Great photos! Having a hotel on campus will serve a great need for those visiting.
Looking forward to being a regular patron.
I wouldn't call Home 2 Suites nice. In fact, after all the uproar about appropriate designed hotels across from the museums, this suburban looking eyesore sticks out like a sore thumb. It is one ugly looking building and surprised the city didn't require more quality work than value engineering crap that has been built.This. Combined with the new hotel across the street from Farrington Field (name escapes me), there are some nicer, newer options closer to campus now.
It is one ugly looking building and surprised the city didn't require more quality work than value engineering crap that has been built.
I wouldn't call Home 2 Suites nice. In fact, after all the uproar about appropriate designed hotels across from the museums, this suburban looking eyesore sticks out like a sore thumb. It is one ugly looking building and surprised the city didn't require more quality work than value engineering crap that has been built.
if I recall correctly the city killed a much more appealing opportunity a few years back at the museum crew’s behest. The museum folks that killed that proposal kind of got what they deserved with that trash home2
wasn’t that earlier opportunity located at Van Cliburn and Camp Bowie, directly across the street from Kimball and Modern? Assumed the close proximity weighed into that.
wasn’t that earlier opportunity located at Van Cliburn and Camp Bowie, directly across the street from Kimball and Modern? Assumed the close proximity weighed into that.
I pretty sure I was told it was going to be a W Hotel Fort Worth across from the museum turn it got killed.
Totally, totally agree.I wouldn't call Home 2 Suites nice. In fact, after all the uproar about appropriate designed hotels across from the museums, this suburban looking eyesore sticks out like a sore thumb. It is one ugly looking building and surprised the city didn't require more quality work than value engineering crap that has been built.
I *think* that is a different project that got killed. I think the one you’re referring to would’ve cast some amount of shadow on the kimball lawn and the earlier proposal for the home 2 site was going to obstruct the view of downtown.
How that earlier proposal that was on Camp Bowie across from the Modern/Kimbell location could have "cast shadow on the Kimball lawn" is beyond me. It's due north of these two museums, and its height wasn't but about five floors. Does the sun get that far north and that low on June 21?
No clue, I’m just a drive-by photographer...should be done by August?
Heh. "The Modern." Looks like a damned parking garage...
A buddy of mine thinks it is a wonderful structure. Even went out and bought a coffee-table book of the architect's other buildings, Tadao Ando, if memory serves...Oh, the humanity! Oh, the pain! Can't believe someone doesn't like it. The Modern is one of the best architectural accomplishments in Cowtown lately, in my humble opinion.
A buddy of mine thinks it is a wonderful structure. Even went out and bought a coffee-table book of the architect's other buildings, Tadao Ando, if memory serves...
I simply find it a featureless, cubic, thing. I know, I know, "Swans landing on water." Yeah. More like Buicks sliding into 'Park' to me. I never liked the cubist, brutalist architecture of the 50s and 60s. Always looked like they were trying to emulate Soviet architecture. Yuck.
Driving back to visit my Mom, I pass by the Matagorda County Courthouse. Probably the ugliest structure in the entire State. They smashed a perfectly good, gracefully designed old building and installed a ghastly brutalist monstrosity. Utterly hideous.