AUSTIN | JW Marriott Convention Center Hotel | 408 FT | 34 Floors | Complete
1,003 rooms.
27 to 30 floors 103,000 square feet of banquet and meeting space. It would be Austin's largest hotel. It would be one of the tallest hotels in the city, maybe the tallest. http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte...waivers_f.html Quote:
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http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/1451/hotelk.jpg White Lodging Services - http://www.whitelodging.com/ |
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I'm thinking the view of Frost is safe. I set up my LEGO model today and got some updated photos. I actually think I had my mock model of the hotel set too far west in the model. I'm thinking it'll be a little farther east than my model was, meaning that the view of Frost from Congress should be safe, even if the hotel ended up being over 400 feet tall. Looking at that rendering, the hotel seems to barely be making it to 300 feet actually. 301 Congress, the office building north of the hotel, is 306 feet tall, and in the rendering there it appears slightly taller than the hotel, and is behind it.
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This project is a monstrosity and should not be allowed to go forward as planned. I think the city should tell White Lodging if they want to build a convention center hotel, they need to make more of an effort than using the cheapest methods and the most generic form of design before just plain ugliness. I say the Mayor needs to inform them that if they cant come up with a comparable proposal like the Manchester Convention Center hotel, then they should not build it. That location is more deserving of the Manchester than what White Lodging is proposing.
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And yeah, we're spoiled after years of living with a substandard skyline for a city this size, we deserve better architecture, material, taller heights. I think we need at least 4 more 600 - 800 footers, half a dozen 400 -500 footers, and eight 200 - 350 footers for fill ins. And I don't object to the use of reflective glass. Check out the JW Marriot in Indianapolis. |
I can already picture all the hype that will fill this forum once a 900 or even a 1000 footer is announced in the future.
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Austin should automatically reject any proposal under 1,000'!
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I think Dale was saying 1000 feet not 1000 rooms. I like the reflective glass on the JW Marriot, I know WL is not at the same quality level, but the blue reflective glass on that JWM is spectacular and some of that architectural element here would be nice.
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Actually, I was just kidding. You Austinites are a spoiled bunch. ;)
Here in Orlando we're excited about a nine-story hotel that's about to go up. |
Lol, we have become a bit spoiled. I was looking at a thing of Kevin's model and you can't even see our old sky line from 10 years ago before Frost was built. It is amazing.
Although you folks over in Orlando did almost get a HSR. I think it is safe to say 98% of the forum was highly jealous of y'all for the HSR. But then your goofy gov when and screwed the pooch on that one. |
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