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    Shouldn't the little girl in that rendering be at home studying instead of cruzin' the liquor district with her mother in the middle of the night?
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    I love it. Build a Texas Cyclone on it and we practically have AstroWorld back too. What a great way to relish, enjoy and appreciate an exciting part of Houston's history. The 'Astro' era could have its own outdoor/indoor shrine and be a beautiful gateway to Reliant, the Houston Texans and the Rodeo. Of course, I realize that this doesn't scream corporate functionality and I don't see a clear path to unbridled profits at this time (which seems to be the only thing most shortsighted people at HAIF only care about) but it's a great idea just the same. Good luck with this one. As someone who just wants to save the dome for the sake of civil pride (don't care about raising your taxes to do it either), I'm willing to throw my support behind just about anything at this point that will preserve this (still) living symbol. The Astrodome is a larger than life monument to one of the greatest, most excessive, exciting periods in our city's history. It's not just another old stadium. It helped to put Houston on the map and deserves more respect than just any old ordinary white elephant.
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    Great PDF. I really enjoyed reading this list. #1 America's Coolest Cities to Live Forbes - August 2012 #1 Cities Where a Paycheck Stretches Furthest Forbes - July 2012 #1 Top Destination City U-Haul International - April 2012 #1 Top Ranked Metros Site Selection Magazine - March 2012 #1 Top U.S. Manufacturing Cities Manufacturers' News, Inc. - March 2012 #1 Fastest Growing Economy in North America Brookings Institution - January 2012 #1 Fastest Growing Wages in U.S. Business Insiders - January 2012 #1 Top Technology Job Growth CyberCoders - January 2012 #1 Best Cities for Manufacturing Forbes - December 2011 #1 Best-Performing Cities Milken Institute - December 2011 #1 Top 10 Manufacturing Cities Business Facilities - August 2011 #1 Fastest Growing Metro Area Kinder Institute for Urban Research - July 2011 #1 Top Cities for I.T. Jobs Modis - May 2011
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    No. Houston is perfect exactly the way it is. No improvements are possible or necessary. ...and no faux urban twilight zone is more banal, unattractive or disconnected than uptown dallas. My God, there is a CVS strip center and Albertson's giant parking lot right in the middle of it. McKinney is walkable to some extent if you don't mind dodging drunk drivers, but the rest of it is just as gap ridden as Houston's uptown. Here are some attractive buildings...
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    That may be true, but urbanistically, it is certainly not on the same scale as DD or DH or TMC. Like Uptown Houston it is mostly comprised of 'towers in a park' (which I don't think is a bad thing) and is definitely much, MUCH lower, shorter and stumpier. It also takes up a smaller area. I think the only thing UD has going for it, is it's proximity to DD. At certain angles (usually from miles to the west of the Trinity sewer) the 2 skylines appear as one (as indicated by the photo that Strikn provided a link to), giving the illusion that it is one cohesive unit - which it is not. Unfortunately, most people never see the UD/DD skylines from that angle, because that area is generally regarded as a major merde-hole (nobody ever post photos 1 mile west of DD or beyond) and is mostly avoided by people who enjoy living.
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    Thank God! Houston seems to build things out of actual need driven by demand. dallas seems to build things just to TRY to keep up with Houston.
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    I thought it was important to post photos comparing Houston majestic Uptown with dallas cheezy, low lying, pathetic uptown photos since as someone pointed out comparing Houston's TMC with dallas' uptown was weird. I don't have a problem comparing Houston's uptown with dallas' pitiful excuse for an uptown (or downtown) at all. And BTW, "towers in a park" is an improvement on 'urbanity'. Failing grades? I don't think so. That just sounds like what someone who's jealous of Houston's world class skyline would say in a fit of envious rage. Enjoy some more "urbanistic" failings from these out of date photos.
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    Is that cat drunk?
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    Janet: I don't like men with TOO many muscles. Frank: I didn't make him FOR YOU!
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    Oh. A predicted post predicting prediction. How predictable.
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    If there is one thing I have learned at HAIF, it is that renderings ARE a binding, legal contract that are enforceable in a court of law. In fact, once anything is posted on the internet, this includes both renderings and casual comments by totally anonymous, uncredited, non-professionals, it is obligated to be built exactly as the rendering, drawing, sketch or doodle implies or the offending poster can be sentenced to die by lethal injection or firing squad. These internet rendering laws are so strict that if even so much as one hair on one of those people's heads in that rendering above is not styled EXACTLY like what is seen in the rendering, the entire city of Houston can legally be nuked off the face of planet earth. This is a proven fact and so there is no need to debate this issue any further.
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    Buzz Killington strikes again.
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    It's exquisite. One positive to draw on from the orientation of this hotel is that it would allow another tower behind the hotel to also have views of Discovery Green. Another tower behind this hotel could also lend to an 'encircling' effect - which I agree would be a good thing.
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    30 years later...
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    I thought Gary was being too kind.
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    METRORail Green Line

    Mister X replied to a topic in Transit

    The luxury of rail travel.
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    METRORail Green Line

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    The cost of "freedom".
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    People with bad taste are always wanting to hang blinking lights on everything. My guess is that you have a velvet painting of Jesus, Elvis and/or John Wayne hanging in the living room of your trailer. Believe me, the only ones impressed with superficial flashy things on the sides of tall buildings are always straight from the sticks. The last thing the Houston skyline needs are a bunch of hillbilly exterior "designers" calling the shots. If you need to go slumming for cheap sparkly things, just take a hike to Dallas - they have taken trashy lighting to a new high in low. Houstonians should try very hard not to let its skylines look like the one in Dallas. One laughing stock skyline is enuf for Texas.
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    Sounds like amateur hour on Mad Men. One tacky faux Vegas butt-kissing wannabee city is enuf in Texas. I'd rather have a few people with bad taste call Houston boring looking at night than to see it's skyline ruined with a bunch of tacky blinking ads. Pass. Embrace advertising? Is this a joke?
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    ...but lots of underground. I hate wires. No exceptions! Money is no object. Bury those damned things already.
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    There is a good reason 'no bueno' has -135 points.
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    Haters are hideous.
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    The posts seem to be getting longer on here.
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