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Mister X

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  1. Not at all. I call 'em as I see 'em. The area immediately surrounding the Dallas Galleria is blighted the same way the Greenspoint area is blighted. Truth hurts. They are VERY comparable. Both made a big splash in their day. Both are surrounded by trashy apartments. And most people don't walk around the streets that surround them after dark too often. I'm glad you feel safe walking around Valley View. I'm certain there are people out their who feel safe walking around Greenspoint too. More power to y'all. Also, no one is saying you can't prefer the Dallas Galleria to the Houston Galleria either. It's just not a very commonly shared opinion in either Houston or Dallas. Washed up has been reality t.v. stars still have some fans out their too I suppose. It's no crime to embrace mediocrity, knock yourself out.
  2. Don't forget about the endless acres of run down, decaying apartments, dying malls and ugly strip centers not to mention the pawn shops, check cashing places and dollar stores that stretch every inch of land between the Tollway to Preston and beyond. There is a very good reason that this area has attracted so many of those kinds of businesses. It's called 'Supply and Demand'. Currently there isn't much demand for 4 star restaurants near Valley View Mall. Now THAT'S what I call 'honest'. Those "hip" areas you speak of that are close by will be a drain to any traction that Midtown Dallas could ever establish. There is not much reason for Midtown Dallas to exist. There are a lot of reasons that this project would be very cool. But it certainly seems like there would be many more things working against it. The Galleria area of Dallas reminds me of the Greenspoint area in Houston. "Isn't bad" you say? I say "bad" is in the eye of the beholder. Just like Greenspoint, the Dallas Galleria area has its good points too. Respectfully, I don't believe you can be honest about Dallas. Anyone who says they prefer the Dallas Galleria to the Houston Galleria is either bias or not playing with a full deck. I will give you credit that you ARE playing with a full deck. So that only leaves the question about your 'honesty'.
  3. I don't disagree that in some respects that Dallas is much farther along than Houston. But not when Gallerias are being compared. It's just opinion. If you prefer less crowed, less popular, over-sized malls in junky areas of Dallas to more popular, crowed, successful vibrant business/shopping/living districts in Houston, by all means enjoy yourself. Some people are entertained by Mozart. Some people are entertained by Honey Boo Boo. Take your pick. And you misunderstood. I never said Midtown Dallas can't happen because it would make Houston look bad. Houston already has this, it's called City Centre. I said Midtown Dallas can't happen because that area of Dallas is too far gone, too far from the money and too far from the hip areas. I think the area will be redeveloped into something. But I'd be willing to bet money that it won't look like that rendering within our lifetimes. I believe there was something similar to this project planned for the old Texas Stadium site in Irving. How'd that work out? I agree with Red Scare this time. This is a simple case of "The Grass Is Greener Syndrome". I've been coming to HAIF long enough to recognize all the symptoms of that disease. The good news is that it isn't fatal, but it will rot your brain if left untreated.
  4. I shake my head at people who prove conclusively that they have no idea what they are talking about. It's not just Houstonians, NOBODY in their right mind would be more impressed with the Dallas Galleria than the Houston Galleria. The Houston Galleria is epic. It's like a sprawling indoor mini city located in the middle of the 17th largest business district in the United States which is currently immediately surrounded by building cranes and new construction in every direction. The Dallas Galleria is a white elephant over-sized mall with an ice skating rink in a crappy part of town surrounded by dying malls and decaying apartments. The vibes that each Galleria give off are incomparable. Midtown Dallas is a pipe dream if there ever was one. Any potential that area has to be redeveloped will undoubtedly be siphoned off 15 miles to the north in Frisco. The money moved farther north of LBJ and so did the future. I hope that didn't come off sounding too defensive, because it is the truth.
  5. Right. Before they start a new project, architects and builders run straight to Internet discussion boards looking for acceptance and advice from anyone who knows how to plug in a keyboard. I feel that if we passively accept lame opinion from just anyone on the Internet we won't be offered anything better.
  6. I would file this in the same folder as the 'Port' of Dallas and the countless other proposals that were announced there and never built. That area is a junk heap and will always be. Wake me up in 30 years.
  7. As long as we are asking questions: What is the color and the texture? Glass? Which direction is the sail pointed? Maybe we can get enough description that we wont even need an official rendering. We can make our own!
  8. It's O.K. Lockmat. You can share it! But if you really can't, can you find a similar looking tower somewhere on the net and post it just to give us an idea? Thanks.
  9. Just an observation: Anyone with serious 'traffic concerns' should probably just do themselves a favor and stay out of Houston. 'Traffic concerns' are a part of Houston's DNA at this point. It has been that way for at least 50 years and it is only going to get more 'concerning' in the foreseeable future. But so what? Along with the summer heat and mosquitos, we love Houston anyway. And so far the the 'traffic concerns' haven't prevented Houston from attracting new residents and new businesses on a monumental scale. As we all know, almost everything in Houston revolves around necessity and money. Until 'traffic concerns' start to impede on growth and the Houston economy (which it obviously has never done as we continue to boom) I seriously believe that people will just continue to put up with it as they have for the last 50 years of exceptional prosperity. In other words, I seriously doubt anything significant is going to be done to address the 'traffic concerns' until someone figures out that it is affecting our collective bottom line. I welcome opposing points of view on this because I WANT to be wrong. I want to see rails lines connecting all parts of the inner city and greater metro with a stop on every other corner. And I don't care if they raise taxes to do it. A fact of life: Quality cost! I also want more freeways and the Grand Parkway completion. Houston is epic. We need it ALL! It's just very hard to visualize it when there are so many conflicting views of what kind of city Houston should be depending on whether you are a Houston Looper or Houston Suburbanite. And both sides can be so f'ing CHEAP and selfserving! "Not with my tax dollars, you don't..." "Not in my backyard..." ect. Both sides seem to cancel each other out, giving us half built rail lines and half built freeways. So then there is nothing left to do except complain on the internet and channel 13 about 'traffic concerns' while another 100 people (and their cars) just moved to town today. Thank you for reading my rant and have a nice day.
  10. http://designplaygrounds.com/projects/parametric-tower-experiment-grasshopper/ I'm reasonably certain that this was never intended to be an actual rendering of a proposed tower. But like I said, there are a lot of weird coincidences between the location and the descriptions that were given.
  11. I believe you. Does this mean we can be friends now? The rendering I posted is too weird in every way to be true. Still, I thought there was something eerily similar to your description of the tower, the placement of the tower and the shape of the the buildings behind and around it (which is sort of burned into my mind), that I thought it would be worth bringing to people's attention here - just in case there was something to it.
  12. I only post this strange rendering that I found when I googled 'curved tower' because I thought the placement of this tower (with it's striking curvature) and it's relationship with the towers in the background (that look abstractly similar to Houston as viewed from the north) was very similar to where the speculated Stream/Essex tower would be. It would be weird if this was actually an early rendering or somehow related.
  13. I think people are forgetting that HAIFers don't dictate what is good or bad or beautiful or ugly. Someone out there may actually prefer the new look(s). It isn't automatically or necessarily all about going cheap or scaled down, there is a possibility (however small or unlikely) that someone actually thinks they are improving the structure.
  14. Nope. That monstrosity won't age well. Poor L.A.
  15. It's still nice. Not as nice. But still nice. Just say a silent prayer that they don't change the Texas shaped lazy river into a Rhode Island shaped kiddy pool.
  16. Sorry Golyadkin, didn't mean to offend you. It was meant to be entertaining. At any rate, I wouldn't take it too seriously. It's just the internet. You can't win 'em all. Besides, isn't 'bickering' what the Ashby high rise and this thread is all about? At least my comments are not EXCLUSIVELY personal like kinkaid's and swtig's, I mean, at least there was SOME Ashby stuff in it - if that helps.
  17. What's even more pathetic is stalking specific posters on a consistent basis. Get a life already, swtig. Anyway, I thought you were going to put me on your ignore list. It's amazing to me how CAPITAL LETTERS are so offensive to the anal compulsive. Relax, they are only letters and their destructive power is minimal when you THINK about it. It just seems strange to me that someone who is supposedly working on the other side of the world (soldier or whatever) is worried about a little tower going up in some freaky part of Houston. Thats all. No need for panty wadding. Just because he wears a uniform doesn't give his opinions and actions some special immunity from internet criticism or automatically make them better than anyone else's. And neither do posters (who shall remain nameless) that show up with half-baked, mostly ill-informed scuttlebutt from unreliable sources about various projects going up in Houston. I've received enough 'thumbs up' at HAIF that I think I can afford a 'thumbs down' every once in a while. You can't please everyone, so why try. True, there is no 'thumbs down' anymore, and while that is a huge travesty of injustice, the ignore list is a wonderful option. It's like sticking your head in the sand. It can only make life seem safer and easier and it would protect you from reading things that could hurt your feelings on the big bad internet. SNARKY 'NUF? Not to rub your nose in it, but check out the latest user ratings... Mr. X =146 swtig = 126 I win.
  18. With bombs blasting right over his head and snipers hiding under every other rock in the desert, THAT is what he's worried about? Wow. People must REALLY hate this tower. Sounds like someone needs to get his priorities in order. Can't wait to see it rise.
  19. So much bad taste going on in the world. That last one looked like a poster for the 1974 classic disaster movie epic "Earthquake". Vile. The one in L.A. looks unfinished, amateurish and like something you would see on that silly, yet brilliant cartoon, "Futurama". Blah! I thank Jesus that this hideous tower isn't going up in Houston.
  20. I think it is safe to say that anyone expecting Grand Texas to resemble Six Flags Over Texas or Fiesta Texas on opening day will be disappointed. Those theme parks took decades to accumulate the ride selection they have today. Six Flags Over Texas has something like 12 roller coasters. Grand Texas is supposed to have 2 or 3 on opening day. It will take years for Grand Texas to rival the established theme parks that have been in business for decades. But the good news is that as long as the park has the room and the funds to expand there is always the possibility that Grand Texas might grow into something really good one day, maybe even something that rivals the big parks. A lot of the great parks of today had humble beginnings. I'm very happy with the area they are building in. Those shady pines will give the park a great green atmosphere. I just hope they don't cheap out on the buildings and infrastructure, so that the park starts off with a good potential.
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