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1217 Main Street
1217 Main Street
Dallas, TX, United States
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1217 Main Street
Dallas, TX, United States
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2018
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
Located in downtown Dallas, the new design of 1217 Main Street is a striking transformation of a 1950s-era bank building. The client commissioned the Cuban-born artist Jorge Pardo—a MacArthur Foundation Fellow whose body of work explores the intersection of contemporary painting, design, sculpture, and architecture—to design 36,215 handmade, glazed ceramic tiles to become the primary cladding material for the building. The resulting tiles get their inspiration from the subtle variation of the Texas blue sky, wrapping the building with a striking and ever-shifting color.
To express the ceramic art properly, the design team devised a technically complex facade substructure for the ceramic tiles to enable the visual concealment of control and expansion joints, panel or module seams, or shadow lines.
The ground floor of the building is occupied by a bakery/café/butcher shop/commissary operation topped with four stories of creative office floors above. The roof was also converted into an occupiable office floor with exterior balconies affording the outdoor enjoyment of the Dallas downtown scene.
This successful merging of the urban art and architecture transfigures the building into a new downtown anchor that is now full of life day and night. It strongly expressed the client’s intention to permanently transform downtown Dallas into a vibrant pedestrian environment by combining the work of a renowned artist with a major architectural alteration.
To express the ceramic art properly, the design team devised a technically complex facade substructure for the ceramic tiles to enable the visual concealment of control and expansion joints, panel or module seams, or shadow lines.
The ground floor of the building is occupied by a bakery/café/butcher shop/commissary operation topped with four stories of creative office floors above. The roof was also converted into an occupiable office floor with exterior balconies affording the outdoor enjoyment of the Dallas downtown scene.
This successful merging of the urban art and architecture transfigures the building into a new downtown anchor that is now full of life day and night. It strongly expressed the client’s intention to permanently transform downtown Dallas into a vibrant pedestrian environment by combining the work of a renowned artist with a major architectural alteration.
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