EllenOlenska

I have a slightly different view on this. While a lot of your concerns are logical. I'm old enough to remember (and I'm not very old) coming to the ball park with family and parking a sea of empty lots and derelict buildings. When I was there recently, looking around at the town houses, the lofts, and the soccer stadium, I was surprised how close the Ivy Lofts was to an invigorated area. This is probably because it seemed father away on a map, to my eye. But, in comparison with the past, the future for Live Oak seems pretty bright.

Oh flats. Because Britain is so hip nowadays.

I can't wait til I start seeing renderings and am able to differentiate all these massive concrete seas surrounding downtown from each other.

When will it get a metro rail?

I'm going to be in the minority, but I don't hate it. It was handsome and now not quite so handsome, but in the end I don't know if I like it less than, say, the Sky Houses. They say humans feel twice as much pain with loss than they feel pleasure with gain, so I can understand why one would be upset with the "blah"-ization of the building, but my thoughts are still this: well, it's tall.

I wonder about its height. It will poke out a bit farther than the Alexans, and do it farther north. So begins the itty-bitty Heights skyline.

First time I've seen this rendering. It looks like they've started working on the two "wrap" apartments. It's handsome in a suburban way. Quite frankly I'm more impressed with its southerly neighbor.

Not positive what this is. It's near 200 Cherry Street where student housing is supposed to be going up but the garage looks much larger than the one in the renderings I can find.

A few things I saw while driving through campus.

Bio Corridor has a sign now and a few cool-for-College-Station buildings, but still mostly grass.

I took some very bad shots while driving by.

This turned out much better than I expected (since the bar was so low.) The greenery around and climbing the fence is rather nice in real life. 

I don't think it's so bad.

The grass is always greener, and sadly we saw a rendering of the grass.

On 5/17/2016 at 10:57 AM, Triton said:

Wow, guess I'm in the minority. I really like it.

I like. I sure don't love it, but I like it.

The source of my negativity is because I'm soon to be living in Tanglewood and often run past this very building. It's mostly just personal desire and neighborhood partisanship, but I feel every development that isn't Elan Heights puts a damper on my day.

There is also the Pirkle Engineering and Technology Building (http://www.shsu.edu/dept/facilities-management/fred-pirkle-engineering-technology-center.html)

I am a graduate student at SHSU, and I've noticed a few quite large construction projects going on around campus. The one large enough to cause a furor in some places in Houston in the South Residential Complex, which I snapped a few pictures of today. Though doing some research I found some renderings and pictures. (http://www.shsu.edu/dept/facilities-management/south-residential-complex.html)



My pictures are of a much more finished structure.



 

I apologize for my ignorance of the whole scheme, but I'm wondering, in layman's terms, if the Pierce Elevated is demolished what then?

Underground highway encircling downtown, and then a large boulevard over it? 

An argument on the "Australian's" thread over if the Pierce Elevated deters construction, I'd like to say it may be an extraordinarily handsome road if it were a tree-lined boulevard, ripe for even greater development.

I'm sorry, but I'm quite partisan for the north-facing view of Downtown.

If the apartments were five and a half times bigger it would have a Frasier type balcony view.

19 minutes ago, jmitch94 said:

 

I have a friend from Austin who once said, "Houston cant seem to decide where it's downtown is, y'all have skyscrapers everywhere." 

At least this one is right on the straight line of Main street. In fact, I think it would give the whole downtown-medical district a sort of centripetal cohesion, pulling towards the roundabout.

O please, o please, o please. It'll look so cool.