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  1. cloud713
    It's 49. That may have been old info since the 49 story figure hasn't been officially announced yet.
  2. cloud713
    great job! thanks for making this.. i suck at photoshop and was curious how the new towers would effect the skyline. any chance you could make the Hines tower taller to reflect the new supposed official height? also IMO the new Chevron tower may be a little short since according to the renders its about equivalent in height to a 58 story building if you count each floor and consider the double high floors as 2 stories.
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    (i cant really tell whats going on in the drawing/plans, though i noticed some plans were a couple years old).. i hope they save some space for a high speed rail terminal at the Hardy Rail Yard. it would be awesome to have the high speed rail line from Dallas come into the city along the Hardy Tollroad since there are already existing train tracks and ROW in place.. the trains could follow the new Hardy Tollroad Downtown Connector to the Hardy Rail Yard. i know the idea is a stretch but it makes perfect sense IMO. do they really want a terminal way out of the city, or at an airport (in this case, BOTH)? the high speed rail needs to be connected to the light rail system and light rail doesnt go far enough north to for the HSR terminal to be anywhere else but inside the city, and the Hardy Rail Yards is the perfect place.
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    that is great news. have they done ground work at the Skanska tower yet? i would guess not since the Houston Club is there. would this mean this tower is further along than the Skanska tower? i really hope this one gets built.
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    i saw this building when i was driving down westpark today on my way home from waco. i agree with most everyone else, it does look pretty good in person and is surprisingly easy to spot in the uptown skyline with the big lettering on the building.
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    Is there a 3rd crane at the site or just another project near by? I saw 3 cranes off 610 and 59. Couldn't tell if they were all part of this or not. Any new pics?
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    Urbanizer said they are supposed to start at the end of the month i believe.
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    how tall will this be? the article on the first page says 23 stories, the title says 25 stories, and im pretty sure skyscraperpage says 28 stories..?
  10. cloud713
    i really hope this gets built. i only have a vague idea of what it looks like but it sounds very cool and much more appealing then say 5AC. plus Houston could use nice lighting on more buildings at night.
  11. cloud713
    very cool, i like the sharp edges on the 2nd one. haha wow. i think i follow you. would you agree it looks like a squared base version of the second tower? only 3 of the 4 sides curve in, correct? what you mean for the top of the roof is more like this (assuming this front corner is taller than the others and its not just perspective).. but the corners curved in not pointed out? i also found a spiney/fish fin-ish building in my google searches for curved roof skyscrapers, though i doubt it looks anything like this.. e
  12. cloud713
    does the rendering look anything like any of these? but maybe with some "spiney fin sail down the curvature?
  13. cloud713
    heh, thanks for the clarification. i agree.
  14. cloud713
    oh bummer, so what about the architectural top fin fish sail? does part of that not protrude from the top like a spire? a 750 footer is still cool to expand the skyline a ilttle further to the north, i was just hoping it would be more like the Burj al Arab which is 60 stories but over 1,000' due to its spire/sail feature.
  15. cloud713
    would we be safe to assume this building would be close to 900 feet with the architectural feature on top? its not uncommon for 50 story office buildings to be 800 feet these days.
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    only the head and shoulders guy hasnt seen the rendering (i dont think?), unless he was maybe describing the overall shape of the building, whereas the other people that for sure have seen it were talking about the more dramatic architectural "top fin fish" feature on top?
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    it is a secret but hints were given (see page 2). im thinking the "head and shoulders" reference might of been meant towards the mock up tower/place holder in the skyline picture posted, im not sure if that guy has actually seen the rendering. if it looks anything like Burj al Arab i will be extremely excited, though that design would probably be better fit in uptown. maybe it will be the catalyst that will start making downtown architecture interesting again.
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    i mentioned it a few pages back so you might of missed it, but if you look at the renderings, they do absolutely no justice for 1500 Louisiana or 1400 Smith Street. those towers are beautiful. even if this ends up being the final design (i know everyone was hoping for a flashy signature building) im sure it will look much better in person than in the renderings, just like the rest of Chevrons downtown campus.
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    i hope this one gets built instead of 5AC.. it would make quite an impact on that part of the skyline and the design sounds dramatic. of course having both built would be nice too but thats a lot of new floor space on top of whats already planned for all the other towers. did we ever agree which curved shape this tower looks like? a cross between a head and sholders bottle and the Burj al Arab in Dubai?
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    im just curious why your so certain about that? Chevron had been saying up until the tower announcement was made that only 800 people would be relocated to Houston over the next few years, and didnt acknowledge any of the new tower rumors until they made it official, just like Exxon did with their new campus. so these types of things have been proven to officially be denied by the companies many times in the past, even with there is truth to the rumors. not saying i think it will happen, but you never know? it would be nice to have such a large corporation relocate to Houston. im still bitter that Exxon is still in Dallas after building the huge campus in Houston. does anyone have any idea how long until Chevrons current lease in their San Fransico buildings are up again?
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    im excited looking at the height of the Devon tower now.. 50 floors and 850 feet? i wonder if the floors go up into the ^ part at the top or if thats an architectural feature increasing the height. but if you look at the rendering of Chevron tower there are 50 floors on top of the podium, and the top and bottom floor of the tower are 2 floors high, and each floor of the podium is about 2 floors high, making 58 stories. thats what i was thinking originally too. figured the daycare would be a great lot for the tower but then some dude came in saying there were anchors for the building preventing major development on those 4 lots. the guy who mentioned HQ relocations said Chevrons preferred situation would be to tear down Exxon and rebuild a tower, which makes me wonder if there are truths to the 4 anchors rumor and when they rebuilt they would put the tower on the daycare lot instead of running a huge podium across an entire city block. as for your point on HQ relocations, true thats where a lot of future business will be, but a lot of the new oil is coming from places like Brazil and Venezuela (they have the largest oil deposits in the world) in south america, and Houston is sort of a gateway to the south. i guess it could go either way
  22. cloud713
    lol i just reread the statement and realized what they meant. not more than 34 floors, but that much floor space spread out over 34 floors. i wonder why the other plans say 33.
  23. cloud713
    lol ricco.. can we all agree this is about a 58 story tower? assuming the rendering is correct.
  24. cloud713
    thats OVER 34 stories.. heh.. how tall is the tallest building around BLVD Place?
  25. cloud713
    awesome, thanks for the updates Jim
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