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3 hours ago, phillip_white said:

While this one may have something remaining of it's original facade, I think you are confusing this with the Main Food Store. 

I get where you're coming from, but the fire is in the building housing a different bodega, the Main Street Market, a few blocks north.  It, too was slipcovered.

Thanks for digging that back up, Avossos. 

Comparing them side by side, it looks like the slip cover may not have destroyed everything since it's roughly the same height as the original roof decoration.  Now let's just hope that the fire doesn't.

Dang, missed the kolaches.  And "TC Energy Center" sounds like a basketball arena somewhere or another. 

they just need to get off my lawn... grumble...

And just yesterday we were linked to its former deco glory... it's going to be interesting seeing what the next act is for this one.

H-Town, fair point.  However, turning the bottom few floors into something that doesn't even try to coordinate with the rest of the building is right up there with the aluminum skins that were a "modernization" fad in the 60s.  Changing the usage (and even the massing) doesn't have to mean ditching the basic design concept.   

Incidentally, this is what's wrong with the idea of changing the bottom two floors of Two Shell, Houston Center, etc., to meet our current tastes.  There will come a time when 80s style will be considered chic again.  (***shudder...***)

If they really wanted to be ambitious, they'd include some wildlife in the renders...

1 hour ago, Subdude said:

I remember reading that the canal project was initially proposed in the 1930s.  So there's progress.

And to think we whinge about a project that only takes two or three times longer than it should...

57 minutes ago, Luminare said:

The apps...kinda suck. Its not built for phones in a compelling way and its not easy to use.

They rebuilt the iPhone version a couple months ago.  It's a noticeable improvement - then again, I learned on steam powered computers so YMMV.*

*(a more polite way of saying "get off my lawn")

NoDoz - the neighborhood that never sleeps.  Catchy.

The Mia Bella building has really difficult sewer issues.  That's why they moved.

We've been able to do that forever.  It's even easier now that there's a phone app.

Let's not forget the historic dives...

1 hour ago, Luminare said:

Yeah, but my peeve with "Post Modern" is that the oxymoron is actually the point. Its a movement that thrives on contradictions, and so calling out the contradiction is actually what plays to its hand. I mean the name in of itself is absurd since "modern" literally means "just now", so in affect "Post Modern" is "after just now" or "after now" which is ridiculous, but that is also the point.

I get it - but I make my living writing stuff that my clients and I hope is not ridiculous, hence my barely restrained obsession regarding grammar that affects my daily life.  I even have a "grammar" folder in my browser toolbars, an effective collection of links that includes Common Errors in English Usage.

Meanwhile, back on topic:

Photos from before the 1960s remuddling appear to have a second (and perhaps even a third) feature similar to the one at the southwest corner.  Does anyone know if they're going to be recreated to match what we see in all the renderings of the Main / Wheeler corner?  (I may not have dug back far enough in this thread)

53 minutes ago, Texasota said:

I mean, strictly speaking, the lame Rice opera house under construction now is a structurally modern building with a somewhat pared down, slightly muddled "traditionalist" style. If nothing else, I'd like someone to come up with a good (preferably at least mildly derogatory) name for buildings that attempt to graft older styles onto modern/contemporary structures using contemporary materials and techniques.

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. 

2 hours ago, MidCenturyMoldy said:

 

Doesn't Post Oak Blvd have honorary Inner Loop status?  (not a serious question)

As hard as it can be to walk from one building to another nearby building and as shiny as everything is, nope... it's definitely suburban.  (not a serious answer )

45 minutes ago, Luminare said:

 

In general, yes. However, there should be split offs for areas that we know where there are a lot of developments going on like in Points North should have a section specifically for The Woodlands. Points West should definitely have ones for Katy, Energy Corridor, and Memorial. Other than that grouping smaller neighborhoods or even bigger hoods that haven't taken off yet with a lot of development should be grouped into a larger subforum

 

EDIT: And Uptown. The fact we don't have a dedicated Uptown Subforum by itself is really weird considering all that is happening and how important an area it is.

Piffle.  All those areas are outside the Loop and therefore insignificant. 🙊

22 hours ago, MidCenturyMoldy said:

Is there an echo in here?

There might be - I only posted once.

5 hours ago, Naviguessor said:

If you've never complained about the effing tourists, you don't live in a tourist town.  Who among us has ever complained about the all tourists in Houston?

Market Square must qualify as a tourist town, then.  (those effing chop top busses... 👺)

5 hours ago, Naviguessor said:

If you've never complained about the effing tourists, you don't live in a tourist town.  Who among us has ever complained about the all tourists in Houston?

Market Square must qualify as a tourist town, then.  (those effing chop top busses... 👺)

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.

23 hours ago, Toopicky said:

 

LOL ..... well, I am pretty sure that South Texas College of Law would be more than happy to swap it out with a closer lot to their building .... I don't see that happening

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.

If your only tool is a hammer...

Maybe Bork can take over... it would be a game changer. 

2 hours ago, Texasota said:

Can they call off the final cladding and leave it exposed concrete with steel stairs like this? Because this is neat.

The cladding may help a bit with LEED certification...

OKfine... I get it, I'm less than hip.  But what IS it with the "social stair" fad?