Winner of the 2009 Texas Society of Architects Award & the 2010 ASID Award

This project was a collaboration between Cedar Baldridge of Baldridge Landscape L.L.C. and Dillon Kyle, principal of Dillon Kyle Architecture.

The family that owns the gallery is an old Texas family, deeply rooted in the arts and southern traditions. We wanted the feel to be modern, yet reflect the gallery and family’s southern roots. The plantings we chose evoke the South: single trunk Natchez Crape Myrtles and Eleagnus, for example. A photograph of an Azalea hedge was replicated on a graphic which wraps the carport. We planted Boston ivy on the façade of the gallery so it would grow and “frame” the windows which highlight the current exhibitions. At night, the individual art in the windows pop beautifully with the green lush ivy surrounding as a “frame”.