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This area by the Stadiums have come along way since 2008. I remember thinking when they would finish Disco Green. Now 1 Park Place finished, Disco Green finished, Disco Tower almost finished, and the Embassy Suites on its way. Lost at least two parking lots and still have no trouble finding parking @ Rockets games conventions etc!!

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crunchtastic
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.....and I personally think it would be cool to brand a corporate logo straight onto your forehead. Hopefully that sounds absurd to you. What have we become, culturally, when a whole generation not o

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I just don't see the point in b1tchin at the final product. Mediocre buildings get put up all the time in houston, and there are plenty of mediocre buildings downtown. It seems to me that most Haife

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I was the one who took those pictures last week when I took my family to Discovery Green and I have no idea what those objects are. I took those pictures over the construction fence, so I did not see

citizen4rmptown

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Thanks to ES's small size, it will start to grace the southern skyline in just a couple months. wink.gif

It seems like they average almost 1 floor a week!

that is fast

In a half of year to a year from now, when I'm at Discovery Green, and OPP, ES, and Hess Tower are all done, Im actually going to miss the ongoing, never-ending construction that has occured there since it opened. But who knows, maybe that new convention center hotel will actually happen.

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Embsuites.jpg

taking a second look at the rendering it seems there might be an entrance and exit from La Branch to a check-in area and possibly a small parking lot in front of that facing Lamar.

I could be wrong, but I thought downtown couldn't have logo's on the buildings.

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I think buildings should be allowed to have logos at the top... It would make for a more interesting skyline...

I'm with you on that. I think that is what makes downtown seem so bland (in my opinion). The city allows all of these billboards and tall signs out side of downtown which I think make the city visually cluttered (thats what needs to be minimized). Why not allow them downtown and liven it up down there. Kind of like Times Square. I want to say the same about METRO, they don't allow advertisement because I they think its tacky. I personally think that it would be cool to have advertisement on sides of buses trains and stations.

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I'm with you on that. I think that is what makes downtown seem so bland (in my opinion). The city allows all of these billboards and tall signs out side of downtown which I think make the city visually cluttered (thats what needs to be minimized). Why not allow them downtown and liven it up down there. Kind of like Times Square. I want to say the same about METRO, they don't allow advertisement because I they think its tacky. I personally think that it would be cool to have advertisement on sides of buses trains and stations.

.....and I personally think it would be cool to brand a corporate logo straight onto your forehead.

Hopefully that sounds absurd to you. What have we become, culturally, when a whole generation not only mistakes

marketing for beauty, but longs for the visual blight of ads to 'liven up' public spaces?

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What have we become, culturally, when a whole generation not only mistakes marketing for beauty, but longs for the visual blight of ads to 'liven up' public spaces?

What is architecture, in practice, but an attempt by a developer to enhance the marketability of an otherwise commoditized asset?

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Nick Massad Jr. ... says downtown (especially near the George R. Brown) is seriously under-roomed considering it has three markets––sports, conventions, and corporate travel. (Most hotels have two.) He says we have 4800 rooms downtown; compare to Austin (5700), San Antonio (12k) or even the Galleria (8k). The hotel will be 19 stories, 262 suites, 80 underground parking spaces, a street-level restaurant, and 6k SF of meeting space. Nick says it took1.5 years to plan and arrange financing, and it’s only happening because of the city’s occupancy tax rebate.

...every inch of the 17k SF lot is being built, which made building the two stories below grade a challenge.

Nick wants to build another hotel with some retail in the area, but it would be at least three years from now.

http://www.bisnow.com/houston_commercial_real_estate_news_story.php?p=7355

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What is architecture, in practice, but an attempt by a developer to enhance the marketability of an otherwise commoditized asset?

Deleted non-G posts be damned. I think I've found a solution that would satisfy both your evil secret lair needs and citykid's signage-as-character needs:

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Deleted non-G posts be damned. I think I've found a solution that would satisfy both your evil secret lair needs and citykid's signage-as-character needs:

conti.jpg

LOL! That is a little too much character. But what would Times Square be without the ads? NOTHING! Its really a site to see.

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.....and I personally think it would be cool to brand a corporate logo straight onto your forehead.

Hopefully that sounds absurd to you. What have we become, culturally, when a whole generation not only mistakes

marketing for beauty, but longs for the visual blight of ads to 'liven up' public spaces?

What else would you have us do to liven up our skyline? Surely there should be far more interesting architecture in our great downtown other than plain boring old boxes. UGH!!

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It looks like they're working on the 9th of 22 floors. So, it still has some to go plus a crown. It'll probably be 330-350 ft. Not bad for infill and certainly better than a parking lot...

When you drive down Allen Parkway and enter downtown where it becomes Dallas, it is becoming noticeable. From an infill standpoint it is nice to see some height down at the end of the street. Dallas terminates into the convntion center and the street has now really filled in with this building, as well as the 3 blocks of Pavillions. Put it this way, it wasn't more than a few years ago that the last five blocks of Dallas before the convention center felt barren. The height of the hotel at the end of the street has the effect of "lengthening" the street. As a veteran of that part of DT, it's amazing to think of that area before the park, Hilton, Embassy, Park Place, Hess, Houston Center 5, Pavillions, etc.

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As of yesterday,

Its going to be nice!

Just wondering about the view though. When looking out of the windows from the front of the building you will see that huge power station. Is there any plan to move that thing or cover it? I think I have seen in Chicago where they covered a power station with a building, that way you would never know it was there and it looks much better.

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Its going to be nice!

Just wondering about the view though. When looking out of the windows from the front of the building you will see that huge power station. Is there any plan to move that thing or cover it? I think I have seen in Chicago where they covered a power station with a building, that way you would never know it was there and it looks much better.

This comes down to climate dictating design.

These things have to be COOL to operate properly during the summer. If you cover them up, you would then have to spend a certain amount of power to cool the things down.

Don't really know how other cities with our same climate handles it, but I'm sure they wouldn't want to take on the added expense to do so.

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This comes down to climate dictating design.

These things have to be COOL to operate properly during the summer. If you cover them up, you would then have to spend a certain amount of power to cool the things down.

Don't really know how other cities with our same climate handles it, but I'm sure they wouldn't want to take on the added expense to do so.

Any idea how they keep it COOL in the summer now?

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My guess is parking.

It would be so great to see someone build a parking garage with some street-level retail right here. That way, we take care of the growing parking needs for the area, generate some more retail interest, and form a solid link from Houston Pavilions to Discovery Green.

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Well, you usually don't expect Embassy Suites to be a defining building in your skyline.

I think this is the best response to all the people who have complained about the Embassy Suites being so short. (+1)

And really hotels in Houston aren't built tall, this is no Miami. Our tallest, the Hyatt Regency, at 30 stories, suffers being

located next to true skyscrapers, and makes no visible impact, although you sometimes see it peeking through buildings when your on the freeway.

The Hilton-Americas makes a good impact from the Gulf Freeway, and thats it.

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I think this is the best response to all the people who have complained about the Embassy Suites being so short. (+1)

And really hotels in Houston aren't built tall, this is no Miami. Our tallest, the Hyatt Regency, at 30 stories, suffers being

located next to true skyscrapers, and makes no visible impact, although you sometimes see it peeking through buildings when your on the freeway.

The Hilton-Americas makes a good impact from the Gulf Freeway, and thats it.

They're not right now, but that mentality seriously needs to change. This city is hurting for hotel rooms... especially inside the loop. The Galleria doesn't even have enough for its daily business. Downtown would be able to attract a lot more conventions, festivals, etc. if we had more hotel rooms. Tall is not something I care about, but we need another hotel that is at least the size of the Hilton Americas to be truly competitive.

ES is going to make an awesome impact from 45s.

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They're not right now, but that mentality seriously needs to change. This city is hurting for hotel rooms... especially inside the loop. The Galleria doesn't even have enough for its daily business. Downtown would be able to attract a lot more conventions, festivals, etc. if we had more hotel rooms. Tall is not something I care about, but we need another hotel that is at least the size of the Hilton Americas to be truly competitive.

ES is going to make an awesome impact from 45s.

I don't know if the city is really hurting for hotel rooms, last i read in the HBJ, the city's hotel revenues have actually decreased(and predicted to so for the 2nd year in a row), definetely not a sign that more hotel rooms are needed. We're also expected to perform worse than the nation. In the Downtown area, however, you are correct, it does need more hotels.

http://houston.bizjo...29/daily31.html

What's nice is that this area of DT looks like it will be the hotel district, with the Four Seasons, Hilton, Embassy Suites all close together, and OPP, I really see the potential for more resiential and hotels here to create a more virbrant downtown.

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