HoustonIsHome Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 The Amtrak area and the post office area is ripe for rejuvenation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 I hear more projects may be coming to areas outside of the TIRZ boundary.There are several proposed projects along the memorial/Allen parkway corridor. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 All posts on the Post Office as a high-speed rail station moved to the appropriate thread: http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/29514-txdot-identifies-post-office-as-high-speed-rail-station/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Heh.. Sorry about that. Can't wait for a rendering of this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted March 5, 2014 Author Share Posted March 5, 2014 http://www.downtownhouston.org/site_media/uploads/attachments/2014-03-05/140303_Project_Renderings_11_x_17.pdf 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Any ground floor retail? Otherwise it would look fine on Post Oak Blvd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 hard to tell, the bottom got cut off in Urbannizers picture, and the rendering is so small in the link i cant tell whats going on on the ground floor besides some trees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Yeah you're right, there's 4.5 floors missing here, the link shows a base so there's hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 i wonder what will be in the little corner on Milam/Preston, on the right side of the building.. a pocket park? seems pointless as Market Square is right across the street. maybe an outdoor dining area for a restaurant/cafe or something? or the pool.. didnt look like there was room anywhere on the roof for one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxman Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Ugh. I hope it falls through. To me the north facing skyline is the best view we have and any building built in front of the BOA building (700 Louisiana) or the Pennzoil buildings will be a soaring wall of concrete and steel to mask the view I like best. This is crummy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Crummy? It was bound to happen. Chances this gets built are not 100% so relax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 The rendering looks a bit preliminary so I'd not rush too far to judgement. As shown, it seems perhaps a tad mundane, but for a 40-story residential tower adjoining Market Square and replacing surface parking I'm willing to make allowances. So if I'm looking at this correctly the main axis is on Preston not Milam. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swtsig Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Crummy? It was bound to happen. Chances this gets built are not 100% so relax. besides that it is a very basic rendering with little to no detail and of low quality - no telling how it will end up looking. to spaz out and call it "crummy" and hope it doesn't get built is one helluva overreaction. should bode well for those that want to maintain the feel of the historic district, though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted March 5, 2014 Author Share Posted March 5, 2014 4Q 2014 Start Dtae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Of all the proposed buildings - 6 Houston Center and the Savoy are the only ones I would call "crummy" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 So if I'm looking at this correctly the main axis is on Preston not Milam. Oh good gawd, you're right, and leaving an apparently pointless space fronting the park does not look good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 If you zoom in on the pdf, it looks like the "space" is actually a single story storefront component. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sky-guy Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Looks like a mix between 1PP and SkyHouse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 It's Skyhouses' older sibling. In stucco. It's not completely awful and a 40 story residential Downtown is great news. Maybe we'll get something taller, sleeker, and more appealing down the line. For now, that'll do pig... That'll do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 If you zoom in on the pdf, it looks like the "space" is actually a single story storefront component.Storefront? I read it as a garage entrance. In the first two bays there are white shapes that look like cars. Overall the lower street facade doesn't look bad, but the upper floors come off as somewhat cheap. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 It looks like something that should be in the Galleria. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 is it just me... or does this building look malnourished. food anyone? http://www.downtownhouston.org/site_media/uploads/attachments/2014-03-05/140303_Project_Renderings_11_x_17.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fernz Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Awful 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fernz Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 But if that's what it takes to get a 40 story residential building in downtown then that's fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Yeah, I thought garage entrance too, but that doesn't quite make sense. Why would it only be one story? Why would it be separated from the main building like that? It makes sense to separate retail for fire code etc, but a garage entrance?Plus it doesn't actually look flush with the street. Admittedly, this might be as much excessive optimism as anything else. One-story retail fronting Market Square with the main building pushed back would make perfect sense. Ultimately a higher quality image is needed to know for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 ^Y'all need to relax a bit until we get further along. Massing studies are very very common for firms designing something this large. Remember this was a sort of promotional rendering that was sent to the downtown district to put into their pamphlet, not a rendering released to the Chronicle for publication as a "Guess What's Coming to an Empty Lot Near You?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naviguessor Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Think that the one story structure is a garage entrance/exit which will be linked to the Garage next to the tower. Will give Market Square a little breathing room...but not much for the street front, it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moore713 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Omg its a drawing not even a 3D model and the bitching has started... can we at least wait till the developer releases the offical drawing and not what the city has put up 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoustonIsHome Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 (edited) I dunno. The scheme slightly resembles the M&M building and that is a handsome building. I think they just did a faded rendering so that it won't look line something too new looking going up around Market square. They may create a very attractive art deco-like building like M&M Edited March 6, 2014 by HoustonIsHome 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClutchCity Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 That yellow does not grow on you though... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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