DALLAS | Museum Tower | 560 FT/171 M | 42 FLOORS - Page 22

TBone7281 · #**421** Posted **Mar 20, 2012, 1:29 AM**

A FB acquaintance (friend of the wife) who lives in Dallas posted this today commenting about it looking like it was going to storm. I, on the other hand wanted to figure out what this nice looking tower was. It took a bunch of poking around the interweb since I'm unfamiliar with Dallas, but eventually I figured out what I was looking at. Very nice building, I'm a fan.

KayneMo · #**422** Posted **Mar 26, 2012, 6:12 AM**

Museum Tower amongst the rest of downtown Dallas.

NYC2ATX · #**423** Posted **Mar 26, 2012, 8:54 PM**

Sort of out of left field, but I've noticed lately from following the construction of this tower and also other projects happening in the Big D, that for a city with a 900-foot skyscraper, Dallas has a rather flat skyline. It definitely needs a thicker bd of mid-rises for the towers to sprout from...which I know are coming, buttt... not to start people pontificating, but I can totally see a 1,200-foot tower or two here to crown out the skyline. Make it happen Dallasites!

Somebody should coin the word Metroplexans or Metroplexers to describe people from any and all of the DFW conurbation. Let's work on that too

eburress · #**424** Posted **Mar 26, 2012, 10:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by StatenIslander237

Sort of out of left field, but I've noticed lately from following the construction of this tower and also other projects happening in the Big D, that for a city with a 900-foot skyscraper, Dallas has a rather flat skyline. It definitely needs a thicker bd of mid-rises for the towers to sprout from...which I know are coming, buttt... not to start people pontificating, but I can totally see a 1,200-foot tower or two here to crown out the skyline. Make it happen Dallasites!

Somebody should coin the word Metroplexans or Metroplexers to describe people from any and all of the DFW conurbation. Let's work on that too

1000+ foot towers would be awesome, but part of the reason for the plateaued skyline is the Love Field-caused height limit over much of downtown. In fact, I think there's only piece of property in the CBD where a 1000ft + tower can be built, and it's owned by Gables or Post, so chances are it will be mid-rise apartments.

Owlhorn · #**425** Posted **Mar 27, 2012, 5:09 AM**

Interesting that no one seems to notice the large number of mid-rises that have lengthened and thickened the Dallas Skyline over the last ten years.

Even more have been announced.

arkitekte · #**426** Posted **Mar 27, 2012, 5:13 AM**

^Nice photo.

NYC2ATX · #**427** Posted **Mar 27, 2012, 6:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by Owlhorn

Interesting that no one seems to notice the large number of mid-rises that have lengthened and thickened the Dallas Skyline over the last ten years.

Oh, I definitely have!

and that is a fantastic photo. The more mid-rises that go up, the more Dallas actually looks as big as statistics show it is, instead of a patch of towers in a sea of flatness.

JoninATX · #**428** Posted **Mar 27, 2012, 7:30 AM**

Looking good.

eburress · #**429** Posted **Mar 27, 2012, 1:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Owlhorn

Interesting that no one seems to notice the large number of mid-rises that have lengthened and thickened the Dallas Skyline over the last ten years.

Even more have been announced.

Excellent point! And as the new generation of Harwood towers gets built, it's only going to further stretch out the skyline, making it all the more impressive and dramatic.

Dallas Snob · #**430** Posted **Mar 29, 2012, 2:27 PM**

I think it's becuase the new highrises in Uptown are around 20 stories high or so, which, compared to downtown look small. It's scale I think. I HAVE NOTICED THOUGH! I lately have been confused by people commenting the "Dallas will never have a true skyscraper" (HUUUUUUUHHHHHH!?!?!?!?!?!?!) or that the skyline is "flat". No two statements could be further from the truth. Again, I think it's the scale. Few people know that the BofA building is 76 stories high. It doesnt look over 50. But once you realize that, then you understand that the other SKYSCRAPERS are tall as well. Dallas has an INCREDIBLE and HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE skyline. A skyscraper is defined as 21 stories or more. With that said, Dallas has more than most cities in the US. And, I LOVE this shot of the city which includes Uptown. I have often thought that most photos only show the immediate downtown core and do not include Uptown. That would be like only showing Downtown in NYC and not Midtown.

Tex17 · #**431** Posted **Mar 29, 2012, 5:44 PM**

Actually, BoA Plaza is 72 stories.

DallasGene · #**432** Posted **Mar 29, 2012, 10:13 PM**

Museum Tower is looking good! Thanks to everyone for the great pics.

USMichael · #**433** Posted **Apr 14, 2012, 12:59 PM**

I guess I don't understand the obsession with having super tall buildings. I'd rather have two Fountain Places and two Museum Towers than four Bank of America buildings.

texcolo · #**434** Posted **Apr 28, 2012, 3:25 AM**

The Towering Inferno

How Museum Tower threatens the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Woodall Rodgers roofdeck park, two of the most prized assets of the city’s vaunted Arts District.

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When the Nasher Sculpture Center began leaking light in September, director Jeremy Strick didn’t immediately grasp the gravity of the situation. In the lobby near the cash register, just a few small splotches of light splashed across a travertine wall.

The leak should have been impossible. The Nasher was designed by Renzo Piano, arguably the world’s greatest modernist architect, a man famous for reinventing the roof. For the Nasher, he created an ingenious system composed of two parts: a barrel-vaulted roof-🞵🞵🞵-ceiling made of 3-inch-thick, 1,200-pound glass panels and, suspended above the glass, a sunscreen of millions of tiny aluminum oculi aimed due north. The sunscreen was designed using the precise longitude and latitude of the Nasher, and it accounts for every hour of the Earth’s 365-day trip around the Sun. Standing in the gallery, a visitor looking up and to the south sees what appears to be a solid structure through the glass ceiling. Turning 180 degrees and looking north, though, he sees open sky. The system allows into the museum soft, full-spectrum light that is not only safe for artwork but creates ideal, transcendent viewing conditions. The roof system is patented, and Ray Nasher, who died in 2007, considered it part of the art collection that he gave to Dallas.

Photo by Scott Womack
Article by Scott Rogers
Published in D Magazine

If this was written in the Dallas Observer I might not have believed it, but D Magazine is pretty pro-business, AND I've lived in Dallas for 33 years, and have learned never to underestimate the true power of the Texas sun.

This really sux.

jtk1519 · #**435** Posted **Apr 28, 2012, 3:28 AM**

D Magazine and the Observer have been in a 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 match about this for a couple of weeks now. It's worth it just to see them square off.

texcolo · #**436** Posted **Apr 28, 2012, 4:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by jtk1519

D Magazine and the Observer have been in a 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 match about this for a couple of weeks now. It's worth it just to see them square off.

Apparently some folks are bad-mouthing the Observer's Jim Schultz.

It's times like these, I miss Dallas.

Well at least the reflective wall in question is convex instead of concave. Could you imagine what a concave wall could do to the Nasher on a 113 degree day?

jtk1519 · #**437** Posted **Apr 29, 2012, 2:24 AM**

Schultz is both a tool and a 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 who even if he had a valid argument could never string it together in a way that doesn't make him sound like both a tool and a 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵.

He's basically saying nobody should be talking about a battle between a sculpture center and a tower for millionaires so long as there is anything bad going on in Dallas which is just stupid. There's always going to be an injustice or crime being committed somewhere. If we waited for all that to end before talking about the Museum Tower frying the Nasher, we would be waiting forever.

animatedmartian · #**438** Posted **Jun 27, 2012, 9:12 PM**

The glare gets national news.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/06/dallas-tower-glare-blinds-arts-district/

blacktrojan3921 · #**439** Posted **Jun 28, 2012, 5:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by eburress

1000+ foot towers would be awesome, but part of the reason for the plateaued skyline is the Love Field-caused height limit over much of downtown. In fact, I think there's only piece of property in the CBD where a 1000ft + tower can be built, and it's owned by Gables or Post, so chances are it will be mid-rise apartments.

Always 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 that airports impose height limits on the city, especially when the airport in question is now trumped by an even bigger airport, i.e. The Dallas-Fort Worth airport.

NYC2ATX · #**440** Posted **Jun 29, 2012, 5:37 AM**

With the horrendous heat in the entire Midwest and especially Texas right now, the entire Arts District must be melted at this point.

btw, before you guys say anything, I know Texas is crazy hot every year...but this is the first year this tower's facade has reached all the way up. Let's watch what happens, kids...