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Up on the Grassy, Rocky Roof of the Perot Museum of Nature & Science at Victory Park

By Robert Wilonsky Mon., Oct. 26 2009 at 10:56 AM
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Expand the image to get a panoramic view of the proposed roof for the Perot Museum of Nature & Science at Victory Park.
​About a month ago we showed off 2005 Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne's model for the $185-million Perot Museum of Nature & Science at Victory Park, scheduled to open in September 2013. But it's never too early for the Dallas City Council to get a sneak peek at the landscape plan for the facility, which will come complete with a plinth roof covered in native grasses and rocks. The slide show's a bit bare bones, but it does give you some idea of what the place will look like -- which is to say, an urbanized blackland prairie ... or, Life After People.
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