Popular Post Urbannizer Posted July 11, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted July 11, 2019 On 7/9/2019 at 11:30 AM, Urbannizer said: Old design? Turns out this is a building in Shanghai. http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/shanghai-wheelock-square/542 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EllenOlenska Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Damn 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Well it would look great in Houston. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 So... the outfit touting their qualifications Shanghai'd the Houston skyline? (I'll see myself out...) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate4l1f3 Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Don’t Shanghai my Houston? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Urbannizer Posted July 11, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted July 11, 2019 1 hour ago, nate4l1f3 said: Don’t Shanghai my Houston? Please Shanghai my Houston. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 6 hours ago, Urbannizer said: Turns out this is a building in Shanghai. http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/shanghai-wheelock-square/542 My guess this building was used as a stand-in to visualize height and massing. Thats really going out of your way to recruit a visualization firm to realize that, but not something that hasn't been done before. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 2 hours ago, nate4l1f3 said: Don’t Shanghai my Houston? 24 minutes ago, Urbannizer said: Please Shanghai my Houston. As long as they limit it to skyscraper construction, I'll allow it. Another 20 million people evacuating the next hurricane would be kind of rough. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 16 hours ago, Nate99 said: As long as they limit it to skyscraper construction, I'll allow it. Another 20 million people evacuating the next hurricane would be kind of rough. Not if we had high speed evacuation trains to Dallas 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackie21love Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 17 hours ago, Nate99 said: As long as they limit it to skyscraper construction, I'll allow it. Another 20 million people evacuating the next hurricane would be kind of rough. People in Shanghai don't need to evacuate in typhoon season. not only skyscrapers, we also need Shanghai subway, highway, maglev, high speed train, airport...... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 We're good on highways. Definitely could the rest though. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 You know things have slowed down if this thread is staying at the top of Going Up. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 7 hours ago, cspwal said: Not if we had high speed evacuation trains to Dallas Interesting logistics thought experiment. One shrinking refugee camp on one end and a growing one at the other. 5 hours ago, jackie21love said: People in Shanghai don't need to evacuate in typhoon season. not only skyscrapers, we also need Shanghai subway, highway, maglev, high speed train, airport...... That amount of people in one place is hard to get my head around. You would need every imaginable way to get around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brijonmang Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 On 7/12/2019 at 12:55 PM, H-Town Man said: You know things have slowed down if this thread is staying at the top of Going Up. Things haven’t really slowed down, this project is just that really nice carrot dangling in front of HAIF’s collective face. Forever elusive... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 20 minutes ago, brijonmang said: Things haven’t really slowed down, this project is just that really nice carrot dangling in front of HAIF’s collective face. Forever elusive... They've slowed some. This lot needs to sit for a few years until the hotel market comes back and then put a nice hotel here, or mixed use with hotel component. Last thing we want here is a huge glass office building looming over Market Square. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bobruss Posted July 13, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted July 13, 2019 A really nice well designed hotel/residential tower would be nice there, especially with the park and the three other residential towers in the immediate neighborhood with the addition of the Hines residential going up on the Hogg parking garage site. I don't think it's slowed as much as they're just catching their breath. I'm dizzy just trying to keep up with all that's just happened over the last three years. The city has definitely shed its old skin and it's looking quite smart with all of the new buildings, parks, trails, hospitals, museums, infrastructure, residential developments and the list goes on. Thats a lot too digest, and I think it would be interesting to compare the two major growth spurts in Houston, over the last 40 years. The present one , and the late 70's early 80's spurt that added so much to our downtown skyscraper count. I actually think the current growth has been more helpful to the public realm and has had a much more dynamic result in framing the city in a positive way. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jermh Posted September 4, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 4, 2019 (edited) It looks like Oui Eats is going in on the Travis Street side of the One Market Square garage. Edited September 4, 2019 by jermh The mobile website UI is bad. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 good. More banh mi downtown is desperately needed. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jermh Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 BurgerIM on the Prarie / Milam side of the garage is now open. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtNsf Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 really wish this tower would start to happen soon. starting to get a little worried about it, though. It's been "in the works" for a very long time, just like the new "Chevron Tower" we've all been dreaming of... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbates2 Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Let them cancel it, build residential here. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinsanity02 Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 32 minutes ago, ArtNsf said: really wish this tower would start to happen soon. starting to get a little worried about it, though. It's been "in the works" for a very long time, just like the new "Chevron Tower" we've all been dreaming of... One ugly parking garage down and then another not quite as ugly parking garage goes up, like an ugly wart. I also hope they build what they said they will, but am getting a bad feeling about this. I try to ignore it while eating gyros and look at the Hines buildings going up. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hindesky Posted December 28, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2019 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsabo Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 (edited) Has there been any update to this? Did they plan on building a tower on top of the parking garage? EDIT: Looks to be in front of the garage? Edited January 14, 2020 by jsabo Got something wrong 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 11 hours ago, jsabo said: Has there been any update to this? Did they plan on building a tower on top of the parking garage? EDIT: Looks to be in front of the garage? If you go back to page 18 of this thread and scroll towards the bottom you will see Gensler's original proposal for the tower that would sit on top of this podium. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 I wonder what would happen to the retail at the bottom of this if the tower does start. My hope is they guise the garage better than it is now... Its rough looking, especially in such a desired area. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 18 hours ago, jsabo said: Has there been any update to this? Did they plan on building a tower on top of the parking garage? EDIT: Looks to be in front of the garage? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post CREguy13 Posted February 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 10, 2020 Had a chance to view these renderings. This building will have even more terraces than Texas Tower. I think this forum will be very impressed by the redesign. High quality project - hopefully it gets capitalized! 33 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 5 minutes ago, CREguy13 said: Had a chance to view these renderings. This building will have even more terraces than Texas Tower. I think this forum will be very impressed by the redesign. High quality project - hopefully it gets capitalized! Same number of floors? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainJilliams Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 33 minutes ago, CREguy13 said: Had a chance to view these renderings. This building will have even more terraces than Texas Tower. I think this forum will be very impressed by the redesign. High quality project - hopefully it gets capitalized! Wow, great to hear an update on this one! Any idea of when the public can expect to see these new renderings? 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxman Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 1 hour ago, CREguy13 said: Had a chance to view these renderings. This building will have even more terraces than Texas Tower. I think this forum will be very impressed by the redesign. High quality project - hopefully it gets capitalized! Can you give us an idea of what it looks like? Does it still retain the curved facade? Floor count? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSirDingle Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 1 hour ago, CREguy13 said: Had a chance to view these renderings. This building will have even more terraces than Texas Tower. I think this forum will be very impressed by the redesign. High quality project - hopefully it gets capitalized! I'll give you BBQ of your choice if you post it rn. 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 2 hours ago, CREguy13 said: Had a chance to view these renderings. This building will have even more terraces than Texas Tower. I think this forum will be very impressed by the redesign. High quality project - hopefully it gets capitalized! Tease. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post swtsig Posted February 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 10, 2020 13 hours ago, Urbannizer said: Same number of floors? 46 stories w a bit of a crown. 28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 ^^^ ok, enough with the KIBBLES 'n BITS scenario! maybe, just maybe, someone can deliver unto us proud HAIFERS, the approximate date/time... that the official new renderings/concepts may be hereby presented to the masses. props, in advance... 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbates2 Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Still all office or did they add some retail and/or hotel? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 7 hours ago, swtsig said: 46 stories w a bit of a crown. Light-up feature? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 On 2/9/2020 at 8:23 PM, CREguy13 said: Had a chance to view these renderings. This building will have even more terraces than Texas Tower. I think this forum will be very impressed by the redesign. High quality project - hopefully it gets capitalized! lets kick this off... I want to see another tower rise! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 This one's been vaporware far too long Honestly it doesn't even need to be a skyscraper and in a post-covid age maybe that's what would have a better chance of getting off the ground. There just needs to be something there to front against the park and create more energy in that area. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adr Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Great location for another residential high-rise. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naviguessor Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 ...with a boutique hotel component. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtNsf Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 And, I was noticing that from the renderings of the tower that is actually from the one in Shanghai, if the proportions were correct? this tower would be anywhere from 65 to about 72 stories high, and very close to the height of the Chase Tower. Of course, it's probably NOT in proportion in the renderings, but wouldn't it be great for it to be a true supertall whenever they secure a wealthy tenant that wants something magnificent again downtown, in true "bigger in Texas" fashion? And, Houston is the place to build it. Yes, dreaming is fun in this troubled age we live in. A truly fun escape from the daily chaos and confusion of the past few years. Now, if we all think hard and concentrate and pray for it, I just know it will happen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 They're not making any new blocks on Market Square. If you want the best thing possible on your last remaining block, gotta wait until the cycle returns and investors have a real appetite for Houston again. I'm guessing 2025. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 What about the corner with the Chase Bank? Wasn't that going to be redeveloped? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 1 hour ago, H-Town Man said: They're not making any new blocks on Market Square. If you want the best thing possible on your last remaining block, gotta wait until the cycle returns and investors have a real appetite for Houston again. I'm guessing 2025. I don't disagree, but sometimes perfect the enemy of good. I'd rather have something that's pretty good go there than nothing go there. To be honest a major landmark skyscraper would at street level probably not be the kind of thing you want fronting a public square anyways. It's guaranteed to have featureless and austere parking podium with some glass atrium with a security checkpoint. It wouldn't contribute to the urban feel for the person on the sidewalk. What would be ideal in my opinion would be a hotel or residential that doesn't have an obvious parking podium, that has street fronting GFR facing the square, and has nice architectural features at the small scale like being warm colored brick, having some kind of interesting awning, you get the idea. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 20 minutes ago, zaphod said: I don't disagree, but sometimes perfect the enemy of good. I'd rather have something that's pretty good go there than nothing go there. To be honest a major landmark skyscraper would at street level probably not be the kind of thing you want fronting a public square anyways. It's guaranteed to have featureless and austere parking podium with some glass atrium with a security checkpoint. It wouldn't contribute to the urban feel for the person on the sidewalk. What would be ideal in my opinion would be a hotel or residential that doesn't have an obvious parking podium, that has street fronting GFR facing the square, and has nice architectural features at the small scale like being warm colored brick, having some kind of interesting awning, you get the idea. If you want good architecture and mixed use, you'll have better luck waiting. Both of those things entail risk and require willing investors. "Featureless and austere parking podium" is the kind of thing you get in a rush to just put something there. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSirDingle Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Damn guess the BBQ wasn't accepted 😭. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 There are a couple of cool Marilyn Monroe window murals on the east side parking garage. I took a couple of pics about a month ago and so did someone else with their cute dog. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Amlaham Posted January 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 6, 2022 A theatre is going in, kind of confused lol 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 That's pretty cool. A small theater would be a great addition to the area. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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