UrbaNerd

He didn't do that. That's the Sabine-Bagby Promenade. http://www.buffalobayou.org/sabinebagby.html

I was referring to Sesquicentennial park, actually.

I do like the park portion along the bayou, with those lit columns and such, so yeah...

is it just me or does the top floors on the right side not look level to one another? something looks off to me

Probably a garage level or something.

From 59, one can see the curved latticework starting to go up on top. Looks like the rendering will indeed be accurate!

Doesn't matter though; it's still quite large, and voluminous.

There's an Azuma in the ground floor of the Baylor bldg/garage off of Fannin/Main in the TMC, if I am not mistaken.

Ran into this rendering while poking around the Chron archives:

It just MAY have SOME retail or something at the base perhaps; either that, or this is just the rendering for the leasing office/complex gym/etc. The design is....typical of what's been going up around Midtown; not exceptional, but somewhat tolerable.

Link to story where render was found: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/busine...ff/5546743.html

Saaay, any word on the Post Midtown expansion? Wasn't that already underway, or has that been mothballed for a while?

High rise class? What year of the program were you in when you took that? Eee, I have a long way to go...lol

They could always cannibalize the under-utilized Cy Twombly gallery!

The signs are amusing. They say that the project is in its first trimester.

I hope they don't abort it then!

The individual structures themselves are interesting, but it looks far too much like a Greenway or Westchase type of development to fully take advantage of the transit/access amenities.

Swamplot states something similar: http://swamplot.com/even-better-than-green...1-19/#more-5689

I certainly hope they will at least make some changes to this development, if it is to get off of the ground at all.

Way to find the cloud surrounding the silver lining. ;-(

They will be leaving behind 480,000 square feet in Allen Center and occupying approximately 870,000 square feet in the building formerly known as Discovery Tower. 390,000 square foot gain of occupied space for downtown Houston. Pretty exciting stuff, especially in times like these...

This move may reduce the chance for 5 Allen Center to proceed any time soon (because it gives them 480,000 square feet to accommodate Devon's growing needs).

Devon might want a larger solid chunk of space than 480k sqft though. Most large firms prefer that, so perhaps there COULD still be hope, ceteris paribus.

Yes, and there isn't too much trash on the ground, either!

Let's hope they don't chop 30 stories off of Mainplace or anything like that!

Are you saying it is only third rate?

Nah, I wanna hear your reasons for calling it "second rate".

You probably hit the nail on the head there. It's got to be easier just to pick out projects by the starchitects, regardless of merit. It bothers me sometimes when big commissions go to big names that go on to produce second rate work (Cf Moneo's Beck Building at MFAH).

Hey now, what exactly qualifies the Beck building as "Second Rate"?

Well, it was probably considered "great" since the Starchitect Robert AM Stern designed it. In fact, it's not even original; a structure designed by him in California or something beforehand bears a striking resemblance to the Hobby. It seems that most Starchitects can get away with that these days (ie Gehry and his multiple clones of crumpled-tinfoil buildings).

Perhaps the editors at Phaidon enjoy stirring us architecture critics into debates over things like this; maybe they are just as sadistic and argumentative as we are here.

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I heart the waffle slab system they're using there!

Wasn't built in the 21st century.

Yeah, 1984 or something. Maybe you're familiar with the joke somewhere else on the board?

Perhaps it was self immolation due to its exclusion from Phaidon's 21st century atlas, while it's neighbor down the street got a space?

Yes yes, I still can't stop laughing at that argument/fact.

Here, found a way to do it

Not too big and not too small.

I see you've resorted to a Goldilocks perspective to architecture these days.

Say, looks like Target will be moving to the new development; there's a logo on the building kinda far back.

Houston Calling...

Nah, it looks like it is going towards the shops at Houston Center.