Blueprints at Addison Circle
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Blueprints at Addison Circle is a historic site in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 189 m. Crawford Hill stands 231 m to the west-northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Meditation, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Texas Lakes Trail passes 1.2 miles off. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Blueprints at Addison Circle is a steel sculpture located in Addison, Texas officially unveiled on April 13, 2000. It is one of approximately 20 works of public art throughout the town. Addison Circle and the surrounding area was built in 1997 to create a more traditional walkable urban town center; it is a 133-foot-diameter (41 m) roundabout. The sculpture inside the traffic circle consists of 25 poles and five panels. It weighs 410,000 pounds (190,000 kg) and required 650 US gallons (2,500 L) of custom "Sharpie blue" paint. The work is more than 4 stories high and 140 feet (43 m) across. It was designed by artist Mel Chin in conjunction with landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh and with the aid of LeMessurier Consultants, and was fabricated and erected by Big D Metalworks of Dallas. The poles weighing 9,000 pounds (4,100 kg) were made in Houston, Texas and the tapered cones at the top of the poles were made in New Jersey. Total cost for the sculpture was $2.1 million. The nighttime lighting was designed by Stephen Bernstein of Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design. The sculpture is said to resemble the branching pattern of a grove of oak trees. The panels follow a design using actual blueprints from Addison's municipal buildings, parks, bridges, and water pumping facilities. Of the work Chin said “I chose to represent in this the physical representation of blueprints, the infrastructure that you don’t see—and to celebrate the ideas floating above you.”
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 2000.
Wikidata Q4930422, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
- 1.2 mi off the Texas Lakes Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Meditation: 0.0 mi
- Aigue-Marine: 0.1 mi
- Three Tenors: 0.1 mi
- Tango Fantasia: 0.1 mi
- The Bone: 0.2 mi
- Bosque Park: 0.1 mi
- Addison Circle Park: 0.1 mi
- Parkview Park: 0.2 mi
- Spruill Park: 0.2 mi
- Arapaho Park: 0.5 mi
- Addison State Bank: 0.3 mi
- White Rock Chapel: 1.3 mi
- White Rock Chapel: 1.3 mi
- White Rock Cemetery Garden of Memories: 1.5 mi
- Frankford: 1.9 mi
- Addison Community Garden: 1.6 mi
- Dover Elementary School Garden: 4.0 mi
- Creekside Community Garden: 4.0 mi
- UT Dallas Community Garden: 4.4 mi
- Zen Garden: 4.4 mi
- Northaven Trail: 4.0 mi
- Temoc: 4.7 mi
- Crayola Experience: 4.8 mi
- Liberty Park Tank: 6.0 mi
- Topgolf: 7.9 mi
- Cavanaugh Flight Museum: 0.9 mi
- A W Perry Homestead Museum: 4.1 mi
- AW Perry Homestead: 4.1 mi
- Edith and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Athenaeum: 4.8 mi
- Heritage Farmstead Museum: 6.8 mi
- Arbor Hills Nature Preserve: 6.1 mi
- UT Southwestern Medical Center Rookery: 10.2 mi
- Russell Creek Preserve: 10.3 mi
- Thrive Nature Park: 11.8 mi
- Big Spring Preserve: 17.0 mi
- Point Nancy Carolyn at Bachman Lake: 8.0 mi
- Group Picnic Area: 12.7 mi
- Parkside Food Truck Park: 14.1 mi
- The Corral: 14.6 mi
- Picnic Outpost: 15.3 mi
- Flower Mound: 14.5 mi
- Chalk Hill: 15.4 mi
- Grayhawk Hill: 15.8 mi
- Monarch Hill: 16.7 mi
- Mayor's Hill: 20.0 mi
- Camey Spur: 8.7 mi
- Sowers: 13.3 mi
- La Reunion: 14.1 mi
- Nickelville: 17.7 mi
- Biggers: 22.9 mi
- McKamy Spring: 5.4 mi
- SoPac Trail Rest Area: 9.6 mi
- Muddy Creek: 13.7 mi
- Little Elm Beach: 15.4 mi
- Shayhan Point: 17.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Blueprints at Addison Circle. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crawford Hill | WNW 298° | 231 m | 24.7 mi |
| Mount Donwell | W 262° | 218 m | 20.5 mi |
| Town Common | W 275° | 216.71 m | 22.3 mi |
| Flower Mound | WNW 285° | 202 m | 14.5 mi |
| Chalk Hill | SSW 194° | 202 m | 15.4 mi |
| Mayor's Hill | W 273° | 180 m | 20.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:32 | 19:07 | 19:39 |
| June solstice | 06:20 | 20:03 | 20:40 |
| September equinox | 07:16 | 18:53 | 19:26 |
| December solstice | 07:27 | 16:48 | 17:25 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–May, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 46 | 50 | 58 | 65 | 73 | 81 | 85 | 85 | 77 | 67 | 56 | 48 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 3.3 | 5.3 | 3.0 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Richardson, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/1795173816
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