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More pics from today 11-1-2013:

Fresh pics from today 11-1-13:

From Costco garage:

From the Galleria:

Fresh pics from today 11-1-13:

Savoy/Holiday inn:

Are they on the 23/24 floor or am I just not seeing this correctly?

21st starting on 22nd

Just to confirm, the rendering you saw was not the same as the one by Kirksey Urbanizer posted here? http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/28336-exxonmobil-building-800-bell-redevelopment/page-3#entry437515

They don't look the same, but just wanted to make sure since the picture is blurry.

Yep it's not the same. I was supposed to receive the presentation today but nothing came

Any thing new about the high rise?

I will be able to get the presentation on Monday

really hard to make anything out there.  What's different about it?  Glass + some kind of vertical column on the left hand side?

 

can you retake the picture?

bummer it came out blurry. thanks for the pic though! so they are replacing the fins with curtain walls (with a couple bands of different colored glass?), or will their still be some fins incorporated into the design? it looks like they carry the curtain wall up past the roof like the Kirskey design. this tower (in its current form) has grown on me and i like the mid century mod design. it will be a shame if the old design is completely wiped away. i wish they could "modernize" the modern if you will, maybe by making the fins thicker and white (or are they white? i always thought they were silver), with the glass (behind the fins like it is now) being blue or something. almost like a chic condo tower, but still keeping the original design. i guess that idea kind of goes back to my residential conversion with the fins becoming balconies. wish they would do that instead of completely get rid of the original design.

just imagine the balconies not having that gap in the middle, and being connected all the way across and bam, you have a residential 800 Bell.

I wish I can retake it but it was in a presentation and didn't want to disturb others, but yes it's glass and vertical columns on the corners, kinda of triangular columns I guess and the top.

and yes the fins are gone.

I will try to get the presentation if it's possible.

Well apparently it's very blurry but after some adjusting it it's much better, at least you might see some detail:

It's going to be constructed by tellepsen, which are the people who did this presentation.

It looks similar to another building that I have seen:

Just saw the official rendering and it completely changes the tower, when I get home I will upload the picture

Isn't this where the AD Players new theater is supposed to go?  No idea what is going on with that (guessing they don't have enough donations to go forward yet), but here is the link:

 

http://adplayers.org/capitalcampaign.html

Thanks, wish it was a high rise

10/24/13:

10/24/13:

10/24/13 All the way from UH parking garage:

10/24/13 All the way from UH parking garage:

10/24/13:

10/24/13:

Awesome can't wait to see it going up

Does anyone know if anything is gonna be built on 5420 Westheimer? There has been a coming soon sign for a few years now and nothing is happening, also there is a mobile office there.

This is a prime spot for some 40+ high rise or maybe 102 

it will most likely reach the top in April 2014, about 24 weeks, since each floor takes about a week or so

If you use an image hosting site like Flickr or Photobucket, you can post pics large in the post.

Ok I see, thanks. Just gonna stick with uploading them here

3-4 weeks until the half way mark

10/23/13

Working on the 17th floor:

Anyone can merely click on the pictures to view them at their original larger size

Ya I know that, but how to post it Large in the post it self?