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It looks like a hospital.

This tower is making a much bigger impact that I thought it would. I think it's coming out better than the renderings.

Great plan. Great rendering. How depressing it would be if city leaders didn't aim high. Imagine what you'd end up with if you didn't at least try for the best in the early stages.

I'm certain a very profound "ugh!" will be his next words of wisdom.

I like your 'in your face' attitude. This is what HAIF needs more of. I especially like that you made someone accountable for removing thousands of trees. I know I would be embarrassed if my company cut down thousands of trees and didn't build anything. Well done!

What the hell is so exciting about Dallas anyway? It has bigger Jumbotrons? It's a lot more boring than Houston. It's dirty and trashy too. Try driving around east, south, and west Dallas or anywhere outside that 1 square mile radius just north of downtown. BTW, there are more cranes in the Texas Medical Center in Houston than uptown Dallas right now. Parts of Houston are booming just as much as anywhere else in the country including Dallas. THERE! I SAID IT. The reason this forum is so quiet right now is that everyone has become jaded by watching all the cool proposals fall by the wayside. When things pick up again, this forum will spring back to life.

The GP is as good as built now. Sugarland here I come!

I'm sorry you don't know how to find links to back up what you say. I'm sorry I don't believe everything I read on the internet. And I'm really sorry that the defective turbine didn't land on your head. Just kidding.

What a load of B.S. This sounds like a complete lie to me. Another lonely cybergeek just looking for some much needed attention or something like that.

From now on, every night before I go to bed I will say a prayer that niche and subdude are never put in charge of any building exteriors in Houston. I love mid-century architecture too, but the Sheraton tower in Dallas is the single ugliest building in dt Dallas. The top look likes a giant air conditioner vent. The tacky giant letters don't help. Having two sides with no windows on a tower that tall is a travesty. Worse yet, it is so prominent and ugly that it really does its part in ruining the Dallas skyline. I'd rather have ten more 19-story Embassy Suites in dt Houston that don't stand out, than that hideous monstrosity in Dallas. Thank you God almighty that we don't have one of these in Houston.

Now that's a new one. A 'WAC post that tries to be deliberately funny, instead of the usual 'pathetic' sad-funny you are most often associated with, yet couldn't possibly be aware of. The only thing you have 'fixed' is your place as HAIF's #1 clueless, waste of band-width and meritless opinion giver. SMACK!

I would rate 'WAC internet opinions as a -11 or 'irrelevant'. Oink, Oink.

Details are sketchy, but it appears Harris County will join an East End tax increment reinvestment zone and contribute $10 million toward the stadium project, David Turkel, director of the county's Community Services Department, told reporter Chris Moran. http://blogs.chron.com/houstonpolitics/2010/03/a_deal_on_a_stadium_for_the_dy.html

What are you? The guy who puts innocent puppies to sleep at the pound? I think people can write anything the hell they want to about the stadium. As much as they want to. And you can go take a running jump into the middle of Lake Idiot where you belong. The Dynamo are going to get a new stadium somewhere in Houston and it will be very cool. I just hope it's not located 30 miles from the middle of nowhere like Texas' other MLS team. (Whoever THEY are)

Houston doesn't want to rape Spring because it's a big fat ugly girl. It wanted to rape the Woodlands, but the Woodlands keeps mace in its purse. It's all about power not sex.

...says a boy from Dallas. Classic case of jealousy. Credibility=0. That photo of MSG is proof that Houston's downtown park is more than just a tad bit better than Dallas' downtown park. So is Houston's medical center, gallerias, museum district, theatre district, collection of world class stadiums and skyline(s). Another asinine post from a jealous Dallasonian who can never pass up an opportunity to bash Houston, yet can't stay away from it either.

Double Yawn. Yes. Dallas is much better than - oh let's say Detroit and leave it at that. I just can't wait to see the renovated YMCA.

I agree with Dallasboi. Any thread discussing Dallas' CBD or uptown Dallas deserves a big YAWN. This is why I thought I should fill it with photos of Houston. Just so people aren't bored off their ass looking at those little, boring, insignificant 'buildings' in uptown Dallas or those tacky monstrosities in downtown Dallass . We know you both love and are jealous of Houston, Dallasboi. What a confused state of being you must exist in.

Except other skyscrapers. That's reason enough to build new towers - for good views of the old ones.

This is not a "my city is better than your city" post. I don't even live in Houston or Dallas anymore but here is the REAL truth as I see it. The buildings in DT Dallas actually work against each other, like a haphazardly placed still life arrangement. As long as they are viewed individually SOME buildings are very nice. But as a whole, most of the buildings (especially the one's that NDTexan called out by name) compete for attention and the effect is jumbled and cluttered. As viewed as a collection, the eye bounces all over the place, like a poorly thought out page layout composed by a bad graphic designer, there is no focus or any direction. DT Dallas reminds of a person who wears too much jewelry. A strand of pearls might be nice, but if a person is draped in diamond broches, rings on every finger, and a sparkling tiara, all that junk works against each other and ruins the positives that each individual piece might ad. Sure there may be 'more bang for your buck' and variety, but clashing variety is not a good thing, it's as tacky as a collection of white trash Christmas ornaments standing out on a lawn in February. Another analogy might be that DT Dallas is like a group of singers, where everyone is trying to be the lead and no one wants to be the backing vocal. No harmony. Or a living room filled to the brim with trinkets on every available surface. Viewed seperately, there may be aethetic value, but as a whole it's just junk. And its not just about having competing ornaments, it's also about style, placement, proximity, color, and hierarchy, none of which are done with any unity in DT Dallas. I know good aethetics are a personal thing, but the Dallas skyline lacks continuity, and any kind of composition, no matter how coincidental, no matter which angle it is viewed from. For me, DT Dallas has about as much grace and visual interest as graffiti. But hey, some people like graffiti. Just keep it out of my neighborhood please. Fountain Place is a striking building, but it stands against the rest of the skyline like a sore thumb. It is completely removed from the rest of the skyscrapers as far as design style. Even the angles seem out of sync with the other towers with sloped roofs. It seems diametrically opposed, but yes it DOES stand out. The crap on top of the building with the big X's (I don't know what the name of it is anymore) is a complete eyesore, it looks kind of like a power plant or mini refinery 50 stories in the air and it affects everything around it. And I won't even go in to whats wrong with that blinking dandelion tower thing or that scrap heap of glass just below it. The buildings in Dallas stand out alright, but that is not a good thing if they work against everything else that surrounds it. I imagine, if one is used to looking at the jumbled mess of DT Dallas all the time, DT Houston might seem tame by comparison. Just like classical music probably seems boring to people who like Paris Hilton songs or a Cezanne painting to people who like 'artwork' that you can plug in to a wall. I wouldn't call the Dallas skyline bland, it's kind of ugly as a whole, but not bland. And it's definately something that has the artistic merrit of something that has to be plugged in. For me, the buildings in DT Houston have enough height variety, color, sloping rooftops, and textures to be visually interesting, and enough cohesion to make the majority of the buildings work together with some unity. Viewed from the north its as if the best buildings in DT Houston seem posed, facing Buffalo Bayou Park. And before you Dallas guys break out the rope and torches on me, I want to add that it isn't like the Dallas skyline is beyond repair. With a little carefully thought out planning and several billion dollars worth of new skyscrapers, DT Dallas could be very nice one day. But not today, sorry.

Here is another opinion. One I have heard repeated many times over the last 20 years or so. The skyscrapers in DT Dallas seem to be disjointed and lack any type of cohesion as they relate to one another. Although there are some very nice skyscrapers in Dallas, they look completely randomly placed. It's as if the various architects and builders did not take the surrounding buildings into account as they were being designed. DT Dallas looks like a hodge podge of giant knick knacks on a shelf, all competing for attention and the result looks a bit junky. Add some blinking lights and neon to the mix and the word tacky comes to mind. By contrast, I've always thought the buildings in DT Houston work together amazingly well. It may be a coincidence, but it is as if the buildings in DT Houston were actually arranged in a way so that they could be viewed as one master planned work of architecture, especially as viewed from the north. It looks like the architechs actually envisioned the entire Houston skyline as they were planning building heights, colors, and style. I expect nothing less than full out war over these comments, but keep in mind its all only opinion. But honestly, I've never heard the skyscrapers in Dallas referred to as 'distinguished' before.

That's what I thought. I've seen this date being discussed here for weeks, but I never read or heard about anything official, just a lot of rumours.