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  1. SamHouston
    When I first heard of this from Rice administrators, they mentioned that they had Norman Foster on board for the design. Not that this isn't great, but it sure is not any HSBC building (Hong Kong) or 30 St Mary Axe.
  2. SamHouston
    Diedrich Coffee is opening a store in Rice's Fondren library: link I didn't know the connection with Starbucks, but it looks correct: link
  3. SamHouston
    On a somewhat related subject of where W Gray meets Gray: For some time now, I've been trying to get a handle on where the 'zero' lines fall (i.e. where the address would be 1 N Some St, or 1 W Any Street). I can't tell if it is Main St and the bayou all the way out to Barker Cypress or if it is the latitude and longitude line of where the bayou and Main St. meet (Allen's landing has also been tossed in as a guess). Things I haven't done yet, but might: -Call the post office or City Hall or Fire Department -Plot out all the 1 N Any Streets in Google Earth (partial list: UHD, Bayou Bend, Rainbow Lodge) -Give up Finally, wherever these lines are, do you notice/is it true that the odd and even numbers change sides? North of Buffalo Bayou evens on N/S streets are on the East side and South of the bayou they're on the West?
  4. SamHouston
    So, I found it pretty quickly on Google Earth, just about the first place you would look. But my dilemma is that I still can't figure out what it is. I've tried the Handbook of Texas, HCAD, googling the buildings around it, its address from HCAD, ownership history, etc. but no dice. Tomorrow I might start cold calling businesses around it. But it is not a total loss...I found a restaurant next door I'm looking forward to trying out with its fun location.
  5. SamHouston
    The curved side reminds me of the John Hancock in Chicago, another SOM design. Anyways, a little digging, it sounds like this might have been a design for the AIM headquarters: HBJ article from 2000 Which would have been located here Anyways, my best guess is that is was the SOM bid for the site, and the Pickard Chilton design won (but as well all know, never built).
  6. SamHouston
    There's a USDOT add out there about drunk driving...it starts something like, "All around the country police are coming out" and cuts to a shot of a policeman (not HPD, since he is wearing all dark blue/black) circling checkpoints on a dry erase map. You really need tivo to catch it, since it goes by pretty quickly, but if you pause it, you can clearly see Beltway 8 and the 610 loop. Funny they picked us.
  7. SamHouston
    So if you email the above address, you'll get an auto-reply with .pdfs about the project...but to feed the renderings craving here, I've attached this: Also, I added most of the text of the other files here Thought that would be useful since iCityCondos doesn't seem to have it up on their site. Sorry for the poor spacing, I used a pretty basic hosting progam to get it online.
  8. SamHouston
    So all I found was this bit: Link "The asylum was a large uninhabited home, a long dorm set up out back and a couple of other small houses. It was just down the street from the Church (walking distance). I believe it became a police dog training spot in the past 20 years, but is probably high end condos now. Sort of the Webster, Gray, Bagby area." Also Link 2 "Clinic is now St. Thomas University main building." But the St. Thomas website says the main building (Link-Lee Manison) has a different history, and the AIA guide confirms this.
  9. SamHouston
    So I was in the Village a few weeks ago and saw a sign about closing the 2400 block of Bolsover. I went back to take a picture for all of us, but it had been taken down... But today at breakfast at Buffalo Grille I'm reading the West U rag and see this Further hunting uncovered the Southampton Civic Club's page. There they have a site plan and some renderings.
  10. SamHouston
    It looks like the road was named Lamb Road per this map from 1958 (courtesy Texas Freeway). Also, this gives describes why you won't find Jed Clampett nearby.
  11. SamHouston
    ConocoPhillips is building a parking garage on-site after filling up its surface lots.
  12. SamHouston
    I checked it out last summer (as you drive around Las Colinas you're like"what the hell is that?"). Anyways, it only runs at lunch, is free and has few stops, but if you go to a "station" and look at the map, it shows more "proposed track" around the whole complex and maybe to DFW (the map must be from 15 years ago). From looking at it, I remember it being in pretty good shape, for being a flop.
  13. SamHouston
    So I went by this weekend...the sign out front is gone and there's a note on the sales office door saying they're closed and who to call. It will be interesting to see what they do with the 10 acres of bayou-front real estate...sell it as one lot, sell it as 10-20 large home lots, or do the Rice Military and build 150 townhomes (which would do wonders for traffic).
  14. SamHouston
    Fact sheet
  15. SamHouston
    WAC was the Western Athletic Conference...other Rice alums include Larry Izzo (NE Patriots) and Lance Berkman (Astros; didn't graduate); there's more, but those are the big ones.
  16. SamHouston
    The 4.8k number includes grad students (about 1.8k or so) leaving the undergrad population at nearly 3,000 looking to grow to 4,000 in the next decade or so. As for C-USA, sorry you missed the nine or so years Rice was in the WAC playing such schools as Hawaii and Boise State.
  17. SamHouston
    I would be wary of the Beaconsfield. While the price might be right, the monthly maintenance fee is around $0.65/sq. ft., one of the highest in the city. It helps that the elevator is manually operated. That's my 65 cents. Data from here.
  18. SamHouston
    To lend a little academia to the conversation, here are my thoughts. The provision allowing for Texas to be split into five states was in the original annexation agreement in 1845 ("The Joint Resolution to Admit Texas as a State", if you will). It is also claimed that this treaty allowed Texas to lawfully secede, but this is false. Moreover, the issue of forming five states is governed by Article IV, Section 3 of the "Old" US Constitution, "New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress" Finally, if I recall, the treaty that contained all of these special exceptions was for the first admission into the Union. Texas re-entered in 1865 under very different terms.
  19. SamHouston
    This should save you some clicks http://www.002mag.com/mag/current/hi_res%20(58).htm
  20. SamHouston
    From a post in the Museum District forum Chronicle article
  21. SamHouston
    I think the main disconnect is not the relationship of the internet to other established mediums, rather the perceived relationship to an assembly. While CNN.com is held to the same standards for libel and slander as the real CNN or the New York Times, the common perception is that internet forums (like this one) should be held to lesser standards, with internet forums akin to getting together for coffee or meeting in a park. Of course the depth and accessibility of the internet will blur this line, but in my opinion, if someone posts on a forum, it is more similar to the crazy guy at a cocktail party or that dude in the street with the sign about aliens than it is to libel.
  22. SamHouston
    Also, what about the new Enron building (also known as 1500 Louisiana) in 2002 by Cesar Pelli? It's also very distinctive (for many reasons) and sits on the same side of town as Heritage.
  23. SamHouston
    Okay, this is my best guess of location: In the overhead angle, the roof in the left foreground looks very similar to the roof of the the Children's Assessment Center - John M. O'Quinn Campus, on the northwest corner of Bolsover and Kelvin. Then in the overhead, the "pink street" between the two developments would be Bolsolver east of Kelvin as it runs between Walgreens and the UPS Store, Nit Noi etc, meaning that the 6-10 story office building that the UPS Store is in as well as the strip mall that has Nit Noi & Good Neighbor Cleaners would make way for the building w/ the pool, etc, as well as El Paso Imports and Kin's Cafe on the north side of that block. Walgreens and the surrounding parking lots (east and west) would be the footprint for the strip of buildings on the right side of the overhead. I'm interested to see if the south side of the development (south of Bolsolver, east of Kelvin) will back up to the pre-existing stores on Rice (Texadelphia, etc.) or if this will take up two full blocks and replace the retail on Rice Blvd. These points are all moot if I don't have the right location. Here are some links to see what I'm talking about: Google Map of the area - The O-Quinn Campus is the large, gabled roof running along Kelvin between Bolsover and Dunstan...my guess for the location of the development is the full block of Kelvin, Dunstan, Morningside and Bolsover with some development south of Bolsolver between Kelvin and Morningside. Rice Village Map - This could help too
  24. SamHouston
    I can't place this yet, but a little poking around the Ziegler Cooper website I found this: It's from the top of their page, (apologies, I don't have a picture host/the will to crop it) to the right of the 2727 Kirby picture appears to be another rendering of the project...certain things match up. Let me know if you agree.
  25. SamHouston
    Here's another signal-related question: What's with the double red lights on left turn arrows? Does that mean you can't turn left even when no cars are coming? If so, this is new to me (sort of new...been here a while) having spent a lot of time driving in the Midwest and Northeast where you're more than welcome to cross five lanes of traffic turning left if you think you can make it. I would think these "no left turn yield" lights counter any free enterprise/laissez-faire/no zoning ideals that represent Houston/Texas...and that's precisely why you'll see me turning left on the double red when no cars are approaching. However, if it is that these double reds don't mean "no yield, wait your turn for the arrow," then please ignore my comments.
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