“There’s thousands, maybe tens of thousands, who will experience these buildings on the inside. But you’ve got millions who will experience them from the outside.”
Ron Stelmarski
Design Director
Perkins&Will
.…on his firm’s Epic I and Epic II buildings in Dallas’ Deep Ellum neighborhood, via the Dallas Morning News.
Stelmarksi has been the design director of Perkins&Will’s Dallas office since 2011. According to Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster, “nobody has done more to shape the city’s built environment this century.”
That impact includes Stelmarksi’s work on The Epic complex in Deep Ellum; the 18-story Richards Group building on North Central Expressway just north of downtown Dallas (recently renamed One West Village); The Galbraith mixed-income apartment high-rise along a downtown DART line; the Baylor Scott & White “groundscraper” administrative center in Deep Ellum; the UT Southwestern Medical Center building at RedBird, and more.
The former Richards Group headquarters building in Uptown Dallas has been renamed One West Village. [Photo courtesy of The Richards Group]
“There’s thousands, maybe tens of thousands, who will experience these buildings on the inside,” Stelmarksi told the DMN’s Lamster. “But you’ve got millions who will experience them from the outside, and it better be a damn good experience in terms of what they’re seeing and how they’re interacting with it.”
Stelmarksi’s creative stamp can be seen in the striking Fire Station No. 27 at Northwest Highway and Douglas in Dallas. [Photo © 2016 James Steinkamp Photography]
From a fire station on Northwest Highway (above) to buildings across Dallas, Stelmarksi’s creative stamp has made Dallas look more modern and striking for years. So how does he bring these projects to life?
“When people hire you, they put their trust in you,” Stelmarksi told the DMN. “That’s why they hire you. And you can take them on a journey that gets you to really cool places.”
Stelmarksi led the Perkins&Will team that turned a former Sears store at Red Bird Mall into the UT Southwestern Medical Center at RedBird. [Photo: UT Southwestern]
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