Montrose1100

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Looks like a modern house I built in Minecraft. I dig the shape.

It's not an atrocious design. I will wait until the final product. I bet we will be surprised.

Well depending on the design of the Hotel, I think 10-12 floors should be the max. As for the apartment buildings, 6 floors. Hoping it would spur similar developments along westheimer with more apartment/office buildings of similar height. As for the Palm Trees vs. Oak trees, Palm trees would leave more space for the openness of the plaza. Oak Trees could take a couple decades to reach their full potential, and would require more space as well as possibly having the roots damage/lift the surrounding area. As far as shade, the restaurants could provide their own with canopies over "their" outside spaces on the rim of the plaza. By the intersection remaining the same I mean the configuration of the streets (Montrose & Westheimer). Obviously everything on those blocks would be completely dozed. If it were completely up to me, California would reach Crocker, and thus providing more space. Lincoln (in between the Valero & Burger King would not need to exist. And yes, they would encompass the square. The Apartments would be uniformed in design, not necessarily twins or triplets, but uniform. The Palms would provide a break up of the man-made materials. The Hotel could be unique and preferably something with a solid glass facade. While I do like public art, I do not feel it would be necessary. Having huge sculptures would not go with open flow. The giant LED rainbow would be about the size of the arches over Post Oak Blvd. However, I wouldn't mind if it was a little bigger and was somehow a pedestrian bridge. I would even scratch the the rainbow for tall cylinders that light up appropriately for each holiday on each corner. Also, if artistic sculptures were incorporated with the fountains, I could go for that. A bike sharing station could go in. The fountains could even be ground level so kids can run through them in the warmer months.

No the intersection would remain as is. Just a quick sketch on a sticky note. Sorry for the dark background, I didn't want my co-workers to realize the level of nerdiness that I just achieved by sketching a make believe square on a sticky note and taking a picture of it to post on a website. The Green dots for palm tree locations. L shaped buildings behind the plaza to make the best use of space. The power lines would have to be buried and the garage would go under the current intersection. Obviously I'm not some master plaza designer but I don't have the time or skill to draw how I actually see it in my mind. Edit: F is for Fountain.

I would really like to see all 4 blocks of Montrose @ Westheimer redeveloped to include a cohesive "square" plaza with a huge LED rainbow beaming across the intersection from Aladdin to the Specs strip center. So, an open square plaza with fountains on opposite sides. A big open gathering space with tall palm trees, places for vendors during pride, underground parking, a boutique mid-rise hotel over looking the intersection, and mid-rise apartments surrounding the rest of the square with ground floor retail/restaurant space. Of course all are welcome, and the rainbow should not be "just a gay thing", but an everybody thing. It should represent all the colors of the racial spectrum, and religious, a monument to the diversity shared not only by our city but our whole world. With a plaque that reads "Diversity - Unity above everything else". I feel like this is the center of the neighborhood and really one of the last stretches of urban westheimer that has yet to be fully developed. Sorry for the fantasy.

Galveston looks like that one city you had in Sim City 4 that had a couple high-rises but would never kick off.

I'm going to have to disagree. It is the Mona Lisa of skyscrapers, but I personally don't think it looked futuristic past 1952.

How could I forget the Shard.

Moscow's new financial district is futuristic. Clean design from afar, with many interesting details on the glass up close. Twin Dragons Solid, almost brutalist. Cross-Hash Towers in Seoul. I'm not crazy about the color but I love the play with shapes. The same for the Moscow buildings.

Eeeeek!

Market Square is the perfect place to stop and pick up some grub before going out Downtown.

The only problem I have with this is destroying a Disco Ball. Shame on you. Just kidding, looks cool.

I would love to see your own designed models. Looks forward to more updates!

I was replying to this statement. I didn't say close indefinitely, but closing on certain days when the wind is shifting to the north west. Aint gonna happen. Unless science can come up with some sollution for air filtration/carbon/pollution collection from the source stacks, they will continue to burn.

Awesome work! A hobby I dreamed about but never picked up. Please post updates! Have you ever thought about making models for buildings like the Bank of the South West Tower and other that never were built?

infill is infill. It's a thousand times better than the garden style apartments. Thankfully those only go up in the burbs now.

Cloud seriously that will never happen. Oil pipelines would help our economy. If you want to see more buildings in Houston you have to want the oil/energy business to do their best. If they collapsed this whole city would turn into Detroit over night. No company would put closing their plant (extemely long process), in order to leave billions of the table so we don't have a smoggy day here and there.

That curve is wicked awesome. Also, the street level looks to be in cohesion with BLVD place. This project rendering gets the Montrose1100 stamp of approval. I'm guess the tower behind it is just for kicks. Where there 3 phases to the entire project? It does look like the bottom section of the tower could be hotel, until the gap halfway up.

That might be more appropriate for Buffalo Bayou from 610 west to Downtown. They could even have informative guides like the waterway. Except it would be more historical.

Probably the only apartment complex I've been excited about in years. Make that ever.

Hm... an hour & a half drive? or a 5 hour boat ride? The boat would have to be pretty short. Some of the bridges have lower height until the turning basin.

You have, It was either pre-enron collapse, or like 2004 when those renderings came out.

The monopoly Comcast has in certain areas did build their latest tallest.

Reminds me of the Q1 in Gold Coast. Well that and if it had a baby with that one in Seattle. Better then my drawing. I haven't touched autocad or rhino in years. I had a tower designed over the Galleria. But I was too inspired by the US Bank Building in LA (same foot print).