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I would also say yes. Xsatyr says it well..

1000 room hotel. Lots of drawings, lots of coordination, lots of workers. 

Wow,

Never knew that was there. Very nice images. 

I think it fits in fine with the area and helps continue to merge the downtown and Med district skylines... That being said... the huge pedestal for the garage is kind of ugly, but at least there is street retail. 

lol. Unsportsmanlike-Conduct Jesus

10 yard penalty: Repeat first down. 

Crescent selected Balfour Beatty as GC for 6 Houston Center (above, how it'll look from 59). The 30-story, 600k SF Class-AA office building will break ground this summer. JLL's Chrissy Wilson is handling pre-leasing.

 

http://www.bisnow.com/commercial-real-estate/houston/1803-the-deal-sheet/ 

Link isnt working for me..

I have no problem with them building next to a cemetery, or living next to one for that matter. 100% of the current human population will die at some point. Some of the older cities on the east coast or europe have 300 + year old cemeteries in the middle of their cities. Some of them have miles of catacombs underneath the cities. Dead people, can't complain about NIMBY.

I think greyhound only uses 1/4th of that block. Enterprise rental uses another 1/4th.

Central Square, The Alexin Apartments 2 blocks away, a new 11 story building. Impressive turnaround for what many consider a "rougher" part of midtown. 

Hopefully will spur some development. Start date, 7 months from now. 

HOw long did the bagby rebuild take. 1.5 years?

Great photos triton. 

Driven concrete piles... its gonna be nice and loud on those city blocks for the next few days. 

looks like somethign from the game Minecraft. 

ah will do. Always get my NPR fix on my morning commute. I'll be sure to tone it down for that part

Thanks

or its a 1200 foot by 1200 foot 1 story building!

saw a lot of workers there this morning, hard to tell what theyre doing...

Dont see any staging of scaffolding materials, or methods to access the facade of the structure...

Midtown Lake is coming along nicely. A couple more storms like we had last night and I can bring out the jet skis! 

Pumped out and drained when I drove by this morning. 

Very nice rendering. Hope it goes up quick!

I like it. It may not be it's 1940's self, but its leaps and bounds ahead of that international black and white style it was before...

A little weathering may do it some good. 

Better than I thought it would be, but far from great. If this truly is going to be "one of the most desirable places in Houston," the programming and architecture should be faaaaaar better. Arguably, the most prominent site in Midtown and there's not a sq inch of retail. Midtown Redevelopment Authority had to program retail all around them, Camden was so opposed to it. It's a shame that Ric Campo, also chairman of Houston First, refuses to do retail in any of their projects in their hometown. Shameful. 

"The six acres it is building on also will include retail and a three-acre city park."

 

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/real-estate/article/Camden-bullish-on-Houston-s-inner-city-5461618.php

Looks like on the rendering they messed up the vertical white columns location (on the right side of hte building), didn't mirror it.

Oh well, still looks pretty damn close. 

Soil samples for foundation design is my initial guess. You need lateral capacity, bearing capacity, shearing force of the soils--- etc..The Engineers will then design a foundation system for the structure based on soil values, water table, liveload and dead load values from high rise. These values would have been likely gathered very early in the design phase.

That being said, 20 holes seems grossly excessive given the area. I'm not too familiar with the requirements for the environmental impact studies for skyscraper construction. If I remember correctly, the phase II environmental impact studies do involve a lot soil testing as H-town man alluded too earlier in the threat. 

Nice shots nate!

Ehhh. I dont like how those contractors are doing that.  too much potential to shock the crane load...

What I like most about these million dollar condos is their proximity to McDonalds.

There was a picture a few pages back someone posted that showed a Ferrari or Lamborghini  going through the drive through. Even millionaires need their big macs!

Is that guy using a blowtorch? I will say this, our great-grandparents knew how to build. That building was effing solid. Reminds me of what they say about the Academic Building at A&M, that since they didn't know too much yet about the characteristics of reinforced concrete in 1910, they just used twice as much as they thought they needed.

 

Ehh.. I disagree respectfully for reinforced concrete structures of that era. Generally I have found them to be under-designed. Reinforced concrete steel structures from that era run into two problems. The steel they use was around 18 KSI-33KSI (kilopounds per sqaure inch)  in yield capacity, or less and there was wide variety of bar design, which could allow for shear slippage of embedded reinforcement. Here's an image of some historic reinforcement used that I have at my office.  

http://i.imgur.com/zMGq0lA.jpg

All of the bars shown above, I've pulled off of projects in Houston, Chicago, or New Orleans. They added more, and not proportionally, because the steel was significantly weaker in tension in that era. Today, standard rebar has a yield capacity of 60 KSI. The concrete mix design is another factor which isnt being addressed. Modern reinforced concrete structures, for just about every element are significantly stronger, and better built. 

Now, that being said... based on the most recent pictures, this looks like a composite beam. An I - beam (more correct term is W-Section) encased in reinforced concrete. In this instance, the I-beam is the primary structural component and the reinforced concrete is likely acting as a form of fireproofing, or strengthening from later structural modifications.--- I can't really tell without looking at the drawings. The guy is probably using a plasma torch to cut through the steel beam and/or rebar.... which is way faster than using a grinder or bandsaw. 

/edit: Correction on KSI values.

WOw... a little depressing