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    It looks like there is an large mock up of the bldg at their staging site at 2211 Travis St.
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    McDonalds has finally lost it relative safeness. Now it will be one of those scary parking lots, novel at first, but when stains come fears follow. I like it as an architectural space but would consider the incident of "things dropped from above" as an agent provocateur. I wouldn't wanna live there thou and I live across the street from a McDonalds too; but it's across the street like I said..Hopefully the Post Oak upgrades bring more lunchy crowds on foot and it basically stays the same.
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    I'll try to snap pic too before leaving town this weekend. I noticed it yesterday morning they were removing the curtain wall bottom-up vertically.
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    Fence goes up today; soil remediation will begin.
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    ^I'm assuming he's referring the escalator overheads since they were originally designed with a green roof in mind.
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    love how the wedge tower is framed out the pics
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    It would have been nice to see this building either be a converted storage facility like that small office bldg off Kirby Dr. with the flashing over the vertical strip windows or converted to a cenotaph-like mausoleum in the sky. Hotel is pretty useful too.
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    B/c you can't have an office in the parking garage; plus the height differential between a parking level and an enclosed storey are off by about ~4'.
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    They'll have great views of the surrounding parking garages!
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    This is why people hate poetry and swamplot.
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    Obvious answer is "how do I get that game day, parking lot cash money?"
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    The only units worthwhile are the PH and the upper levels and even then the units are long and slender. The lower units were pretty bad last time I was up in there (2008ish); major plumbing problems which was probably the main impetus for the renovation.
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    Ditto from downtown.
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    Is there another rendering out there showing the reverse angle? I see the edge definition of a different facade system on the south extending over as the roof so it could look like anything from the TxDot bldg off Washington/Hempstead to the downtown Metro bldg by PGAL. It's not a bad rendering but the angle is not very flattering. Good location, midtown has great north-side roads and ok east-west roads. Lots of stuff to do afterwork close by. An office lobby works as a natural fit between a church, theatre, and resturant/bar/club scene. It's close to the HCC bldg in height which is on par with most other midtown midrises. Nice infill, ready for the other renderings showing site ingress/egress.
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    Greyhound leases that 1/2 block along Webster St. from Rice U.
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    Yes, 914 Gray St. Midtown Redevelopment Authority was the buyer. 2016 Main's lease ends on 06/30/2014 from Central Parking. The proposed bldg was in the long term planning phase, which to me suggests they are looking at acquiring another parcel on the block. Also, GFR.
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    The B-cycle station at Milam & Elgin (by the High Fashion Fabrics) has moved to Elgin and Smith on the south side of this complex. Edit: As you can obviously see in the photo in the post above by Jax.
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    Caroline in the midtown is looking like Caroline in the museum district.
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    That's from an essay/architecture book, Mutations with Rem Koolhaas' Harvard Project on the City (I have it in storage and am not sure if the pic is from that particular section).
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    Who rides a bike on the pedestrian shoulder, where your center of gravity is higher than the guard rail whilst cars zoom by? Kudos the Audi driver for changing lanes.
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