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2009 AIA HOUSING AWARDS The Bridge Homeless Assistance Center Dallas. TX The Bridge Homeless Assistance Center, located in downtown Dallas, has received two prestigious national awards for its design: the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) 2009 AIA National Housing Award and the AIA/Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Award. San Antonio-based Overland Partners Architects, in...

For those living in urban high-rise apartments and modern architecture homes, a rooftop terrace garden is a seamless way to incorporate natural elements into a modern designed building by inverting the idea of traditional modern landscape. Rather than creating a modern landscape design, in which man made materials like concrete and metal are integrated into existing exterior landscapes, modern terrace...

ZERO3 residential projects range from contemporary urban town homes, to Mid-Century Modern renovations, to early 20th Century remakes, to multi-million dollar contemporary suburban enclaves. They are located in cities as diverse as Boston, New York City, Rumson New Jersey, Dallas and Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Vail, and Aspen. ZERO3 Paul Brian Jankowski, Architect + Jan M. Martin, Interior...

MA MODULAR: Modernizing the Modular Home by Christina Gaona "Ma refers to the Japanese concept meaning an interval in time and space, a dramatic pause, the silence between phrases of music. In architecture, it is a quiet, neutral space that enhances the whole of a design. Ma is our design inspiration. A simple, elegant sanctuary. Ma is home." Ma Modular, birthed from KRDB, a modern residential and...

The Elegance of Simplicity ROBYN MENTOR DESIGN ASSOCIATES Architecture + Interior Design Menter’s firm, Robyn Menter Design Associates, based in Dallas, has created a spectrum of striking interiors that all share the studied simplicity of minimalism with a genuine sense of warmth and comfort.  Her travels across the world, particularly her appreciation for Japanese style and culture, tap into the...

Domiteaux & Baggett, a Dallas based architectural firm, creates spaces that are stunning pieces of modern art - modern art you actually want to live in. They have a long history in Dallas of creating homes that perfectly  reflect the aesthetic of their clients. While you can often tell which architect designed a particular building or a home, this is definitely not the case with Domiteaux &...

Charles Davis Smith, AIA by Robert Diago I was introduced to Charles Davis Smith, AIA while he was shooting several of the houses for the AIA Tour of Homes. I watched as he scouted a location, and was immediately impressed. He has amazing instinct. I jumped at moderndallas’ offer to interview him. RMD: Chuck. I can call you Chuck…? CDS: Most do. RMD: What’s your earliest career-related...

Green and modern rarely have married so well as they do in the Shorecrest house of Robert Diago and Greg Hawthorne. This tony  neighborhood lies east of Love Field Airport and is full of charmers, but not so many contemporary and even fewer green homes. So when the couple bought the 1950s ranch in 2003, their vision  was broad: take it down to the studs to create something beautifully contemporary...

image above: The Rex Gray Chair measures 20” wide, 23” deep by 28.5” high RIDDLE: what’s stackable or foldable and something you don’t think about until this time of year? Spare chairs.  We don’t give them a thought until we’re ready to add more seats at the table and then it is often something of a scavenger hunt to come up with chairs that look good with, or even fit around, the table....

Perhaps it is a bold statement, but it is my observation that many of us, Modernistas, take pride in our aesthetic choice to be more refined. We have a trained eye for clean lines, elemental balance and appropriate scale. We know the difference between the modern masters and have little tolerance for tchotchkes. So why would we need any help achieving modern perfection within our sky-high loft or...