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  1. wxman
    This building is a total disappointment from the original renderings. Blah. Moving on...
  2. wxman
    From the Chronicle: Bank of America reportedly is in talks to move out of its namesake building downtown and into a flashy new tower to be constructed a block away. The Charlotte, N.C.-based bank is negotiating to become the anchor tenant in Capitol Tower, a 35-story building slated for the former site of the Houston Club building, the Houston Business Journal reported late Friday, citing anonymous sources. The bank's longtime home, Bank of America Center, is one of downtown's most iconic buildings. The neo-Gothic tower soars 56 stories and its gabled roofline is a familiar feature on the city skyline. Bank of America, which declined to comment Friday, leases 423,614 square feet in the building, according to Houston-based Enriched Data, a research and data firm. Bank of America Center, 700 Louisiana, was developed by the Hines real estate firm and designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee. It opened in 1983. Skanska USA Commercial Development is the developer of Capitol Tower. After Skanska bought the site and the Houston Club building was demolished, the company built a garage on the southern half of the block and poured the foundation for the tower. The property is bounded by Capitol, Rusk, Milam and Travis streets. Skanska has said it would not begin construction on the building until it found a tenant to prelease a significant portion of the space. Skanska could not be reached. CBRE, the real estate brokerage leasing the building, declined to comment late Friday. The Gensler architecture firm designed Capitol Tower, a soaring glass and stone building set to include 750,000 square feet and a tunnel-level lobby visible to pedestrians on the streets above it.
  3. wxman
    I bet the renderings have changed over the last 3 years since this building was first proposed. I wonder what it looks like now...
  4. wxman
    Looks like we're getting a new skyscraper!!!
  5. wxman
    Wow! That's how you start off a new year! PLEASE HAPPEN
  6. wxman
    Can somebody post the rendering of this project?
  7. wxman
    I know I'm in the minority on this but what a s h * tty design. Really disappointing. It looks like the architects got bored with project and just slapped earth tone colors to a mid sized box and for character put a skirt of glass around a double tall trailer. I mean is this all well paid architects can come up with? Leaving overseas cities out of this, Dallas, San Fran, Miami and Chicago, among others, all have ground breaking designs and we get left with D-student designs who couldn't make the cut anywhere else. That's my inner thoughts. Rant over. My public thoughts are: It's okay but little imagination. It beats an empty lot.
  8. wxman
    How old do you think these renderings could be? This looks pretty slick if true! http://www.bokapowell.com/project/10-waterway/
  9. wxman
    So now it's up to 38 stories? Okay....I'll take it. Do I hear 40? Seems like every time there's an update on this tower there's a higher floor count.
  10. wxman
    I'm surprised we haven't seen any more foreign flags announced at Bush. I think the last one was Air New Zealand and that's been a year and a half ago. There for a while we were getting one every three months it seemed like.
  11. wxman
    If that's the case then the crane is done jumping right?
  12. wxman
    This thing is moving along at a blazing speed it seems. Anybody else think so?
  13. wxman
    This is an exciting tower. It'll be a subtle addition to the skyline but will stick up just high enough to be seen as you round the western side of downtown on the Pierce. Hopefully we get some nice lighting features on the top or down the sides.
  14. wxman
    I forget...is there a rendering for this thing?
  15. wxman
    Wow! That would do wonders for connecting the uptown and downtown skylines. Sexy AF.
  16. wxman
    The last pic posted is probably THE ugliest view of downtown there is. Minus the Chase Tower, downtown looks like a middle America, mid-sized city that nobody remembers and time forgot about. For the record, I'm referring to the view, not the quality of the image or anything related to the photographer.
  17. wxman
    While the official floor count on this building is 48 stories, you could make the argument that it's really a 53-story building based on the peak. What's the official height of this building again? Is it 757'?
  18. wxman
    Off topic much? So to the person who kicked the can over, what else can you give us? When standing at the base of this structure, will we have to bend our necks higher than 45 degrees to see the top?!
  19. wxman
    Is it worth getting excited over? Scale of 1 to 10 with a 1 being "yawn" to 10 being "mega excited," where would you rank it?
  20. wxman
    I wish dead topics would stay dead. I got all excited when I saw it pop up at the top of the thread and then BAM! Let down.
  21. wxman
    Wow! Very slick indeed!
  22. wxman
    It's interesting that Mr. Diaz wants to expand IAH operations into Africa yet I just found out from a buddy who works at United that they cut the Houston-Lagos, Nigeria route on June 30th. We are no longer an airport that services all inhabitable continents.
  23. wxman
    I drove downtown this morning for the first time in months (I live in another state) and to be blunt: this tower is huge. I didn't think I'd be that shocked to see how dominating this skyscraper is! Wow! What an impact!!! On another note, can somebody please tell me how to post pics here from my phone?! When I try to attach it says the files are too large but I've posted pics from my phone before. #Frustrated
  24. wxman
    Beautiful! I know some of us have eluded to this current building cycle coming to a close. Yet the number of new projects on the books and coming out of the ground doesn't seem to indicate that. Color me grateful.
  25. wxman
    "High-grade, Class A skyscraper." Hmm, do they classify all their projects like this or could this block really house a skyscraper unknown to any city outside New York?
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