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#51 JBB

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Posted 30 December 2017 - 12:14 PM

Every time I look at it I like it a little more. It's not perfect, but it's a huge improvement over what it's replacing and the previous renderings.

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Posted 30 December 2017 - 08:20 PM

Doesn't look like there are many changes to the hotel between renderings, but it looks so much better in the new rendering.

 

EDIT: There's more brick in the new rendering. The entire second floor is brick, and the portion that jets out is brick.

 

Also, the area between windows (vertically) is a darker brown in the new rendering.


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Posted 31 December 2017 - 12:00 PM

I’m really excited to see that it is all the way to the sidewalk and will actually encourage pedestrian usage and extending the Stockyards a bit.

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Posted 01 January 2018 - 08:18 PM

Quite a unique style. Weird to see bricks in adobe shapes. And lots of glass and what looks like metal. What would the style be defined as?

 

ANYONE (John T, Zetna, Renamerusk) who complained that they thought the Courtyard at N Main and Stockyards Blvd. looked out of place in the Stockyards (and several here did), better not say this is more fitting.  This is a mish-mash of I-don't-know-what.


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#55 John T Roberts

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Posted 01 January 2018 - 09:24 PM

I want to know why all of the new construction is trying to copy the Coliseum (Northside) and the Alamo? 



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Posted 02 January 2018 - 08:46 AM

It would honestly be improved a hundredfold if they'd just lop off the tacky fake Alamo wannabe things around the roof, because it's otherwise not bad at all and those look totally out-of-place and are just there to add some kind of "ye olde timey" thing to it that doesn't work at all.


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Posted 02 January 2018 - 11:02 AM

It would honestly be improved a hundredfold if they'd just lop off the tacky fake Alamo wannabe things around the roof, because it's otherwise not bad at all and those look totally out-of-place and are just there to add some kind of "ye olde timey" thing to it that doesn't work at all.

Don't jump on me for saying this, but I can't help thinking that the building designer, in bending over backwards to appease the city's desire for modernity-to- blend-with-history, is maybe confused about which is which.  But I like the design because it's attractive, regardless of its planned location.



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Posted 02 January 2018 - 12:08 PM

It's almost like the architect(s) have settled on that as some kind of signature historical element that the building needs to fit in to the area.



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Posted 16 January 2018 - 10:37 AM

Some local coverage.

 

http://www.star-tele...e194868124.html



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Posted 05 February 2018 - 06:17 PM

Here is the project on the architects website

 

https://www.nilesbol...tockyards-hotel

 

 

 

Located in Fort Worth's Stockyards National Historic District, this custom 170-key hotel features 12,000 sf of function space and rooftop restaurant/bar by "urban western" celebrity chef Tim Love. The main ballroom integrates an exterior event patio and includes an old Wells Fargo vault door salvaged and reused as a focal element, paying homage to the bank formerly located on the site. An express elevator provides access to the sky lobby and rooftop bar that features a transparent roof with dynamic glass technology. A covered arcade with Alamo-inspired brick parapet faces Main Street, promoting pedestrian flow and integrating the hotel and street. Components such as a presidential suite with private terrace, access to an elevated open-air event deck and junior suites with balconies offering views towards the stockyards are atypical luxuries for the SpringHill Suites brand.



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Posted 06 February 2018 - 08:12 AM

The renderings are absurd:  Too many sports cars, not enough pickup trucks.


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Posted 07 February 2018 - 09:37 AM

It's almost like the architect(s) have settled on that as some kind of signature historical element that the building needs to fit in to the area.

It's not as if the hotel building designers didn't have historical period models to work with.  

 

https://www.google.c...iw=1280&bih=600



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Posted 11 May 2018 - 04:59 PM

 

Here is the project on the architects website

 

https://www.nilesbol...tockyards-hotel

 

 

 

Located in Fort Worth's Stockyards National Historic District, this custom 170-key hotel features 12,000 sf of function space and rooftop restaurant/bar by "urban western" celebrity chef Tim Love. The main ballroom integrates an exterior event patio and includes an old Wells Fargo vault door salvaged and reused as a focal element, paying homage to the bank formerly located on the site. An express elevator provides access to the sky lobby and rooftop bar that features a transparent roof with dynamic glass technology. A covered arcade with Alamo-inspired brick parapet faces Main Street, promoting pedestrian flow and integrating the hotel and street. Components such as a presidential suite with private terrace, access to an elevated open-air event deck and junior suites with balconies offering views towards the stockyards are atypical luxuries for the SpringHill Suites brand.

 

Oh God, this is horrible!...more of these buildings w/ terrible proportions with way too many forms and materials...and let's add on a few small mission parapet walls so it "fits in" w/ the Stockyards....what is wrong w/ a simple facade? Could the brick not go all away across? What is that weird notch out of the central vertical element? All of a sudden let's have one element of surface mounted storefront glass at the top floor ....just a hodgepodge of crap. Luckily I'm moving out of FW, so this old curmudgeon doesn't have to look at the future of bad architecture going up in all the areas I visit around downtown.



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Posted 14 June 2019 - 11:04 AM

Website lists October as the opening. 

 

https://www.marriott...ric-stockyards/



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Posted 22 June 2019 - 02:35 PM

Photo from today

 

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Posted 11 December 2019 - 04:09 PM

The hotel will open next week and the rooftop Tim Love restaurant next year.

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Posted 17 December 2019 - 02:28 PM

I was given a tour of the hotel today and loved it. The architecture is a unique blend but feels very dynamic. 

 

On the outside, the sidewalk is elevated above main and covered by the hotel, which is really neat. The covering is actually balconies for the rooms on the 2nd floor. There's several balconies, all over the hotel, including a big one on the rooftop where the restaurant will be (opening next year) which will be publicly accessible. The access for this is actually straight from the sidewalk along main, you can see the elevator shaft as the brick wall on the East side of the building. The large area of floor to ceiling glass and the corner balcony further back are part of the presidential suite on the top floor.

 

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The basement contains all the meeting space. The old Wells Fargo vault is displayed here. The double high ceilings are lovely. This hotel is very well equipped to host meetings and groups. 

 

 

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Here's the future rooftop restaurant space,

 

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And the skyline view from the roof,

 

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Posted 13 January 2020 - 05:07 PM

Star-Telegram article about Atico, Tim Love's restaurant on the rooftop.
https://www.star-tel...mainstage_card3

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Posted 13 January 2020 - 08:10 PM

Atico stuns!

 

By the way 2315 is now a hotel and I think that it now deserves a "thread rebranding" :)

 

 

Oops, the Cash America Sign...can't something be done to make it less "there".  North Main and South Main should be "monument" corridors.







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