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  1. EllenOlenska
    I think this Structure/Gardens has some synergy (pardon the term) with the Houston Endowment's new building and refurbished Spotts Park.
  2. EllenOlenska
    Folks are all excited and I think we should be. Right down the street there's two massive towers. This spot is destined for a big development.
  3. EllenOlenska
    I remember when 10 was a skyscraper! 16 seems to necessitate solid construction.
  4. EllenOlenska
    Score one for the future island.
  5. EllenOlenska
    Wouldn't the SA river walk portion of Houston be our future island north of downtown?
  6. EllenOlenska
    I'm laughing uncontrollably at this thread
  7. EllenOlenska
    I think it's safe. Something is offputting. And yet, I must admit I like it. I'm a sucker for the international style. I like particularly black glass. Two Houston Center for me is still a relatively unsung building. Even with the construction. (I'll admit, I personally have my fingers crossed that this begin soon.) I'm actually interested in the trees? I've heard there are problems with trees on buildings beyond their unsubtle voguishness and ubiquity. Not only that they need so and so much steel and concrete to keep hoisted up there, but that they begin to die immediately. How true is this?
  8. EllenOlenska
    Thank you @Tritonfor this. But...does anyone else find the perspective here extremely strange?
  9. EllenOlenska
    I personally think it'll be nice when it's finally built out along 99 in Spring, Tx.
  10. EllenOlenska
    I mean, I do see a lot of Game Stops in their portfolio.
  11. EllenOlenska
    I also...am a fan.
  12. EllenOlenska
    Damn I thought it looked like that, I shoulda said so and made my post look prescient.
  13. EllenOlenska
    It's funny. I like it. Is it a showy tower that'll change the perspective--no. Was the tower that interesting in itself other than being very tall--*squints*. Oddly, the massing in this case without the tower portion will make it quite idiosyncratic in that lot.
  14. EllenOlenska
    I'm with @KinkaidAlum, handsome structures
  15. EllenOlenska
    Gotta say if there isn't a more "Dallas" thoroughfare in Houston than this street. Sorry.
  16. EllenOlenska
    Hey look it's Regent Square.
  17. EllenOlenska
    I think the building is cool as hell and also that the treatment of adjuncts in the modern U is unjust.
  18. EllenOlenska
    To me, if this is an open series of gardens and a cultural center that is mostly open to the public then this is the best thing for the land.
  19. EllenOlenska
    Yes--and I've seen the argument (and parroted on here) that it was the fullest flowering of Frank Lloyd Wright's idea of a single huge tower dominating a deserted plain. Now I don't mind a large tower going beside it--but if it gains something, it also will lose something.
  20. EllenOlenska
    Get in a time machine and give your outcry to the demolition of the super cool First State Bank Building in Pasadena
  21. EllenOlenska
    Good, we need a little 1983's 1400 Smith St. in midtown.
  22. EllenOlenska
    Damn it, don't make me love this building.
  23. EllenOlenska
    Frasier was more casual.
  24. EllenOlenska
    I guess it also depends on how you define midrise. Above about 8 tend to be built to last. Below 4 look like tinderboxes.
  25. EllenOlenska
    I'm here to say if in all of midtown there is one big grocery than that's three two few.
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