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are you talking about next to the crane?

Thats the shear wall of the structure. 

Yeah, I cycled by this structure this weekend, I'm pleasantly surprised. Turned out quite nice.  

Pretty Slick tower(s).

Sidebar, I get the feeling with the amount of "blue-glass" towers going up in the last decade that in 30 years that architectual style will be really distinctive to the 2010's. How many all blue towers are on the drawing board or have been put up in just this city in the last 7 years? 

On 7/27/2016 at 1:15 PM, skwatra said:

At least there is a Pokestop on that lot!

Does that count as retail?

This comment didnt age well. 

 

Okay so it took about 20 days for the grass to recover naturally. I'd imagine in the summer time with more light, and more favorable weather conditions--- this is probably even faster. 

I dont know. I like the events at discovery green, and the short duration of dead grass doesnt really bother me too much. I'm no grass expert, but perhaps a different breed of grass can take the 'punishment' of foot traffic better? 

This is excellent, I really appreciate it!

I was exploring on some hold topgraphic maps and I found a street grid/neighborhood in a 1915 map that was drastically different than today. 

The neighborhood/town/grid was on City Maps until the 1940's, and then it just disappeared. When aerial photography starts showing up in the 1950s. You can see remains of the street grids still there, clearly abandoned with very little buildings in the area. This condition remains until the 1960's when most of the area was redeveloped with a new street pattern. Pinemont and Antoine appear to be consistent in the area. The modern aerial photography you can see SOME remnants of the original street grid in the area North of Pinemont.(Rena St, Grovehill St, Highrock St, etc.). And you can see some clear dileneation of property lines that matched the original grids. 

So my question is, what was this neighborhood/town? Was this some small texas down that Houston swallowed up in the 1930's/40s? Why were the streets abandoned? etc. 

Anyway, I've provided a link with some maps and photos, sorry about the waterseals 

http://imgur.com/a/5uML4

thoughts?
 

You know its fancy because the cars have european style plates. 

Thank you!

Just now, Nole23 said:

 

The Hardy Yards development

 

 

off topic, but I was near St Arnolds the other day and I saw a parking garage randomly under construction a few blocks away. It seems so isolated I wasnt sure what its purpose was--- Anyone know what I'm referring to?

I wonder if they'll be increasing production at the plant as well. They seem to have been doing well for the last few years. Should be pretty cool place. 

5 hours ago, BigFootsSocks said:

That destroys the dramatic narrative we're trying to push here; ghosts?

oh, my bad. Let me rephrase:

I thought it was reported that GHOSTS were welding some components on or near the roof was the source of the fire?

I thought it was reported that welding some components on or near the roof was the source of the fire?

Was talking to someone regarding the continental building and apparently theyre going to keep the lights after the superbowl. Dont know if theyre gonna run through those cycles, but they sure are nice. 

 (fair disclosure, I live in cottage Grove). The streets are quite narrow, and the ditches make it more difficult to park. When people do park, it's difficult to drive because the street essentially becomes a one way for large swaths. Solutions could involve your proposal. It would help.

I tend to prefer the rebuild the roads and redo the drainage in the neighborhood which is another problem.

Anyway back on topic. I'm interested to see the affects of traffic and parking right in the area.

1 hour ago, Texasota said:

Serious question: 

 

What does "parking is an issue" mean? Is it just that the drainage ditches limit parallel parking? Are there any solutions short of rebuilding the roads without them? Would limiting traffic to one-way, one lane, with permanent, well-marked street parking and some sort of partial curbing protecting the ditches work?

Cottage Grove is going to need to upgrade its streets at some point. Developments like this I welcome, but they serve to add more parking issues within the neighborhood. 

 Outdoor Swimming pool in January. +1 for Houston weather. 

Just now, Triton said:

I tried viewing your first picture in several different browsers but I not able to view it.

Try this link

https://imgur.com/a/66Xxv

Not good at this internet thing this week apparently

Also, since were posting old photos of the building, I'll share a project I'm working on right now. I was able to get a skyline shot of Houston from 1966 which I had digitally restored.  I then hired a drone operator to take an equivalent shot for me. 

Edit, seems like I can only display one imgure link try this: http://i.imgur.com/np541Gz.jpg   and http://i.imgur.com/sfw5Mcj.jpg 

Many US (inner) cites were abandoned in the 60's and 70's. This certainly wasn't unique to Houston. Its important to note too that renovation is most of the time cheaper than new construction. Obviously I can't predict what would have occurred if the buildings were kept, but In my opinion a few of them would have been renovated by the 90's and early aughts. 

Looking at that building in the foreground in historic aerial photography, thats the corner of La branch and Rusk st . Which today is a surface level parking lot. (Lot 97)

I could see Bamboo utilized in smaller scale structures for sure. But right now, none of the building codes in the US that I'm aware of have any specifications on Bamboo structures. I would imagine the governing body would be the wood council. Their code, "National Design Specification" right now doesnt have any specs that I'm aware of on Bamboo structures. The wood council probably has a vested interest in keeping it that way. So in order for there to be "wider" spread bamboo construction here in the States, Engineers and marketing groups associated with bamboo construction would have to set up their own code specifications and convince regulatory bodies to adopt it. --- Those things take time. 

Even then, once they adopt it, they'd have the monumental task of convincing thousands of structural engineers to learn the material. 

Cool stuff though. 

This building just seems like the owner hired a 15 year old with legos as the architect. I agree with the notion that it already looks dated. 

Question, I thought there was a small law that forbid high-rises in downtown from having signage. 

I apologize if that has been addressed already.