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5 hours ago, hindesky said:

13 hours ago, hindesky said:

1801 Main

19 minutes ago, hindesky said:

1111 Main

18 hours ago, hindesky said:

Islamic Da’wah Center

45 minutes ago, hindesky said:

29°46'04.0"N 95°22'04.4"W 29°46'04.0"N 95°22'04.4"W Houston, TX https://goo.gl/maps/p3X5g2LC4BYQt7V9A

Alsco’s (formerly Admiral Linen) 3.77 acres at 2030 Kipling is for sale:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/texas-inc/article/Linen-company-to-leave-longstanding-Montrose-15396943.php

16 minutes ago, rgarza said:

This is the install on the canopy that covers the courtyard facing Main St. It’s gonna look beautiful once it’s done, but boy oh boy is it nerve wracking to install. Each piece weighs in the neighborhood of 1200kg and we’ve got to be directly underneath it while it’s being put in. 

Is there some sort of cladding on the courtyard walls, or is the concrete just painted? It appears to no longer be raw concrete in your (and hindesky's) photos. 

4 hours ago, hindesky said:

Where Am I?

Behind BakerRipley Lionel Castillo Community Center

6 minutes ago, gmac said:

2219 Canal St.?

You beat me to it!

11 hours ago, hindesky said:

 

Think popular kids summer camps

Hunt?

14 minutes ago, hindesky said:

Where Am I? Definitely not in Houston but at my mother's house in.....?

Presumably somewhere in the Hill Country...

2 hours ago, Houston19514 said:

 

Relax.  I merely wanted to clarify.  Without the clarification, a casual reader would have gotten the idea this was new information and more delays were imminent.

I commend you for taking the time to protect the unwashed readership of HAIF from misinformation. 

4 hours ago, Houston19514 said:

 

To be clear, that article was from October, 2019 and this issue was reported to us on the previous page by mkultra25.  This is not a further delay.

I realize that article was from last October, but the rebar work and rebricking of the facade was only completed about a month or so ago. This additional work also had a major impact on their capital budget. I was simply responding to a question about why the guest house had not yet been relocated to make way for the completion of the visitor center/office/plaza complex north of the chapel. My apologies to mkultra25 for not citing him/her for referencing a Chronicle article six months ago. Jeez, this is why I rarely post on this site.

28 minutes ago, Luminare said:

Thanks for the article. What I'm writing below isn't aimed at you, but my general distain for most media.

 

The Chron is using a typical media framing narrative.

 

Media: See's something that they are either ignorant too or don't understand

Media: "This is a crisis!" or "This is an issue" or "This is a problem".

 

Just because they don't understand these things doesn't mean the building had structural issues.

 

The issue isn't that the actual building has structural issues. The issue is that the building doesn't meet current codes of today. Completely different. In particular we design for different wind loads because we have better standards for designing in hurricane prone areas because we have better data than they did in the 1970's.

 

The building was built to 1970's code, and it still meets those standards. Its grandfathered in, and if it still meets that code then its fine. No failure. However, today we have higher standards, but that doesn't mean that there is a problem or issue with the structure itself, it just means that, by our standards today the structure is deemed inefficient. They could have just continued on with the build like nothing happened. Plenty of people do. Its understandable why, because its very expensive to bring an existing building to code. Sometimes more than the original cost of the building.

 

Thankfully ARO seems to have good heads on their shoulders, and are responsible architects. They saw that the building didn't meet current code standards, and so to be better "stewards" to the building they decided it would be best if an investment was made to future proof the building. I'm glad they at least got a statement from the architect because thats the only valuable information in this article. The way they frame it at the beginning makes it seem like the building was going to collapse at any minute.

Did you miss this part of the article?:

“And when construction crews dismantled the chapel’s acoustical ceiling tiles this summer to prepare the building for a new skylight, they found the concrete support walls were built without steel reinforcement.

This was a common building practice in 1970, and the chapel is grandfathered from current codes written with an eye toward 130 mile-per-hour hurricane gusts, said executive director David Leslie. But the chapel’s leadership took no chances.

“This is a simple matter of stewardship,” Leslie said. “I don’t like to use double negatives, but we cannot not do it. … If a weather incident hit the walls at just the right angle, you could lose the chapel. A wall could collapse.”

Lead architect Stephen Cassell of the New York firm Architecture Research Office said visitors were never in danger of being inside a toppling building, because the chapel would be closed during a major hurricane event. But he and ARO partner Adam Yarinsky were also mindful of protecting Rothko’s priceless paintings.”

Unforeseen structural issues with the chapel have set them back from both a budget and time perspective: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/arts-theater/article/rothko-chapel-construction-update-14572005.php#photo-18521929

5 hours ago, Avossos said:

Very interesting... I will need to take a look to see how this all fits. I am not sure I am getting the real feel from the pictures...

 

Bamboo gone. GOOD. That is really not right for Houston.

 

I wonder why the decided to block off the West side of the fountain / obelisk (sp?) again. I thought it would be much more profound if it was left open to the park...

This is the site plan for the completed campus (https://www.aro.net/rothko-chapel/). The plaza with reflecting pool and obelisk is meant to be a serene, meditative space just like the chapel itself. The idea is that visitors will enter from the east/west sidewalks into a sort of outdoor room that serves as a transition into the chapel space. I can't find it, but an earlier site plan showed the vegetative screen continuing on the other side of the west sidewalk up to the west side of the chapel. I believe that earlier site plan also included a labyrinth between the chapel and the meditative garden.

13 hours ago, hindesky said:

Chenevert at Prospect 

5 hours ago, Avossos said:

I am curious about this building. Strikes me the poster child of cost engineering. The shape isn't bad, but when you look at the stucco - it looks dated / sloppy.

 

I guess this boils down to materials... 

 

It will hopefully bring a lot of life and energy into midtown. Agree with @CREguy13 that the retailers can help make this a solid development portfolio.

Yes, I hope they use higher design/finish standards for their future project at Montrose/Westheimer. Or sell the property to someone else, like Hines or Hanover.

6 hours ago, hindesky said:

Great perspective from the north side. Does anyone know how many floors are left to construct?

2 minutes ago, hindesky said:

The art on this wall is always changing.

Ah, hence Tumbleweed_Tx’s reference to his friend’s temporary mural!

9 minutes ago, Tumbleweed_Tx said:

yes, the pink heart with the bumblebees. Heather Johnson did that one.

Not sure why they would paint over it. It was lovely.

5 minutes ago, Tumbleweed_Tx said:

it's over by Hotel Alessandra. I hope that's a place holder for a future mural because my friend Heather did an awesome temporary mural that used to sit there. It's companion is on the Dallas Street side of the House Of Blues.

Ah, the one with the bumblebees? That’s what is still depicted by Google Maps street view.

On 5/9/2020 at 3:45 PM, hindesky said:

Where am I?

Where is this in GreenStreet? I recognized the pavers, but couldn’t find the specific location.

13 minutes ago, hindesky said:

Took another Where Am I today just in case.

This one is easy! UH, corner of Cullen and Wheeler. It’s “Fiesta Jarabe” by Luis Jimenez.