Lexington

When the couple purchased this nondescript lot in Dallas’s Highland Park, it was devoid of both house and trees. Their absence presented a rare opportunity - tabula rasa. The site aims to develop a landscape that is integral to, if not inseparable from, the modern house that sits in its midst, designed by Austin-based Alterstudio. Most homes in the neighborhood are nostalgic in style—Norman, Tudor, Mediterranean, and Spanish Colonial dominate. The steel, glass, and stone residence breaks that mold, but does have a soft historic reference point in the Bud Oglesby home across the street. The design team's collaboration results in the materiality of the boomerang-shaped house and site materials finding similarity as an implication toward their kindred connection.