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  1. KirbyDriveKid
    We think that pool gets, what, a combined 3 hours of sunlight per year? Might be planning the best summer solstice party in town, though.
  2. KirbyDriveKid
    It's worth noting how this $3 billion over 30 years is useful for today. The revenue capacity from SB 1057 is used to support lending now of the magnitude of that at play in Dallas. It provides the backing for the loans that will be taken out in the near future to finance the improvements. The intention is not to gradually spend in dribs and drabs over 30 years as revenue comes in. SB 1057's structure, after all, is exactly what was used in Dallas. The whole point was to give us the benefits that Dallas had previously won for themselves from the Texas Legislature. See https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/analysis/pdf/SB01057H.pdf
  3. KirbyDriveKid
    This is art deco now. I dont make the rules.
  4. KirbyDriveKid
    This is a month old, but I thought other construction nerds in the forum might enjoy this non-paywalled article covering some specifics of the construction process with the builder. Talks a good amount about specs, materials, and design elements that I hadn't seen before. Can't wait to see this building completed! https://www.enr.com/articles/58146-first-ismaili-center-in-us-is-a-site-to-behold-in-texas
  5. KirbyDriveKid
    No! Not Avalon Diner! NOOOOOOO! 😭 Quick someone plant some live oaks in the parking lot so those Montrose nimby's save the true heart of Upper Kirby culture.
  6. KirbyDriveKid
    *bows* The collective knowledge of this forum is really remarkable
  7. KirbyDriveKid
    Where we finding these $5 lobster rolls? Closest restaurant to me in Boston that sells decent lobster rolls (Alive & Kicking) costs north of $30 now...
  8. KirbyDriveKid
    The clue's in the name that I'm a fan of the Kirby area, but advertising the office space as "providing unmatched views of the Kirby Drive corridor. " is an all-timer for me 😂
  9. KirbyDriveKid
    As opposed as I am to these fights... Houston has been a cultural leader in Texas by any reasonable definition. Whether its fine art (Menil, MFAH); performing arts (Ballet, Symphony, Alley, Opera); popular arts (non-country music); global diversity (blowing Austin out of the water, see, e.g., Ismaili Center); food (authentic global, domestic, fushions). If one's definition of culture of Parisian boulevards, then we aren't that, but that definition would be woefully underinclusive. I won't say that other cities don't have culture. Lots of great things in Texas. But don't knock down Houston to make that point. It misses the mark. Our fair city is blue collar -- it makes stuff. Lucky for us one of the things it makes is culture.
  10. KirbyDriveKid
    It is tall, and I love a tall tower. But the pickup-sticks cap is pretty silly.
  11. KirbyDriveKid
    Went down an Ismaili-center rabbit hole and fell in love with the center in Dushanbe. This link had great photos: https://simergphotos.com/2015/09/27/dushanbes-ismaili-centre-through-the-lens-of-muslim-harji/. In particular, I thought it was interesting that Farshid Moussavi seems to have drawn on this design, placed above the front door in the Dushanbe center, and made it the centerpiece of the main hall of the Houston center.
  12. KirbyDriveKid
    Nothing may be happening at Mimosa Terrace, but in the meantime, I have spent a not insigificant amount of time thinking about this house and inventing an ever-more-elaborate backstory for it. I just have so many questions.
  13. KirbyDriveKid
    Not a huge fan of the plans. At least in the renders, I'm getting the impression that the new quad and the architecture of the surrounding buildings are somewhat at war with one another. Very much in keeping with a lot of contemporary public space designs with their emphasis on curves and asymmetry, but I'm (1) not entirely convinced by the trend in general, and (2) I dont think it fits very well with the formal, linear, and symmetrical design of the buildings composing the quad. All for a refresh, but I think a plan more in line (pardon the pun) with the gardens of the new Ismaili Center would have better complemented this space.
  14. KirbyDriveKid
    Hmmm, yes, thank you. I would like this one.
  15. KirbyDriveKid
    Don't you dare wish for the death of Avalon Diner!! If every Houston surface lot has to go, I hope it's the last one.
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