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I hope this 40+ story residential tower breaks our psychological barrier, and we can finally get some more residential towers that can break the 40 floor mark.

building filed on faa

the structure height is at 351'

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=299071011&row=134

just beeelllliiiieeeveeeee

oh yeah... completely forgot about block 98

aww but i like 601 travis

and its also an office building, not just a parking garage

plus, the famed architect I.M Pei designed it 

i really wish the residential tower had a spire (maybe it could top 500 with one...)

houston's really missing out on spires

one of the best parts of the new york skyline are the spires and how dynamic they are at night

wish houston had some cool spires 

i think the reason @hindesky released all those photos yesterday was to hide away the artesian eclipse

halal carts would be huge improvements for main st

if yall dont mind im going to update the height of this building on skyscraper center

(while im at it, im also gonna attempt to update the methodist outpatient care center (which should hate the same tip height as architectural height)

also, the skyscraper center has us at 34 completed 150m+ on the page, but when you click on the list, it only displays 33 (ive noticed many of this sort of mistake on this webiste)

edit:  both submissions were declined

i retried and it was rejected again (because apparently ' Emporis is not a reliable source for building heights. ' )

but i did manage to change the status of the market square tower

3 hours ago, HoustonIsHome said:

I feel that way too.

Major influence on our skyline.

The height ofb the proposed international tower would have made a big difference in our skyline too. Wish we had gotten both this cycle

thatd be a lot of cranes

hopefully our newest skyscraper can fit in between those 4 icons

one day very soon

this was on march 25th

 i swear these photos look much better on my phone

not a recent photo, but a good one, i promise

(ok actually it might not be that good either)

this was taken from discovery green (my favorite houston park) on december 5th at 5pm (i believe)

we mustn't be complaining

we now have an amazing garage (albeit unfinished)
BUT STILL a fabulous addition to this GREAT city

i say we strut with pride

as we have been endowed with such a grandiloquent garage as this

WHOAAA i just realized that the building seen next to the ritz is the westin galleria, not the westin oaks (which i had previously believed it was)

but the thing is, the westin galleria is much taller than the westin oaks, meaning that my previous guess of around 500ft for this tower could be bumped up much higher

the height of the westin galleria is

- 319ft (according to emporis)

- 258ft (according to skyscrapercenter)

and the height of the westin oaks is 

- 279ft (according to emporis)

- 222 ft (according to skyscrapercenter)

so using this 319ft figure, we can try to estimate the height

or a 258ft figure (if you prefer)

but it seems as if we have a 150m+ building!

(but the ceilings are realllyyy high, but it is a ritz, and i shouldnt be complaining, should i? )

i just dont get the height discrepancy between the sources though

(i had previously used the 222ft figure and arrived at a ~500ft figure)

am i a good detective?

i want EVERYWHERE to start sprouting apartment and condo towers...

isnt that number for the old 35story figure?

so this is definitely breaking the 492ft/150m mark, right?

haha thank yall for such a warm greeting to this awesome forum

ive kinda been lurking around for a while w/o an account though

i believe that white tower to the right of the hotel in the first rendering is around 210 feet, and using that i came to the conclusion that the hotel could possible reach 500ft. can anybody confirm this??

sorry if this post sounds rather stupid, im a new user and this is my first post

edit: obviously the parts of the building higher up are distorted to appear taller so my height estimation could be off by quite a bit.