New apartments bring dignity to LGBTQ seniors on a once-blighted site. By Mark Lamster Architecture Critic Feb. 12, 2025 | Updated 6:00 a.m. CST | 5 min. read Oak Lawn Place, affordable housing aimed at LGBTQ seniors. (James Steinkamp / Perkins & Will) You can find my favorite new building in Dallas on what was until recently a junkyard littered with rusting boats, abandoned cars, discarded beer cans and 48 feral cats. This unpromising location, along the flight path into Love Field and a block from an elevated DART track, is now home to Oak Lawn Place, an affordable housing project aimed at (but not exclusive to) LGBTQ seniors. If you happened to drive by — unlikely, given its semi-secluded location on a street that’s all of two blocks — you might not notice it, or give it more than a passing thought. In its scale and boxy shape, it’s not too