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D Magazine titled “Why is Dallas architecture so bad?,” Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster revisits the question. How has Dallas progressed in the intervening years, and how might it remake itself for the better? Is Dallas architecture still so bad? We recommend reading Lamster’s answer first and then moving on to his list below of the best and worst architecture in Dallas today. BEST: LETTER OF COMMENDATION Fountain Place “The architecture of a tall tower is 99% logic and 1% art but don’t you dare take away that 1%,” said Henry Cobb, architect of the prismatic masterpiece of the Dallas skyline. I’m not much for math, but I am quite sure he got his money’s worth out of that 1%. It is a complete work of art, right down to the verdant plaza at its base, designed by the revered modernist landscape architect Dan Kiley. A second tower has now risen adjacent to it (a sister was always in the cards) along with a garage, but those additions have don

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