ProHouston Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 There is such a building boom in the Houston metro right now, let's attempt to count the number of cranes currently up. Reply with a list of projects and number of cranes for each. Then increment the total from the previous post. I'll start us out.Cosmopolitan - 1 craneHouston Pavilions - 3?One Park Place - 2 cranesSugar Creek Baptist Church (Sugar Land) - 1 craneSugar Land Town Square - 1 craneEnergy Corridor - 1 craneTOTAL: 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 There are two at Rice's Collaborative Research Center and I believe two at the Methodist Outpatient Center nearby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Owl Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 There has to be 8-9 cranes in the med center area alone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chenevert Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 There is a crane near HCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 Not sure how many are at each site, but don't forget about West Avenue, 2727 Kirby, Mosaic Tower 2, Memorial Hermann HQ, Smithlands parking garage, Baylor teaching hospital. I drove past the BP campus in the energy corridor last night, and they've got lots of cranes but I don't remember if they were all tower cranes. I also don't remember whether the second Trammell Crow office building at I-10 and Dairy Ashford had a crane up yet or whether the crane that used to be over the Shell campus has been taken down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 I saw a crane today from the Rice campus that I hadn't noticed before. I'm not sure if it is part of the dorm construction, or the medical center across the street at Rice Blvd and Cherokee. I think there are too many cranes to count! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProHouston Posted October 24, 2007 Author Share Posted October 24, 2007 There are a lot, that's why I thought it'd be cool to count them. Here's a preliminary listing of projects and assumed number of cranes. Feel free to edit and reply.Cosmopolitan - 1 craneHouston Pavilions - 3?One Park Place - 2 cranesSugar Creek Baptist Church (Sugar Land) - 1 craneSugar Land Town Square - 1 craneEnergy Corridor - 1 craneRice's Collaborative Research Center - 2 cranesMethodist Outpatient Center - 2 cranesHCC - 1 craneWest Avenue - 1 crane2727 Kirby - 1 craneMosaic Tower 2 - 1 craneMemorial Hermann HQ - 1 craneSmithlands parking garage - 1 craneBaylor teaching hospital - 1 craneCURRENT TOTAL: 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 West Ave has 2 from what I recall seeing and HP has 4 based on the photos I took. Memorial Hermann's tower has 2 large ones.Since you're counting Sugar Land, Granite's second tower and the Methodist Hospital expansion tower both have 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 There are 1 or 2 more in the medical center on Holcombe south of Main (between Main and Greenbriar), I forget what the project is. Does anybody remember? Also I saw a crane in the Medical Center near the Texas Heart Institute, and another at TCH (Feigin Center), and at the MD Anderson Garage that's being built on the edge of the Bayou, and at another Garage on the other side of the bayou near Fannin and Greenbriar. And I'm probably missing some... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 There are 1 or 2 more in the medical center on Holcombe south of Main (between Main and Greenbriar), I forget what the project is. Does anybody remember?that is a new medical tower on the site of the old Towers Motor Hotelhttp://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=3521 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethanra Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 2 - BP Campus (Energy Corridor)1 - Park 82 -West Ave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 that is a new medical tower on the site of the old Towers Motor Hotelhttp://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=3521There are 3 tower cranes on-site and another derrick crane behind the parking structure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolie Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 I went downtown to take pictures of the cranes and a cop threatened to arrest me, under the city's "Ban on Photography of Freestanding Buildings," which curiously does not exist anywhere in the City of Houston codes. Oh well, you all miss out on the photos.As for me, I guess I'm through with this ____ing country asap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 I went downtown to take pictures of the cranes and a cop threatened to arrest me, under the city's "Ban on Photography of Freestanding Buildings," which curiously does not exist anywhere in the City of Houston codes. Oh well, you all miss out on the photos.As for me, I guess I'm through with this ____ing country asap.If a cop ever tells you that again, just keep on taking pictures. They cannot arrest you for taking photos of anything so long as you're standing on public property. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 I went downtown to take pictures of the cranes and a cop threatened to arrest me, under the city's "Ban on Photography of Freestanding Buildings," which curiously does not exist anywhere in the City of Houston codes. Oh well, you all miss out on the photos.As for me, I guess I'm through with this ____ing country asap.Weird, I've been shooting photos downtown for years. Not even when I'm getting a photo of their HQ in front of a few bike cops do they seem to bat an eye. It's the rentacops for each building that usually seem to get uppity or whatever, and most times even that is them just giving a speil they don't even seem to get. Just shoot away dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 Yeah I've had the rentacops bug me. One guy told me I couldn't take a picture of Wells Fargo Plaza unless I was at least 3 feet from the building, so I stepped back and then he went back inside. I've never had a problem like you mentioned though, that totally sucks. So, "no photos freestanding buildings"? Does that mean buildings with wires supporting them are okay to photograph? Does that mean no houses or university buildings? What a ridiculous thing for somebody to say.Actually now that I think of it, a cop by the old courthouse building told me I was only allowed to take pictures of it from a distance once. I thought that was strange. I had a telephoto at the time so it didn't really make a difference in my photo, I just zoomed in from a distance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolie Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 This has happened many times before, but this is the first time a copy has made up a law that did not exist after I asked him specifically if this was the case.I made a thread herehttp://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...showtopic=13568We should organize a protest, in conjunction with the Houston Flickr groups.It's probably because I have a beard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanith27 Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 Theres a crane at the new west dallas garage/tunnel site next to Allen Center. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 Inspired by this thread, I took this photo today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolie Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 --from my other (angry) thread Houston Pavilions New HCC Building Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProHouston Posted October 25, 2007 Author Share Posted October 25, 2007 Here are the current totals:Cosmopolitan - 1 craneHouston Pavilions - 4 cranesOne Park Place - 2 cranesSugar Creek Baptist Church (Sugar Land) - 1 craneSugar Land Town Square - 1 craneBP Campus (Energy Corridor) - 2 cranesRice's Collaborative Research Center - 2 cranesMethodist Outpatient Center - 2 cranesHCC - 1 craneWest Avenue - 2 cranes2727 Kirby - 1 craneMosaic Tower 2 - 1 craneMemorial Hermann HQ - 2 cranesSmithlands parking garage - 1 craneBaylor teaching hospital - 1 craneGranite Tower (Sugar Land) - 1 craneMethodist Hospital Expansion (Sugar Land) - 1 craneMedical Center near the Texas Heart Institute - 1 craneTCH (Feigin Center) - 1 craneMD Anderson Garage (edge of bayou) - 1 craneGarage near Fannin and Greenbriar - 1 craneMedical tower on the site of the old Towers Motor Hotel - 4 cranesPark 8 - 1 craneWest dallas garage/tunnel site next to Allen Center - 1 craneIn (or near) HBU - 1 craneCURRENT TOTAL: 37 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 I just noticed they put up a crane at Rice for the new dorm, and another in Southampton (Sunset Blvd and Cherokee) for the medical clinic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 I don't know what the apartments are called, but they are being built just east of the Cosmopolitan and have two cranes up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Hizzy! Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 I counted six cranes along the energy corridor this morning, if that helps. I believe there's also another one that's difficult to see from the Katy Freeway over near the Citgo campus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 and another in Southampton (Sunset Blvd and Cherokee) for the medical clinic.I was wrong, that crane was actually part for the construction of another dorm at Rice, so there are two tower cranes at Rice now besides the 2 at the CRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizen4rmptown Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 This might be the wrong place to post this, but it does relate to projects "going up".With the recent projects going up around Discovery Green in Downtown-One Park PlaceDiscovery/Hess TowerEmbassy SuitesI started to wonder how would one prefer to see them going up-cluster of cranes- all of them going up at the same timesort of like the Texas Medical Centerorone at a time- currently it seems as one project finishes up another one beginsexample OPP, then D/H TowerRight now, obviously Disco Tower isn't done, but its a lot closer to finishing then Embassy Suites.Would three projects going up make this side of Downtown Houston ( i know im excluding MainPlace)look like TMC, which i think would be cool, or does the timing of these projects seem ok. Because if all three started together that means the period of time that there's construction work in Downtown would be cut short vs. if they're all starting at different times, Houstonians would see cranes for a longer time.These projects signify change to downtown that we need, so maybe always having construction work is better than a lot of projects finishing up, because then we don't see cranes for another couple of years.What is your opinion-cluster of cranes or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff8201 Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 If an opinion of which scenario is what you're looking for, then for sure I would say a cluster of cranes just because it makes it seem more like a boom of new construction and the city growing and all that. Like, "Welcome to Houston... Recession? What Recession?"Although the difference in the Med Center and Downtown may be nothing more than coincidence, Downtown is having projects starting at different times, where as the Med Center had a boom of new buildings all at once. I don't think it was by choice, but that assumption would need further verified to be either confirmed or debunked. I simply don't know if it was planned like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Personally, i like seeing the cranes. i know many want to see the finished product (referring to an Austin post......many want to see Austin as a finished product). But as was said above, to me, cranes mean progress. Like a spit in the recession's eye. Both cases make a great aesthetic statement. A cluster of cranes like in MT is cool because it connotes, "my God......they must be doing great over there!" and also gives those of us who love this sort of thing a sense of , "i can't wait to see what it will look like when it all comes together." On the other hand, i think i prefer to build skyscraper #1 then when the crane comes down (while cladding the sucker) another goes up for skyscraper #2 and so forth....therefore a constant image of growth and building. m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Allen Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Anyone know approximately how many highrise cranes are now erected in Houston? Also, what determines how many cranes will work on any given site? For example I see some high-rises that have two cranes per tower, while others the same height only have one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naviguessor Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Nothing to do with Height. Everything to do with Weight & Outreach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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