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Not All of Dallas's Great Old Buildings Get Torn Down. Some of Them Win Awards, Even.

By Robert Wilonsky in News You Can Actually Use, Actually

Monday, Jun. 1 2009 @ 3:35PM

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Crow Holdings HQ's latest building -- the third on the campus, and the first built from scratch -- received a new helmet over the weekend. The Kaiser would be proud.

We'll leave behind the conceptual constructs for a moment and focus instead on Dallas's old buildings, always a favorite topic of mine. Because on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m., Preservation Dallas will dole out it annual Achievement Awards to old buildings made brand-new by their respective caretakers. And the site of the awards presentation is none other than Crow Holdings HQ, the original Parkland Hospital that, till not so long ago, was a decrepit squatters' asylum on Maple Avenue until Harlan Crow opted to save the joint all by his lonesome.

Crow's renovation will receive its own special achievement award, but if you (spoiler alert!) click here, you'll find the complete list of winners -- so you're advised not to go anywhere near that link if you're attending Friday night's wingding and hate, hate, hate ruined surprises. And if that's the case, you most definitely won't want to sneak a peek at the before-and-after slide show we've put together featuring many of the buildings being feted Friday.

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Ciro Faienza says:

Off topic, but are you guys going to fix the RSS issues on this blog? I saw someone mention forever ago that the Google Reader display used to work, but now completely eliminates formatting from all the posts. This is the only feed that shows up that way on my reader.

Friendly reminder.
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Ciro

Posted On: Monday, Jun. 1 2009 @ 3:51PM

Sad but true says:

The Crow job at Old Parkland is just about as bad a preservation project as you can get.

From the county who were terrible stewards for so many years to the jerks at Parkland who had dollar signs in their eyes and refused to properly protect the building and to give it to someone who would restore it, to the hack architects that destroyed almost all of it and the Nurse's building, it is a long bumpy and sad road. At least we get the front wall and the trees if we peer through the cracks in the new oppressive wall.

Let the mutual back-patting begin.

Posted On: Monday, Jun. 1 2009 @ 4:01PM

Robert Wilonsky says:

We were having an issue with someone lifting whole items from the RSS feed and posting them to another blog. But I will extend to the higher-ups your note and see if they've made progress on this front. We're working on a host of technical improvements to debut in coming days, so fingers crossed.

Posted On: Monday, Jun. 1 2009 @ 4:02PM

ellum08 says:

Sad but true,

Granted, the Parkland project may not be considered a true 'restoration', but it is a decent adaptive use and did relieve this city of a major white elephant.

Now, the new buildings behind the main structure are truly in abomination to man.

But kudos to Crow Holdings for taking on a project that no one else wanted.

Posted On: Monday, Jun. 1 2009 @ 5:12PM