Urbannizer Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Same developer owns the other half of the block. Which means we can expect the same thing to happen -- a decent rendering of the hotel to be released, only for the final product to be toned down. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naviguessor Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 It is much turning out just how I expected. I would like for it to be slicker and prettier. But, It ain't too bad for a Hampton Inn. And, it's the best Homewood Suites I've ever taken notice of. I think the window/skin pattern is taking a que from the Hilton, it seems. I appreciate that. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Since the west side will be covered by the  other planned hotel I wouldn't have expected much from this side of the building anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 I think I liked it better with the bright green wrap still on that top fin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfastx Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Holy cow that's ugly.  Add another one to the list that turned out far worse than the latest rendering. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt16 Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Holy cow that's ugly. Add another one to the list that turned out far worse than the latest rendering.It's not a gem, but it's just a Hampton Inn. Those things don't typically make any kind of impact on a skyline unless you're Raleigh or some place like that. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astros148 Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 ^^^ maybe there will be special lighting enhancements throughout the edifice.  i am just happy that downtown has a new and state of the art hotel in place. are you kidding me, this looks like a damn prision. Ugliest thing ive ever seen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmitch94 Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Then you have never seen the massive parking garage by the courts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 (edited) These parking lots are starting to have a closed in feel. Â Maybe some combination of them could become a plaza, heading towards minute maid? Â GRB Area hotels by Christopher Hisle, on Flickr Edited October 17, 2015 by cspwal 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towerjunkie Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I'll take stucco for 500 (the 500th+ time ) Jerry. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunstar Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I'm going to look at the bright side of this as this will add more needed hotel rooms to downtown. We're going to get some first rate hotels and we're going to get this. At least this one is in a somewhat inconspicuous part of downtown, as opposed to looming over Discovery green. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I'm going to look at the bright side of this as this will add more needed hotel rooms to downtown. We're going to get some first rate hotels and we're going to get this. At least this one is in a somewhat inconspicuous part of downtown, as opposed to looming over Discovery green. This, being more affordable hotels in downtown. I'll take it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Now let's bring affordable apartments downtown next 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Huge Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Now let's bring affordable apartments downtown nextThat is the final element needed to create critical mass. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinsanity02 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I took a tour of the Med center/Museum district/  Montrose/ Midtown and Downtown areas on Saturday. I was  surprised there were not more people walking around. Especially around midtown. By my  un-scientific perception midtown appears the most densely populated. It was a beautiful day. Left perplexed, though everything looks great in all the areas I visited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I took a tour of the Med center/Museum district/  Montrose/ Midtown and Downtown areas on Saturday. I was  surprised there were not more people walking around. Especially around midtown. By my  un-scientific perception midtown appears the most densely populated. It was a beautiful day. Left perplexed, though everything looks great in all the areas I visited.Ha. My girlfriend said the samething Saturday night. We went to Simply Pho in Midtown and the area was pretty dead. I suspect it's that a lot of people were at the Market Square festival. Downtown was actually pretty packed Saturday night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astros148 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 lol we should be happy that a prime location looks like a jail house? Our standards are so damn low in Houston, zomg a building has a curve BUILD IT! It helps create density so its great! We need to higher our standards and challenge the status quo, this building looks AWFUL. No ifs buts about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timoric Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 (edited) - Edited July 9, 2019 by Timoric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunstar Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 lol we should be happy that a prime location looks like a jail house? Our standards are so damn low in Houston, zomg a building has a curve BUILD IT! It helps create density so its great! We need to higher our standards and challenge the status quo, this building looks AWFUL. No ifs buts about it. So should we start dictating architectural guidelines for developers downtown? If every new building has to meet some sort of aesthetic ideal we'll be stuck with a sea of parking lots forever. Plus, as has already been mentioned, we need cheaper hotel rooms downtown as well so everyone can come here and enjoy it.  And yes, density is important in a market such as downtown. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Uh oh... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted October 19, 2015 Author Share Posted October 19, 2015 (edited) New construction Hampton Inns that are built to significantly higher architectural standards than this are few and far between. (I have not been able to find any.) Take a look at the glorious Hampton Inns in the much-envied downtowns of Austin, Chicago, Denver and Seattle. When viewed in the context of the real world, ours looks pretty good. The back side of ours looks better than the front side of any of those. Edited October 19, 2015 by Houston19514 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Same developer owns the other half of the block. Which means we can expect the same thing to happen -- a decent rendering of the hotel to be released, only for the final product to be toned down.  Since the west side will be covered by the  other planned hotel I wouldn't have expected much from this side of the building anyway. Have to agree. The West facing wall was made to be covered up. Whatever they do street level along Crawford will make or break the thing visually, but it's going to be lost in the shuffle between the Marquis and (hopefully) Tramell Crow's tower. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HNathoo Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 It's probably been noted a few times in this thread, but the developer of this project also built the Embassy Suites in downtown. I think there was some HAIF heat years ago about how that project turned out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015  New construction Hampton Inns that are built to significantly higher architectural standards than this are few and far between. (I have not been able to find any.)  Take a look at the glorious Hampton Inns in the much-envied downtowns of Austin, Chicago, Denver and Seattle.  When viewed in the context of the real world, ours looks pretty good.  The back side of ours looks better than the front side of any of those.   The side facing Crawford will be just as bad. The developer released a pretty nice rendering of this and the final product comes out bland. This is a lower-market hotel yes, but it'd be nice if it didn't look like it was cheaply built in the 90's. Wasn't hoping for a masterpiece, just what was shown to us.  Here's a few pics of Hampton Inns/Homewood Suites in other cities from the beginning of this thread. Most are more pleasing to the eye than ours.  One planned for Chicago:  http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20140513/CRED03/140519952/hotels-are-in-office-is-out-for-proposed-west-loop-high-rise  Hamilton Canada:  https://developmentduffett.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/homewood-suites-hampton-inn-near-completion/comment-page-1/  Challenge accepted. I'm not saying that "Nothing good ever gets built in Houston", what I'm saying is this building will be ugly and an eye sore, based soley off the Embassy Suites. And even if I thought nothing good ever gets built in this city, I can freely do so on this forum.  Anyways, here is your "challenge" (Not much of one really, a quick google/bing search, not looking for the holy grail).  This one was built in the Historic District of Columbia, SC. http://www.hamptoninncolumbia.com/  I'm not sure where this one is, but it looks decent.  And this one of Chattanoga, looks like the Gables being built on San Felipe.  Or what about the ones that use old historic buildings?  Birmingham  Mexico City  Ogden, UT    Edit: And here is one for the cheap seats in the back:  Boston   So quit your bitching about my bitching  7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunstar Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 (edited)     The side facing Crawford will be just as bad. The developer released a pretty nice rendering of this and the final product comes out bland. This is a lower-market hotel yes, but it'd be nice if it didn't look like it was cheaply built in the 90's. Wasn't hoping for a masterpiece, just what was shown to us. Here's a few pics of Hampton Inns/Homewood Suites in other cities from the beginning of this thread. Most are more pleasing to the eye than ours. One planned for Chicago: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20140513/CRED03/140519952/hotels-are-in-office-is-out-for-proposed-west-loop-high-rise Hamilton Canada: https://developmentduffett.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/homewood-suites-hampton-inn-near-completion/comment-page-1/  Interesting, this wasn't a cow reference, it was a Cupertino The ones inside existing structures are nice. The others, moo... Ours, double moo... Edited October 20, 2015 by Sunstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Montrose1100 Posted October 26, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted October 26, 2015 Good from afar, but far from good. 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 That line is a boxer(pantie) dropper fam 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted October 26, 2015 Share Posted October 26, 2015 ^^^ holy cow! Â what a cool illustration montrose1100... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Purify Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Anyone else notice that the curved roof feature isn't...quite...curved? You can see angles in that thing. I'm not as offended by this structure as a lot of HAIFers, but that seems like a gross display of poor craftsmanship. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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