New Ideas for MIDRISE buildings in Fort Worth.... by me. (Houston: lofts, construction)

[JJG]

Last year, I made skyscrapers on Google Sketch Up (7) for Fort Worth.

In honor of that, I will make midrise buildings for the city. I ment to make alot more and start on this earlier, but my laptop is pretty much on life support (NO internet = usless). My first building will be THE CASSIDY, which is a real project, but there's no renderings or even word of when it will be built. So I thought I'd give it a shot....

I'll post it later today. And that's NO April Fool's joke....

[buzzpost]

Always enjoy your posts JJG. You need to be a city planner.

[JJG]

THE CASSIDY
Stories: 22
Residential



Looking up from street level


The parallelogram and triangular shapes that decorate the building...


The crown


The view of the building from the south


View of the building from the east


Elevation


Comparison to the AT&T Building (I just picked the AT&T because it seems like the tallest of the midrises in downtown. I could be wrong, though.)


And here's some shots of it on the block it's supposed to be placed. It's right next to Sundance West and on the same block as Sanger Lofts. This gives ya a good idea of how it might look on street level in real life....










I won't explain much, because I actually want to add more to this. I had a bit of fun with this one, mainly because it's a real proposed building, just like what the Block TU and XTO Headquarters used to be. So I don't really have to explain anyway. But the first floor has room for two restaurants. The back of the building (which has "The Cassidy" in big letters) would feature a place for billboards to fill that space up. And I went with the triangle/parallelogram shaped metal and stone tiles to add to the classy look of Sundance Square. I wanted this building to be a gem. And hopefully, if and when it gets built, it could look 10 times better than anything I could ever think of making.

More to come.

[kdogg817]

Originally Posted by JJG

THE CASSIDY
Stories: 22
Residential



Looking up from street level


The parallelogram and triangular shapes that decorate the building...


The crown


The view of the building from the south


View of the building from the east


Elevation


Comparison to the AT&T Building (I just picked the AT&T because it seems like the tallest of the midrises in downtown. I could be wrong, though.)


And here's some shots of it on the block it's supposed to be placed. It's right next to Sundance West and on the same block as Sanger Lofts. This gives ya a good idea of how it might look on street level in real life....










I won't explain much, because I actually want to add more to this. I had a bit of fun with this one, mainly because it's a real proposed building, just like what the Block TU and XTO Headquarters used to be. So I don't really have to explain anyway. But the first floor has room for two restaurants. The back of the building (which has "The Cassidy" in big letters) would feature a place for billboards to fill that space up. And I went with the triangle/parallelogram shaped metal and stone tiles to add to the classy look of Sundance Square. I wanted this building to be a gem. And hopefully, if and when it gets built, it could look 10 times better than anything I could ever think of making.

More to come.

I like the skycraper. Fits right in with downtown.

[texastitan123]

The problem with Fort Worth is that it is really hard to get a tall structure approved to be built. Which is not really a bad thing. You might end up looking like Houston. But it would be nice to see more high rises going up here and there. I get bored of these low rises.

[jbb303]

It's not any harder to get them approved in Fort Worth than anywhere else. The reason you don't see more high rise construction in downtown Fort Worth is because the economics don't support it. There is a parade of surface lots, many of them concentrated along Jones and Calhoun on the east side of downtown, and until some of that goes away, the economic conditions won't be right for widespread vertical construction. That's not even taking into account all of the cheap (relative to downtown), empty land that is available in far north Fort Worth.

[JJG]

Originally Posted by jbb303

It's not any harder to get them approved in Fort Worth than anywhere else. The reason you don't see more high rise construction in downtown Fort Worth is because the economics don't support it. There is a parade of surface lots, many of them concentrated along Jones and Calhoun on the east side of downtown, and until some of that goes away, the economic conditions won't be right for widespread vertical construction. That's not even taking into account all of the cheap (relative to downtown), empty land that is available in far north Fort Worth.

...even before the economy, Fort Worth was never really known for building UP.