Ashikaga Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 I was wondering if the tallest building in Houston is taller than the tallest building in Dallas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brijonmang Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 short and sweet...yesWe had the tallest building west of the Mississippi river (Chase)...until the Library tower in LA was built Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trophy Property Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 short and sweet...yesWe had the tallest building west of the Mississippi river (Chase)...until the Library tower in LA was built Those darn Librarians. They are always screwing things up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 and the second tallest building in Houston is also taller than the tallest building in Dallas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovernorAggie Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 Isn't that Library (now US Bank, I think) Tower in LA only about 12 feet taller than Chase? Doesn't Chase have at least 15 more floors? Maybe Chase can add a fancy, pentagonal crown, or a high-ceiling, roof-top restaurant/club and take that title back, lol.By the way, Post #400! Woo-hoo! And it's concerning the tallest building in the State!By the way, has anyone seen that 1000+ footer in Nashville? A little blow to Atlanta boosterism b/c I think it is maybe 20 or 30 feet taller than BofA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MexAmerican_Moose Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 yeah, doesn't it look like the Shanghai World Financial tower? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashikaga Posted June 15, 2006 Author Share Posted June 15, 2006 yeah, doesn't it look like the Shanghai World Financial tower?The Tower of Babel was intended to be taller than all of them. But the construction crew got to where they couldn't talk to each other, so they quit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovernorAggie Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 yeah, doesn't it look like the Shanghai World Financial tower? Nah, I think that's the new Wachovia building (700-900 feet) going up in Charlotte. The Signature Tower in Nashville probably has the best crown I have ever seen. I was a big fan of BofA in Charlotte and still am, but the Signature Tower in Nashville is just great--it would look even better in Houston! Signature Tower - Nashville, courtesy of "Lexy" at SkyscraperPage Wachovia Tower - Charlotte, courtesy of "skysdalimit" at SkyscraperPage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashikaga Posted June 15, 2006 Author Share Posted June 15, 2006 Nah, I think that's the new Wachovia building (700-900 feet) going up in Charlotte. The Signature Tower in Nashville probably has the best crown I have ever seen. I was a big fan of BofA in Charlotte and still am, but the Signature Tower in Nashville is just great--it would look even better in Houston! Signature Tower - Nashville, courtesy of "Lexy" at SkyscraperPage Wachovia Tower - Charlotte, courtesy of "skysdalimit" at SkyscraperPage Maybe there's something I'm missing, but I don't understand why buildings anywhere have to be so tall. I mean, I doubt that all of the rooms and offices in them are occupied. If they were, then a lot more than 3,000 people would have been killed in The World Trade Center and the surrounding buildings that were destroyed back on 9/11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovernorAggie Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 Not so sure i understand your question, but I would guess that the answer would be the same for why malls are 150 stores instead of 15, why parking garages have 1200 spaces instead of 120, or freeways have 10 lanes instead of four. If I'm not mistaken, the 400+ Mall of America was a terror target and we know that Los Angeles International Airport was a terror target. WAY more than 3,000 people would have died in both of those places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 Why does this thread seem like a troll park? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MexAmerican_Moose Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 Nah, I think that's the new Wachovia building (700-900 feet) going up in Charlotte. The Signature Tower in Nashville probably has the best crown I have ever seen. I was a big fan of BofA in Charlotte and still am, but the Signature Tower in Nashville is just great--it would look even better in Houston! Signature Tower - Nashville, courtesy of "Lexy" at SkyscraperPage Wachovia Tower - Charlotte, courtesy of "skysdalimit" at SkyscraperPage ty for clearing that up, the one in Charlotte still looks like the one that they are building in Shanghai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 What's the story on that Nashville 'scraper? Is it really being built? Who is building it? Who is going to occupy it? It looks beautiful. I agree, it would look awesome in downtown Houston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovernorAggie Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 What's the story on that Nashville 'scraper? Is it really being built? Who is building it? Who is going to occupy it? It looks beautiful. I agree, it would look awesome in downtown Houston.Just a couple things I remember from SSP a few days ago--It does have the go-ahead. It's gotten all the approvals, I believe, and construction is supposed to be complete by 2009. It's supposed to be a mixed-use tower with residential and a hotel (I want to say a W Hotel possibly). The developer even suggested that residents could live on some of the building's lower floors while it's being completed. Don't remember his last name but it sounded Italian maybe. I also think that it already has about twice the letters of interest than it has condos. It was also initially supposed to be 50-55 stories but will now be 65, if I'm not mistaken.I will also say that a lot of this info is a brain dump from when I read SSP a few days ago.Wouldn't this look great on that waste-of-space-parking lot on McKinney right behind the Wells Fargo Tower??Or maybe it could be a super-anchor for that southeast quadrant of downtown. Imagine all the new skyline photos from that perspective, or the perspective of inbound on Gulf Freeway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 Wouldn't this look great on that waste-of-space-parking lot on McKinney right behind the Wells Fargo Tower??Or maybe it could be a super-anchor for that southeast quadrant of downtown. Imagine all the new skyline photos from that perspective, or the perspective of inbound on Gulf Freeway.The waste of space parking lot behing the Wells Fargo Tower? You surely don't mean the Tenneco Building... I think your talking about the parking lot behind 1 Shell Plaza. That's where the Bank of the Southwest Tower would have gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmancuso Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 we should get yao ming to stand on rudy T's shoulders on the roof to make jpmorgan chase taller than library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovernorAggie Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 The waste of space parking lot behing the Wells Fargo Tower? You surely don't mean the Tenneco Building... I think your talking about the parking lot behind 1 Shell Plaza. That's where the Bank of the Southwest Tower would have gone.You're right. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metro Matt Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Houston's 3rd tallest skyscraper, Williams Tower is just a few feet shy of being as tall as the tallest in Dallas. The skylines of Houston make Dallas look small in comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashikaga Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share Posted July 13, 2006 Houston's 3rd tallest skyscraper, Williams Tower is just a few feet shy of being as tall as the tallest in Dallas. The skylines of Houston make Dallas look small in comparison.I looked up Dallas in World Book Encyclopedia. The photo made it look like downtown Dallas was real big. On that TV series "Dallas," the helicopter shot tried to do the same. I wonder why "Houston" wasn't chosen for that show? Why was "Dallas" selected? Because of that, a lot of people thought that Dallas was bigger than Houston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metro Matt Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 The Dallas skyline is big, but Houston's dwarfs it in height & number of buildings. Houston's downtown is more comparible with Los Angeles, while Dallas is more on par with Denver. If it wasn't for Houston's lack of zoning laws, allowing multiple skylines to be scattered through out the city, the downtown core would be even more impressive than it already is & would look like a smaller Chicago. There are some skyline views around town that capture this effect when you can see all of the skylines in Houston line up together perfectly to form one breath taking sight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trae Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 we should get yao ming to stand on rudy T's shoulders on the roof to make jpmorgan chase taller than library.Library is also on top of a huge hill, so it appears larger.The Dallas skyline is big, but Houston's dwarfs it in height & number of buildings. Houston's downtown is more comparible with Los Angeles, while Dallas is more on par with Denver. If it wasn't for Houston's lack of zoning laws, allowing multiple skylines to be scattered through out the city, the downtown core would be even more impressive than it already is & would look like a smaller Chicago. There are some skyline views around town that capture this effect when you can see all of the skylines in Houston line up together perfectly to form one breath taking sight. And that is from the 610 bridge. I saw that about three weeks ago. It looked like New York, no kidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethanra Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 I looked up Dallas in World Book Encyclopedia. The photo made it look like downtown Dallas was real big. On that TV series "Dallas," the helicopter shot tried to do the same. I wonder why "Houston" wasn't chosen for that show? Why was "Dallas" selected? Because of that, a lot of people thought that Dallas was bigger than Houston.The show was going to be "Houston", but the Cowboys were winning their super bowl rings, and became "America's Team". The people in charge then changed the show title to "Dallas" thinking it would be more popular then "Houston". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashikaga Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share Posted July 13, 2006 The show was going to be "Houston", but the Cowboys were winning their super bowl rings, and became "America's Team". The people in charge then changed the show title to "Dallas" thinking it would be more popular then "Houston".Yes, "Dallas" did start just after the Cowboys won Super Bowl XII. Bum Phillips didn't suceed in taking the Oilers to the playoffs until the next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDubRedRaider Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 The show was going to be "Houston", but the Cowboys were winning their super bowl rings, and became "America's Team". The people in charge then changed the show title to "Dallas" thinking it would be more popular then "Houston".source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonfella Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 Don't care. Houston is the big Daddy in Texas. Nuttin will change that exept unless some city obtains 2.1 million mexicans or whatever soon. lol.... this is nothing but in good humor.... no harm meant to a group of wonderful mexican-americans. I love 'em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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