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I never would have thought that the Sears sign would be destroyed. Kitschy stuff like that surely would have ended up in some restaurant like Joe's Crabshack or Twin Peaks...
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That might be the only hill in Houston! It's practically San Francisco's trolley cars!
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Brava: 46-Story Residential High-Rise At 414 Milam St.
mls1202 replied to brijonmang's topic in Going Up!
Does that one crooked support on the first level bother anyone as much as it does me??- 1,067 replies
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Post Oak Place: Mid-Rise Development At 1801 Post Oak Blvd.
mls1202 replied to Urbannizer's topic in Uptown and Galleria Area
I have to give the developers credit for being "brave" in pushing their building so close to the edge of the street. It seems so out of character in a city like Houston that when you see it, it stands out as being something exceptional.- 264 replies
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I don't get much of a chance these days to head into town, so when I finally went yesterday to see this building in person, I was shocked to find it so much better in person than in the photos. The scale of the glass tubes in relation to the overall facade is much larger than it appears in the photos. The "horizontal seams" between each layer are much more pleasing to me as well. In the photos, something about them came off as inelegant, but this building is gorgeous!
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Uptown Oaks: Senior Living High-Rise At 4718 San Felipe St.
mls1202 replied to SkylineView's topic in Going Up!
I genuinely am caught off guard to see a picture of a...newspaper.- 68 replies
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Montrose Collective: Office Building With Retail At 888 Westheimer Rd.
mls1202 replied to trymahjong's topic in Montrose
Is that HVAC or elevator equipment?- 971 replies
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Life Science Campus Development At 1615 South Loop W.
mls1202 replied to Highrise Tower's topic in Texas Medical Center
This just might be the catalyst needed to launch development on the vacant Astroworld land next door...- 45 replies
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Off topic, but when we lived in Norway, we could not find a home for rent that had a bathtub. I was politely told by the agent that "Norwegians don't want to sit in a pool of their own filth!". So we bought a Chinese cedar tub off of Alibaba and filled it up using the shower head. Years later, it is now sitting in our yard here in Houston as a planter!
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Post Oak Place: Mid-Rise Development At 1801 Post Oak Blvd.
mls1202 replied to Urbannizer's topic in Uptown and Galleria Area
This is definitely a building that looks better in person. I was lukewarm on the pics that made it look like a generic, suburban office building. But seeing it in person and it’s proximity to the street and general massing have made me a fan.- 264 replies
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Wow, that is a LOT brighter than I expected!
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This angle of downtown alway belies just how dense it really is. The location of the tallest towers at the northwestern edge obscure all the shorter buildings immediately behind them. It's amazing to me how different our downtown looks from the north, and south and east!
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Parkside Residences: 43-Story Residential High-Rise At 808 Crawford St.
mls1202 replied to largeTEXAS's topic in Downtown
That last photo of the drill made me think to ask the question--how deep is the bedrock layer here in the Houston area? I know we have a lot of clay , but I imagine drilling into the bedrock to build your supports can't be that deep. I have no doubt we have some first hand knowledge on this board.- 1,224 replies
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As of this writing, you have 4,705. With that level, you can recommend demolishing the Menil, Williams Tower, the BOA Center (heck, even a Whataburger) and receive polite discourse. I have 337. I can barely recommend demolishing a Citgo gas station...
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I have wanted to say that so badly, but thankfully you said it first and have more "reputation points" than me to deflect any bullets If you didn't know the significance of the building and the fact it is owned by the same people behind the high-rise, a passerby would immediately think some old lady refused to sell her home and stuck it to the developer, a la the old man in "Up".
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