Subdude Posted July 4, 2005 Share Posted July 4, 2005 Cotton Exchange Building proposal, 1921 http://xs36.xs.to/pics/05271/CottonEx.jpg Sterling Hotel, late 1920s http://xs36.xs.to/pics/05271/SterlingHotel.jpg McCarthy Center, 1945. Hotel and garage only built. http://xs36.xs.to/pics/05271/McCarthyCenter.jpg Red Wolf Hotel, Medical Center, 1948 http://xs36.xs.to/pics/05271/RedWolf.jpg Adams Petroleum Center, 1954. The base was built but the tower was not. Base now demolished. http://xs36.xs.to/pics/05271/APC.jpg Rice Motel, 1960. Main at Prairie http://xs36.xs.to/pics/05271/RiceMotel.jpg Jetero Airport, 1961. Redesigned. http://xs36.xs.to/pics/05271/Jetero.jpg Savoy-Field office building, approx. 1964. Hotel and garage only completed. http://xs36.xs.to/pics/05271/SavoyField.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted July 4, 2005 Author Share Posted July 4, 2005 Allen Center original plan. The first two towers were completed to plan. A planned shopping mall under a glass roof and a theater (lower right) were never built. Del Oro development. View is intersection of 288 and the South Loop. Houston Center. The mother of all developments. Only towers were built according to the original master plan. United Bank Plaza. The section on the left was never built. Menil Guest House by Luis Barragan, 1984. This would have been built adjacent to the Menil Collection. Main at Congress development for redevelopment of First National Bank building. Phillip Johnson design for Cullen Center. The site ultimately became the Continental Center. Bank of the Southwest 1700 Travis - Campeau Building Block 265 proposal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunstar Posted July 4, 2005 Share Posted July 4, 2005 Can we go ahead and officially add Ballpark Place and the Shamrock to this list? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted July 4, 2005 Author Share Posted July 4, 2005 Luminaire Houston, by Century Development and Skywalker Development/Lucasfilms. This was a retail and entertainment redevelopment of the old Albert Thomas Convention Center, slated to open in 1992. e-Square. The "e-" name is a great 1990s touch, and is also a clue to the name of one of the developers. Wedge Building annex Ritz Carlton Hotel, Fannin St. The building on the left has now been demolished. Renaissance Hotel, San Jacinto. Another idea for the old Texaco building. Six Houston Center AIM headquarters, Greenway Plaza Spirit of Houston statue Landry's Aquarium Observation Tower Astrodome space theme park proposal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted July 4, 2005 Author Share Posted July 4, 2005 The Monaco The Hadley Ballpark Place Ar'talia Herrin Lofts Museo Lofts proposal for Montrose Should there be a slot here for the Shamrock Tower? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted July 4, 2005 Author Share Posted July 4, 2005 See Part 4! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomv Posted July 4, 2005 Share Posted July 4, 2005 Very entertaining! Thank you. Keep it coming. First your S Main postcard collection and now this. What's next from your bag of tricks?I had forgotten all about that Luminare Center thing that predated Bayou Place. Maybe they should have built that instead, given the way it turned out.If Houston Center had been built out the way it was planned, I understand it would have turned the streets below into a dark, dreary space filled with automobile exhaust and vagrants, since most of the pedestrian activity would have been above street level in secure, climate controlled passageways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted July 4, 2005 Share Posted July 4, 2005 That Landry's tower is nothing short of butt-ugly. We should be eternally grateful that for once, city leaders bowed up and said 'No!' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewMND Posted July 4, 2005 Share Posted July 4, 2005 I love the AIM building pic, it's uber. Why did that one die? Did they run out of money? I have money I could donate, I was going to use this 99cents for two tacos at Jack in the Box, but what the heck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasboy Posted July 4, 2005 Share Posted July 4, 2005 the dome looks great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasboy Posted July 4, 2005 Share Posted July 4, 2005 The Herrin Lofts look awesome, but aren't they building these in a different design? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted July 4, 2005 Share Posted July 4, 2005 The last one got built. Just not in Houston. Looks like it went up in Tokyo, in a smaller form (earthquake height restrictions) with a few other modifications. It's a government office building. "Sumida City Hall" - the equivalent of a neighborhood ward office. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted July 4, 2005 Share Posted July 4, 2005 I love the AIM building pic, it's uber. Why did that one die? Did they run out of money? I have money I could donate, I was going to use this 99cents for two tacos at Jack in the Box, but what the heck!AIM planned a major expansion and hiring a bunch of people. Then Enron broke. Then a bunch of other financial companies had scandals. They are wisely keeping a low profile until market conditions improve, and have decided not to expand. For now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted July 4, 2005 Share Posted July 4, 2005 I came across a building very similar to the AIM proposal when I was in Tokyo. AIM: Atago Gren Hills Mori Tower: Cesar Pelli did the Mori building. Anyone know if he put together the AIM design, too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted July 4, 2005 Share Posted July 4, 2005 People probably saw the Monaco picture and decided they didn't want to live in the jungle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicMan Posted July 4, 2005 Share Posted July 4, 2005 What about the Ritz Carlton? I think Ritz should come back to Texas and build that proposed building in Houston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted July 4, 2005 Share Posted July 4, 2005 It's a shame really how many good things this city has passed up and chosen the ugly crap over just to take the easy way of doing things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HtownKid Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 WHy the hell didnt this stuff get built especially block 265 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 The Herrin should almost be done. I think the design is different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 I thought they were still working on that building? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted July 5, 2005 Author Share Posted July 5, 2005 The old Texaco building? Looks like they stopped work, presumably to figure out what to do with the property. Given occupancy rates downtown, it seems a pretty safe bet it won't end up as a hotel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heights2Bastrop Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 That Landry's tower is nothing short of butt-ugly. We should be eternally grateful that for once, city leaders bowed up and said 'No!'Yeah, but once they bathed it in bright blue light, it would have been transformed into a thing of beauty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Seattle's Space Needle, Houston's observation deck..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 I have no idea... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 The old Texaco building? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YakuzaIce Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 1700 Travis - Campeau Building <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I've never seen this building before. It definitely would have been a different design than most of the stuff we have. And it looks to be at least 75 stories so I guess around 1000 feet. Oh and I can't see the first two pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunstar Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 That Rice Motel is kind of hideous though, or at least for the proposed location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 I came across a building very similar to the AIM proposal when I was in Tokyo.AIM: Atago Gren Hills Mori Tower: Cesar Pelli did the Mori building. Anyone know if he put together the AIM design, too? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The people who designed the AIM HQ were the same ones who did the new Symphony Tower, in ATL. Note the massive resemblance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Somehow, I don't miss that we never had most of these built. They may have made the skyline look a little less modern, due to the number of international style glass boxes(and generic concrete boxes) that would have been built. I do like the BOTSW, Block 256 designs, though, as well as some of the ones not pictured here (Block 261, Project X, and Y, etc). The campeau center looks like something out of Detroit, though (really old, almost genuine 20's in appearance) and may have thrown off the balance of the skyline, once again. I'm happy with what we have: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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