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Gosh it is so looking like the Mark.

I can't vision that. The renderings make it look grey. Here's hoping they still paint it.

I think I would rather have no supertall at all than a Trump supertall. 

The one in Chicago is probably the nicest one.

Women laughing at food stock photo. lol.

 

https://www.pinterest.com/whosinski/women-laughing-at-food/

 

 

Not quite women laughing while eating salads...

 

Edit: Clicked the pinterest link and realized half of them were women laughing while eating salads.

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.

While we have seen a huge surge of activity, it is a drop in the ocean compared to the late 70's and early 80's.

Not boring, and looks about >22 floors.

I would much rather see banana phone, bubba the roach, the Ft. bend music piano, and tin rooster tower of terror than a giant cross.

Agreeing with most posters about the BotSWT block. That would absolutely bring the skyline together (along with Chevron's tower).

If one was built on the east side the southern view would be awesome as it is the most dense view.

This is a little off topic but pertains to Upper Kirby.

This sculpture by James Surls was installed Sunday

It reaches 38 feet high. Great addition to the neighborhood

and excited to have another Surls in Houston.

Wacky and Tacky. As most of the swamplot comments are - I agree they should have planted trees. This sculpture would have fit nicely along Buffalo Bayou or Montrose Blvd.

I think River Point would look real good within the Houston skyline.  I love it, wish we were getting that one too.

It reminds me of the little packets hotel soaps come in.

No offence but the giant crosses make Houston look like a town full of over religious nuts. It makes the city seem backwards and unprogressive. When I see those giant crosses I think: unwelcoming, conservative, southern baptist, bible belt capital, etc.

I thought about the unwelcoming part, like the first one seemed like a knee-jerk reaction when there were plans for a mosque near ground zero. A quick claiming of territory. Maybe I'm over analyzing it.

I spoke to a bar tender at the eagle about 3 weeks ago and he told me they were going to remodel the inside. I asked specifically about the split level bathrooms and he laughed but not disclose if that would be fixed.

From today:

I think this is evidence of my stupidity. I seriously pondered all day what that was in your window reflection. Center Console? Futuristic mirror adjustment/window buttons? Expensive garage button? Then I realized this is your windshield and not driver side window. Radar Detector...

 

Edit: Anyways, thanks for the picture.

I hear what you're saying, but I think we should do something about all the freaking power lines all over the place, that to me (among other things of course) is a way bigger eye sore.  If this giant cross was used to hold up power lines, then I would object.

I do agree that Power lines are going to be Houston's 2nd biggest issue to tackle (other than the T word).

 

My issue is not that it's a cross, or a religious symbol, but just the sheer size of them. Like the Giant American Flag district (both sides of I-10 in Memorial City). Seems very rural and un-city like to me. But I guess so are the dealerships that fly them.

We've heard rumors, and this pretty much confirms it..

http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/2014/04/anadarko-campus-in-the-woodlands-could-grow-again/

A shame that they didn't combine this with their latest tower. But Perhaps it's better The Woodlands doesn't have such a tall building as it might not work so well with the mid and low rises.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/6-story-cross-and-water-wall-going-up-at-major-5373640.php

 

St. Joseph's Professional Building Downtown, that giant cross on the west side of Beltway 8 & I-45 South, these super crosses seem to be sprouting up left and right. I'm all for Christian Churches displaying the Cross, but these giant in your face ones are a bit obnoxious. Almost like the towering 6 story McDonald's signs found in rural towns along the interstate.

 

Not bashing Christianity or Religion, just the fact that they are displaying giant eye sores on the landscape. 

 

Edit: I have to say, this First Baptist is the most tasteful out of all of them.

I would rather see a garden gifted to us by another city. Perhaps one reflecting a different sister city (like the Japanese Garden already in Hermann Park), but maybe by Tampico, Leipzig, Istanbul, Huevla, Taipei or Shenzen. Seeing as some of the other sister cities have similar climates it would be cool to see a proposal with their local topography. 

A shard type building would be perfect for Houston as a bookend (like the post office site), or bordering Hermann Park, Allen Pkwy, Memorial Park.......I agree it would lose its effectiveness in the middle of other towers; on the othet hand, there are many places on Houston an iconic structure like the shard would make a huge impact.

If I could teleport the Shard to Houston, it would be in Midtown, very close to 59.

I just don't see the Shard as anything great.  Besides that something here with that size floorplates would be a waste.

I think the Shard works perfectly with London. It is surrounded by not-so attractive buildings (guy's hospital). So this soaring shard of bright blue glass stands out literally like a shard of beautiful glass in a pile of dirt. It works well being solely the tallest structure around. If it was surrounded by buildings with a similar facade/height, it would immediately lose it's dominating beauty.

The only reason someone would put greenery on a roof top in Houston would be a new build and help with running costs. Being "Green" isn't about saving the planet, it about lowering costs on cooling systems etc.

 

As for sporting courts it has to be on rooftops in cities as dense as Tokyo. Here it would be a novelty. I do like the notion of using all space available, and maybe one day our developers will find a way to execute this (top golf on Green Street), to maximize traffic and revenue. If the city did have an incentive it might push the developers in the right direction. Isn't Parker trying to show the world how "green" we are?

Look at the Heung Kong Tower: 987 feet (7th rendering from the top). That project would look perfect in Downtown Houston. That China Cheung Tower looks perfect for Uptown Houston.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=210563

Thoughts?

Call me crazy but i'd much prefer Tencent Coastal Tower.

Well I thought that because of the funky color and the consistent CGI patterning.  I hope I'm wrong.

The rendering doesn't look like the highest quality, I'm sure it was a lot easier to copy & paste. My first thought was flora. It's better than a solid wall.

Conan is as funny and entertaining as a table. I tried watching his show and didn't smile once. I'm not saying that because he bashed Houston, but jealousy is a stinky cologne. Fit a Dallas show like a glove.

As for light rail one of Houston biggest neg point is getting around, even DT.. I was downtown and a guy in a business suit asked me how to get to dynamo staduim ( The fact that he did not know how to get to DT from DT was a dead give away he was not from here. Now if the rail was up and running at the time how easy would it have been to say go one block over and take the purple line it will drop you right off in front of it.. Instead of telling him the names of a bunch of streets he was most likey not going to remember.. or sending him all the way to the transfer center to catch the bus.. or all the way back up the block to the greyhond to catch a cab... or saying yea it a 7 block walk in Houston heat

Wearing a suit and no smart phone?

Maybe direct on/off ramps? The main problem is that there are way too many interchanges in that stretch over a relatively short distance. Between 69 and 10 (less than 4 miles):

Memorial, Woodway, Post Oak Boulevard, San Felipe, Westheimer, and Richmond

Like maybe have Post Oak Boulevard not interact with highway traffic at all, and instead have it go over, with traffic redirecting down Post Oak Park or Post Oak Blvd., and/or blast Post Oak Lane down to Post Oak Blvd. so that Woodway could pick up the load.

Enh. It'd be complicated, for sure.

Complicated is an understatement! I began running scenarios in my head and immediately got a headache. But Post Oak Blvd. would have to connect as it is a much easier route to the Galleria (and home for me... sometimes), than taking Westheimer directly.

http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/14547-deyaar-post-oak-80-stories-maybe/

 

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2008/02/18/story1.html?page=all

 

Lockmat posted a link on the first page of the Houston Potential thread. it doesn't work anymore. If my memory serves me correctly, it had some white brace around it, going taller than the office space.

 

Edit: Subdude beat me to it.