EllenOlenska

NAAAHHHHH

Honestly, this project is...good. 

Folks been sleeping on the goodness of this one. Handsome modernist ship like thing. 

I used to eat here, they made a mean pork loin with a pan fried salsa verde. One day--a long long time ago--went by and found it was closed. 

Two things: 1) would watch the cynical 70s municipal political thriller that that picture is a frame of, and 2) don't care for naming anything "plaza" that isn't like an actual individual plaza a la the one in the theater district. 

Giving off corner of Bay Area Blvd and Space Center Blvd vibes. 

1 hour ago, freundb said:

Since they turned those lights on, I’ve been really bothered by that bit that looks disconnected on the top light

Oh, no, now I see it. 

I'll just throw this in there: they built the Washburn Tunnel, show someone should know how to bore holes near (in) water. 

I'm probably more excited about this than anything (not transportation/metro related). 

5 minutes ago, HoustonMidtown said:

Sorry for the horrible pic - dirt is being moved around

 

That's...art. 

Northwest Mall is pretty well adjacent to the Heights and Heights-surrounding population centers. 

9 hours ago, nate4l1f3 said:

I feel like that’s (the high rise) been shared before but maybe not in as much detail.  

Yeah, it's a few pages back. 

I got unduly excited. 

For those Giorgio de Chirico heads, it's giving real The Red Tower and The Enigma of the Hour energies 

A place that is like behind the washateria that has has really kick ass shawarma

I feel like I should defend it as a tower where there are none, but actually I feel the opposite. 

If it were in Midtown I'd laugh and say what the hell. But in a place where people will see it plainly from miles around you'd like a more...well, more. 

Perfect opportunity for a wandering gang of renovators/squatters

Love that they've went with a checker cab motif 

With amusing regularity conversations on here remind me of the Frasier episode where Niles bemoans "A city this size and only three boites." 

Those good old days on this thread where I fancied myself maybe a top 10 poster of pictures (Heights edition) before I moved out of the city and everybody got drones. 

Oh good

Welp 

2 hours ago, Big E said:

The one thing I don't get is why Austin of all places is seeing this massive supertall boom while Houston struggles to get 50 story towers built...

Tech folk are lemmings? 

43 minutes ago, KirbyDriveKid said:

Sorry to do this, but what apartment building is that rising in the background? The one in this photo on the line between the Ismaili Center and the Hanover Autry Park. I think it is on Waugh?

Modera Waugh

This whole thing is gonna weird me out when it turns out exactly like its renderings. 

It would have bene our very own Alphaville!