Toyota's New Plano Headquarters Is an Architectural Camry: Safe But Boring

A rather forlorn bus stop sits on the sun-bleached curve of Plano's Headquarters Drive, just a few yards from the entry to the new campus of the Toyota Motor Company of North America. On a recent August afternoon, I spied a lone woman waiting there uncomfortably in the heat, and found myself wondering just how long it would be until her bus came along.Before that thought had time to germinate into larger questions about the location of this complex in the bosom of North Dallas corporate suburbia, an SUV pulled up and whisked her away. And it was a good thing, too. The ride just to DART's Parker Road Station is nearly 40 minutes, and that's if it's running on schedule.   Continue reading...