From over the fence at the corner of Smith and Dallas streets, a reader sends a shot of the ongoing scrape-out at One Allen Center. The glassed-in space protruding toward Smith will be undergoing a major reconstructive procedure to square up its corners, if all goes according to Brookfield’s previously depicted plan. Meanwhile, that skybridge in the back on the left is looking a good deal more put together than it did at the end of June, when it got the strip-down treatment; it’s now sporting a brighter, more silver-y skin to match the renderings, which show it backing up a band in that planned twixt-the-towers events space:Â
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Here’s a closer look at the bridge’s new trappings, as well as as the doomed bridge closer to Smith St. (still awaiting demo, as previously enshrined in verse by reporter Ralph Bivins):
- Previously on Swamplot: Shots from a Doomed Allen Center Skybridge of a Companion Meeting Its Fate; Waxing Poetic Over the Demolition of an Allen Center Skybridge; Turning Allen Center’s Center into a Concert Spot and Don Patron into Fine Dining
Images: Swamplot inbox (photos);Â Brookfield (rendering)
Somebody didn’t get the memo. Bronze and brass are the on-trend colors now in architectural metals. Silver is on the way out.
Few if any of the current lobby renovations around downtown really improve the buildings. They just make them different.
@anon – Haha I guess “Trump Gold” is suddenly back in fashion