| You aren't an Austinite unless you complain liberally about every other city in Texas. And so I was warned by all my comrades before I headed to Big D just how much the city sucks. In all fairness, I really never got around to exploring it, or finding out for myself just how lifeless, business driven, and soul sucking the city really is. What I did notice though is the scale of
buildings in Dallas is freaking outrageous. With enough open land and eight lane highways strewn about, the city is a candy land of skyscrapers, building projects and gargantuan hotels. Cranes dot the skyline at every corner, there's plenty of buildings made out of bricks, and there's constantly a squadron of planes flying overhead at every hour of the day.
Sure, skyscrapers, concrete and large brick buildings may not be your cup of tea, but just like Houston, my blood starts pumping a little bit faster when the streets become large, cut out canyons, and trees are towered over by 50+ stories of commerce and industry.
One of the surprises was the new basketball arena - a massive monument built out of brick and stone that featured arches and nice throwback touches to the grand architecture of New York in the thirties and forties. It blows away the shallow folly that Boston built in a much more historic and interesting neighborhood to replace
its olde time Boston Garden. |
DALLAS' WORLD TRADE CENTER
Our assignment brought us just up the road from Dallas' very own World Trade Center. Its architecture screams the 70's, and I got more than one person to believe that it was originally painted white, but was repainted black in 2002 to commemorate the destruction of its more renowned and just as ugly cousins in New York.
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