It has been a difficult and imperfect project, and one that is far from complete, but downtown Dallas is gradually becoming a more hospitable and humane place. ...
Architecture critic Mark Lamster writes about the rebirth of Carpenter Park and artist Robert Irwin’s ‘Portal Park Slice.’
Both the park and the sculpture are transformed themselves. It would be more appropriate to say that the park has finally become a park. In 1981, when it was originally opened, it was named Carpenter Plaza, a bit of decorative junk-space cut into parts by an intersection of high-traffic roadways. Irwin’s, a 700-foot-long plane of Cor-Ten steel, was conceived as much to be seen from speeding cars, which passed through it, as by standing individuals.
makes for a compelling contrast with Robert Berks’s mottled bronze statue of John W. Carpenter, which stands beckoning visitors into the park at the corner of Pearl and Live Oak streets. The park’s namesake just might be the last man in Dallas with a cowboy hat. From that space, the path into the park winds on, leading past a small play area and to a central grove of flowering redbud trees from Texas, Oklahoma and Mexico, the varieties offering a range of hues from white to pink. ‘’We were trying to recall an agricultural heritage but not be too rigid about it,” says Jones.
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