A reader sends over this morning’s sunrise view of the Hotel Zaza Memorial City mid-to-highrise, now slowly rising west of Bunker Hill Dr. directly behind the Guadalajara Hacienda. Unlike the storied original in the former Warwick Hotel by Hermann Park, this one will be getting 4 floors of apartments to wear on top, and Hotel Zaza’s marketing materials also point out that it’ll be the first of the chain to be co-managed by a third party (that’d be MetroNational).  Here’s Kirksey’s rendering of what the place is supposed to look like when it’s done, and done up in a calmer beige — just imagine the Murphy, Cobalt, and Nexen office buildings spread out around it:
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- Previously on Swamplot: Here’s Your Timelapse Showing the Astounding Growth of the Memorial City Megacomplex, Sorta; No, Says Hotel ZaZa, Room 322 Isn’t an Expensive Bondage Dungeon for Creeps, It’s Just Different; What You Missed Overnight at the Hotel ZaZa
Images: Swamplot inbox (photo), Kirksey Architecture (renderings)
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Ugly looking building!
Who’s the second party? Or the first, for that matter. Sometimes there can be too many parties.
What “dramatic colors” are you referring too? Looks blah-blah to me.
MetroNational has the WORST taste in architecture. Hotel Zaza is just more proof of this….boy is it ugly.