Today’s look at up-and-coming personified downtown highrises includes a reader’s fresh snap of Hotel Alessandra, which reached full height in August and has been filling out a bit since then. The latest rendering (released after the original question mark design was scrapped) depicts mostly the buildin’s glassier Dallas-St.-facing side; the shot up top is facing the structure’s beige-er south corner. Midway announced a few weeks after the Tax Day flood that the hotel wouldn’t be open in time for the Super Bowl after all, citing weather-related logistical issues. The developers are now planning to open up later on in 2017.
Meanwhile, at the opposite corner of the GreenStreet complex — where Polk and Caroline streets meet — Randall Davis’s Marlowe condo tower is getting off the ground behind The Dirt Bar and Reserve, at the edge of a sea of parked cars:
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- Previously on Swamplot: Expectations Lowered Another Notch for Rising Hotel Alessandra’s Floor Count; Hotel Alessandra Tower Redesign Loses the Swoops and Curves; Demolition Work on GreenStreet for the Swoopy New Hotel Alessandra Begins Next Week; New Mod Downtown Highrise Hotel Alessandra Will Slam Dunk Former Yao Ming Spot at GreenStreet; Sky-High Shots of Marlowe’s Spot in the Dirt by the Dirt Bar Downtown; Marlowe Man, Smarter and Stubblier Than You, Is Selling Randall Davis’s Downtown Condo Tower; Here’s a First Glimpse of the Actual Design for the 100-Unit Condo Tower Randall Davis Wants To Put at the End of GreenStreet Downtown; Here’s a First Entry in an Impromptu ‘What Randall Davis’s New Downtown Condo Tower Will Probably Look Like’ Design Competition; Randall Davis Aiming Downtown Condo Highrise for the Corner of Rock n’ Roll and the Blues
Images: ThaChadwick (photos), Gensler (rendering)
Oh dear, how lovely, another ‘Big Beige Block’. Yawnnnnnn
There is really something the misaligned windows on that building that is disorienting, as if it is one of those psychology “optical illusion” pictures. I get kind of queasy looking at the picture.
If you look at that building and let your eyes go blurry, you can see a pirate ship.
Why are all the recent new buildings in downtown so ugly? Look at the Alessandra, the Hillcorp building, and Reliant Plaza…. yuck!