Dallas

Forget about over-sized Texan hats, cow horns on car bumpers and cowboy boots. This is the new Dallas, keeping abreast with cultural trends. Here, on America’s culture strip, Pritzker prize winners were given the opportunity to indulge their architectural artistry: the ultimate manifestation of the ‘Patrons of the Arts’ concept, since the city’s distinguished inhabitants initiated and financed this entire project themselves. From Renzo Piano’s Nasher Sculpture Center to the Wyly Theater designed by Rem Koolhaas - every edifice is an accolade of architecture. The crowning touch is found at One Arts Plaza - a complex made up of restaurants on the ground floor and opulent apartments on the upper floors.