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    Not really, but damn it'd be great, eh? MARDI GRAS!!!!!!! (Sigh) perhaps I should remember that I'm not living at UH anymore. Still though...
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    Yes! Then people can have all they want to drink at Mardi Gras and not have to worry about driving back. Just take the train back to Houston and get a cab or have someone pick you up. Ah, the possibilities...
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    Ah, okay. That's good. Thanks for telling me. I always felt bad looking at all that empty space in such a neat building with such a good location.
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    Did the rest of Bayou Place ever get filled in? When I was last there it was the Sake Bar, Have a Nice Day, Slick Willy's, Verizon Wireless Theater and the Angelika. But the other part of the building hadn't been redeveloped yet... It'd be sad for the rest of this building to be neglected even as HP goes up. Does anyone know of any plans to produce more affordable* residential capacity in the DT area? The more people that live there (within reason), the better downtown will be.
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    I think it's really beautiful and a great addition to our region. Also, I really love the look of the "towers" surrounding the inner part. I think if someone were to take the basic design for one of those (stupas (???)) and make it into a skyscraper, it would be very beautiful and unique for a highrise.
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    I'm glad there are others who agree. For what it's worth, I think it's fine as a convention center (function), and I know it's not going away anytime soon, but it's just so damned ugly. It's an important building and it's done good things for the city, but I'm sure as shoot not gonna fall into the "may as well like it" trap. Subdude's "1980s period piece" comment made sense to me, though.
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    I don't need to post a picture (actually, I'm not sure how to do it, ha ha), but I'm of the opinion that the George R. Brown Convention Center is an ugly, ugly building and I would like very much if it disappeared. Just the goofy, childish colors are enough to bother me. Bright white, blue and red? It reminds me of a giant toy tugboat. Even if they just redid the external color scheme, I would feel a lot better. Yeah, the new park will be great, and people can go there and enjoy Discovery Green and gaze in horror at the great white thingie, the gigantic styrofoam ice chest.
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    I'm with you guys. As long as the name doesn't change, I won't be sad. This building is my favorite in the downtown skyline as well, and it's one of only a handful of Houston buildings that I've seen in books and on posters. Whoever buys it, it'll always be the "Cathedral of Commerce" in my mind.
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    You're right. LEED isn't a style. However, sometimes architectural themes can be symbolic in nature, and given the whole "Houston and energy" thing, I think an adoption of LEED standards in such a way would make a statement about Houston's role in energy, not only in its production and trade, but in its conservation as well. My statement about LEED was more or less a digression from the main thrust of my post, but I do think Houston's architecture could be more symbolic of Houston's role in the energy industry, and that could be indicative of a native Houston style.
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    After reading this forum for at least two years, I figured I'd start posting. RedScare, I totally agree with you. I've thought a lot about whether it would be possible for a native Houston "style" to manifest. It's easier for other places to do this because they can draw upon elements and motifs of indigenous/traditional/historical architecture, but we lack such a foundation here. The next best option I think is to develop a sort of style that reflects our identity as a "modern" city, i.e. innovative, and especially one that takes into account and works with our climate. If I were mayor I would develop an initiative to mandate that all new public edifices would have to be built on the LEED scale.
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    this building is shaping up pretty well. i'm excited about its completion (correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't think it's done yet? what do y'all think? i'm sorry, i keep having trouble posting images--i find an image on a site, but what exactly is the url for the image itself? can anyone help this poor, lost building dork?
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    although i do like the two buildings, i agree with jtmbin's statement concerning the lack of design competitions. in my opinion, many of the best known and most beautiful buildings in the world are brought forth via design competitions. if a smaller city like Milwaukee can get Calatrava to design a freakin' museum extension, why can't big ol' Houston pull in some sweet international talent?
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    estoy de acuerdo. in the first rendering it totally matched the other building. in the new one, it looks like some absurd casino. i like the old rendering much better. and they better not cheap out on the top, like they did with 5 houston center or whatever it's called.
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