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Beautiful! Kind of wonder how the office market will be. Could be a tough time to build this. 

22 hours ago, shasta said:

Have you not seen the skyline of Paris, called La De'fense?

Yes I have but it's not even in the top 10 things that come to mind when I think of Paris which further reinforces my point. You also seem to have missed my point that having or not having a great skyline is pretty irrelevant to making a city great. Paris would still be one of the greatest cities on earth with or with out La De'fense. 

8 hours ago, astrohip said:

The Chronicle also has the press release in today's paper. I still think there is a mistake. You don't build a 25/26 story building in less than a year.

 

But as someone who lives just a couple blocks up Westheimer from this, I hope they can. Because you know they're gonna create some traffic issues during construction.

So true. Houston loves to allow developers the right to block as many lanes of traffic and sidewalks for as long as they please.  

On 8/16/2020 at 4:12 PM, Sunstar said:

Why can’t both be important? Glibly writing off people that care about how our skyline looks as suburbanites going to an Astros game runs contrary to the many skyline pictures I see on this forum every day. 

 

It’s still somewhat important but no one goes New York for the main purpose of sitting across the river in New Jersey and looking at the skyline. Most great cities are not great because they have nice skylines. For example Barcelona and Paris have next to no iconic skylines outside of a single structure in each. 

I’d recon at least half of the concrete that is in the parcel between Holcombe and Dixie drive has been removed. I can get pictures soon. 

I'm sure the ground floor will look fine which is what most people will be interacting with anyway. 

23 hours ago, gene said:

in MY opinion...

is this place nice? yes...

is this place boring? also yes...

i mean come on...even that little cruddy water feature in the courtyard is a disappointment...

they definitely should have come up with a better design for that...maybe even had some trees or taller plants etc? i am not sure...

i am betting it looks better at night though. 

would i live there? of course haha! 

It looks a lot nicer from human perspective not bird perspective. Also this place is massive for only holing 42 residences.

Hanover doesn’t mess around that’s for sure.

On 7/6/2020 at 2:10 PM, Avossos said:

 

Well, This shouldnt be compared to Calhoun Lofts. It is clear that was built with better materials.

 

I worry how these will age based on materials (mostly stucco) and design (pieces of the building's architecture that stick out) that will naturally deteriorate faster, and the color (dated).

I feel like this is made with materials that are pretty standard across the city. The colors are a bit bright and unique but if you're that worried about this project you must not be too excited about the rest of the city. 

Looks like they will have a large crawler crane on site too. 

Kind of surreal to think the setting of so many memories for so many people can be erased just like that. I'm not railing against this at all it just makes me a little melancholy to think that something so essential and permanent as where you live for so many people for years and years can be turned into a patch of dirt that is indistinguishable from any other. 

This is already a great area now and I'm sure this will add more to the scene. I just hope some of my favorite places don't get priced out like Warren's. 

What is going on with the parking lot next to the ballerina school? 

Drove by 10:00pm and crews were boarding up most of Highland Village. Dozens if not a hundred or more cops are surrounding the Galleria.   

What is the Discovery tower? 

10 hours ago, Luminare said:

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I also don't think this is strictly a blue or red issue. I also don't think this is a rural or city issue either. More mobility is better for everyone no matter who you are. Great mobility is hallmark of a great democratic society. It should be something worth pushing for.

This is true but a lot of America loves to vote against their own best interests even if they don't know it. 

On 5/22/2020 at 8:42 AM, texan said:

 

The idea is that medicine needs more engineers in the field to make treatment more advanced and cheaper. (Aggie engineer here, student when this all was announced although I'm in aerospace, not medicine) They pitched it to us that in engineering school our way of thinking is changed to a creative problem solving capacity and that we seek to understand instead of just memorize (I've been told by friends that med school professors love having engineers in their classes for this reason). Rather than just knowing what the body does, in med school engineers seek to understand the how and why. They say this would allow us to use that creative problem solving ability to attack the problems head on. Instead of just providing treatment, physician engineers would constantly come up with new solutions- hardware, using data, or otherwise- to treat patients. Essentially, applying the problem solving ability of engineers to the medical field. Really what it is is broadening the pool that medicine pulls from, adding people of new backgrounds, which will definitely make the field better.

I’m genuinely not arguing here but isn’t that what bio-med and bio-tech degrees do already? I guess this is just at the PhD level?

So you go to school to get an engineering degree and a medical degree? Why both and not one or the other? 

14 hours ago, Montrose1100 said:

That store has some flashy stuff, but it's super rare to find an item you like that isn't already broken somewhere. Guess that's what happens when half your stock is glass/mirror.

Their gaudy excess has fallen to modern minimalism. 

16 hours ago, houstontexasjack said:

I’ll be happily surprised if this breaks ground this year. United Airlines is seriously running forecasts for travel being down 90+ percent for the remainder of the year. Tough to see a quick rebound in travel to support demand for hotel occupancy in the nearer term.

I share you skepticism but if this doesn’t start until December of this year I can’t imagine it would be done before at least summer of 2022.