It constitutes the latest addition to what Dallas refers to as its Arts District (68 acres in toto), which began with the Edward Larrabee Barnes Dallas Museum of Art (1984) and includes buildings by four winners of the Pritzker Prize for architecture, none of which remotely resembles the others. None is more exciting than what opened here earlier this month, the new AT&T Performing Arts Center, a $354 million, 10-acre assemblage aligned on one central axis beside a bustling freeway at the edge of downtown. Ewing clan on television 30 years ago has undergone multiple transformations. In the face of a national recession it is amazing that any building can go up.Įxcept in Dallas, that is, where the skyline made famous by the J.R. And everything takes longer and costs more to construct. Variety, not uniformity, speaks to our national commitment to diversity and spice of all sorts. A massive arts complex would strike us as unthinkable as well as authoritarian.
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