LTAWACS Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 I have no artistic/drawing ability, so I'll cower behind some barrels after saying this...It would be awesome to get a rendering of Houston with some or all of these projects drawn in. I'd love to see how the city 'might've looked'.Some user named Dominax (?) did one some time ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 I found this conceptual design from Tim Bacheller. It's a really sweet idea I think. I recommend reading the entire idea at his website: ...a practice facility for a newly formed NHL hockey team, administration, restaurant, work-release opportunities and public space... Site Strategy: A discontinuous pedestrian pathway exists that must be reconnected. Rather than join the pathway with a singular line, the entire site, and therefore building, is conceived as pathway. The building may be accessed in numerous ways: one may descend down grand stairs that serve as spectator seating for the ice rinks; entering at grade level takes one through a field of light wells that define spaces for offices and a restaurant; ascending up ramps leads to swimming pools and a canopied public space that can be used for anything from picnics to protests to flea markets. http://timbacheller.com/projects/elephant-in-the-room/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Does this exist somewhere? http://www.newellrea.com/projects.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 I think this is one a lot of people wish we had back, the AIG building next to the Summit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 I think this is one a lot of people wish we had back, the AIG building next to the Summit. Here's another render: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 (edited) Plans for Astroworld site that never made it. 2006 2007 2008 Edited August 1, 2011 by Urbannizer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 whoa... nice... me likey/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 (edited) Shamrock Tower: The Redstone: The Monaco - 31 floors 55 Briar Hollow Lane Orion Hermann Park Tower Edited August 5, 2011 by Urbannizer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Park 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 (edited) Midtown Medical Hospital: 40 Story Medical Center Condo, 458FT Lyme Center for Life Science - 2006 3800 Main, 20 Floors UT-Houston Nursing and Biomedical Sciences Building Edited August 5, 2011 by Urbannizer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 (edited) Turnberry Tower The Titan - 26 Floors Sage Plaza Edited August 5, 2011 by Urbannizer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simbha Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 To my knowledge, many of these projects were proposed just before the latest downturn began - although I can't say which those are. Any thoughts on whether some of these may reemerge as the national/global economy picks back up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 UT's School of Nursing exists. It's on the South side of Holcombe in the TMC. The final design was altered slightly from the renderings depicted above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 To my knowledge, many of these projects were proposed just before the latest downturn began - although I can't say which those are. Any thoughts on whether some of these may reemerge as the national/global economy picks back up?Little chance they will re-emerge, especially in the form they were proposed in before the economic downturn. The only ones I'd say have a chance of coming back is some of the medical buildings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Whatever happened to this one; office building in First Baptist's parking lot? http://swamplot.com/sanctioned-by-the-congregation-the-office-building-next-to-first-baptist/2008-03-24/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 UT's School of Nursing exists. It's on the South side of Holcombe in the TMC. The final design was altered slightly from the renderings depicted above.He speaketh the truth.http://www.bing.com/...0TX&form=LMLTCC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Endeavour Parkside - 34 floors, 2006 Jennings Island Kemah Development - 2006 The Westin Bay Area - Seabrook Beaux Art Building - Galveston Regatta Condos - Galveston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 I registered with the titan's first choice club back then. They sent some brochures with floor plans and such. I have it somewhere at home. I'll see if I can find it and scan it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 (edited) It's funny looking back on a number of these projects from the past five years since I recall going into the sales offices, specifically of Turnberry, Park8 & Titan among others and checking out the pitch in each place. Even posted many of the initial photos of models and scanned the renderings acquired during those visits. Glad I kept the brochures though since they're unique souvenirs. At any rate, here's a fairly obscure project from the early 80s called "The Sutherland", which was to have been a 30 story condo tower located at 55 Briar Hollow Lane. What's interesting is that the only traces I could ever find of it was this ad from an October 1981 issue of the Houston Post. I couldn't track down any articles on the project or it's developer(s) throughout the 80s, based on the archives I was using. At around the same time, a joint partnership between Tenneco & the Developers of the St. James Condos had proposed building another condo building in the nearby Post Oak Park development. It was to have been a 15 story structure designed by SOM. I'll have to scan in the article at some point... Edited September 27, 2011 by ChannelTwoNews Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 Awesome thanks for posting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utinga Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 (edited) Rewrote, sorry. Blame the iPad AGIAN! Edited September 28, 2011 by Utinga Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utinga Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 No offense meant, but amongst the majority of these proposals, I'm grateful they never went up. Can any developers do an original project, along the lines (for the times, yet still amazing) of Pennzoil Place. For a residential tower..... Can't think of a single one, sorry! Perhaps, that 'modern' one on Wilowwick near San Felipe!? Even that style has been over done too. Maybe? http://www.chron.com/business/article/Luxury-residential-tower-planned-near-Highland-2191896.php Will wait with unabated breath. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 (edited) Binz Medcorp building from a few years back, someone recently posted the website (still up) in another thread. http://binzmedcorp.com/main.html http://www.zieglercooper.com/projects.asp?indid=42&projid=24 Edited October 1, 2011 by Urbannizer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sellanious Caesar Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 The best of the dead definitely have to be Jennings Island, Water Lights District, and City Centre Tower. One of my personal favorites was Titan for Uptown but even though I liked the design it wasn't anything special that cant happen some other time down the road. Things like or of similar caliber as Endeavor Parkside will come again but those projects were all very altering for their setting and the city. By the way, its a shame for some of those projects that Galveston never got to see. They've made developments like these very difficult to build on the island but do is it possible that the coastal areas of Brazoria County ever get these type of developments further (and I mean much further, like 10 or 15 years) down the road? There's no interstate access down that way but there's a lot of potential there that can spurt at any given point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I'm sure if you back track through the going up section, and never built topics, you'll find some more. Perhaps merging those topic with this one? I believe it was Subdude who posted them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 dead Galveston project from chron the other day. Preserve at West Beach:Unless Marquette comes up with an 11th-hour financial rescue plan, it's doubtful the planned 3,948 dwellings and two 16-story hotels will be built.http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Massive-Isle-project-appears-dead-2190087.php#photo-1627458 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 (edited) Houston Asian Center, Beltway8 @ Beechnut http://www.globaladg.com/architecture17.html Edited October 5, 2011 by lockmat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Here's an article announcing the original version of Congress Plaza from 1983. Only some of the elements near the base look like they were retained in the final product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 There's also this recap of some of the major projects which were ditched after the economy tanked. It was published in the Post in June 1988. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Found this: 2010 Houston Downtown Present Consider the view from the Morris Architects office onto Fannin at Lamar. This is a typical corner in the project area. Street retail frontage is discontinuous and poorly realized; it's interspersed with blank walls, loading docks, and transparent but relatively inactive building lobbies. The large plaza is attractive, but it's devoid of activity. Some sidewalks are wide and tree shaded; others are sunbaked. There's a parking garage, but it gives no indication it's open for visitors. In fact, there is almost no signage; from here, there's no way to tell that the building a block away is Macy's, or that there is good food to be had in the tunnels below. The unmistakable message: pass through unless you know the place. In a snapshot, this is the Downtown Shopping District today. Houston Downtown Future Consider the same corner as it could be. Lobbies and parking garages are transformed into shops. The plaza contains a new retail building with links into the tunnels. Canopies shade sidewalks. The parking garage advertises its presence to visitors. Signage is everywhere: advertising stores, guiding shoppers, brightening the streetscape, giving a sense of activity. The buildings are the same, but the place is transformed. Anyone passing through would be tempted to stop. This could be the Downtown Shopping District tomorrow. (Text by Christoph Spieler) http://www.paulkweton.com/latest-projects/DowntownRetail/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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