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Old 12-07-2012, 10:31 AM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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New Rust Belt? The way to avoid that outcome is to remain a low tax center for business and citizens.

That said I am all for eliminating any excuses for the failures of Dallas south of I-30. The only way these things get done is with public and private investment, access improvements, effective policing, and improved schooling. It's a heck of task that will take decades but it's worth trying. A good start would be for folks in the area to stop electing criminals and small time extortionists to public office. Likely the best we can reasonably hope for is pockets of revitalization around public infrastructure investments - the golf course, targeted improvements around Fair Park etc.
Very well-put and very reasonable.
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Old 12-07-2012, 02:44 PM
 
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And lost on so many is the fact that Dallas has other white arches that one can sees driving up I-35 and I-30.
Tie-ins like that are big to architects.

Count me in on the side that likes the bridge very much. Dallas is not an old city. The Trinity basin soil poses all kinds of engineering issues that render a rock and cement bridge, a la Brooklyn, a dream and a old school suspension bridge, Golden Gate, way too expensive - not to mention a massive waste of materials.

BTW - the bridge is not PVC in case anyone is wondering.
It did look like it to me before it was finished, though.
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Old 09-24-2013, 11:22 PM
 
Location: Yankee loves Dallas
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It looks like Dallas might have gotten off a little easy with Calatrava, compared to some of the other cities that are suing him...

http://nyti.ms/15rus6E
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Old 09-26-2013, 06:31 PM
 
Location: Georgia native in McKinney, TX
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It looks like Dallas might have gotten off a little easy with Calatrava, compared to some of the other cities that are suing him...

http://nyti.ms/15rus6E
Thanks for the article. Sounds like he should be called a sculptor or architectural artist than an actual architect. He seems to have skipped Construction 101 and took Underwater Form over Function instead.
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Old 09-28-2013, 08:15 AM
 
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Just a little reminder of what's about to pop up..
http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/f...tRendering.jpg
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