This is NOT an example of franchise architecture, and it is NOT something you would see just anywhere. The flat roof, the colors, the squarish architecture… They have tried to make this Bricktown. They have tried. And the rendering really looks GOOD, if you didn’t know that it was EIFS on most of the structure, which obviously is considered “NOT OKAY” by a lot of people, especially when any razing is involved.

This same design would fit in, of course, in Lower Bricktown, where everything has a little EIFS- I WISH the Residence Inn looked like this (but bigger). It might work in east Bricktown. It might even work on any surface lot. But I don’t think it should work when it requires demolition.

As far as the design for the Holiday In Express. Overall, I don’t think the design of the building is bad, I just think it needs to be all brick, to fit in with BRICKtown. I actually like the columns planned for the main entrance, and I like the alternating angles on the building, instead of a solif flat wall. But, I think it should be brick.

So, in summary, build it somewhere else, and make it all brick.

Why not raise one of the old Stewart buildings and replace it with this hotel? They’re not architecturally significant…they’re just steel buildings.

I still like the idea of converting the dairy building into a hotel though.