Posts under ‘Architecture & Preservation’

As can be seen at the top of the building in the photo above, the steel framing of the crown on the Omni Hotel & Condos is now being assembled. The framing will be covered with glass like that used on the condo tower portion of the building below it, giving an angled “swoop” [...]

One of my reasons to arive ahead of the group Thursday was to get to see first-hand some of the public artwork of Seattle-based artist Dan Corson. Dan was recently chosen to provide the public art component of the planned Hemphill-Lamar Connector, which will create a new connector street that runs under the railroad tracks [...]

As Historic Fort Worth often does, I thought I’d post my own list of some structures in urban Fort Worth that I feel are most endangered and worthy of preservation. I will try to not have too much overlap between the HFW list and mine, but some is inevitable. Here we go, in [...]

Must have missed the link - turns out that WFAA did a story on the proposed Magnolia Avenue bike lanes. Click here to watch it. A pretty decent story, all in all - though I must say I look forward to a future where requesting that we reduce traffic lanes, slow cars, and [...]

I’m hearing rumors that the Albertsons by TCU will be getting a heavy makeover, possibly a rebuild, that will feature underground parking, space for additional retail tenants, and 3-4 floors of office space on top.
Just a little rumor for you. Thanks to reader Jeff for forwarding me the tidbit!

I came to the Pacific Northwest a day early to tour the Fort Worth Central City - Trinity River scale hydrology model before its dismantling at the conclusion of testing later this year.
(Note from Kevin: The Fort Worth Central City Hydrology Model is a 40:1 scale model of the Trinity River after reconfiguration by [...]

The new campus commons at TCU seems more or less complete. The new residence halls are open, the green space is mostly finished apart from some minor landscaping details, and the new Brown-Lupton University Union has opened. The biggest activity at the site now is the construction of Scharbauer Hall on the site [...]

The TownSite Co. acquired this building not long ago when it bought what is usually known as the former Motheral Printing site in the Near Southside. TownSite is making plans at the 11-acre assemblage of buildings and vacant lots centered around the intersection of South Main & Pennsylvania for a mixed-use development on the [...]

I’ve been noticing a new building rising on Rogers Road between Collinsworth and Riverfront (near University Park Village), and from the method of construction I figured it was a new apartment development. There hasn’t been any sort of information at the construction site as to what was going on, and I haven’t heard anything [...]

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A tip of the hat to The Recyclican, who noticed this Star-Telegram article by John Austin. XTO Energy is making plans for a new building at 7th & Calhoun, across the street from the historic Binyon O’Keefe warehouse they’re restoring.
The $38 million building would occupy the block bounded by Seventh, Jones, Calhoun [...]

With the Weekly’s Best of 2008 issue now out and about, I must confess - this one puzzles me. Of all the new architecture in Fort Worth, Cantey Hangar Plaza is the best?
I get that the Weekly will never get David M. Schwarz, because they do tend to skew pretty modernist in their architecture [...]

Phase one of SoSeven’s Shops & Lofts is progressing steadily. With construction having neared completion on the first two buildings, which will be office space over retail, most work is concentrated on the third and fourth buildings, which will be condos over retail. Here, the condo/retail building fronting 7th rises alongside the first [...]

We took a look at Museum Place yesterday, and now it’s time for the West 7th development by Cypress Equities down the street. Framing should be getting underway shortly for the apartments above the retail here in these two buildings on either side of Crockett Street. The buildings should top out at 5 [...]

Finally took the time away from remodeling to get some construction photos. Here’s an update on the progress at Museum Place in the Cultural District. One Museum Place, the big retail/office/condo building, is very nearly complete, as seen in the photo above. The last bits of glass and such are going up [...]

In celebration of the firm’s 30 year history, the portfolio of David M. Schwarz is now the subject of an online exhibition created by Dean Sakamoto Architects and sponsored by the National Building Museum, the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America, and the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. For People and [...]

I was unable to attend the presentation developer Tom Struhs gave on the Trinity Bluff project at the TRV offices last night, but I’ve pieced together some notes from the presentation from various sources. Here’s some of the interesting stuff Mr. Struhs revealed:

The Bass family is in some sort of planning stages for a [...]

Still busy in House Remodelingland - today’s a big day, as my carpenters are cutting holes in two of the walls of the little Fairmount house I’m working on to install new windows. No new construction photos of various projects, alas - I expect things to become a bit more normal next week in [...]

While I’m deep in House Remodelingland and thus a bit disconnected from events and goings-on, I have noticed another article in the Business Press revealing that the West 7th development has announced another tenant: Delaney’s Irish Pub.
Developers of Fort Worth’s West 7th project have inked a deal with Delaney’s Irish Pub for 5,000 square [...]

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Not long after putting their nifty jet-age Classifieds Building up for sale, the Star-Telegram has done something surprising and rather disappointing: they’re putting their main office building downtown up for sale. The historic Star-Telegram Building was built in 1920 and designed by the legendary local firm Sanguinet & Staats. It [...]

The Fort Worth Business Press reports that the West 7th development is continuing to add tenants to its roster, and that Cypress has switched from Starwood to another hotel operator. The new hotel will be announced by the end of the month.
The ground floor of the hotel building will feature retail with an elevator [...]

More good news for supporters of the TRV (like yours truly): the Army Corps of Engineers has given the project the go-ahead, and they can now start construction. Max Baker in the S-T has the story:
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officially opened the funding floodgates for Trinity Uptown on Friday by signing [...]

Here’s something of a question/poll for the readers out there.
If you’re looking for an affordable urban residence in a central Fort Worth neighborhood (and by “affordable” I’m talking around $150k or below), what sort of thing would you be looking for? This is assuming that whatever you wanted within that price target could materialize [...]

UPDATE 2: Reader jefffwd writes that the domain name “thecassidy.com” was registered on August 1st by the Enilon Group, a local web design and marketing company. One of Enilon’s clients is none other than Sundance Square Management.
The plot thickens. More info as it becomes available.
UPDATE: There is some word that the [...]

I’m hearing that crews have installed a logo for the Cassidy, the long-rumored 22-story condo tower planned for the southeast corner of the intersection of 3rd & Throckmorton downtown. Could we be at long last nearing the start of the project?
Not much is known about the Cassidy, except that it’s a Bass family project, [...]

Fort Worthology reader Mark Rybczyk sends in this photo of the new Sovereign Bank being built on 7th Street as part of the West 7th development by Cypress Equities. The new Sovereign Bank has been designed by local firm Schwarz-Hanson (no relation to David M. Schwarz of Bass Hall/etc. fame), who also designed two [...]