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On 9/19/2019 at 7:47 PM, urbanize713 said:

This is being designed to flood, right?  

Yeah it's supposed to be, and it seemed to fair pretty well. I ran by today and the lights were on inside the building. I was impressed by that even though it's still a very bare bones construction site. Honestly I'm pretty impressed by how the majority of the trail lighting fairs along Buffalo Bayou too. Most of that gets some level of submerged a few times a year.

View from UHD on 9/19/2019 (day of the storm) vs 9/20/2019 Today

Timelapse of some construction on the tower yesterday.

I've asked around after posting here and I'm thinking it was just make-em-up. I now doubt there was any validity to the rumor. 

Mods feel free to delete if necessary. 

I've just herd Perkins + Will has acquired Kirksey Architecture. Has anyone else herd this rumor or have any information to validate it or invalidate it?

24 minutes ago, Triton said:

 

We have to rest our heads somewhere when we're not busy killing industries. 

I'm pretty sure that's how Colina's boxes look, but they may just be some generic italian pizza box. I know Frank's Pizza downtown has red, white, and black boxes, but I don't remember if they are checkered. 

The rumor I've herd from a friend mine who's going to work at the club is that it should opening on September 12th. They're staff and not involved in the design/construction of the club, so I can't say for sure if that's a solid date, but they seem to think that's the opening day.

6 hours ago, Nate99 said:

Maybe it belongs in the thread about the idea of a tower three blocks over, but I saw this under the Houston Club/Capitol Tower/BOAT.

 

This is heading into the Texas Commerce Bank Tower (for brevity). 

 

There is tunnel access at the basement level of the One Market Square garage, and the tunnel was connected and functioning before they started the the Texas Tower construction. It's closed now, but here's a shot looking towards the garage from the texas tower end of the tunnel, and another from the lowest parking area up the stairs towards the Texas Tower site. I'm sure it'll be reopened when the Texas Tower construction finishes. 

They were running the generator and cooking some trees this morning.

They had notices on the door stating that filming was in progress when I walked by at lunch today. I'd bet there will be video or tv spot popping up before they open. The place looked close to complete when I peaked through the glass.

Snapped some pictures while riding by today.

More demo shots from walking by last week.

3 hours ago, ekdrm2d1 said:

My visit to the sky lobby today.

 

 

 

 

Tenants in the building still have access to the sky lobby or did you have to pull strings for this?

I think it's an old design or another building model swapped into the rendering to showcase Render Spot's capabilities. It looks like several newer buildings are missing from this skyline (Aris, 609 Main, 811 Main, Bank of America Tower) and the old Chronicle building and garage are still there. Also, this building appears to use the entire site, which now contains Phase I (the parking garage). I'm betting Linbeck isn't in a hurry to tear down their newly completed garage, so however the new building is designed it will probably fit in the footprint of the existing surface parking lot next to the garage.

A. The guy in the middle with the button up.

2 hours ago, Urbannizer said:

 

Ha. It's not every day you get to login and see the back of your own head.