DALLAS, TX — Surveying the last quarter century of architectural work in Dallas-Fort Worth, the Dallas Architecture Forum recognized 25 projects for improving the area’s social and urban fabric. Of the 25 winners, Perkins&Will's Dallas studio designed three: the Baylor Scott & White Health Administrative Center, the Singing Hills Recreation and Senior Center, and the Pittman Hotel (which earned awards in two categories). The panel of jurors also named the Fair Park Master Plan as one of the 10 projects in progress with the greatest potential to positively impact North Texas.The Baylor Scott & White Health Administrative Center is at the forefront of the emerging “groundscaper” trend. Groundscapers are defined as buildings that are as wide as skyscrapers are tall. By alleviating the need for an elevator ride, groundscrapers keep people appropriately distanced, as well as more active.The Singing Hills Recreation Center is a multi-generational, community-focused facility in a historically underserved neighborhood, connected to a commuter rail station. The new center serves as a platform for social interaction where human activities — recreation, community, education — intersect. Perkins&Will's design team created a facility that mimics the natural landscape in an abstracted way. By trimming the underbrush and lower limbs of the densely treed area, a space for human activity to take place among nature was revealed.Built in 1916, The Knights of Pythias Temple was Dallas’ first major commercial building designed, financed, and built by the Black community and was their business center and social hub throughout the early 1900s. Decades of urban upheaval and social change left the building vacant and at risk of becoming part of the erasure of the city’s cultural memory. The building’s renovation and addition mark the culmination of a slow comeback for the entire Deep Ellum neighborhood and the establishment of its first hotel, reconnecting the historic structure to the urban patchwork of the district.Fair Park is a National Historic Landmark that used to be full of life and energy, but over time has become overlooked and undervalued. The park has many different parts including the Music Hall, State Fairgrounds, and Convention Center, and its infrastructure needs to hold large crowds and manage massive flows of people. Perkins&Will is designing a master plan that will nurture growth and function as a part of the Dallas parks network.