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Those are some of the coolest (compositionally pleasing) crane photos I've ever seen. Especially the last one. Well done!

Be strong San Francisco. Amazon doesn't think you're as viable as Columbus. Prove them wrong!

Don't worry. Houston still has a few other Fortune 500 companies left I think. Hopefully they will be able to keep a few dozen people employed for a few more months. 

If it makes you feel any better,  Houston will soon be joined by 19 of the 20 cities on Amazon's list sparkling high-end metropolises that didn't get eliminated this time. Then those cities will know what it's like to be viewed as a blue-collar, warehouse infested, back roads kind of town like Houston (and evidently San Francisco). One day Houston will show America's glamour capitals like Raleigh and Indianapolis what coolness is all about!

Thank you Robert Mueller.

The Vic At Southwinds: Multifamily In Baytown at 1900 Kilgore Pkwy.

Would that be the left or the right? 

Yes, Houston needs more flat roofs. Slants are so slanty.

It's too flat.

Here they are, purple lunatic.

Don't need to look across the ocean. 

That is because they can't repeal Obamacare.

Thanks to Obama for putting it in motion. Trump hasn't had time to screw it up yet, but he's trying.

8 hours ago, H-Town Man said:

 

Just observing... he has 9,708 posts, you have 42 posts. People on an architecture forum are going to say both positive and negative things about architecture. Why don't you rack up about a thousand posts or so before you start complaining about the style of other members?

 

 9,708 posts? Wow, that's a lot of bitching! 

Do you ever stop bitching?

Nonsense.

On 7/8/2017 at 10:13 AM, H-Town Man said:

 

Should be pretty clear from my previous comments that my interest in this goes well beyond just wanting to impress guests. Although image to outsiders is an area where Houston can certainly improve, and benefit itself in the process.

 

...Unless you don't consider GFR an to be an 'improvement'. Some outsiders are more impressed with looking at big skylines than they are with being able to walk to Starbucks. I guess it depends on if you are trying to please the 1% who will live and visit the area or the 99% that will just drive by it on their way to go to somewhere else.

My dream of one day seeing the Downtown skyline connected to the TMC skyline, through Midtown will take decades to achieve (if ever). Anything that helps that happen is an exciting idea to me. Another little structure in Midtown doesn't do anything to expand the skyline. Maybe if I lived in Midtown right now and were someone who might benefit from walking to retail (a dying concept, internet deliveries are the future) or Midtown already had a decent skyline, I might see it your way.

I don't know if this rendering is accurate, but it looks like most of us are going to get what we want on that spot. It looks like a high rise with some kind of GFR.

I can see how living in a walkable urban neighborhood would be an attractive feature, especially to those who live in a city that doesn't have a lot of them - but the whole idea of impressing guest, as if that's a good reason to do anything, makes me want to hurl. Hopefully we'll all get what we want, but seeing the 369' on this thread is the only thing that makes this project interesting to me. 

Why would someone who lives in a city with a walkable neighborhood want to visit another city that's exactly like where they came from? All my visitors hate walking anywhere. They just want to be chauffeured around town (by me). I'm only interested in my own personal vision for Houston. Your visitors can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico. Just kidding.

22 hours ago, H-Town Man said:

 

I'd rather see it 3 stories with GFR than 30 stories without GFR. 

 

Not me. GFR isn't everything.  I think its high time Midtown started to develop a real skyline of it's own and a "beautiful" 3 story building wouldn't cut it for me even if it had the greatest GFR in Texas. Don't get me wrong, I want it to have GFR too, but not at the expense of this building doing whatever it can to help connect the DT and TMC skylines.

Even if it isn't 40-stories, a 369' building in Midtown is significant and I hope this is the beginning of a trend. This and the 3 high rises proposed across from the Midtown park superblock will go a long way in making my own personal midtown dreams come true. If enough of these high rises take off, the GFR will come organically out of necessity anyway.  

Before the election, the Obama administration issued several warnings to Moscow about its activities, including one delivered by Obama to Putin in September 2016. Imagine what trump would have said if Obama had tried to postpone the election or done anything more than call it out - WHICH HE DID. I'm sure trump would have taken Obama at his word, been outraged and done everything he could have done to stop the russians from helping him get elected. 

Right. I suppose that senerio makes perfect sense if you live in an alt reality. But in ACTUAL reality, trump said "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing", and constantly denied that russians were ever trying to hack the elections at all. 

Nobody is overlooking what Obama did or should have done or could have done. But what difference does it make in the here and now whether Obama botched it or not - or how trump would have reacted 9 months ago? What's done is done. We can't change the past. What happens going forward is all the matters. Don't believe me? Just say, "you can grab the p-word"  to trump supporters and watch how quickly they don't want to talk about what happened in the past.

There is a CURRENT situation going on that the CURRENT president consistently doubts is happening, denies that he benefited by it and only acknowledges that it MIGHT have happened when he can use it to pass the buck to his predecessor. And when the media calls him out on his wacko double talk, he calls it 'fake news'. 

Who is head of the US government right this second? What is he doing about Russian interference? I'll tell you what he is doing about it. He is calling it 'fake news'. He is delivering speeches to bussed in supporters in Poland questioning his own country's intelligence agency findings. He is blaming his predecessor for not doing anything while he, himself is saying 'we don't know what country' is hacking American elections. He is doing less than nothing about Russian hacking and simultaneously accusing his predecessor of doing the same. 

Accusing somebody of doing nothing about something you deny ever happened doesn't make a lot of sense to most people. But then the trump cult has never been bothered much about things that don't make a lot of sense. If an idea is too complex for them to process, they just call it 'fake news' and go back having sex with their farm animals.