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  1. mollusk
    One could also call it post modern (cf. 700 Louisiana), or perhaps Neo Byzantine Gothic Re-Revival. .... Today's moment in pedantry, and one of my pet peeves: "Post modern" is an oxymoron.
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    There might be - I only posted once.
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    Market Square must qualify as a tourist town, then. (those effing chop top busses... 👺) Market Square must qualify as a tourist town, then. (those effing chop top busses... 👺)
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    They still have more to do on the parking levels, although they're getting close. The office portion of the building will only cover a portion of the parking - it'll be a rectangle bounded by the zig zag details on the parking levels IIRC.
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    When I went to South Texas we had to fend for ourselves with parking, most of the classes were in the evening, and anything east of Caroline was more than a bit gritty (as in someone would get mugged every month or so). Dang soft kids these days... they also need to get off of my lawn.
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    Maybe Bork can take over... it would be a game changer.
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    The cladding may help a bit with LEED certification...
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    OKfine... I get it, I'm less than hip. But what IS it with the "social stair" fad?
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    There are a couple of other impediments to getting dispersed and handled by the rest of the grid: To the west, the GRB blocks Lamar, McKinney, and Walker, the baseball stadium blocks Preston, Runnels ends at Elysian, and the first clear route south from MMP on is LaBranch. East of the freeway, BBVA blocks Capitol and Rusk. So, yeah... Polk is kinda handy.
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    Without parsing lane counts (actual point being there are still more lanes, regardless of whose math you use), I'm more concerned by more than doubling the right of way to make room for those added and/or rerouted lanes.
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    There is a new consolidated booking facility in the general Baker Street area. IIRC, all that's left of HPD on Lubbock are some offices and the property warehouse on Washington. The permitting center is a fairly new renovation of a much older building that took the place of the previous facility in Midtown. Its customers probably like the relatively easy access and free parking - I know I find it a lot more user friendly than the old place.
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    A wild guess would be a replacement for the Family Law Center, which is crammed to the rafters and has to have fire monitors walking the floors because it is literally a firetrap.
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    Perhaps the French were behind this... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27497727 In reality, though, it sounds like either the plans weren't properly vetted or things weren't built according to plan - both of which happen more often than a lot of people like to admit. That's why they have a clearance template that they run down the line before it opens.
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    I'm perfectly happy to shoot that particular messenger. Still, when the West Loop was rebuilt they kept the same capacity and it didn't kill us.
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    Barbary Coast... Bonaparte's Retreat... It's a very good thing that there are no photos of skinny, long haired me in my disco era finery pounding down tequila sunrises at those places. 🕺
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    Having a rail line on the other side of the Southwest Freeway from the middle of Greenway Plaza west (a design accommodation that was made ages ago) won't affect access to Afton Oaks in any realistic way, shape, or form. Judging by how full the park and ride buses are here, as is the commuter rail elsewhere, it's likely that if a rail alternative were there people in Katy, The Woodlands, etc., etc. would use it.
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    Induced demand is a thing, and it affects more than just the part of a given highway that was expanded. Everyone points to how the Katy is now even more sclerotic outside the loop than it was before; what gets overlooked is that portions inside the loop that were previously generally free flowing except for at the height of rush hour are now a hot mess for most of the day. Sure, one lane of highway takes up about the same amount of space as one track - but it has nowhere near the carrying capacity, nor anywhere near the bang for the buck in energy consumption. For the minimum of $7 billion that the I45 expansion is projected to cost, you could build more than 50 miles of light rail (using the Green/Purple lines as a benchmark); and 30+ miles of commuter heavy rail (using BART's San Jose extension as the benchmark).
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    "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." - Yogi Berra
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    I do so enjoy my neutrality in what used to be known as the Southwest Conference.
  21. mollusk
    Everyone needs a little lebensraum every now and then.
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    Between flooding issues with the old building, not to mention it just being generally pretty grim (even when Brutalist was fashionable), this is a positive development.
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    Which you could put in this:
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    That's looking better. Originally the wall signage (at least what could be seen on the passage from Pennzoil to Esperson) was stick on cutouts. Some of it didn't even make it to the first day of the soft opening.
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    I'm glad we've got Understory to fall back on. According to their web site, they'll be back open during normal hours tomorrow.
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