As if Miami needed another mall, this $250-million megamall is similar to Broward County's monstrous Sawgrass Mills outlet, albeit without the luxury stores. The 1.4-million-square-foot outlet mall features outlets such as Off Fifth (Saks Fifth Avenue), plus several discount shops, a 28-screen movie theater, and bowling alley.
The most noteworthy recent development in Fort Worth -- and one of the most important on the national culture scene -- is the Modern, a landmark design by the celebrated modernist Japanese architect Tadao Ando and a true notch on the city's belt. It is my favorite new museum -- or work of architecture, period -- since Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain. Opened in 2002, the museum, quickly...
If Louis Kahn's Kimbell Museum is regarded as one of the best buildings of the last century, Tadao Ando's new Fort Worth Modern, just across the street, may well stand up as one of this century's finest. Dramatic, 40-foot-tall Y-shaped concrete columns support the flat, cantilevered roofs of the glassed-in, satiny-gray concrete galleries—the entire structure seems to float in the immense...
Located in the Fort Worth cultural district, this museum houses one of the nation's most reputable collections of modern and contemporary art.:
In Short
The oldest art museum in Texas runs a permanent collection of approximately 2,600 pieces of art. Works include drawings, prints, paintings, sculpture, photography, videotapes and...