cloud713 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Is it?It's perfectly fine, but Heritage Plaza *defines* our skyline in a way this just won't. I actually think One Park Place is a more important building that 609 Main. It's not a particularly inspiring piece of architecture, but it pushed the skyline east, defined that portion of downtown, and re-established residential skyscrapers a viable reality downtown.609 Main is just a pretty, yet bland, office tower in a sea of similar buildings.Not sure I agree with this.. Thought I guess opinions are what make us unique.OPP was an important building but we were talking about architectural/beauty of the building. It's nothing super crazy, but bland? it's very sleek, elegant, and refined, and IMO will be a timeless classic. I don't know of any other abstract polygon towers in Houston, so I'm not sure where the "sea of similar buildings" remark comes from. It has many unique angles distinguishing it from the mostly boxy downtown towers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Pennzoil. Much purer expression of abstract polygons. 609 Main is pretty similar to Hines' other recent tower on Main Street. It's a relatively narrow tower offset to one side with the rest of the block taken up by parking garage. I do think it will overall be a more elegant design, but I don't know that it's anything terribly unique. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 (edited) This is the most significant building since Heritage Plaza.True if you change "building" to "office tower," but then, that's not saying much.There are buildings that make you gasp and there is everything else. This is among the best of everything else. We all gasped when the rendering for Hotel Alessandra came out, but not when this did. Edited June 29, 2014 by H-Town Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Pennzoil, Gulf, Williams, Esperson, Bank of America, and Tenneco/Kinder are up there pretty high on my list.I'm with you, just adding Wells Fargo, which I think is sadly underrated on here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fernz Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Developers are all using drones now to capture views from specific floors as marketing tools.They don't need any drones. Developers have been using blimps for a long time.http://www.blimpphoto.comAnd you bet Hines did something of the kind; it's one of the best tools during preleasing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WshfulThnkn Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 If 609 Main looks as good as the renderings when complete, it will be the most interesting and visually pleasing high-rise that's been built in Houston in the last 25 years. There hasn't been a really great high-rise built in Houston since the 80's. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timoric Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 (edited) - Edited July 8, 2019 by Timoric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 This is the most significant building since Heritage Plaza.I moved to Houston in 1989 when I was two years old. It will be the most significant addition to the skyline in my lifetime here. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 (edited) Are y'all intentionally leaving 1500 smith out of the picture? Anyways, this new tower will be a great addition, but it's nothing to put in the history books.Edit: Calpine Center was a great addition to the western skyline, a nice filler in between the Chase Tower & lyric Center. Edited June 30, 2014 by Montrose1100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Are y'all intentionally leaving 1500 smith out of the picture?Anyways, this new tower will be a great addition, but it's nothing to put in the history books.Edit: Calpine Center was a great addition to the western skyline, a nice filler in between the Chase Tower & lyric Center.i think you mean 1500 Louisiana. great tower. i love how it plays off the design of 1400 Smith. Pelli did a fantastic job, but i think this tower overall (set in the skyline) is more striking. my favorite part of the Chevron complex is the skybridge.. lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Meant to upload this from yesterday 2014-07-12 13.59.53 by marclongoria, on Flickr 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechlin Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 I've been out of town for most of the last month, so I haven't been able to follow any of these developments in person lately. However, I have been watching the construction camera. I noticed yesterday they started digging what looks like a hole in the side of the wall towards the Magnolia Hotel. Might this be a tunnel connection? Has anyone who's been on top of the Binz Garage been able to see what they might be doing there? See the indicated area here: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timoric Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 (edited) - Edited July 8, 2019 by Timoric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 rechlin - there is a big pile of red dirt on the area you circled... 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 I took another couple of pics on Wednesday when I went by the area, but the forum was redirecting me to a page that made it look like the domain expired. Looks like others were able to post no problem. Very odd. I guess that I forgot that I went by on Monday, so they are probably not all that different. It is interesting that they appear to be leaving the two basement walls of the Texas Tower in place that are up against the Texas/Fannin corner. You can see that they have drilled holes and poured reinforced concrete pillars behind it the old walls. Maybe they are using them temporarily as concrete forms, but I'm just guessing. Anyway. Here are the Wednesday pics. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 quite impressive work thus far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 (edited) 48.5 stories Edited July 19, 2014 by lockmat 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 48.5 stories Nifty picture lockmat! Any indication on height? I had heard 756' tossed around earlier. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 (edited) Nifty picture lockmat! Any indication on height? I had heard 756' tossed around earlier. Emporis has it at 230.43m, which works out to about 756'. Edited July 19, 2014 by mollusk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Nifty picture lockmat! Any indication on height? I had heard 756' tossed around earlier. I don't know, I just saw this on their website Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 I'm in Chicago right now and I've gotta say this building could easily be one of the best ones here. Houston has nothing on chi town tho, this city is amazing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
democide Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Chicago's skyline has the wow factor, no doubt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 I'm in Chicago right now and I've gotta say this building could easily be one of the best ones here. Houston has nothing on chi town tho, this city is amazing.I trust that we will get there. I hear it everyday that people are excited about this city. That hasn't been the norm before, now it is. So cool.I think we can take a lot of good lessons from Chicago. I took love that city 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFootsSocks Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 The thing I love most is the L. Having an above ground transit system is amazing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 (edited) 2014-07-19 12.33.07 by marclongoria, on Flickr 2014-07-19 12.33.11 by marclongoria, on Flickr 2014-07-19 12.40.16 by marclongoria, on Flickr Video coming later tonight. The video is only in 360p right now since I just uploaded... the quality should improve soon to 1080p and 4k soon. Edited July 20, 2014 by Triton 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Urbannizer Posted July 23, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted July 23, 2014 Hi-res renderings. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Great job Urbannizer. That first rendering is beautiful! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 haven't we've seen these illustrations before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 haven't we've seen these illustrations before?Yes, but not in high-resolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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