and better connect it to the Arts District.

breaking news: the @dallasmuseumart has a new landscape architect: @fieldoperations joins the expansion design team led by @nietosobejano. field ops replaces swa on the team.

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looking for interesting arch recommendations in/around dartmouth/hanover (aside from the hood). ty!

i’m sure i’ve done a lot of forgetting, but off the top of my head…

okc: worst unis and heneral identity to win a title.

for the love of god resilience not resiliency.

yeah but it is a complete travesty they gutted its predecessor. my kingdom for a disembodied voice talking abpoit pegmatitic fluids while i sit in a darkened conversation pit.

thanks!

Reimagining Dealey: We asked a team of leading designers to redesign one of Dallas' most significant spaces Dealey Plaza and Triple Underpass are among downtown Dallas' most profound urban failings, architecture critic Mark Lamster writes. But they don't have to be.

very exciting: our @dallasnews plan to reimagine dealey plaza, designed by @stoss and @mdpl, will be exhibited at this year’s chicago architecture biennial, curated by @florencia.
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