Texas
A guide to its main attractions
Selected by piero scaruffi
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- Galveston: +Kettle House
- Austin: Saint Mary Cathedral, Capitol, University of Texas Tower, University campus, Guadalupe Ave
- Gruene (on the way to San Antonio), German village
- Lockhart (near San Antonio), old-fashioned town center
- San Antonio: The Alamo, La Villita Historical District, San Antonio Missions, (San Jose, San Juan, Espada, Concepcion), Spanish Governor's Palace (1749), Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
- Dallas: Volf Roitman's MADI Museum and Gallery Building, Welton Becket's Adams Mark Hotel at 400 North Olive (1958), Philip Johnson's BankOne Center at 1717 Main (1987), SOM's JP Morgan Chase Tower at 2200 Ross (1987), Philip Johnson's Crescent Center (1985), Pei's Dallas City Hall at 1500 Marilla Street (1978), Henry Moore's Dallas Piece in City Hall Plaza, Orlopp's Dallas Courthouse (1893), Barnes' Dallas Museum of Art at 1717 North Harwood Street (1993), Pei's Energy Plaza at 1601 Bryan (1983), Pei's Fountain Place/ First Interstate Bank Tower at 1445 Ross Avenue at Field Street (1986), Donald Barthelme's Hall of State (1936), Texas Centennial Exposition at Fair Park, Welton Becket's Hyatt Regency & Reunion Tower at 300 Reunion Boulevard at Stemmons Freeway (1978), Philip Johnson's JFK Memorial at Main, Market, Commerce, and Record Streets (1970), Frank Lloyd Wright's Kalita Humphreys Theatre at 3636 Turtle Creek Boulevard at Blackburn Avenue (1959), Pei's Morton Myerson Symphony Center at 2301 Flora (1989), Pei's One Dallas Center at 350 St. Paul (1979), SOM's One Main Place at 1201 Main (1968), Clayton's Santuario de Guadalupe/ Sacred Heart Cathedral (1903), Philip Johnson's Thanksgiving Square at Pacific Street at Ervay (1977), SOM's Trammell Crow Center at 2001 Ross (1985), Auguste Rodin's Cybele (1889) at Trammell Crow Center, Auguste Rodin's Genius of Eternal Rest (1898) at Trammell Crow Center, Frank Lloyd Wright's John Gillin House, Federal Building at 3809 Grand Avenue in Fair Park, Hall of Administration at 1240 Washington Ave in Fair Park, Transportation Building at 1001 Washington Ave in Fair Park
- Dallas skyscrapers: Bank of America Plaza at 901 Main Street (1985), Renaissance Tower at 1201 Elm Street (1974), Bank One Center at 1717 Main Street (1987), JPMorgan Chase Tower at 2200 Ross Avenue (1987), Fountain Place at 1445 Ross Avenue (1986), Trammell Crow Center at 2001 Ross Avenue (1984), 1700 Pacific Avenue at 1700 Pacific Avenue (1983), Thanksgiving Tower at 1601 Elm Street (1982), Energy Plaza at 1601 Bryan Street (1983), Elm Place at 1401 Elm Street (1965), Republic Center Tower I at 300 N. Ervay Street (1954), Republic Center Tower II at 325 N. St. Paul Street (1964), One AT&T Plaza formerly One SBC Plaza at 208 S. Akard Street (1984 ), Lincoln Plaza at 500 N. Akard Street (1984), Cityplace Center at 2711 N. Haskell Street (1989), Reunion Tower/ Theme Tower at 300 Reunion Blvd. (1978), Adam's Mark Hotel at 400 N. Olive Street (1958), Mercantile Tower at 1810 Commerce Street (1942), Bryan Tower at 2001 Bryan Street (1972), KPMG Centre at 717 N. Harwood Street (1980), Harwood Center at 1999 Bryan Street (1982), 2100 Ross Avenue/ San Jacinto Tower at 2100 Ross Avenue (1982), Renaissance Dallas Hotel at 2222 Stemmons Frwy. (1985), One Dallas Centre at 350 N. St. Paul Street (1979), Adam's Mark Hotel at 400 N. Olive Street (1981), One Main Place at 1201 Main Street (1968), W Dallas Victory Hotel & Residences at 2425 N. Houston Street (2006), 1600 Pacific Building at 1600 Pacific Avenue (1964), The Magnolia Hotel at 1401 Commerce Street (1922)
- Fort Worth: Schwarz's Bass Performance Hall (1998), Johnson's Amon Carter Museum at 3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard at Montgomery and West Lancaster Streets (1975), Sanguinet & Staats' Neil Anderson Building at 411 West 7th (1921), SOM's 500 W. 7th (1962) with Noguchi sculpture in Plaza, Rudolph's City Center (1984) with Chase Texas Tower at 201 Main and City Center Tower II at 301 Commerce, Sanguinet & Staats' Flatiron Building at 1000 Houston (1907), Clarkson's Fort Worth Masonic Temple at 1100 Henderson (1931), Sanguinet & Staats' Fort Worth Star-Telegram at 400 W. 7th (1920), Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum at 3333 Camp Bowie Boulevard (1972), Sculptures by Fernande Leger, Joan Miro, Henry Moore and Isamu Noguchi at Kimbell Art Museum, Tadao Ando's Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at 3200 Darnell St. (near the Kimbell and Amon Carter), Cret's U.S. Courthouse at 501 W. 10th (art deco) or 10th and Lamar Street (1933), Johnson's Water Gardens at 1300 Houston Street at 12th, Commerce, and Lancaster (1974), Wyatt Cephas Hedrick's Will Rogers Memorial (1936), John Portman's The Tower (1974), Texas & Pacific Station (1600 Throckmorton St)
- Courthouses of Texas: Denton County in Denton (1897), Orlopp's Dallas County (1891), James Gordon's Ellis County in Waxahachie (1897), McLennan County in Waco (1902), Bell County in Belton (1884), Hood County in Granbury, Lavaca County in Hallettsville (1899), Caldwell County in Lockhart (1894)
- Gainesville: Historic Homes
- Marfa: old-fashioned town center, +Chinati Museum (1 Cavalry Row, Marfa)
- Big Bend National Park
- Houston: Pennzoil Plaza at Capitol & Milam, Tenneco Building at 1010 Milam, Contemporary Art Museum at 5210 Montrose, Rothko Chapel (Montrose area, 1409 Sul Ross St) and Newman's Broken Obelisk, Jean Dubuffet's Monument to Fantome (1971) in Discovery Green Park, Jaume Plensa's "Tolerance" (2011) at Buffalo Bayou Park, the "Vessel" in the Hudson Yards
- El Paso: Jim Magee's "Hill"
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