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On 10/27/2018 at 8:35 AM, Sanjorade said:
You make a good point about architecture. As a means of staying relevant, it was necessary for religions to seek architects that could design the latest and greatest.
Do yall think that religions in this day and age will seek to innovate in the digital age as a means to stay relevant?
Funny enough, online porn companies spear head quite a bit of innovation in contrast.
The new Bahai Temple in Santiago is innovative and represents the tenets of the Bahai faith, oneness....all paths lead to the same place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=524QKW2HmLM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRT61YB0hSQ (TED Talk on building sacred spaces; highlights the Bahai Temple Santiago at the end.)
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Me neither.
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bought my two-day pass! super excited about the event and getting to be in the location in light of the recent development news.
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Taking a break from Will & Grace reruns to clean this up. Thanks...deleting everything off topic and issuing warnings for anyone who continues off topic after my post.
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My guess is that Chevron saw the cheap oil days coming. Cheap oil means increased downstream opportunities. Chevron builds new refineries to capitalize on cheap oil and gas (temporarily redirecting capital spending). Hence, delay in non-income producing sunk cost projects.
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a pierce elevated park would increase real estate values along the perimeter and buildings would connect with it, weaving it into the pedestrian fabric of the city.
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Very very nice house for sure, but I don't see how the restoration they did here warrants going from 350k to almost 700k.
for one, it's on 2.5 acres in a prime area. if the house were fully restored on .5 acres, you might have an argument.
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I'm sorry, but this trend of lego-esque residential is getting old fast. The block of a pedestal parking garage with no continuity of vertical lines and BROWN colors; looks clunky, dated, uninspired.
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Dear Preservationist Friends, a restored MacKie & Kamrath home on 2.56 acres is on the market. TThe owners have restored the home with great sensitivity to the original design and intend to sell to a preservation-minded buyer. They are the second owners and the first owner was Leon Lee himself (architect at Kamrath). It is a once in a lifetime home and very rare (sadly) for Houston. Let's help preserve this beauty by getting the word out to the right kind of buyers. http://search.har.co...ITE71920497.htm
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Dear Preservationist Friends, a restored MacKie & Kamrath home on 2.56 acres is on the market. TThe owners have restored the home with great sensitivity to the original design and intend to sell to a preservation-minded buyer. They are the second owners and the first owner was Leon Lee himself (architect at Kamrath). It is a once in a lifetime home and very rare (sadly) for Houston. Let's help preserve this beauty by getting the word out to the right kind of buyers. http://search.har.com/site/7-hollow-glen-ln_SITE71920497.htm
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Bwahahahaha...you had me going for a millisecond.
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Go to their website!! It may as well have been Weingarten. Banal. Beige. Suburban. Blech....right up there with the Howard Hughes Corporation. Major let down.
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See Discovery Green and Market Square. ..other developers would scramble to build on the perimeter and attach to it...it would become yet another symbol of the greening of Houston. An example that we do not waste what is still usable.pedestrian activity to/from St Josephs, the METRO building, and Mickey Leeland Federal Building? i just don't see it happening. how many people live in 2016 Main anyways? it would be legit for those residents, but lets face it.. why spend all this money for a mediocre residential high-rise to have a pretty elevated park in front of it for access to the transit authority headquarters, the hospital, and federal offices? it doesn't make sense. the idea is cool, but I'm with Luminare. it was fun scheming up new designs to repurpose it, but tear that thing down.
like i said earlier. build a few lofty, airy elevated platforms here and there for skyline views and performances underneath, or build a brand new "HighLine" through a part of downtown were trying to revitalize. but just because its already there doesn't mean it makes sense to repurpose it. but if you must.. it would be better to ditch some of the southern traffic flow along Bagby towards the i69 spur and only save the a narrow section of the western portion of the pierce from Buffalo Bayou to the curve around Mickey Leeland, and instead of make the turn, follow a narrowed Bagby that features a wide hike/bike path along it going south into Midtown, possibly going as far south as W Alabama or even Richmond. the Pierce section turn east between downtown and midtown is pointless IMO, and would be better served developed and with a few parks at ground level.
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Something from scratch is less feasible than repurposed.....or is it? Guess it depends.
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2016 main and st. joseph's and metro could open up to it on multpile levels. It becomes a hub of pedestrian connectivity for this side of town.
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I was against this,initially, but am having some serious creative ideas if it were to be repurposed. You're doubling usable public space by repurposing the structure. Underneath? Covered regional 6 day/wk farmer's market with cafés and food trucks....put lipstick on that pig and it is a double decker spine of community activity that JOINS downtown and midtown. It becomes a uniter not a divider...
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CHI St. Luke's Health at Holzworth and GP. HBJ article from 2014.
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I think it's a hospital.
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I remember reading this thread and the discussion about who owns the Store/land. I don't know which is correct but yesterday the Chron reported this:
"The Sears, though, appears to be staying. The land is owned by Rice Management Company and the store has a long-term lease, the terms of which the company won't disclose. The store also has no plans to restore any of the building's original details, including murals by Eugene Montgomery depicting scenes from Texas history, which have been almost entirely painted over inside. All that remains is the head of Sam Houston, which has a fake frame placed around it."
Perhaps both are correct? The land is owned by Rice and the building owned by Sears? IDK.
Regardless, this Chron reporter indicates that renovation of the old bones of this building are not in the plans.
i would much rather have the texas history museum planned for downtown be in a renovated art deco building with a renovated texas mural. it's right at a light rail station and closer to the museum district. just a thought. on the other hand, a renovated deco building with a forward thinking department store would serve the area nicely.
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Anyone else kind of see Ron Howard's little brother?
bad chaka!! now the sleestacks will find us!!!
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so...is the rendering in urbanizer's comprehensive going up! thread the most current that we know of? i just posted it on the haif facebook page but it seems as though that design was early on...and we know how these things change.
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so...is the rendering in urbanizer's comprehensive going up! thread the most current that we know of? i just posted it on the haif facebook page but it seems as though that design was early on...and we know how these things change.
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damn electric poles!
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