Jump to content

UrbaNerd

Full Member
  • Posts

    1,540
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    4

UrbaNerd last won the day on July 19 2011

UrbaNerd had the most liked content!

About UrbaNerd

  • Birthday 11/11/1986

Contact Methods

  • Website URL
    http://
  • ICQ
    0

Profile Information

  • Location/ZIP Code
    Houston, Texas, USA, North America, Northern hemisphere, Earth, Inner asteroid belt, Solar system, Milky way galaxy, THIS universe...at least...
  • Interests
    Architecture, Animation, Horticulture, Economics, etc.

Recent Profile Visitors

16,727 profile views

UrbaNerd's Achievements

(22/32)

110

Reputation

  1. Once again, I'll have to park near the freeway and walk all the way to the COA this semester. Parking is especially bad if you have later morning classes, but I'd rather not get up at 5:30 AM like I used to.
  2. Oh joy, more EIFS clad, faux-mediterranean, red tile roofed, turreted "luxury apartments" just west of downtown.
  3. It would be absolutely phenomenal if they renovated that structure like they did to the Keeland Building, just outside the College of Architecture.
  4. It's sad that I go to UH, and I have no clue where these projects are going up. I blame the fact that I am a hostage in the architecture building 24/7...lol Any of my fellow students care to fill me in?
  5. I went to Market Square park after classes yesterday...it was buzzing with activity, and the line was rather long at Niko Niko's; I waited about 15 mins before I got to the front. People kept talking about how much nicer the park was, as well as how nice the weather was. I took some pics, and I'll see if I can post them later or something.
  6. Pelli ex-Enron building on cover of this AutoCAD book
  7. Hmm, maybe they decided to lay Bermuda sod instead of St Augustine? Ya know, since Bermuda requires less watering and the like...
  8. Oh, that's interesting. The irregular shape would also allow for an interesting scenario of whatever gets built there. Hopefully, it's tall enough to block the view of the ES from DG.
  9. I'm hardly even an "amateur photographer", and I've been "escorted away" from various buildings and sites many times, and questioned by employees and bystanders countless times in the past couple of years. Yes, security and all that is important, but I don't get why they have to be so paranoid about a harmless architecture student with a crappy little point and click camera!
  10. They might just be testing the lights for now or something. Perhaps they will change it according to seasonal events/etc. It would be neat if they could emulate another "big sleek box with a hole on the top"; ie the Memorial Hermann tower, whose lights change colours now and then. But hey, as stated by others, there is elegance in restraint.
  11. Yeah, it COULD be a lot worse. IIRC, there were more windows on the renderings on the narrow ends. We'll just have to accept the fact that they have made some changes, and wait for the final product.
  12. What's with the lack of windows? The narrow ends seem to have more cladding than glass! And of course, the thing does not have the "top tier", as someone discussed above. IDK, but this thing might be giving the Mercer some competition as one of the ugliest new buildings in town...
  13. Yeah, T&C itself actually constructed some more "dense" retail along the border with CC, and it seems to help bring the two together.
  14. Well, some related bad news Three boats from the Buffalo Bayou Partnership, including a fire-destroyed tour pontoon, were recovered early this morning after vandals untied them from their dock and sent them floating down the bayou Tuesday night. Authorities are investigating whether the release of the boats is linked with a 2 a.m. Tuesday fire at the Drennan field office where the boats are docked. The fire destroyed the pontoon boat, valued at $50,000, and damaged the bio-vac boat, which helps clean the bayou, said Trudi Smith, director of public relations and events for the partnership.
×
×
  • Create New...