EllenOlenska

I remember paying for a seat to see Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse at the new River Oaks District. I opted for the cheaper seat and was sent through a different door into a caged area at the lowest line of seats while above me rich people lounged on settees and ate grapes that hung pendently above their mouths 

28 minutes ago, Triton said:

Honestly that's fine too. I just hope it's not another "luxury" cinema.

33 minutes ago, jmosele said:

Maybe not so baby... if it gets built, then it looks like it would be a 12 story podium with ~40 floors above. That could make it comparable to 609 main in height. IF the one on the right got built as shown, it would be edging into supertall territory.

 

I don’t know anything about this project, and don’t know how much those models accurately reflect what TAMU has planned for the site. 

To my eye, they look really big. I concur. 

I find the Sabine-Memorial expansion to be really interesting. 
 

They're mixing the uses of parking and driving around 

Damn

Like Hadrian's Wall, it's pretty impressive in part because it's above the sunken freeway. 

2 minutes ago, Luminare said:

Seems a bit too imposing for that square. I think something between the height of Aris and height of Texas Tower will work here. This building wants to be on that vacant lot that we all want a super tall to go in.

Ask the building. Maybe it wants to be in Midtown. 

lol thicc indeed. I love it. It's like something out of Brazil. It's like the Chinese consulate on stilts. 

57 minutes ago, cspwal said:

Why does that first floor plans have 2 full bathrooms for 1 bedroom?  If they had made that front one a half bath, there would have been more storage space.  Also, why put the bathroom at the corner as opposed to the bedroom?  Weird choices

That floor plan is weirding me out. 

1 minute ago, Purdueenginerd said:

 

I dont believe its as simple as consumer preferences. Though that dynamic does play into some peoples decisions--- I think the more real reason is merely economics. Single Family homes inside the city are still relatively cheap compared to cities of similar size. In my opinion, that depresses demand for condominium housing. 

We have like 1/6 the density of Uruk circa 3000 BC. There's a lot of space. 

I like the base of this building. 

This feels like a mock up that got lost on its way to Houston: Potential. 

People can park at the Post Office and take the train down. 

Just came in from outside. That crane is tall today. 

I love how it's like the entire backside is a chain link fence abutting a void. 

As someone who has a habit of musing that parking lots should be turned into arbors or gardens or local parks, I wouldn't undersell the green roof as "buzzy"; mainly because that's a huge roof. 

My perennial comment: I kinda like the Greystar apt 

16 minutes ago, Purdueenginerd said:

 

 

That actually looks like a deep foundation tensile load test to me.  (pdf of ASTM test : http://www.centurionfondation.com/fr/pdf/ASTM-D3689_07.pdf )Next to the machinery are helical piles. So they might installing helical piles for the crane, and then subsequently load testing it? Either way, its a little odd to me. 

 

Normally I see those tests done if 1) theres a problem with the foundation you just placed. or 2: you're reusing the "deep foundation" of a previous or existing building. Code requires a load test. I'm skeptical the old chase bank had deep foundation thats useable for a much taller building. 

 

Maybe they want to load test their helical piles... I dont know. Curious images. 

 

 

 

 

To my knowledge the chase building is still there. 

The part of the block where they're drilling had a small pavilion but was mostly just paved over. No large building was on it. 

10 minutes ago, CaptainJilliams said:

 

I hate to be that guy, but does a thread exist for what is going up on that plot of land in the first picture across from the water works?

They haven't done anything to the old Chase Building yet, I don't think. But I think all but the southeastern quadrant (where they have the new chase building) is Greystar. I put it on the Greystar forum where people were recently arguing longwindedly. 

A few pictures from a garage over 19th. Some of the shots are of the Greystar/Chase blocks. I always assumed the northeast quadrant of the block (the one closest to the garage and my phone camera) was where they were building. There's a lot of work going on there. If so, it's right across from Alliance. But I can't tell at all from the Greystar rendering. 

My vision is a twenty story glass mixed-use tower thereabout Thai Spice fronting a metrotrain that goes to the Northwest Train Station. 

I hang out around here a lot. I lived in Timbergrove for a while and then on the other side of the Heights. 

The area has a lot of tall buildings. The new apartment complex is there of course, but there's a dark-glassed office building, a hospital, an old-folk's apartment tower and another similar tower at the end of 19th. The tallest might be (I don't have the numbers in front of me) the office building right now. 

In front of the huge hospital is a massive parking lot (which fronts 19th.) And a bunch of stucco buildings with parking lots in front of them. Yeah, the old shops that front 19th at the end are cool, but they aren't the whole way. While I might prefer the boilerplate bunker design of the Chase building to the boilerplate modern design of this apartment, I think it's pretty fitting in that nothing really fits. 

Except density, which is what makes this area cool.