Hasta La Ideas

If you were trying to build the first completely-sustainable city block, the cities you’d probably have put on your list of places to potentially place it would probably include San Francisco, New York, Portland, etc. — places that have long been into these sorts of progressive, up-with-Earth vibes. So it comes as some surprise that Dallas has decided to beat them all to the punch by enlisting top names like Peter Head, Pliny Fisk (who also has a cool name), and man-about-town Cameron Sinclair, among others, to form the architecture/design competition, ReVision: Dallas, an “off the grid,” sustainable inner-city block, complete with housing, retail, and offices. What’s more, since they launched the program late last year, they’ve just announced the top three finalists: the Charlotte-based firm Little, the Portuguese team of Atelier Data and MOOV, and another teaming of David Baker and Partners and Fletcher Studio (along with a handful of others). In full, it’s all green, all the time, with nifty buildings and bits of plants coming out of dang near everywhere. It’s an interesting concept and we enjoyed the winning plans, so here’s to hoping the program keeps going and it all gets built in the end.