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  1. mollusk
    Not to dive too much into the off topic tangent; however, I neither live in Austin nor do I go to downtown Austin more than perhaps once a year. I don't find parking there to be any more difficult than any other downtown, and easier than most. Maybe I just have advanced skills, but I never end up having to park in Round Rock or some such and then walk downtown.
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    I'm going to continue to describe the color as "buff" in honor of the age of the older examples, for which beige would also imply boring and formulaic (not that they weren't boring and formulaic in their time).
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    In a demonstration of how eager I am to escape what I'm working on this afternoon (however briefly), I just went downstairs to take a look. The whitish spandrel brick still visible under the bottom left windows looks to have been painted white at one time. The adjoining bays also look to have been painted but then soiled. Tucked around the corner and behind the curtain wall of the little alley filler building between 806 Main and 801 Travis is some once upon a time exterior brick that is about the same shade of buff as the Neils Esperson. The scourge of beige has been with us a long time - just look at Neils Esperson, 1001 McKinney, Commerce Tower, what I still can't break myself from calling the old Gulf Building, Houston Club, the brick portion of Americana, etc., etc...
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    In general, I agree; however, they're pretty close to the original brick color on this one. I'm just glad that the glass isn't tinted blue.
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    IIRC, the turquoise tile is still behind the brown spandrels. I haven't walked by it lately, but I also think I remember seeing at least one of the spandrel panels missing, and there was not a gooey mess of mastic left behind. Bronze aluminum, as described by a poster above, would have been pretty simple to apply without causing a whole lot of collateral damage.
  6. mollusk
    An excellent perspective of The Parking District.
  7. mollusk
    With all those diagonals, it sounds like "unparalleled" is simply a literal description.
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    I embrace painted Styrofoam brickesque building materials. Given the mastic that apparently couldn't be removed from the original brick, to get to the original appearance I don't know that there was a whole lot of alternative (except perhaps for actual lick and stick, which in that volume would be pretty spendy).
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    hmmm...both whiny and not very diligent. That bunch is really gonna love it once they have to actually deal with fresh air. The only tenants I know of that didn't move somewhere reasonably nearby were Ko Ko Ro Sushi, which once one got past the idea of "tunnel sushi" was actually pretty serviceable, and the iFly fishing gear store, which never seemed to have customers.
  10. mollusk
    Me, too. Models are usually built to scale, as well as later in the timeline. BTW, the exaggerated perspective of the rendering can also be a bit deceiving.
  11. mollusk
    The faux brick is even more faux than lick and stick - it appears to be another layer of paint in a different color.
  12. mollusk
    The Sheraton was also a disassembly, which is a somewhat more involved process than whacking at brick and concrete.
  13. mollusk
    Now that is a toy train.
  14. mollusk
    MLB is the designator for Melbourne International Airport, serving the eponymous small city on the Atlantic coast of Florida. Perhaps you meant MEL, the airport that serves the city in Australia?
  15. mollusk
    I had no idea there was that much demand between Los Angeles and Brevard County.
  16. mollusk
    I would if I could get them to turn out properly. Regardless, not a whole lot to see vs. a couple weeks ago. They seem to be working more on interiors right now (including much jackhammer work).
  17. mollusk
    I will now un-view them, so please move my thanks forward to when they are released. Meanwhile, it will be good to have another project moving forward. All this activity is amazing - it's really more than what we had back in the late '70s - early '80s, when you add in all the activity in the Post Oak corridor, XOM up north, and the flurry of "little 20 story buildings" in the Energy Corridor.
  18. mollusk
    No arms, no legs, and it's hanging up. Yep, it's Art.
  19. mollusk
    Let's not forget the Pappas Bros. BBQ to go in the middle.
  20. mollusk
    Good. That's a very nice room, and now that there's a lot more activity in the immediate area it should have a better chance of making it.
  21. mollusk
    I'd rather have the pennants on the light poles than the giant billboards. Essentially, they swapped places.
  22. mollusk
    Potato or not, it's a different angle than what we usually see (and at least they're right side up, unlike anything I ever try to post). Thanks, WU.
  23. mollusk
    @ HoustonBoy: Somebody's got to like it...might as well be you. You're not crazy; your perceptions are different. (my Kumbaya moment for the day)
  24. mollusk
    The last Mexican restaurant I ate at was La Mexicana, but it's nowhere near Clear Lake, it was dark, and I don't particularly recall any wind, much less a tornado warning.
  25. mollusk
    Old lore I heard was that Jesse Jones built what is now the Houston Club building (for the time being, at least) in part to house back room functions of what was then the National Bank of Commerce, the main part of which was housed in what was then the Gulf Building across the street - hence the flat tunnel. I've been a mole person for decades and have also enjoyed the organic growth of the tunnel system. Way back when, the tunnel level under 919 Milam was not a food court, but instead went past the building's boilers and mechanical systems, with big windows to allow spectating upon them. The last vestige of that particular kind of archaeology is under Neils Esperson, on the way to 801 Travis. BTW, back on topic - the temporary garage ramps also cause me to add credence to the idea that the Capitol Tower will be built. I don't have any way to know the numbers, but logic dictates that mothballing the rest of the building and just operating the parking garage could likely be done economically on its own, without the added drama of demolition.
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