Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada sculpture will overlook San Pedro Creek
By Elda L Silva, Staff Writer
mysanantonio.com
Updated 12:14 pm, Friday, October 28, 2016
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Now THIS is cool
 

We need more forward looking public art like this. :cheers:

I agree. A really interesting piece. Not only the scale that will be visible from a distance, but look at the shadow it will cast. This will be a destination for people visiting.

Also, this artist has a following of people worldwide, and they will be wanting to see his latest work here in San Antonio. :cheers:
It is a great, spectacular piece of public art for the city of San Antonio!:tup:

I like it too! Just wondering if it is placed in the right area. In this rendering the backdrop is the freeway intersection. If it faced the opposite direction it would have downtown as the backdrop. Just a thought.

It seems like this sculpture is designed to work with the sunlight, and I would think placement is pretty important. The sculpture is essentially facing South, but if you look at Google maps and see the shadows cast by the downtown buildings, it looks like the setting sun would work well the way it is depicted.

I like the wall sculpture idea on the convention center, I just wish it had a more interesting subject matter than cactus. I do need to go by one day and have a closer look at that one.

No you don't
 

The cactus is boring. I like the CC overall, but...that cactus...:yuck:

That one is perplexing. The choice of cactus really feels like the artist spent no time in the city or even learning about it. Certainly, art doesn't have to be reflective of it's home, but with a convention center I would imagine there was some guidance to tie the art to place. This shows a plant that can pop up and thrive in the most extreme places. Is that it? It doesn't even look like native cacti.

Look at some of his other similar work (http://christianmoeller.com/) like "Pushing", "Baggage Handlers" or "Hands". it is much more interesting. There really is nothing very interesting with the external design of the convention center addition except for the lone entryway (which is going to funnel everyone through about 10 doors right next to each other :koko:). The artwork actually helps to take away the big-box retail feel to the building, but it could have been much more. This feels very safe. I'm wondering if other ideas/subjects were presented?

I guess we're totally off topic now, but I walked by the front of the convention center this weekend and noticed that the cactus art is literally made out of chain link fencing (think like what schools do with plastic cups in their chain link fences to spell out words or make pictures, except they used something instead of plastic cups at the CC). So basically this big fancy new convention center is wrapped in chain link fencing. It looks incredibly tacky and cheap when viewed from the sidewalk.

That seems similar to the one he did in San Jose. I hadn't considered what it looks like that close, but I can certainly see your point. On a parking garage it probably looks ok, but tacked on a building? It probably looks odd. I need to see this in person

New renderings for this were included in the construction drawings at the HDRC meeting for this week.... I had a feeling that the tacky would creep back into this project... This is still significantly better than the original renderings, but they kept saying this was supposed to be a "Riverwalk for locals"... To me, it just comes off as a cheap imitation of the Riverwalk. See below link.

https://sanantonio.legistar.com/Legi...3-D911C8578ABC

oops wrong thread sorry..
 

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Not sure what you want, but
 

Yeah, a couple of the renderings looks like drainage ditches with sidewalks, but the others look just fine. Not sure what you were hoping for, given the already existing infrastructure.

I also like the idea of the acequias running along the length. Hearkens back to when the indigenous peoples populated the area.

Delays, Rising Costs for San Pedro Creek Project

Artwork Galore!
 

God please let this happen!:slob:

https://therivardreport.com/artistic...n-pedro-creek/

That first picture is GORGEOUS!

excited
 

moving along :)
 

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4254/...645976b9_c.jpg20170630_154910 by Fireoutofclay, on Flickr

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4132/...56c1b51f_c.jpg20170630_154832 by Fireoutofclay, on Flickr

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4216/...d8b2d9e6_c.jpg20170503_130332 by Fireoutofclay, on Flickr

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4015/...cb959d78_c.jpg20170705_172014 by Fireoutofclay, on Flickr

Beating a dead horse here, but this is going to be absolutely revolutionary for the core. Too bad most of the housing that will eventually spring up in the area will be out of my price range. After having lived the last three years in downtown Columbia on main street 4 blocks north of the state capitol building, I'd love to be able to afford to keep living in an urban environment but San Antonio just doesn't have that price point available.

Off topic, but try refugio place, my roommate and i pay about $560 each for our 2bd2bth. :cheers:

Great pics, Fireoutofclay!

Too expensive. I was paying $780/month for a 1100 sq. ft. one bedroom.

$0.70/SF (what you were previously paying) is just too low to make sense for anyone to build, as so many of our apartment buildings are new construction and have to overcome the costs of construction today. One bedrooms at the Exchange Building are reasonable, but not 1100 SF for that price. You could also look at the Maverick Building. They have smaller one bedrooms within that price range.

Otherwise, you could get a roommate!

Any word out there if the Soapworks can be removed?
When taking pictures of the Frost Bank site last year that area was very shady at dusk.
I would feel a lot safer walking down the new creek without the soapworks being there.

Probably in the future. But there are no plans that we know of.

Seems like a drastic solution just to "feel" safe.

https://therivardreport.com/public-a...tory-military/

New art renderings for the creek.

[IMG]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4315/...d824c95b_b.jpgSan Pedro Creek Expansion by Raul Medina III, on Flickr[/IMG]

Finally got to go downtown!

I forget how shallow this waterway will be. But then i realize... it's a creek. lol

Looks like it'll be about 4 inches deep.

what is this?? A school for Ants?

More like a stadium for ants.





Update: Oh, no! Here come the overly dramatic, melodramatic comments about how one's feelings have been hurt in some preposterous way or another. Or... Let's say on topic comments, as if we are talking about iPhones and not the topic with some opinion as to its size and providing related commentaries.

I'm giving you both... Magnum.

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but seriously, I didn't expect this to be so shallow. I wonder what the bottom of the creek will look like? Stone? Will it be clear water or brown? Time will tell

My guess is that the rebar on the right is for a retaining wall that will hold up a sidewalk on its right several feet higher (at the top of the rebar) thus making the creek a few feet deep.

They're putting in lots of retaining wall segments by the Frost Tower site. You can see it on the west-facing webcam (the one on the right).

https://app.oxblue.com/open/kdc/frostbank

I hope the Hurricane doesn't ruin too much of the work they've done this weekend.

If it does, they didn't do it right.

[IMG]https://image.ibb.co/kNGTcQ/San_Pedro_flow.jpg[/IMG]

Progress as of a couple days ago.

First segment of San Pedro Creek project should be ready for tricentennial
By Jasper Scherer, Staff Writer
October 4, 2017 Updated: October 6, 2017 10:08pm
expressnews.com
http://www.expressnews.com/news/loca...h-12252422.php

[IMG]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4470/...08984697_b.jpgSan Pedro Creek Construction by Raul Medina III, on Flickr[/IMG]

COMING ALONG VERY NICELY........:cheers:

https://therivardreport.com/wp-conte..._12-2017-2.jpg

Amphitheater Plans Scrapped In Changes to San Pedro Creek Project

[IMG]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4648/...670e3b89_b.jpgSan Pedro Creek Construction by Raul Medina III, on Flickr[/IMG]

Video update posted on website.

https://spcproject.org

My biggest concern about this project is how isolated it is from other outlets. It's not even a mile long. If it was connected to the Riverwalk, then I would be less concerned. In other words, because SA doesn't have a strong urban center, people have to drive to get to many parks, I, for one, wouldn't drive miles to walk a few blocks among a creek.

I am very happy about this project, however. It's nice to see downtown getting some attention. It will be beautiful and it is something downtown needs, badly. I am simply concerned it will be brushed off over time from a lack of foot traffic. This isn't going off the beaten path...from the River. This is walking (or driving) to then walk a few blocks around a concrete creek.

What do you have against blacks exactly?

Also, as I'm sure you know, this is just one phase of a larger project that will be a few miles long and will connect to the Riverwalk.

Also, as I'm sure you know, this project was created as a way to make that part of downtown more attractive for business and residential development, so it may eventually be an important piece of urban fabric woven into the core of a vibrant downtown.

Dude, that was a typo. Don't make a race issue where there is none. It's not funny at all. Read the context!

Dude, it was two identical typos. But I was just joshin' :cheers:

delete

For future reference, and to anyone on here, I write and work on my computer all day. When it comes to non work writing, though I shouldn't, I use my phone and I don't look back on most text. I'm not writing a book on buildings and San Antonio development. That is way too much work for something that isn't offical or part of my job.

The water in the creek today looks pretty cool from the Frost cam if anyone wants to take a peak at that.