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  1. This is a bummer. I liked that renovation but I feel as though this place suffered from poor transportation connectivity*, covid and bad location.

    * That stretch of Washington is awful from a pedestrian standpoint and difficult from a drivers standpoint. The construction at Hempstead/Union Pacific has been going on 3 years now and is goign at snails pace. Even if you wanted to walk there from the Cottage grove neighborhood, or any nearby neighborhood - you couldn't, so youre left with a venue thats "off the beaten path" with no easy way to get to it. Cottage grove residents end up taking the White Oak Bike Trail over to MKT, which has food, a park, and is easier to walk/bike to. 

     

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  2. On 8/19/2021 at 10:50 PM, cloud713 said:

    Apparently im even more late.. just stumbled onto this architectural travesty by means of the TMC3 thread. WTF, this was by far the best tower in the TMC, and one of the best designs in the entire city. This seriously saddens me way more than it should. What a disgrace to Pelli.. RIP.

     

    I just noticed the other day they were missing. I'm even farther behind that you guys. Personal anecdote, I had put together pricing/proposals with a previous firm to perform condition assessment and repair designs for the crown structures back in 2017 or 18. went with someone else obviously. Pity, would have liked to keep those. 

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    We are excited to share with you the good news! 

    We are expanding! The School is opening its second location early next year. The new location is pretty close to us, the address is 3640 W 12th Street, Houston TX 77008. 
     
    There are no changes for the families already enrolled at our current location (2931W 12th Street, Houston TX 77008). The new location will be having the same structure as this one, from Dreamers to Explorers; we are not planning on splitting programs or moving any of the operations. 
    Thank you for trusting us during all these 5 years. 
     
    We have a lot of work ahead! 

    April 25 e-mail this year from Principrin.  

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  4. 23 hours ago, Luminare said:

    Same here. Looks like some work has been done? If you compare the recent photo to the posts in February it looks like they have started adding some metal coping to some of the parapets? From looking at the photos it looks like everything has been floated decently on the roof, the larger deck on the next level, and the balconies, but the bigger problem is this project, unfortunately, stopped before most water protection elements like flashing and gutters were finished. I think the "community space"?? on the left will need be refinished since that one wall still has its studs exposed. My biggest concern in a building like this that's unfinished are all the connection points of materials. Would there be anything in this structurally that would be a concern?

    If I were running this project the first thing I would do is take all that stucco out. Some of it has held up okay, but I will always be against using stucco in this region. There is just to much moisture in the air in Houston, for stucco to hold up well. Though it wouldn't look the nicest, to keep the budget lean, and to get this back up as quickly as possible, I would probably just go with a fiber cement panel. I'm just wondering what was going to be the finish material that would have been applied to the CMU. Anything could go on that. The CMU doesn't look load bearing, but instead looks like infill. Again water would be a concern right? I don't see a lot of flashing to prevent water from entering any parts of that wall.

    I just hope they have hired a good Building Envelope consultant to evaluate everything before closing up this baby.

    If I were structural engineer on this building. I'd be inspecting the bottom of the columns and the beam flanges where water can sit for years corroding. That would be my first goal. 4-5 years of water on steel isnt a killer for most structural steel, but it could be enough to warrant repairs on areas that wouldnt otherwise need it. The CMU probably isnt load bearing, but it might be the lateral system for the condo. I'd ask for a hammer sounding on the CMU blocks that are grouted, and for empty cells, if any, I'd drill holes in the bottom to let water escape. I think as a condo owner, I'd be nervous about mold/organic growth in areas that are no longer accessible, like the stucco air space. 

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  5. fun fact, this site, during the first world war had several training trenches dug into it for the troops at the Now Memorial park military base. The trenches were visible from the air for several decades. Below is the site in December 1944. In 1953 there was some buildings put on the lot 8901 and it looks like most of the trenches were gone by the 80s... but I wonder if there are any archeological remains today. 

     

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  6. all over reddit for some reason this morning. 

     

    This is a good development, even if it is close to the other target. That target south of 10 is always packed so I'm sure the economics of this probably work out... Glad were getting a multi-use building with street retail. This is in conjunction with the installation of bike lanes and pedestrian infrastructure on shepard and Durhan. More developments like this please. 

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Highrise Tower said:

    Thank you for the wonderful history and images!!  

    The library I visit every day has a whole bunch of results for "Goggan Building".  Looks like Alfred C. Finn Architect was located in Suite 505 (or 303?)

    September 1, 1921:
    Thos. Goggan & Bro. 
    706-708 Main Street Houston, Texas / Goggan Building.

     

    A year later their advertisement only specified 706 Main Street. 

     

     

     

    I did a quick google search: 

     

    https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/36530
    http://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/21959

     

    image.png.09590f58ccb0d5894e6e74f68a099f17.png

     

    Found this building called the "Electric Building" which was designed by none other than Alfred Finn at 505 Goggan. The second link states it was located at Block 81, one which today is bound by Rusk, Capitol, Travis and Main. I took a peak at the sanborn insurance map for houston from 1896, and there is no Goggan street in downtown... at least that I could see. I think youre right, Goggan Building was the name. The 1907 Sanborn map shows wood frame buildings located at 700 block of main. Again no Goggan street. That building must have not lasted very long <50 years... 

    txu-sanborn-houston-1907-vol1-007.jpg
     

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  8. image.png.60f0ea2e37e744fb5d404b9b38476b6d.png

    Another building of his from 1928, looks like he worked with another firm(one that you mentioned). This sometimes occurs when you have a "design" architect who creats the rendering and then a project architect of record that does the detailing etc. No idea what the relationship was for this particular building...

    Edit: Just going off of OP's comment, did Finn single handedly draw these drawings? By the 1920s For sure not and probably had a team of project architects, drafters, etc working on design,etc. 

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