Klyde Warren Park
— a park where a road used to be.
Not only on a wall.
Klyde Warren Park, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Klyde Warren is a 5.2-acre deck park built across the recessed Woodall Rodgers Freeway in 2012, stitching downtown Dallas back to Uptown after fifty years of the cars cutting them apart. Food trucks line the south edge near the Arts District. Children run through the splash pad in summer, dogs lap at the fountains, and the Nasher and the Meyerson sit one block south.
The place, in three passes.
Klyde Warren Park covers 5.2 acres above the recessed Woodall Rodgers Freeway in downtown Dallas, opened to the public on October 27, 2012. The Office of James Burnett led the landscape design; the deck itself spans three city blocks between Pearl Street and St. Paul Street. South of the park sits the Dallas Arts District, including the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Meyerson Symphony Center, and the Dallas Museum of Art. North is Uptown and the free McKinney Avenue trolley line.
The park is free and open daily from six in the morning to eleven at night. Programming runs continuously: lunchtime food trucks along Olive Street, evening yoga on the lawn, summer concerts at the pavilion, and a winter holiday market. Park staff lend lawn games and chess sets from the kiosk for the cost of a returned ID. A 1.5-acre western expansion opened in late 2023, adding a pavilion designed by OMA New York and additional lawn space.
Texas summers are heavy, and the park was designed for them. Broad live oaks shade the lawns by mid-July, misters cool the children's park, and the splash fountain runs from spring through October. In the cooler months the lawn fills with picnic blankets through the early afternoon, and the food-truck line stretches across the western edge most lunch hours. By dusk the air softens and the Arts District lights come up across Olive Street.
