SAN ANTONIO | The '68 | 8 FLOORS | Completed
I know this project is associated with Hemisfair Civic Park but I thought it deserved it's own thread now.
Initial reports said the eight-story, 150-unit, 1.1-acre complex will include 3,200 square feet of restaurant space on the ground floor and a parking garage with 238 public parking spaces. [IMG]https://image.ibb.co/g6vVy7/Ace_pic.png[/IMG] [IMG]https://image.ibb.co/jLbsBS/acequia_...2796_0_129.png[/IMG] [IMG]https://image.ibb.co/iUkxd7/HDRC_Ade..._940339168.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://image.ibb.co/nq8Hd7/HDRC_Ade..._503409069.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://image.ibb.co/hyTHd7/HDRC_Ade..._225295097.jpg[/IMG] |
Pics from 2/13/18:
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That copula reminds me of the Casino Club Building's top. Nice project.
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I love it!
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Hard to get a good idea what it will look like, but it doesn't look boring. Plus it has retail, so I like it.
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Love the design! It will look great in the area!:cheers:
Does anyone know what the nighttime pic that seems to shows different color lights is all about? It looks cool!:cheers: |
They finally started work on the second floor last week. Of either the garage or the restaurant.
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Bird Scooter Tour 6/23
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Nice pics
I’m told the pre cast garage slabs will come in next, and attach to the building. |
Well, this is kind of a forgotten project, but the project is close to completion. Here's an article from the rivard report that has some pictures of the apartments and other info:
https://therivardreport.com/the-68-a...er-to-opening/ |
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Seriously. This kitchen and those fugly blinds? This is the best they can do for a brand new development in the middle of the urban core? The worst part is that this is what they actually allowed to be shot for promotional purposes. Like they *want* people to see this. They think this is impressive. Yikes. https://i.imgur.com/GdhHtQR.jpg https://i.imgur.com/kkdmREJ.jpg |
But IT IS impressive... For 2006. Those appliances and the design... Looks like my first apartment in San Antonio during my college years, which was 2005-2006. Nothing special at all. And the window? This is being used to promote the area? Kind of sad.
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Oh and congrats, you get a lovely view of the walled hotels section of downtown. Makes you feel like you're on the outskirts of an eastern european city where they erected all those fugly apartment blocks under communism: https://live.staticflickr.com/3126/3...jpg"[/url] |
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Coincidentally, I had just watched an old video on a renovated micro apartment: Tiny Origami apartment in Manhattan unfolds into 4 rooms. It's Manhattan, so the space is small and the prices are crazy, but what won me over were the windows. These were not merely cutout holes in a wall, but were defined by the architecture of the building, and in turn defined the room. I know Hemisfair is definitely not the Upper West Side of Manhattan, but the "architecture" of the room actually wasn't necessarily more high-end or especially elaborate as it was just a narrow, rectangular, 1-room efficiency space, not much greater than many dorm rooms. If only my dorm room had this:
https://media.timeout.com/images/res.../370/image.jpg (Photo by Rayon Richards on TimeOut New York) http://shoeboxdwelling.files.wordpre...ptportrait.jpg (Photo by Alan Tansey on shoebox dwelling) $235,000 for 450 sq. ft. and still having to hang a window AC unit over the view of the back alley while also folding your bed down into the "living room," but that little corner set of operable windows no bigger than my breakfast nook is beautiful. Hehe, they're even still using plain blinds. I know the renovation project was really about the big blue space organizing cabinet, but it was the windows that made this place livable. Even in its pre-renovation, used-and-grimy state, it offered so much warm potential. In many quantitative ways the rooms of The '68 are superior in construction, technology, materials, size, amenity, and affordability, but time and circumstances have created design philosophies that are so strikingly different. Maybe in 90 years it will get a comparable renovation and we will shell out a quarter million to marvel at its historic windows. https://i.imgur.com/w0rNQGw.jpg (Photo by Stephanie Marquez on the Rivard Report) |
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Keep in mind this is an open Internet forum ripe for all of us Monday morning quarterback’s with a ton of free capital to add 100 feet to each ill conceived building design. |
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and thank you for making a VERY good point!!! Money goes a LONG way here in beautiful, historical, and unique San Antonio!!!!:cheers: |
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