DTFW: New Convention Center Hotel

[FortWorthology]

Some shots from today. The block next door between the Omni and the AT&T Building has been torn up now for the new parking garage mentioned in the other thread.

Location of the new garage:

With the Convention Center for context:

[krazeeboi]

This project will REALLY be exciting once the exterior starts going up as well.

[FortWorthology]

New condo images.

Pool & Terrace:

Resident's Lobby - looks a LOT better than the original drawing:

Traditional kitchen & bath:

Contemporary kitchen & bath:

[krazeeboi]

Swanky!

[FortWorthology]

Rolling right along.

One of the more noticeable areas of work now is the ballroom. The steel beams going up across the building that you see are for the large, open span of the ballroom.

[FortWorthology]

Just to be different, it's a nighttime update.

Here on the east side, the big steel framework is for the ballroom.

Closeup of ballroom work.

[FortWorthology]

Movin' on up:

[krazeeboi]

What's the completion date again?

[FortWorthology]

Hotel opens November '08, condos open up right after in early '09.

[krazeeboi]

Thanks. That will be here before you know it.

[FortWorthology]

Recent pics:

New parking garage crane:

[FortWorthology]

Latest shot - with most of the steel framing on the lower levels done, they're really moving on the tower portions and some facade materials are going up now as well.

[FortWorthology]

Latest shots:

[FortWorthology]

Latest pics - the Omni is really starting to move now.

View looking south on Houston Street:

The quasi-related new city parking garage (which will be un-garagey and feature ground-level retail) is starting to rise:

Prep work for the Convention Center side's facade is underway as the rest of the building rises. The corner there will be glass clad, as will the curved steel beams of the ballroom:

The ballroom frame and part of the hotel tower:

The first parts of the glass curtain wall are now going up on the Houston Street side:

The glass has already given us a cool new reflection view we've never seen before - the Convention Center's corner tower on Houston Street reflected in the glass:

Closer view and detail of the glass:

View of the Throckmorton Street side. On the left, the first part of the hotel's facade is going up, along with some glass. If you look at the rendering:

...you can see how the glass condo tower is partially surrounded by hotel towers and rises from them.

Hotel facade work:

Here we see the hotel glass going up, and the facade. This portion of the facade is concrete panels with limestone trim, as seen on the lower level there:

Closeup of limestone trim:

Hotel glass:

Limestone:

Looking from Throckmorton towards the Convention Center across the new garage:

[FortWorthology]

A significant milestone has been reached at the Omni - the hotel portion is topping out. They are working on the final level of the hotel (you can see from the photos that the floor-to-ceiling height is greater on this floor than the other hotel floors). Once this is complete, the condo portion of the tower will rise from the rest to the final height of 34 stories.

In another note, they are now installing glass on the condo tower portion of the building.

[krazeeboi]

I can't wait to see this thing completed.

[FortWorthology]

Omni is almost complete and open:

[krazeeboi]

I liked how this one turned out. I'd like to see how it fits into the skyline.

[eastsider]

This building turned out great!!! Last time I was in Fort Worth, they were just underway with the foundation work on this project, can't wait to get back and see the finished building.

[FortWorthology]

Mark "Hawkeye" Louis, host of the Big 96.3 KSCS morning show, has created a new, cool, brief (less than 30 seconds long) video showing the construction of the Omni, and before it shows up on KSCS's web site he's graciously allowed me to post it on Fort Worthology:

http://fortworthology.com/2009/01/13/omni-...-hawkeye-louis/