shasta
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Thanks! I hope it gets built out just like the pictures that someone posted recently.
What pictures?
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Check out this high resolution panoramic shot of the stadium. You can pan and zoom in.
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Except not. I wasn't trying to be smug nor get into a contest. I'm not a huge fan of architectural choices on the U of H stadium, and because of my perspective, all other football stadiums do seem small. It's also impossible to ignore because it monopolizes the construction resources in town. A gas station shouldn't take months to be done, for instance.
I can't speak for the renovations to Kyle Field because I haven't seen them yet. I've been to the campus of Texas A&M a handful of times and it was a pretty generic campus. If they were going for an engineering school type of look then it worked.
The University of Houston actually features two buildings by Pritzker Prize winning Architects (the highest award an architect can receive) so it has some variety. Also, the campus of the University of Houston was recently featured in this new Jadeveon Clowney Commercial...It's pretty funny.
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New Clowney commercial featuring hi running through the University of Houston to deliver a new pair of Puma sneakers to a college student.
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I've been saying this for 2 years but Upper Kirby is one of the two corridors (the other being Allen Parkway) are quickly becoming Houston's condo canyon/highrise canyon areas.
The Kirby Collection, now this, the Phase III of WestAve (largest phase yet), and 2727 will show that off nicely.
Allen Parkway turns into Kirby...I call that stretch from Downtown to Reliant Stadium (NRG) our Broadway...or at least I think it will become that
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Can someone, with superior photoshop skills. add in the missing buildings? The ones that have broken ground or are scheduled to really soon: Marriott Marquis, the other office towers, the other residential, etc.
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Maybe that's the case for that particular major but schools are ranked where they are for a reason.
Again..we are arguing what perception/ perceived stature/ ranking of a University vs how your major translates to actual value in the market place.
The market (the actual gauge of what a person's education is worth) has been very kind to UH graduates..that's all I'm saying.
Whether the University , as a whole, appears high on a list may be determined on a number of variables (some UH can control and some they can't...like access to the states PUF fund) but UH graduates most definitely have value in the marketplace and especially in Houston. So much so that something like 70 or 80% of UH graduates never have to leave the city of Houston when looking for professional jobs.
Passing up a qualified candidate who has all the intangibles because they didn't graduate from a University ranked high in a magazine is laughable.
My point is that people are going to start to look at the investment of a college education differently. The actual return on your investment is going to be more important that "prestige" in a magazine, especially when that same degree costs 2x, 3x, or 4x the price of tuition at a more reasonable quality University.
This is why schools like UH..... and North Texas.... and UCF.... and USF are slowly taking a piece out of the historical flagship Universities of the state. This trend will continue and the academics at those schools has continued to improve dramatically each year...rankings take time to catch up.
In fact, I am a fan of Shark Tank, and to date, the most impressive product pitch was from a graduate of the University of Central Florida......a school, according to Slick Vik, that shouldn't be able to produce such talent because they don't rank high in the magazines rankings.
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It's UH people that always have the inferiority complex. I don't even hear UT or Rice or A&M people talk about UH. Nothing wrong with UH I'm happy it's improving but it's not really in the same league as a university overall.
Yes they never refer to UH as Cougar High...ever lol
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Fortunately, ROI isn't calculated based on what Rice students think of things. One of the things that really pumps up ROI is having the Investment portion of that be small, something that UH excels at.
August, I'm wondering if this guy even knows what ROI means?
If an MBA at UH costs you $35,000 but it costs $120,000 at Rice then the average Rice MBA grad would have to find a job that pays twice or triple as much as the average UH MBA grad to keep pace....and that's if there are no student loans involved. It could happen but does the AVERAGE Rice grad make 3X what the average UH grad makes?
ROI literally means return on investment and can be calculated yearly or over a period of time based on the amount of investment put in to get that higher paycheck.
The reason so many UH alums are successful after they graduate is because their degree has a higher ROI because tuition is lower and because the students are more mature going in (they don't pick a school solely on athletics and tradition). Because of that they typically carry less of a debt load when they graduate. Many of hem cash flow their tuition because they work while they attend school. This means less of their paycheck is going to loans after school thus maximizing their ROI.
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That's still 75% commuting. I would also disagree on ROI because Rice, A&M, and Rice are considered much better universities. They look at UH students as the ones who couldn't get in the better schools, or in the rare case, took full scholarships.
Let em tell you a real life story my Longhorn friend. When I was a High School senior I started looking at various architecture schools in the state of Texas. Of course I looked at UT-Austin, Texas A&M , and the University of Houston.
I ultimately narrowed it down to the University of Texas and University of Houston. I scratched out Texas A&M because they did NOT offer an accredited undergraduate architecture program....that means according to the NAAB (The National Architectural Accrediting Board) they felt that the undergraduate program offered at Texas A&M DID NOT MEET MINIMUM ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS.
This means any graduate of Texas A&M 's undergrad program CANNOT sit for the ARE (Architectural Registration Exam) because the board does not recognize them as a University that is proficient enough.
Now..Texas A&M does offer an accredited graduate program...but not an accredited undergraduate program.I just checked and they Texas A&M has yet to be elevated to accredited status for its undergrad program.
The University of Houston has offered an accredited undergraduate program consistently since 1959! I ultimately went with the University of Houston because of the city of Houston and the assets in the city.
And about entrance into the University of Houston....I once sat in on an alumni board meeting where they discussed selecting incoming students into the architecture program. I can dispel your myth on this one as well.....at they meeting they discussed that they received about 1,200 applications for admission and that they would only accept about 100 of them. That's about an 8% acceptance rate.
I just wanted to speak the truth because their are a lot of biased stereotypes against the University of Houston. The reality is that the majority of companies in the city of Houston feature many University of Houston graduates in pivotal management and leadership positions. All you have to do is look around!
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The "hidden fees" are how it is at Baylor too. All the games are free, but you know they're slipping athletic fees somewhere in the tuition. The only difference is Baylor has experienced much greater success as of late and they didn't have to raise tuition to pay for the new stadium.. (I still can't believe UH had to do that) we had rich donors give us the money.
You had a rich donor named Drayton Mclane, who slum-lorded the Houston Astros , refused to spend money on draft picks, pioneered a blackmailing scheme to get them into the American League, pre-fabricated a cable network agreement and its false value, all while selling the team for a ridiculous profit on his way out..... and then he put that money into Baylor's new stadium.
He gave so much money that they are naming the stadium after him.
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It's actually common for either smaller schools or commuter schools to do this since the population base is smaller closer to campus and they know that sports isn't the main draw on campus. They make it "free" so it's an added incentive to go because i think we all know that not every game is going to sell out. You only price tickets if you know there is going to be a limit to how many people will show up to a game. In a&m's case and other larger universities where sports is a huge draw the amount of students that would go to a game most often exceeds the amount of seats.
To address the comment in bold: Despite most people's jaded opinion, the University is neither a small school (apx. 41,000 students) nor is it a true definition of a "commuter school" anymore. Maybe in the 1970s but not now. The truth is that there are close to 10,000 beds on campus making it #2 in the state of Texas in campus living opportunities (quite a cry form everyone commuting) and I imagine another 10,000 live inside the loop. I,myself, lived on campus while I attended......... and I even grew up in the Houston metro.
As far as hidden costs, I seriously considered a number of Texas schools, for both my undergrad and graduate degrees. I ultimately picked UH for both but my analysis found that UH and Texas A&M had comparable tuition rates. Rice and UT, on the otherhand, were double and almost triple for the same programs that I was looking into. The point is that hidden or not, the ROI is significantly higher at UH and at TAMU but at UH you get access to free athletic events. The UH football team has been ranked more times in the top 25, since 2009, than TAMU anyway, reaching up to #6 in the BCS standings in 2011 so the quality product has also been there...for free!
While it may only be a few hundred bucks at TAMU it still is an additional cost for the students. That's my only point.
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um did you ever go to Texas A&M??? Students there get a really great deal! I mean for around 300-400 dollars you can pretty much get into ANY sport all year long. A pretty good investment and will be even better when the A&M stadium is online because for non-students it will be enormously expensive. If the university didn't offer these kinds of passes (which are supported by the 12th Man Foundation as well as generous donations from the aggie network) then students would be paying for tickets individually at 50-60 dollars a pop almost every game! Most Universities don't even offer something like this.
Next time do a little research or even ask an aggie before you make baseless assumptions. We get better deals for our games than most students around the nation do for their sports as a whole!
Not sure if this is a serious post or sarcastic? $300-$400???
The price, for students, to attend ALL University of Houston sporing events is ZERO dollars.....all you have to do is show your ID.
Good UH Football season tickets aren't even $400 and that's for the brand new stadium. I know I paid less than $400 and I'm not too far from the field, on the ground level.
Way to drink the maroon kool-aid and think that charging broke college students $400 is a "great deal"
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According to a report in the Houston Chronicle today it is one of the best contracts per year for any college football stadium naming rights, in the country. I don't really care what the name is. They are a very fine credit union and an extra 1.5 million a year towards the stadium and football, is a good thing. Its a much needed improvement and hopefully more people will come out to support the team.
As to the students getting hosed. I believe they get tickets given to them for each home game so for those that want to get back some of their investment its not so bad. Now they just need to start scheduling some real competition instead of the likes of what they have scheduled for the opening season. It's almost embarrassing. I went there so I feel like I have a right to say their schedule sucks this year. They had plenty of time to prepare a better schedule five years ago when they new this was coming.
True...almost every other major school in Texas has fees for the athletic derpartment PLUS they make you pay for student tickets.
UH stidents actually have it easy- check out the student tickets for Texas A&M and then tell me UH students are getting screwed.
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I like the part where the university suckered its ignorant students into voting for (I, for one, voted against) raising fees to help pay for this scam and then turned around and sold the naming rights for many millions of dollars. It's good to know that a small piece of my student loan repayment (plus interest) is going to this because they clearly needed it so very much.
Captain- the only one who was suckered was YOU for taking out student loans. Blame yourself and not the University of Houston athletic department.
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Congress discussing transit in Houston today:
http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6239/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=17723
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Frost Town - has a nice ring to it. Thanks Houston 19514
Frost Town was located in East Downtown (near Minute Maid). I'm not sure how large Frost Town was before Houston annexed it though.
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Kirby is a MAJOR thoroughfare with countless number of high-density developments including many high rises. Zero chance this gets tied up in court.
It really is the Broadway of Houston and is starting to look like it.
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Maybe Hines does care about Historic Preservation, they kept the Texas flag pole so far (:. Does anyone know if this Dec there will be Christmas Trees on the tops of these under construction buildings, seems like I remember seeing that before.
The Christmas tree has nothing to do with Christmas. they typically put a Christmas tree on top of the building once it has topped out. Since most of our new downtown buildings haven't even broke ground yet..there will be no way we'll see "topped out Christmas trees" this December. Maybe December 2015.
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If we have too little of anything downtown...it is residences with balconies. So I say bring them on and the more the merrier...it will help to create a different type of synergy downtown.
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Do they communicate the setting is Houston or just some nfl city?
It is clearly noted as HOUSTON...home of the Texans. They do an aerial over Reliant and our skyline then they break away to the character that plays the Texans GM. Plus Arian Foster is a prominent, although not frequent, character in the movie.
If you have any interest in football at all.......you will find this to be a very entertaining movie (just don't take it too seriously).
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Houston is featured in the movie, Draft Day. There is a nice aerial shot of Reliant Stadium with the Med Center and then downtown in the background. IMO, this is the most complete view of the Houston skyline because you get 2 of the 3 largest density clusters in one shot, an on axis. Uptown is more of a jumbled mess when compared to DT or MC and it is harder to relate that district back to the other 2.
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You must have not have seen the very limited amount of space Astoria is being built on or the proposed building on block 98
So we've confirmed that the owners of ES do NOt own the parking lot near their hotel?
If they are planning on throwing up a 30+ building on that small part of block 98 then they can definitely make something work next to ES
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I'm sure this discussion can probably be moved to somewhere else but since this is the only thread about Hess Tower, are they ever bringing the turbines back? Would be cool to have before the Superbowl begins.
They are NEVER bringing the turbines back.
They tried to do something a little different but the turbines proved to have a malfunction and presented a HUGE risk to the developer. The small reward, in aesthetics, is not worth the risk...especially if that risk turns out to be catastrophic (which it almost was). They are never coming back....that ship has sailed a long time ago.
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Development List For Buildings In Houston
in Going Up!
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We all heard the most desirable office building lots are the ones with tunnel connection, however, wasn't Hess Tower (way off of the grid) sold for a record amount. I think this false facade of "it must be on the tunnel" system will start to fade especially if the convention center district looks like it will be built around activity of the street level and will be close to residences.