Dallas is so rich in symbols and stereotypes—oil tycoons; the grassy knoll; Southfork; the Cowboys, both NFL and lowercase—that it has become as much a psychological destination as a physical one. Everyone seems to have an image of this town, long before they visit it themselves. It’s a brash, muscular, immodest metropolis that believes in putting on a show. And nowhere is the show more evident than in the city’s architecture. Design has long driven Dallas’s identity, going back to I. M. Pei’s City Hall, begun in 1965, and Philip Johnson’s 1970 John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza, a luminous declaration of architecture’s power. Now it’s making news here again.
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Destinations: Dallas · Dupont Circle
Themes: Arts + Culture · City Break
Inspired by: How the Arts Are Transforming Dallas — by Tom Austin, Published Sep. 2007
