7 wonders of the DFW area.

[mikedsjr]

I heard the sports radio station get into this and i thought i would list mine. These are in no particular order:

1. Tarrant County Courthouse.
2. The Crecent
3. Fort Worth Live Stock Exchange
4. The Ballpark in Arlington
5. Texas Stadium
6. Texas & Pacific Railway Terminal
7. The Cotton Bowl


Honorable mentions

Cathedral Santuario de Guadalupe
Magnolia Hotel
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center
Sundance West
Texas Motor Speedway
Reunion Tower

[rantanamo]

Fair Park
American Airlines Center
Ft Worth Livestock Exchange
Six Flags Over Texas (The original theme park)
Cotton Bowl
Reunion Tower
White Rock Lake/Park

[dallastophoenix]

Northpark Center
Highland Park Village
Great Trinity Forest (we've yet to see how "big" a draw this will be for Dallas)
Ft. Worth Stockyards
Central Expressway
DFW Airport
Reunion Tower

[gc]

The Ballpark in Arlington
The American Airlines Center
White Rock Lake
D/FW International Airport
Fair Park (includes Cotton Bowl)
DART Light Rail (who would have thought -> rail in Dallas?)
The Dallas Arboretum/Fort Worth Botanical Gardens
Texas Motor Speedway
Texas Stadium
Six Flags/Wet'n'Wild
The Nasher Sculpture Center
Fort Worth Arts District/Dallas Arts District
All north Texas lakes
Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie

I guess I have gone too far......

[evdallas]

Architectural 7 wonders of DFW In my own order:

1. Nasher Sculpture center
2. The Kimbell
3. The Modern
4. Morton Meyerson
5. The Rachofsky House http://www.richardmeier.com/PROJECTS/Rachofsky.html
6. The Stretto House http://www.stevenholl.com/PT102_1C.htm
7. Turtle Creek House http://www.predock.com/turtle.html

added some links to the houses since they might not be as well known.

[drycreek]

1.DFW International
2.Fair Park
3.Dallas Skyline
4.Meyerson
5.Kimball
6.American Airlines Center
7.Fort Worth Zoo

evdallas, those house were incredible especially the Meier one, thanks for the links

[Mballar]

In no particular order;
1. Fair Park
2. Reunion Tower
3. Fort Worth Livestock Exchange
4. The New Cowboys Stadium in Arlington
5. DART's Cityplace Station
6. White Rock Lake
7. Dallas - Fort Worth International Airport

Honorable Mention: Texas Motor Speedway, Victory, Trinity River Wetlands, Winspear Opera House, Wyly Theatre, Central Expressway

Obviously, I could go on and on.

[msutton]

Fair Park
Katy Trail
Samuell-Grande Ampitheatre
Fort Worth Zoo
The Crescent
The Arts District
State-Thomas Area houses

[RobertB]

Where should the Dallas County Courthouse "Old Red" fit in, especially with the clock being added back?

Also, I'd want to put Jefferson Avenue in there as well.

Someone with more historical perspective might be able to put together a list of the seven most threatened wonders -- or seven lost wonders.

[HarryMoto]

In no particular order:

Victory Park
Fair Park
The Kimbell
The Freedman Memorial
White Rock Lake
Sixth Floor Museum/Dealey Plaza
Nasher Sculpture Center

Honorable mentions:
Reunion Tower
Arboretum
Dallas County Courthouse (Old Red)
Original Neiman-Marcus
Katy Trail
Fort Worth Stockyards
The Majestic Theater
Fort Worth's Modern Art Museum
Bass Hall
Latino Cultural Center

[Hannibal Lecter]

In no particular order...

White Rock Lake
Central Expressway Reconstruction
Mountain Creek Escarpment & Spur 408/I-20 Interchange
Fair Park
Pegasus
Central Market
Old Red

Honorable mention: Houston Street Viaduct

[LH_Newbie]

I think the water gardens in Ft Worth are thoroughly impressive and deserve at least an honorable mention. :)

[hamiltonpl]

Nasher Sculpture Garden
The Arboretum
Dallas World Aquarium
Mockingbird Station
Myerson Symphony Center
Fair Park
The Ft. Worth Stockyards

[Kelley USA]

Hurricane Harbor
Southwest Center Mall
PF Chang's in Grapevine
The cast of Prison Break
Babe's Chicken House
Campus of UTA
Big Tex

[NThomas]

Hurricane Harbor
Southwest Center Mall
PF Chang's in Grapevine
The cast of Prison Break
Babe's Chicken House
Campus of UTA
Big Tex

No it's 7 Wonders not 7 blunders! (with the exception of Babe's & Big Tex...)

[rantanamo]

Lake Highlands Town Center
City Lights
Craig Hall Tower
St. Anne's Court
Hank Haney Closing
Dallas Convention Center Hotel
I-35E Calatrava Bridge

[Geaux Tigers]

Joe T. Garcia's
White Rock Lake
Turtle Creek
Mockingbird Station
Ft. Worth Zoo
Dallas World Aquarium
Dallas Arboretum/Ft. Worth Botanical Gardens

[jefffwd]

1. Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
http://www.fwnaturecenter.org/index.php :fish:

2. NorthPark Center

3. Joe T. Garcia's patio :drink:

4. Sundance Square :cheers:

5. Old Red & Tarrant County Courthouse

6. Montgomery Plaza

7. Omni Fort Worth (Coming Soon)
http://www.austinprojects.com/Omni/webcam.html
:bhat: :bslide: :not_ripe:

[texastrill]

Kimbell
Cotton Bowl
BigTex
Texas Stadium
Stockyards
FW Zoo
FW Botanical Gardens

[Bferris]

DFW Airport-Terminal D cost more than 3 American Airlines Centers or equal to everything built in Victory thus far. It's a work of art and the single best international terminal built in the world. DFW has made DFW what it is today

Northpark Mall

High 5-Most complex and largest freeway exchange in the Southwest

Fair Park-Largest collection of Art Deco in the world, largest State Fair

White Rock Lake- Largest inner-urban city park in the United States

Six Flags

Amon Carter Museum

I wish I could add other things that fell through the cracks ande never happened. Like the Super Conducting Super Collider, the hotel/convention center complex in Dallas, the new Cowboy stadium if built in Dallas.

It could also be added as a general "wonder" about all the private firms who got their start here and call DFW home. But no one company would make my list. TI, Bell, EDS, AMR, Exxon/Mobil, Lockheed/Martin(General Dynamics). Big employers that do big things. Some other cities like St. Louis, Chicago, LA would kill to have these companies call their cities home.

I don't think the AAC is all that great as a sports venue and Victory is vacant so much and so niche oriented I don't see how it will ever become "great". Las Colinas with it's canals, monorail and new buiildings had the same(or even more) appeal in the early 80's and it has now worn off. The same "newness" will wear off Victory too. It will be hard to keep it's singular dated look up in 20 years.

[HarryMoto]

Question on Fair Park. While I see many times on Dallas-centric sites, as in the post above, that Fair Park houses the largest collection of Art Deco architecture, sometimes I see it qualified as this one does(http://www.dallascityhall.com/FairPark/administration.html) where it says that it's the largest collection of exposition Art Deco architecture.

And then other sources, such as Florida-centric sites as well as Wikipedia, say that South Florida has the largest collection of Art Deco architecture:

From Wikipedia: "Miami Beach, Florida has the largest collection of Art Deco architecture remaining in North America as well as Tulsa, Oklahoma. Napier, New Zealand has an almost entirely Art Deco town center, rebuilt after a devastating 1931 earthquake, and mostly left unchanged since then."

Granted, one is made up of grand halls and bigger, more impressive buildings while the other is mostly small hotels but the latter has more individual structures and is also spread out over around 30 blocks (from 1st to 29th St. in South Beach).

So who can really lay claim to having the most Art Deco?