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===Architecture=== {{See also|List of Dallas Landmarks|List of tallest buildings in Dallas}} [[File:Downtown_skyline_from_the_design_district.jpg|thumb|Dallas skyline with [[Downtown Dallas]] in the background and [[Victory Park, Dallas|Victory Park]] and [[Uptown Dallas]] in the foreground (early 2022)]] Dallas's skyline has twenty buildings classified as [[skyscraper]]s, over {{convert|150|m|order=flip}} in height.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Skyscraper Center: Dallas, Texas|url=http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/compare-data/submit?base_city=1554&base_company=All&base_country=0&base_height_range=0&base_max_year=9999&base_min_year=0&base_region=0&comp_city=0&comp_company=All&comp_country=0&comp_height_range=3&comp_max_year=2018&comp_min_year=1960&comp_region=0&dataSubmit=Show%20Results&output%5B%5D=list&skip_comparison=on&status%5B%5D=COM&type%5B%5D=building|access-date=September 16, 2020|website=Skyscrapercenter.com}}</ref> Despite its tallest building not reaching {{convert|300|m|order=flip}}, Dallas does have a signature building in [[Bank of America Plaza (Dallas)|Bank of America Plaza]] which is lit up in neon but falls outside the top two hundred tallest buildings in the world. Although some of Dallas's architecture dates from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most of the notable architecture in the city is from the [[modern architecture|modernist]] and [[postmodern architecture|postmodernist]] eras. Iconic examples of modernist architecture include [[Reunion Tower]], the [[John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial]], [[I. M. Pei]]'s [[Dallas City Hall]] and the [[Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=March 5, 2020|title=Architect of Fountain Place who shaped Dallas, dies at 93|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/architecture/2020/03/05/architect-of-fountain-place-who-shaped-dallas-dies-at-93/|access-date=September 16, 2020|website=Dallas News|language=en}}</ref> Good examples of postmodernist skyscrapers are [[Fountain Place]], [[Bank of America Plaza (Dallas)|Bank of America Plaza]], [[Renaissance Tower (Dallas)|Renaissance Tower]], [[JPMorgan Chase Tower (Dallas)|JPMorgan Chase Tower]], and [[Comerica Bank Tower]]. [[Downtown Dallas]] also has residential offerings in downtown, some of which are signature skyline buildings. Several smaller structures are fashioned in the [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] style, such as the [[Kirby Building]], and the [[neoclassical architecture|neoclassical]] style, as seen in the [[Davis Building (Dallas, Texas)|Davis]] and [[Wilson Building (Dallas, Texas)|Wilson]] Buildings. One architectural "hotbed" in the city is a stretch of historic houses along [[Swiss Avenue]], which has all shades and variants of architecture from [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] to neoclassical.<ref>[http://www.swissavenue.com/index.asp Swissavenue.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060703014046/http://www.swissavenue.com/index.asp |date=July 3, 2006 }} β Retrieved June 13, 2006.{{cite web|url=http://swissavenue.com/index.asp |title=Swiss Avenue |access-date=October 21, 2010 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060207024307/http://swissavenue.com/index.asp <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=February 7, 2006}}</ref> The [[Dallas Downtown Historic District]] protects a cross-section of Dallas commercial architecture from the 1880s to the 1940s.
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