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Concrete vs Steel is a big debate on lots of projects. Here is a quick rundown on Healthcare related steel vs concrete: The best way to make a tall building cheap is to use concrete with LOTS of post tensioned steel. This allows you to use less rebar, less concrete. The downside to this is that post tensioned steel is NOT GOING TO MOVE. Once you put tension on it, relocation becomes EXTREMELY expensive. Healthcare Facilities like to make changes to their buildings. Moving bathrooms, labs, etc happen ALL the time in these buildings. If your slabs or beams are post tensioned then you are going to be extremely restricted in where you can put stuff. This building is using concrete shear walls in the stairs and elevator tower to help with the rigidity of the structure. This is a hybrid design which helps reduce the amount of cross bracing or moment frame welding required. There are a bunch of other reasons, but I should probably get back to work so this will have to do for now.......

Proposal by Pelli Clarke Pelli for an Amazon "Smart Village" in downtown Dallas. Tallest building would be 78 floors.

Hmmm... Didn't realize this was the 6th tallest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Houston

I'm glad that 1111 rusk got done. If an ugly parking garage for a portion of the block is the price, so be it.

Latest overview: https://www.downtownhouston.org/site_media/uploads/attachments/2017-10-12/171011_Development_Map__Renders_11X17.pdf Another interesting click, if you haven't browsed through this Development Map just yet...: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/houston-developments_57981#13/29.7541/-95.3417

The park is open! The park is open!! There were already people in the dog park and a camp gladiator set up! Not sure about this last pic though, lol. It just keeps posting by itself.

Ok, in the January map they had the start date as 1Q 2017, so it looks like they bump it up every once in awhile.

No property being taken from the Afton Oaks neighborhood to help make mobility in the entire region better? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! I won't be sad when the people that live in Afton Oaks choke on the exhaust fumes of all the cars that are sitting in traffic.

Marquette 24 story building planned to start 2Q 2018... was there some news on that that I missed? Did they get their financing?

I'm 48 as of 2017. My aunt lived Sagemont in the 1970's and I'd sometimes stay out there. I grew up in Wilchester neighborhood off Wilcrest between Memorial Drive and I-10. Anyway, I would skate either at Dairy Ashford Roller Rink over on my side of town or Almeda Roller Rink, which I believe is now closed. And yes, I only remember them playing lots and lots of disco on the PA system. Hope that helps!

In the interest of balance if nothing else, I genuinely like this. I'll reserve final judgment until it's actually done, but I like its simplicity, its industrial materials, and its relative openness. This is not just a big solid block like so many parking garages.

This isn’t really about East Village but next door at 8th Wonder https://www.bisnow.com/houston/news/industrial/8th-wonder-brewery-to-add-distillery-80411?be=walker.ray%40comcast.net&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tue-17-oct-2017-000000-0400_houston-re#ath

Curvaceous midget.

A little better but still ugly compared to Lyric's and Rice's parking garages.

North side glass.

Checked out the park last night, security was out in force doing a great job, keeping people with dogs off the hill and no bums to be found. Park is very well done , you can't help think about the Aussie Tower across the street and how different it will feel once completed. I remember when it was just that field that free press was in for a few years, big change!

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when I went there on Monday (28th) it was flooded up to about a foot under the catwalks. I rode my bike out to the end and it felt like a pier. the flooding had already gone down since Sunday, so the first floor was completely flooded, and probably the second floor was flooded as well. Didn't the build it with the expectation that the first floor would flood on the regular? (this is Triton's photo from the previous page) catwalk/pier that was above water on Monday on the right of building:

http://www.theldnet.com/project/houston-community-college-fashion-school/

Well I went downtown and I did get a photo of the 609 Main building but it didn't really show much of the crown. That said, it is still just lighting up the two angled upper sections of the crown. I hope that the following picture I got this evening will make up for my insolence.