MidCenturyMoldy

^ "Irrational exuberance" 

From the WaPo article: "Roughly 87 percent of new office space is expected to open vacant, according to data from the commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield."  😬

Dang! These folks are starting the party EARLY!

8 minutes ago, ChannelTwoNews said:

and your new signature is even better.

Bravo!

😆

Fun </s> story about this shot. I was standing on the sidewalk on Main while shooting this. There's a fence with limited access points around that parking lot. While the drone was still above the lot, I started walking toward the entry point underneath the mural. I was looking right at (and walking directly toward) some guy screaming at someone who was in, or in front of, the restaurant in that building on the right. As I'm walking in the direction of the opening in the fence, I hear someone shout "Don't do it!" and the guy starts shooting at the person he was screaming at. 😮 He then runs across the northbound lane of Main Street and continues shooting from the platform at Preston Street Station. Needless to say I decided the entrance behind me and around the corner on Prairie Street might be a better choice. All this time my drone is still hovering over the lot while telling me it's about to land because the battery was low. If it had landed on its own, it would have gone back to its "home point," which was back on Main Street. 😬 I could have stopped it from doing so, of course. Anyway, after I got the drone back on parking lot terra firma and in its bag, there were Houston and Metro Police SUVs circling all the blocks in that area at high speed trying to find the guy. 

The weather wasn't very cooperative during my last two trips to Houston. Most of these are panoramas. A few aren't. 

2 minutes ago, shasta said:

Have you ever been to the great urban centers in the world?

They have "casual" food/drink spots that spill over into the street...the square...the piazza...the green space...the plaza, etc. then, from there..you "sprinkle" in select retail, entertainment, fitness then..a few select high end restaurants for those with greater means.

I don't disagree with you, but I think it should be remembered that much of what is found in the "great urban centers" is geared toward tourists.  

😆 at the private message I just received. 

OK. This works. 

4 minutes ago, steve1363 said:

Some forums make a bigger deal of it than others, going to the extreme of deleting photos that are not originals.  In this case, regardless of copyright rules it’s really bad form to knowingly repost somebody’s photos that that person deleted.  He obviously doesn’t want them posted any longer for a reason.  Respect that.  Go take your own picture!

Your response really should be directed to rechlin, not me.

1 hour ago, Ross said:

I am going to be the mean guy today. Those pictures are copyrighted, and you CANNOT store them and repost them unless you are willing to risk massive fines for infringement. Like it or not, Cityliving has absolute control of the images, they are his intellectual property, and he can stop anyone from using them without his permission. 

Massive fines? I wish that were the case. Copyright enforcement for photographers, especially hobbyists, is nigh on impossible. Uptown Houston Association stole a photo of mine of the Post Oak Christmas "trees," used it without attribution on their social media sites, then totally ignored me when I called them out on it. Facebook and Instagram could not have cared less, either. 

I agree that the deleted photos should not be reposted. But then, I also think the photographer in question should not flout FAA regulations when flying his or her drone in both controlled and uncontrolled airspace. But that's just me, I suppose. At least on this forum.

Is there not a moderator who can delete these posts?

On 2/8/2024 at 5:44 PM, hindesky said:

This is starting to look as slow as the Sovereign at the Ballpark apartments downtown. Are the Russians/Ukrainians funding this one too?🤷‍♂️  I saw only 1 worker in the parking garage.

 

Well, at least the owners of those white townhouses across the street have good views out the back after the developer illegally cut down trees that were not even on their property. 

On 3/13/2024 at 7:13 AM, hindesky said:

When sales begin in summer, prices are expected to range from about $1.5 million to $2.4 million.

Welp... There goes the neighborhood! 😄 (I lived on the corner of Peden and Stanford for years starting in the late 80s).

2 hours ago, hindesky said:

 

 

 

I lived in a studio apartment in 4102 Caroline in 1985. This will be the second of my old apartments to be torn down. The first, which was also my first Montrose apartment, was on W. Alabama at Mulberry near the Menil.

On 2/23/2024 at 2:42 PM, hindesky said:

I'm not sure if this work is for the infrastructure of the Ismaili Center, Project Green or the beginning of the Montrose Blvd Improvements. I'm gonna guess for the Ismaili Center. This area is the Downtown TIRZ 3 jurisdiction who is paying for the Project Green infrastructure and a small portion of the Montrose Blvd improvements that are along Allen Pkwy.

 

 

 

Note to self: Skip any scenic routes (e.g. checking out Ismaili Center progress) and take Waugh (as usual) to get into Montrose when I go to Houston next week. 

“POETIC LIVING IN RICE VILLAGE” by Randall Davis. 😩😩😩

On 10/3/2023 at 12:12 PM, MrFubbles said:

If I'm not mistaken, these towers are Philip Johnson originals (Rothko, Williams Tower, Menil House, Chapel of St. Basil, Penzoil, etc.)

Would be a shame to see them go

Philip Johnson really shouldn’t get credit for the Rothko Chapel. Definitely not sole credit. Johnson was basically fired by Rothko who, from the beginning, didn’t want Johnson involved, but aquiesced to the de Menils’ desire to use Johnson after he had designed their home and the UST campus. It has been claimed by Rothko associates that he was appalled by Johnson’s earlier support for Nazism and Fascism. Local architects Eugene Aubry and Howard Barnstone were brought in to finish the project.

35 minutes ago, steve1363 said:

Cuevas posted this a few weeks ago…

OK. Thanks. I figured somebody must have seen it. 

Has anyone seen this?

CityNerd, an urban planning and transportation channel on YouTube that I eventually unsubscribed from because he unfairly bashed Houston one time too many, recently visited our fair city after hearing about Prop B. 

So, he arrives in Houston and… Lo and Behold! …he finds a city that he wasn’t expecting to find.

Here’s the video: 

It occurred to me that the French pronunciation of X is “eeks,” which, oddly enough, is the third most common reaction upon seeing this building for the first time after “Yikes!” and “Oh no…”

Just now, Nate_56 said:

Slow and steady with this development.

Emphasis on “slow.” 😁

From the last set of exterior photos it looks like there is still plywood on the balconies. 

20 hours ago, shasta said:

According to this article, the Houston metro population is going to balloon to 31.5 million by 2100 easily passing NYC ....so we are going to need many more 58+ story tall buildings...and soon!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/texas/article-12637061/Is-future-America-Texas-Dallas-Houston-Austin-poised-replace-New-York-City-Los-Angeles-Chicago-largest-cities-not-77-years.html

We old-timers have heard this kind of nonsense before. I think it was 1974 when Houston (The city of the future!) was “on track to becoming the largest city in the world” in the not-so-distant future. 🙄

23 hours ago, rechlin said:

I believe it actually was explained.  Spammers apparently discovered they could edit old posts (that were not spam) to insert spam at a later date, getting around the spam filter.  This is apparently difficult to detect with the moderation tools, so the ability to edit posts after more than a short time has been removed.  I wish a compromise could be made, like allowing edits but requiring moderator approval for any edits to go through, but perhaps the forum software does not support that.

That explains all the black “Imgur” rectangles that remain in a number of threads. Certainly would be nice if some moderator would do something about those.