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    Trust me.. you don't want other developers emulating this developer. There are some ate up aspects to this project that I wish I could share. From a design standpoint.. its okay.. but that praise should be directed towards whatever architect they hired.
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    Ya know, 99% of the waterwall photos out there all seem to be head-on and from the exact same spot (some of mine included). Just adding a little perspective and getting a little more in the background really adds a lot, i think. Nice work.
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    Lovely.
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    lets cut elgin down to two lanes of traffic and add a moat... awesome !
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    They said they left their hi-rise in the financial district for a lowrise warehouse. I disagree with him saying, be true to who you are. (something like that) Yes. it looks like a swank office.. most done in smaller, older, brick bldgs will be... but its the office of more design oriented and smaller firm.. not exactly how I would characterize one of the 2 biggest firms in the country. So, yah.. much better than the Houston office which is all business..doesnt matter how good an interior you have.. if you have to ride an elevator up to it, its kinda hard to escape the corporate feel. Looks like a great space to work in, i would just say its far from being your typical Gensler office.
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    That is Night and Day compared to their Houston office..
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    Havent had Texas Pizza in least 6 months.. dont remember specifically why they were bad, just that it was so-so pizza. Bambolinos is just boring. Bland and thin sauce. PapJohn's beats them both easily.
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    I'm partial to PapaJohn's. Not that its the best in the city, but i think it's by far the best chain pizza. And I'm a sucker for their bbq pizza. I agree that Candalaris is pretty damn good, and that Star is good but a little overrated. I'd also like to add that Texas Pizza on Richmond near Woodhead and Bambolino's Pizza on Westheimer near Mulberry are both pretty damn bad.
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    thank you, kind sir. while it's debatable how "hidden" a gem rothko is, i currently intend this to be one of my 3 entrants for the new 600 sqmi..
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    Like anyone pays attention to which Forum a thread is in anyways. Sheeats, we'll just start out own thread - "All Houston high schools, excluding Katy ISD, make Newsweek top 1500 for 2009"
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    Bellaire is HISD, and it isnt included in the 12 since its not in the City of Houston... He meant what comes up under Houston the city in the Newsweek searchable databases... it doesnt let you search by ISD. Not to mention, there's no way he nor anyone would mean to say there are 12 HISD schools in the national top 1500.
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    Houston has more than 12... you also have to run searches on Bellaire, Sugarland, Missouri City among others to get all the local districts. Both charter or magnet schools.. which I know Newsweek counted them, but this seems like cheating to me... I wouldn't count them anymore than I would count YES Prep or HSPVA.
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    Also in the top 1500. HISD has 3- Bellaire 135 Westside 183 Lamar 838 Ft Bend ISD has 5- Clements 343 SFA 818 Dulles 1066 Elkins 1136 Kempner 1462 Spring Branch has 2- Memorial 203 Stratford 302 CyFair has 2 ClearLake only has 1. Klein has 1 http://www.newsweek.com/id/201160/?s=houst...p;q=2009/rank/1 Local average rankings based on Children at Risk's Yearly Rankings
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    I can't find a copy online, however my Univ. St. Thomas alumni wife received in the mail yesterday a flyer detailing the UST 2010 and 2020 vision plan. It included, I believe, 3-4 blocks worth of new buildings in the area including a nursing school and additional dorm. As the other dominant property owner in that area, the master planned growth in that super block could be quite something in the next decade.
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    I'm gonna learn how to fly. High. ... another great telwink panorama. Gotta love reflective clouds.
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    i had a similar thought when i first saw it... building doggy humpage. I think its ho-hum and safe. But it's certainly not terrible and i wouldn't hate seeing it go up.
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    Wouldn't want you to go all crazy on us.
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    hmm.. well.. i'm sure the bldg has a great personality.
  20. Highway6
    I already tried googling. Only thing that came up was the oringal post from skyscraper forum. Here is the link to the photo RSB posted. Maybe it will work on it's own. You aren't missing much.
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    Apparently. I'm sorry for your loss.
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    the rendering shows the project at a corner... presumably post oak and guilford. but the owner of compass bank land doesn't own the lot between them and guilford. .. just sayin.
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    the big brute on 12th street - "big 3 industries" bldg.
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    Great game. That was fun as hell watching that. And while we may not win the series, we'll at least be coming back to Houston and it's great knowing we wont be going out without a helluva fight. Rosen has a good article, ripping LA a new one. In short, the Rockets displayed every characteristic that the Lakers lacked: hustle, toughness, passion and intelligence.
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    Yah.. big load of crap. Crunch didnt know what she was talking about and a damn highschooler from Bryan certinaly doesnt know what he's talking about. How many aggies do you know sitting in their off campus housing skipping class because their only available mode of transportation that day was *gasp* a bus ?? It's a college town in a state where everyone owns their own vehicle. I guarantee 90% of the students own cars. Parking is not nearly the hassle it's been made out to be. College Station also is small enough that cycling to campus is a fairly easy thing to do. (i personally biked from Bryan an entire summer that i lived out there) It's not that the students are snobs, it's that there are several modes of transportation one can choose to get to campus and the easiest way (car) to get to campus is just that - easy And while the campus is big, it's very walkable, so the on-campus buses are really only needed if you're going from main campus to west campus and you're running late for class. Even then, once you take out the golfcourse, the big perimeter parking lots off GeorgeBush, and the 75% of west campus that isn't academic.. the campus is maybe 3/4 of a mile squared. Easily walkable. Unless you're going out to the George Bush Library, there isn't anywhere on campus you cant walk to in 20 minutes. The bus system is adequate for the number of people that need to use it. Why is there a rail component in the vision plan.. i dont know, maybe because it's a vision plan, the nature of which is to dream big. Rail replacing bus will never be needed for CS. It's merely a luxury item on a wish list that will never be realized, and for good reason. As for Brazos Transit... I admit, i've never heard of it. If it existed 10 yrs ago when i was a student, it certainly wasn't the size network it is today, and it certainly didn't have that much of a presence in CS. It appears to be a good sized network now and in conjunction with the TAMU buses, it probably is used. Who would use it ? Those that need it... which doesn't include the vast majority of the student body, and employees that have their own car and have zero problem with the amount of parking provided.
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