River walk
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Project • By Rhode Partners • Restaurants
Floodgate
Floodgate is a uniquely modern 17-story building with significant ground-floor restaurant space fronting the River Walk and 63 apartment units on the upper tower floors. Designed for a dense urban site, the residential tower employs varying asymmetrical floor plates within three stacked tiers, responding to views from the site and providing optimal sunlight to the River Walk below.
The design acknowledges and reinforces the historic context with contemporary architecture. Sitting between two historic buildings, the Witte Museum and The Esquire Tavern, the east wall was pulled back from the latter building to reveal a 150-year-old textured stone wall incorporated into 15,000 SF of restaurant patio seating. This intervention also leave... More
Project • By Banker Wire • Masterplans
SAN ANTONIO’S FAMED RIVER WALK
As one of 11 artists selected by the San Antonio River Foundation to enhance the beauty of their city’s iconic River Walk, Stuart Allen selected a stainless steel wire mesh manufactured by Banker Wire, Milwaukee, Wisconsin as his medium to apply his artistic expression.
Allen, who studied architecture at Kansas University and graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute, is a visual artist whose work deals with fundamental elements of perception such as light, time, gravity and space. He has works throughout the US and abroad.
“The Banker Wire stainless steel wire mesh had a perfect balance of wire spacing and diameter for my efforts challenging the boundaries between art and architecture,” said Allen. His minimalist suspended panel ins... More