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  1. tangledwoods
    master bath has a soaker tub per the floor plan.
  2. tangledwoods
    Per COH, the North Canal Project Budget is: Total Cost: $ 131,249,359 Federal Share: $46,249,359 Local Share: $85,000,000 north-canal.pdf
  3. tangledwoods
    thats one hell of a visual mockup. Looks like the are testing different glass types (probably trying to nail down the reflectivity balanced with the SHG and U-Vaules...)
  4. tangledwoods
    first upload was hard to see, i colored over the lines so they stand out:
  5. tangledwoods
    Looking at google earth, there is a clear shot from May of 2020 in which the buildings laid out??
  6. tangledwoods
    from the morning commute, we got a forklift and 2 portable toilets.... Making progress!
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    I drive by this site everyday and have noticed increased activity. They have a dumpster and a McCarthy trailer on site. There also looks to be some site cleanup / clearing going on. No heavy equipment is onsite yet but things might just be kicking off!
  8. tangledwoods
    Those grid patterns in the concrete are from saw cutting the concrete. Basically after they finish the concrete, a grid is laid out and joints are cut into the concrete. It is how they attempt to control cracking and force cracks to happen in certain spots vs others. If you want an informative look at the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9UrR31RGVI
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    I'm really confused by this one. I have worked on a number of mid - high rise concrete framed buildings but they all had metal pan stairs. Is it becoming common to use precast for the central core egress stairs? Obviously this is a tragic accident and when installed correctly the system should be no better or worse than another, I am just curious if this is a new design approach or something tried and true.
  10. tangledwoods
    When talking about a building foundation, no properly designed or built foundation system will ever be the linchpin in a building lifespan. A good foundation will last FAR longer than anything built above it. NOTE: I am talking about large public or private buildings, I am not talking about under 6 story timber framed anything. FYI foundations are subject to differential settlement in our soils (differential meaning that your building is falling or rising differently from adjacent ones). For a building like Texas Tower or other tall structures you expect to see 3 windows of settlement: initial (foundation install to right after install) during construction (as the concrete or steel frame adds weight the building sinks) upon completion During phase 1-2 you MIGHT see 2-6 inches (it will all be engineered and expected). Upon completion you will see less than an inch and then it becomes part of the neighborhood and is no longer subject to any tangible differential settlement. Foundation failures are extremely rare but they do happen. A good recent example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Tower_(San_Francisco)#Sinking_and_tilting_problem
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    We have very naughty layers to our soil. Clay is not great and sand is not great but neither are of any particular concern, you just design a foundation system that jives with that soil. The problem we run into a lot is layering like Paco showed from his geotech. We actually have a decent amount of "underground streams" or sandy layers which really screw with your foundations. You either have to keep it high and tight (spread footings / mat foundation) OR you have to get past the sand into a bearing layer (drilled piers / ACP / etc). TLDR: dirt aka "soil" is extremely complicated / important and also hella boring. BUT it is a huge part of a project cost and the developer receives virtually no ROI to your foundation of choosing. Which is why we spend a lot of time during design arguing about and pricing options for different foundation designs.
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    So what your are looking at here are Auger Cast Piles. In Houston these typically go deep (60 - 120+ feet deep) and rely largely on skin friction with the soil. We do NOT "go to bedrock" in Houston, it is simply too far down to get to. Fun fact: Many of the tall building foundations downtown are VERY shallow. They use a mat slab which is anywhere between 8-15 feet thick across the entire footprint of the building.
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    I am very curious to see how tall they would go. Anything in the 4+ range would really stand out in that area and be potential catalyst for a cascade of other smaller townhome type projects. They would also have some stellar downtown views. I did not expect to see this kind of gentrification happening in near northside. If they pull this off it will set off a cascade of development that will turn near northside into shady acres 2.0.
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    just thank the lord we dont have a developer here in town that loves gold and puts very large signs up with his last name on them. I will take Randall "the EIFS / Stucco queen" Davis over some others any day of the week!!!
  15. tangledwoods
    I have priced plenty of jobs to bury electrical, the developers never go for it. Part of the problem is also the shared use agreements that CenterPoint has. If you bury power then you have to accommodate the fiber and other communication lines that are also on that pole.
  16. tangledwoods
    I like this one from their marketing brochure "The Views from the 7th level and above are just spectacular. We really don't have any obstruction to the Downtown skyline". Surely people are smart enough to understand that the ATT store / Bancorp just east of this site is going to be redeveloped....? There will be a 30+ story blocking most of those sweet downtown views within the next 10 years. (And for the record I have ZERO intel for this post, just an opinion based on the underutilization of the subject property).
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    i'm more amazed by the rooftop pool at 110 Milam. https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/5134-110-milam/ anyone have any photos of inside that house? it looks incredible!
  18. tangledwoods
    I think the criticism by Texasota is certainly valid for this pastiche building. Compare this Opera Hall to Dickies Arena. The rice project looks like an imitation, it looks like it is trying to be something older than it is. Compare that to what David Schwarz did at Dickies arena and you can tell the difference between imitation and authenticity. https://www.dmsas.com/project/dickies-arena/ The quality of construction and the high level of design is something to behold. I am frequently the person doing the cost cutting on these major projects and know a few of the architects from Dickies. Every place that I would cut cost, they went the other direction. Checkout this group of photos from Beaubois (the millwork contractor): http://www.beaubois.com/projects/dickies-arena/
  19. tangledwoods
    what is the seating capacity on the theater? by those photos, it seems like there are very few seats... I wander what this works out to $/seat.
  20. tangledwoods
    The base on this one is giving me strong Transco vibes (not a bad thing). White mullions on reflective glass is not something I would have expected in 2020. I wonder if this was in part a nod to Philip Johnson.
  21. tangledwoods
    Let me get this straight, you pay a crap ton of money for your tuition and the school turns around and ask you to bring your own chair???
  22. tangledwoods
    Concrete columns typically step by standard sizes, you could theoretically reduce each floor as your go up, but that would be cost prohibitive on formwork. So the engineers look at the loads and give you blocks of floors by each column size, they also fiddle with reinforcing steel as you go up.
  23. tangledwoods
    for a school that spends so much money on their buildings, it blows my mind that they would go with the cheapest / ugliest possible building. Is this thing supposed to be temporary?
  24. tangledwoods
    What really sucks about this facade is that the owner now has a difficult to maintain building. The contractor right now has leverage to get replacement pieces (retainage, successful contract closeout, etc). 5 years from now the supplier will have very little insensitive to provide glass for a broken piece cause by the proverbial lawnmower throwing rocks. I guess they could buy a bunch of attic stock but it looks like most of the pieces are in different sizes.
  25. tangledwoods
    The chips are fairly easy to patch. The precast company has all the color mixes and can send out small patch kits. When done correctly they are indistinguishable from the rest of the wall. Plus all the joints will end up getting caulked which helps hide some of the edge damage.
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