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Pandesic
Location: Dallas\Fortworth Gender: Male
| | | The Dallas tinker toy building < on 9/7/2005 5:18 AM >
| | | The story of ONE BROOKHOLLOW PLACE is defiantly an odd one! The building was Originally built by Texas Industries a large concrete and building materials manufacturer as a corporate headquarters center. in 1967 Texas Industries Or as we know it TXI cement contracted world renowned modernist architect Paul Rudolph to construct there new 191,369 Square foot building. Paul was know for his design of modernist architecture and an odd modular design concept called the "Plug In City" where large modular structures would be built almost like big racks and apartment or offices boxes would be built and lifted by crane to fit into these slots or "plugged in" connecting plumbing and electrical systems as Well, where as (One Brookhollow Place) does not exactly follow this concept a lot of aspects of the building are the same. Paul Rudolph Died in 1997 at the age of 79 Paul started the design of the building for TXI in march of 1968 and 10 months later on Jan of 1969 ground was broke in Dallas on one of probably the oddest buildings ever constructed! Paul used a technique called precast modular construction or PMC as its known to architects. this process is done by pre fabricating walls, span sets, and all other structural aspects of the building out of reinforced concrete in large wood or steel molds at a remote location and then assembling them on site with cranes and other lifting implements. this process in partly still used in the construction of Commercial buildings in a format called "tilt wall construction." sorta like all the old 70's kroger food store buildings with all the colorful rocks embedded in the cement on the sides which was a technique also developed by Paul Rudolph.
a elevation of a "Plug In City" A tilt wall construction Back to the facts... the construction of the building lasted almost a year and a half ending in in July of 1970 TXI moved in two months later and frequented the building till there Decision to move to another building in 1977 ? after that the building stood empty for almost 2 years when its second tenant Mobile Oil And Power Corp. moved in 1980 using it as there Corporate headquarters as well. Mobile decided to leave after a 6 year stay in 1986 in 1988 the building had a dark cloud casted over it when it was condemned by Dallas code compliance due to the fact that it contained tons of asbestos insulation. So just go in an abate the asbestos right? well that's anyone's best guess but the fact was that if the abatement took place then a construction permit would have to be issued to the Abatement company doing the tear out. But there was only one problem with that. It also had fallen out of code due to its 10 foot interior ceiling height which was changed to 11 feet for all Commercial structures in the national building codes. and its inadequate electrical systems which were on a non bus system required by the new NEC national electrical codes which had changed in 1987. meaning that if a construction permit was issued for the asbestos removal all the out of code aspects of the building would have to be changed as well!! making the project cost almost three quarters of the the original value of the structure! so the place sat for another 4 years in till two Asian investors came and impulsively bought the property in 1990 without looking in-depth into the fact why it was sooooo Dirt cheap! oops!!! so again the place sat and sat and sat. being that the building owners where located a whole half a globe away the property fell into great disarray! vandals took over. The windows were smashed on different floors, water mains were busted flooding whole floors. and millions of dollars worth of damage took place! It was even home to a large rave in 1994 which took place on the 6th and seventh floors. from what I have been told the rave throwers duck taped large black hefty bags over the windows so that the inside action could not be Spotted by the freeway outside! in 2001 the city of Dallas listed the structure as a historical piece of architecture even in its disheveled state? then Finally in 2001 almost eleven years later an investment firm "Glen Lynch construction "decided to make a move! G.L.C proposed a plan to the Dallas City counsel for a residential mixed use development. the Only catch was the city would have to throw in a little dough too! A small price to pay for getting rid of a big city eyesore right? The estimated cleanup a code upgrade cost totaled out to around a cool $500,000 The city said OK!?? so two months later the site was purchased by Glen lynch construction under the name PEGASUS VILLAS LTD which would be the name of the new Development. A large scale retirement living center. then the S@*% hit the fan one more time! 9 -11 took place and our economy went down the tubes this put a hurt on the Pegasus villas project! and things were put on the back burner for a while leading most people to believe that again nothing would take place. yet in 2003 ground was broke on the project. yet It took in till 2004 for things to actually get into motion. the interior of the building was completely gutted only leaving the structural supports and other elements such as salvageable plumbing and electrical systems. Then new windows were put on as so rain could not enter the building and destroy any new work efforts. so here we are in 2005 and just recently large amounts of sheetrock and other supplies have been delivered to the site which can be seen from the freeway resting in one of the alcoves in the base of the Building. its been a long journey but me just might be able to see One Brookhollow Place Ride Again!
BY: PANÐESIC
[last edit 9/7/2005 8:08 AM by Pandesic - edited 2 times]
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Explorer Zero
| | | Re: The Dallas tinker toy building <Reply # 1 on 9/7/2005 12:06 PM >
| | | this may come as a surprise but there are actually explorers on this site that have actually explored that building
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RevSM
Location: South Central Texas
| | | Re: The Dallas tinker toy building <Reply # 2 on 9/7/2005 1:34 PM >
| | | Um, me. Noah too. I thought I already posted this but here is the link to my site: http://suv.topcities.com/16office1.htm Thank you very much for clearing up the history for this strange building Pandesic. I had some information about it but not nearly as much as you gave. The only difference was that the architect who contacted me with additional information said that Mobil originally had it built.
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Pandesic
Location: Dallas\Fortworth Gender: Male
| | | Re: The Dallas tinker toy building <Reply # 3 on 9/7/2005 7:09 PM >
| | | Well I definitely was not trying to step on anyones feet this was just a informational history of the building. im aware om many who have explored the site over the last 10 years including myself.
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RevSM
Location: South Central Texas
| | | Re: The Dallas tinker toy building <Reply # 4 on 9/7/2005 7:44 PM >
| | | No stepping on any feet here! I'm glad someone had some additional information about this building. My info is pretty miniscule compared to the research you've done. I just thought you might like to see some recent photos of the place in a stage apparently after they gutted it. Good stuff, keep it coming!
Tetanus for Breakfast! http://www.shatteredshutter.com |
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Pandesic
Location: Dallas\Fortworth Gender: Male
| | | Re: The Dallas tinker toy building <Reply # 5 on 9/7/2005 7:49 PM >
| | | thankyou much friend
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Arch-Image
Location: DFW Gender: Male
"This gene pool could use a little chlorine."
| | | Re: The Dallas tinker toy building <Reply # 6 on 9/10/2005 3:43 AM >
| | | excellent bit of research on a building I think everyone at one time or another has wondered about. I had always heard also that the seals where all of the modules came together always leaked like crazy.
"Your kid may be an honor student but YOU'RE still an IDIOT!" |
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VanHook
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: The Dallas tinker toy building <Reply # 7 on 9/20/2005 8:16 AM >
| | | that was actually my first UE outing here in Dallas thanks to a few folks from this site. There is actually a shot from the roof of that building on my site (www.hollisbennett.com). If you go to that URL, then navigate to 'portfolio' then click the 4th box over in the second row of the 'night' category, you will see what I am talking about, kinda like stonehenge up there. VH
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