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Soho Tower, 116 units

 

http://www.argalipartners.com/#xl_xr_page_projects

 

looks like a "skyhouse" in the right.  i haven't read the thread...so.....maybe this has been covered.  

if this is a randall davis, it looks like he may be dealing with the ugly parking garage pedestal problem which mars each of his uptown buildings.

...kicking myself for not buying a bungalow that area in the early 90s.  of all of the neighborhoods in houston, i would enjoy living within walking distance of the menil most.

other major cities have multiple luxury retailer clusters.  timing has a lot to do with where a store is ultimately located; delays and alterations in design at blvd place may have lost them a retailer or two.  (all that really matters is that tom ford is coming to houston.)

i apologize if this is common knowledge, but have we reached capacity for the per unit incentives for downtown?  i'm curious if the business plan for this next tower benefits from the incentives.

as discovery green encouraged development around its vicinity; i expect the buffalo bayou and allen parkway improvements to do the same along memorial and allen parkway.  this corridor will continue to increase in value and may support additional towers in the coming decades.  i would not expect our skyline to grow in any particular direction except for that which radiates out from existing activity centers.

it seems natural to me that taller residential, office, or public buildings would be appropriate along the buffalo bayou corridor between memorial park/river oaks and downtown.  that said, i assume residential would sell best near the parks and trails (.....thinking of central park in nyc as a comparison for development patterns; residential around most of the perimeter with some commercial nearest to midtown (manhattan)...i may be wrong, i haven't spent much time in manhattan)

new designs are knocking off mid-century looks and it seems that those who like the knock offs should like 800 bell....this is not the case, unfortunately. what's the disconnect? is it because it isn't a shiny finished new look yet?

800 bell needs some renderings of what a bright shiny new "preservation sensitive" renovation would look like. it might change some opinions.

The more I see of this building, the less I like it...

boooooo.....hisssss.......  i do not see how anyone could dislike this building.  to each his/her own but still...shocked to hear this.

i like this design better than past renderings...howard hughes has been downgrading design and putting up extremely boring buildings; hopefully, this signals a turn for more tasteful architecture.

you would think that with the jewel that is the woodlands, cutting edge architecture and engineering would be common.  i guess that doesn't happen with a developer in control rather than private entities who want to stand out.

fingers crossed that the rending looks as good as the finished product (and that it actually gets built).  gil staley of the woodlands area economic development partnership recently stated that two fortune 200 companies, both energy related, dropped their bids to relocate to the woodlands.  this may signal a cooling off period.

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/morning_call/2015/01/the-woodlands-loses-bids-for-two-fortune-200.html?page=all 

Heh, it was a little tricky. Seemed like parts of the museum were open for business but all the entrances around the van der Rohe buikding had staff standing outside and even police at the main entrance under a temporary tent/awning. We snuck down into the Cafe Express entrance from the street level and filed in line with a tour group and proceeded to follow them past a few staff members through the Turrell Tunnel and popped up into the other building where everything was at. Lol..

cloud713 wins the "stealth haifer" of the year award!!  awesome!  thank you thank you!

For a state struggling to pay its bills, it will be interesting to see how CA pulls this off (in CA the state is raising the money; in TX it's private investment).  Also, on the radio this morning, I heard the CA governor chuckle when asked about the money; he said.....something along the lines of "eh heh...we will get it done". It sounded a lot like "I have no idea where the money will come from but we will make it happen because we are the first to get high-speed rail."  If I lived in CA and heard my governor acting as if money just appears out of thin air, I'd be furious.

More power to them; I hope they do not go bankrupt before it's finished.

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upper kirby is a tony strip (is that word still used?).

https://www.wordnik.com/words/tony

it's interesting how new designs are utilizing passive cooling features like brise soleil; yet 800 bell will be stripped of its very modern (some would say timeless) fins.  the picture above is a beautiful building that takes its cue from a mid century design aesthetic.  as a city, we seem to be ok with tearing down existing mid century structures but love new buildings with similar features.

on the sixth day of christmas my true love gave to meeeeee...

six taller towers

FIVE GOLDEN RINGS!!!

four dozers dozing;

three french hens;

two turtle doves;

and a tower with no pub-lic ren-der-ingggg

one of the rare occasions where the finished product exceeds the initial renderings.  i'm surprised at how much i like this completed compared to how i felt when i first saw the renderings.

A Neuhaus & Taylor facade....and we will probably get another abomination like the new 800 Bell.  Philistines.

....hmmmm....so, he's not sure if it will happen but there is an awesome model.  i'd say fundraising and investment are either already in full swing or about to be.  even if that plan isn't realized specifically; something will happen in that direction.

The Ferrari sign is up on Lake Robbins.

...it looks like someone has been in front my office building.  i think they are up to the fourth floor now.

it's not only about oil: http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/morning_call/2014/04/chevron-phillips-kicks-off-6-billion-construction.html?page=all

Chevron is spending billions on capital investments (refineries).  These future money makers have placed office building(s) on the back burner....or so I've heard.

...just a tad bit jealous

...there was an article in the chron about all of the new buildings going up and it mentioned "2925" weslayan by pm realty; is that the same building as this or is it the other lot they purchased?  does anyone know?

I thought the two ExxonMobil buildings were also "Hughes Landing" numbered buildings. I see the brochures now. Thanks.

They are all terribly ugly; at minimum mundane. What a wasted opportunity of location and setting.

The tower crane is up for Three Hughes Landing, a 12 story office building. This will be the fifth office building in the development (One and Two are 8 stories each and the two ExxonMobil buildings are 12 stories each.

..ummm the two 12 story Hughes Landing buildings are already topped out. There are four up; they announced the Embassy Suites recently. ..maybe that's the new crane?