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#1 Setteghastly

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 7:38 PM

Atlanta defecates on Houston in the looks department. Most of the architecture is superior in every way.

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 7:52 PM

Oh ok.

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 8:02 PM

View PostSetteghastly, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 7:38 PM, said:

Atlanta defecates on Houston in the looks department. Most of the architecture is superior in every way.

Based upon the photos that you have provided, I must respectfully disagree.

I will concede, however, that Houston is not pictorially well-represented on virtualtourist.com. Try browsing Flickr.
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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 8:10 PM

Is that a Memorial Hermann tower on the bottom right of the second picture?

#5 Setteghastly

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 8:28 PM

But the streetscape/city scene is also more interesting, beautiful, and more progressive than Houston's.

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 8:41 PM

View PostSetteghastly, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 8:28 PM, said:

But the streetscape/city scene is also more interesting, beautiful, and more progressive than Houston's.

But where are the people?

Houston's Canal Street gets more use...when it's raining out...as in, today.

Edited by TheNiche, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 8:42 PM.

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." --Charles Darwin

"One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." --Bertrand Russell

"The best lack all conviction while the worst are filled with passionate intensity." --Y.B. Yeats

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 8:55 PM

Is this citykid?
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#8 lockmat

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:02 PM

View PostSetteghastly, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 8:28 PM, said:

But the streetscape/city scene is also more interesting, beautiful, and more progressive than Houston's.



What do you mean progressive? Isn't walkability ancient?

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:04 PM

View PostTheNiche, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 8:41 PM, said:

But where are the people?

Houston's Canal Street gets more use...when it's raining out...as in, today.

I saw some people in a few shots. But I've learned not to judge urban areas by the amount of people that are in their pictures. I've seen plenty of photos and videos of NYC area, even Times Square, with not as many people as I had expected.

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:05 PM

View PostTheNiche, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 8:41 PM, said:

But where are the people?

Houston's Canal Street gets more use...when it's raining out...as in, today.

There's definitely plenty of activity around Atlanta at the right times. Just like in Houston.



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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:11 PM

View Postlockmat, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:02 PM, said:

What do you mean progressive? Isn't walkability ancient?
Not in the sense of new urbanism. And the architecture is also more modern. Much of Houston looks very '80s.

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:11 PM

..........still trying to clean "defecates" from my imagery.

for starters, this is the "going up" area of the forum. "going up" meaning new projects (in houston usually). there are other threads to pronounce your architectural pride.

in addition, "my city vs. your city" threads or conversations do not meet the guidelines for polite discussion on haif and will be removed

moving thread to appropriate section...."meanwhile, in the rest of the world". why? because atlanta is "the rest of the world" on "houston architecture information forum". :)
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#13 Setteghastly

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:17 PM

View Postbachanon, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:11 PM, said:

..........still trying to clean "defecates" from my imagery.

for starters, this is the "going up" area of the forum. "going up" meaning new projects (in houston usually). there are other threads to pronounce your architectural pride.

in addition, "my city vs. your city" threads or conversations do not meet the guidelines for polite discussion on haif and will be removed

moving thread to appropriate section...."meanwhile, in the rest of the world". why? because atlanta is "the rest of the world" on "houston architecture information forum". :)


Oh, but I'm not from Atlanta. I'm from Houston (see username).

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:25 PM

View PostSetteghastly, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 7:38 PM, said:

Atlanta defecates on Houston in the looks department. Most of the architecture is superior in every way.

Totally subjective.

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:34 PM

View PostSetteghastly, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:05 PM, said:

There's definitely plenty of activity around Atlanta at the right times. Just like in Houston.



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He's right. Houston can't compete with this. I mean, really, a Volvo with fender vents? You can't beat that.

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:37 PM

View Postbarracuda, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:25 PM, said:


Totally subjective.
Of course it is.

#17 Setteghastly

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:38 PM

View PostRedScare, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:34 PM, said:

He's right. Houston can't compete with this. I mean, really, a Volvo with fender vents? You can't beat that.


I knew someone was going to make a comment about that car. That's why I had so much fun posting it.

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:43 PM

View PostSetteghastly, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:11 PM, said:

Not in the sense of new urbanism. And the architecture is also more modern. Much of Houston looks very '80s.

As opposed to what? ...looking very 90's?

...or turn-of-the-century, depression-era, or mid-century? There are well-defined parts of downtown Houston that reflect architecture from each of these periods. True enough, the effect on the skyline is dominated by our boom-town days; I suspect that Atlanta is no different.

But on the whole--and this is just me--I find Atlanta's architecture underwhelming and somewhat boring. That's not to say that Houston is exciting or vibrant, either, but it is a fair bit more colorful, varied, striking, and--I think--classy.

Edited by TheNiche, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:51 PM.

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:55 PM

View PostTheNiche, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:43 PM, said:

As opposed to what? ...looking very 90's?

...or turn-of-the-century, depression-era, or mid-century? There are well-defined parts of downtown Houston that reflect architecture from each of these periods. True enough, the effect on the skyline is dominated by our boom-town days; I suspect that Atlanta is no different.

But on the whole--and this is just me--I find Atlanta's architecture underwhelming and somewhat boring. That's not to say that Houston is exciting or vibrant, either, but it is a fair bit more colorful, varied, striking, and--I think--classy.

I respect your opinion. I just love the crowns of Atlanta's towers so much more than Houston's Lego buildings.

And even 90s architecture still looks very modern to me. Most 70s/80s boom architecture should be burned to the ground.

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 10:01 PM

And yeah, seeing this at night would be very boring.

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 10:08 PM

View PostSetteghastly, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:55 PM, said:

Most 70s/80s boom architecture should be burned to the ground.

That's what they used to think about structures from the 19th century during the urban renewal programs of the mid-20th century. Now, as some of your photos illustrate, architects strive (with an embarrassing rate of success) to simulate the effect of architecture from that era.
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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 10:10 PM

View PostSetteghastly, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 10:01 PM, said:

And yeah, seeing this at night would be very boring.

No, not very boring. ...just regular boring. Ho-hum.
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#23 Setteghastly

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 10:18 PM

I just think it's better than Houston's seemingly endless sea of bland, office park architecture.

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 10:21 PM

Portland, SF and Seattle are beautiful...Atlanta?
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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 10:25 PM

View PostTheNiche, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 10:10 PM, said:

No, not very boring. ...just regular boring. Ho-hum.
But this is more exciting?

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....I guess.

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 10:35 PM

Is Atlanta's architecture better just because their buildings have pyramids sitting on top of them? I guess I have no affinity for those types of buildings because Houston only has one of them (Transco). And we've talked it to death already in other threads, but simply having lights on a building really does nothing for me.

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 10:37 PM

View PostSetteghastly, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:11 PM, said:

Not in the sense of new urbanism.

In what sense?

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 10:37 PM

View PostGary, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 10:21 PM, said:

Portland, SF and Seattle are beautiful...Atlanta?
Absolutely. Naturally as well.

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 11:05 PM

Sounds like all we need is a back-lit spire installed on top of the JPMorgan Chase Tower.

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Posted Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 11:13 PM

View Postbarracuda, on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 11:05 PM, said:

Sounds like all we need is a back-lit spire installed on top of the JPMorgan Chase Tower.
That, and a helluva lot more.