Posts from ‘April, 2007’

We’re working on some big write-ups of the properties we visited during this last weekend’s Downtown Home Tour, and will be posting them this week. We’ll be reporting on:
Palisades at Trinity Bluff
Pecan Place Townhomes
Le Bijou
The Neil P. at Burnett Park
Texas & Pacific Lofts
Reports are coming each day this week. Stay tuned!

XTO Energy hasn’t announced any plans as yet for the full block of downtown Fort Worth where Landmark Tower, the International Style skyscraper imploded last year, once stood. Rumors swing between parking, a building, and a park. Since XTO hasn’t presented a plan yet, I thought I’d give it a go and combine [...]

That’s right - if you’ve noticed something different about Burnett Plaza at night, you are not suffering fever dreams. Everybody’s favorite concrete slab in the sky has finally started replacing their ancient amber Christmas light-style night lighting scheme. The lights are coming down, being replaced by new pure white rope lighting (still in [...]

That’s right - here’s a project we’ve been looking forward to for a while. Hope you like the surprise! The old Transport Life Building at the corner of 7th & Main in downtown is finally getting redeveloped. After a proposed condo redevelopment fell through, the building was purchased by Farmers & Mechanics [...]

Here are the latest construction pics of The Carnegie, the new 16-story office/retail tower being built at 3rd, Lamar, and Taylor across from the library. Click the thumbnails for bigger views:

That’s right, a milestone has been reached in the construction of the Omni Hotel & Condos across from the Fort Worth Convention Center - the building is starting to clear ground level and its construction fence! Click the thumbnail for the latest construction shot:

That’s right - it’s time for another Downtown Home Tour! As usual, proceedings start at Fire Station No. 1 in Sundance Square at 9:00 AM, from where you’ll get your info packets and then either start walking (as Fort Worthology does) or be bussed to the various properties in the tour. This time [...]

Here’s the latest construction shot of the Caceria Building, the 7-story Victorian Revival office/retail building being built at 5th & Commerce on the site of the old Mexican Inn cafe - click the thumbnail for a bigger view:

Work is progressing on the remaking of the north Tandy Tower into Two City Place, the office portion of the City Place development that will also see the south tower converted to condos and the old mall demolished and replaced with retail space and a parking structure. Also included is a newer rendering of [...]

To answer a question we get a lot - no, we don’t yet have any clue what XTO Energy is doing with the Landmark Tower site. For the uninitiated, last year XTO imploded Landmark Tower, the ’50s International Style skyscraper at the corner of 7th & Houston. After the debris was cleared, the [...]

Fort Worth’s in the starting stages of quite the urban building boom, and several of the projects underway are big enough to require tower cranes for construction. For the curious, we’d like to run down the list of cranes in urban Fort Worth and what projects they’re part of.

Crane on the Trinity Bluffs near [...]

That’s right - thanks to John Roberts of Fort Worth Architecture, we can now report that the Omni Hotel & Condos has grown once more. The newest word on the building’s height is 547′ 4″, making it 10″ taller than the D.R. Horton Tower and firmly securing a ranking of Fort Worth’s 2nd Tallest. [...]

Does Fort Worthology look a little different to you this morning? I’ve been tweaking the site a bit as part of the design updates I mentioned a while back, and the first changes have been made. This time around, it’s all about fonts. Previously, the site used Arial and Arial Black, but [...]

Hot on the heels of the announcement that Renzo Piano would be designing the Kimbell addition, the Fort Worth Museum of Science & History has unveiled renderings of their new building, designed by Ricardo Legorreta. Click the thumbnails for bigger views of the images.

The new Science Museum will stretch to the south across Burnett-Tandy [...]

We’ve gotten ahold of a few new renderings of the Omni Hotel & Condos currently under construction in downtown. To view bigger versions, click the thumbnails.
This exterior rendering shows the Omni’s east side, which faces the Convention Center:

The rest are interior renderings. This is the hotel’s sports bar:

Next, a view of the Omni’s [...]

In an effort to properly introduce Fort Worth to classic urban design and New Urbanism, Fort Worthology is planning a series of educational posts on the subject. We’ll be using the Charter of the New Urbanism as a base to help the public understand what this whole “urban” thing is all about, and why [...]

Word has come out today that Renzo Piano has been chosen to design the planned 2nd building for the famed Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth’s Cultural District just outside downtown. Piano’s building will join the original 1972 structure by Louis Kahn, the last building Kahn designed before he died and regarded by many as [...]

As promised, here is the rendering of the new Hillside Townhomes project being built on the east side of downtown. Click the thumbnail for a larger view:

That’s right - another townhome development is headed to downtown, this time on the far east side in the Hillside Apartments neighborhood. The Hillside Townhomes (apparently no relation to the apartments) will be a complex of three and four-story townhomes on the block bounded by 2nd, Nichols, and 4th on the east side of [...]