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This is from Sunday.

I forgot I took this one.

From Today:

Rainbow pic.

Different Views and Angles.

the curved south wall is looking cool and, garage facade waiting up be moved into the lift area:

https://realtynewsreport.com/new-hotel-tower-nears/

This is a seriously cool expansion. I only made it up the first two floors, so I'll have to go back since I ran out of time. TIP: I found out the hard way if you wear a backpack, they will make you wear it on your front or carry it by the handle.

https://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/steven-holl-making-architecture

it was a nice day outside today.

Kimmelman seems more interested in the anthropological aspects of architecture than architectural criticism. My bet is one of the art critics, like Roberta Smith, will cover it but mainly focusing on the installation. It would be nice to see more reviews of the building. Not many papers have architecture critics anymore. I grew up reading Thomas Hine in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Chronicle has poor Molly Glentzer covering everything from art to ballet.

Chevron is really doubling down on the local innovation ecosystem. Can't wait to watch Shell, BP and other majors/larger companies join the fold. A lot to be excited about.

FAA determination of no hazard to air navigation (https://bit.ly/3pZbghu)

It's curious that NY Times has not reviewed the architecture of this building. They did an article on the Latin American art, but no mention of the architecture. Their architecture critic, Michael Kimmelman, seems immersed in politics these days, judging by his Twitter feed.

Bird-Eye Views from some bird named “Cityliving.”😀

Upload your pictures to Imgur then right click the image and click "Copy Image Address" then paste that into your reply and it should automatically change the image address into the image itself.

Went yesterday and it was amazing. Very well done. The architecture, the exhibits, everything. Here are some photos:

More development? Does that include the long awaited expansion of the bus station? Bwahahaha.

Long live Microcenter. I'm always finding excuses to go shopping there. I've also found Microcenter pricing to be better than online when shopping for computer parts.

Yeah...me too. Nowadays I go to microcenter if I need something and am not willing to wait for an online order to arrive.

I would call that a pre-opening feature on Mari Carmen and MFAH's prescience in collecting Latin American art. I would hope they'd do a real review of the entire Kinder installation. What will be interesting is their take on our representation of modern and contemporary art. Houston does not follow the modern art canon like Moma. Each department was essentially doing its own thing until this building brought them all together. So they sometimes complement one another, sometimes not. They may find it refreshing or jarring. We'll see.

Looks like he borrowed his 10 yr old's bike. I see riders like this all the time and I just have to believe they didn't buy at a real bike shop but at a big box retailer.

https://apnews.com/press-release/business-wire/technology-business-houston-building-construction-construction-and-engineering-a35fe70f7b0f44d6b31a450c193c6ade

https://www.metropolismag.com/architecture/cultural-architecture/steven-holl-kinder-building-mfah/pic/100335/

Realizing quantity is not the same as quality the MFAH at 300,000 ft2 has surpassed the Art Institute of Chicago to become the second largest art museum in the U.S. and I believe the 8th largest world wide. No mean feat.

We’ve got lighting!

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mfa-houston-kinder-building-1924500

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/at-the-museum-of-fine-arts-houston-an-impressive-new-exhibition-space-opens-amid-hard-times/ https://www.papercitymag.com/arts/mfah-kinder-building-opens-houston-art-museum-campus/#317622 https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/art-exhibits/here-s-everything-you-need-to-know-about-15737084

It's listed as 50,000 SF above, but the existing structure is 40,000 SF, so I wonder if they're adding on to this building? $670/SF is extraordinarily high and far exceeds Greentown's original budget they mentioned publicly so I'm thinking something has changed... hopefully demand has been so strong it's made them rethink their original expansion plans.

I counted 23 floors so far, halfway to completion.

I think about this project and what happenings on the other end of the bayou. I think about how more and more midrises are appearing in midtown. About the absurd pace at which the medical center is expanding. Then you drive around the core of Houston and realize that still huge swashes of land undeveloped. Even in the areas I mentioned...

It's amazing to see how much denser this area is becoming yet when you look at google maps you can see how much land is left completely undeveloped or very underdeveloped.

This is huge for the Asian community and a big win. We know many shop owners along that route. Could bring in a good amount of office workers for all the Vietnamese and Chinese restaurants over there. That portion of Bellaire Blvd has been getting many new food places directly from Asia (Tiger Sugar is the big that opened this week. Look at the Yelp reviews and the two hour long lines, it's insane) and you'll notice a lot of the older shopping centers have either begun to renovate and add on to their existing buildings. Either way, very exciting to hear!

i'll never forget the meeting I was in with a stone vendor and a developer. Gensler (the architect) specified statuario marble, and the stone vendor asked if we had considered statuarietto (the developer got all excited because it wasn't a type he was familiar with). That was the day I realized I truly do not care about finishes. It was also the day I realized that developers choose materials based on how cool the name sounds.

Grabbed some screen shots from your link, hopefully everything comes to fruition. Would love to see that 58 story high rise.

You obviously weren't living in Texas in the 80s. The recession the GM of Galvez was referring to was the oil bust of the mid-80s that really hit the Houston-area economy hard. Nobody who lived in Houston in the mid 80s, no matter how young, would forget what it was like. I was just a kid, but lost a lot of friends as their dads lost their jobs and had to move elsewhere for work. The price of oil bottomed out at $12.51/bbl in 1986. That, along with the savings and loan crisis of the mid-late 80s, which was worse in Texas than anywhere else. At least half of the failed S&Ls were based in Texas. Real estate prices plummeted. Our state fell into a deep recession. Downtown Houston was a ghost town at this time, office occupancy rates plummeted. We were just starting to come out of it around the time we hosted the economic summit in 1990. 1986 proved to be a watershed year for Houston, cleaving Old Houston from the Modern Houston we live in today. So many venerable old Houston institutions, especially those that catered to affluent oil-rich Texans, were casualties of the oil bust, that much of Houston’s unique culture and heritage died and was replaced by a more generic Large American City culture.

Got an opportunity to ride the Elysian from Runnels to the northern end since there were no workers on the job. Great view of downtown.

Reminder of what the crown is supposed to look like with a rendered approximation of relative prominence...

There's a hundred-dollar word. I really hope no optometrists/ophthalmologists open an office there. Could you imagine having a dilated pupil and walking through the lobby?

I wonder if that means they are moving from the Galleria location (which we already knew...) but NOT relocating to another uptown/galleria location!? I thought for sure they would find a way to stay in the area (like the zadok's location or possibly even the old ethan allen location)... interesting!

https://www.chron.com/business/article/Prominent-Houston-eye-surgeon-to-develop-14977615.php#photo-18883861

Visitors are really going to be confused as to where downtown is. I'm loving this building!