West Timer

What is wrong with you?

Great photo. Brochure worthy. Texas Tower shines out like Houston's signature tower. 

WTF?

If you are waiting for Houston to become San Francisco, you are wasting your life. 

I don't like red. Got that, Houston? NO RED!

I'm just here for the renderings.

This will be the biggest and best building ever built in the history of Midtown. Houston will be lucky if it gets built at all. Even ugly, old Dallas and tiny, over-rated Austin would be happy to have it.

Wow. 

Now that is my kind of "ghetto".

It's o.k.

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40 minutes ago, J.A. said:

 

^^^This doesn't look all that well thought out to me.

⌵⌵⌵ Neither does this.

Whatever. This will be the best looking and tallest tower ever built. (...in Midtown) (...so far). Curves aren't everything. It still looks pretty classy to me.

3 hours ago, iah77 said:

I've seen the master plan and there are multiple towers. 

 

The economy literally is in free fall, we are lucky things aren't paralyzed at this point across town.

I agree. But as for the details. Are we talking, Ro, Regency Square, East River. Please give us an idea of how many and how high. Thank you.

It needs a roller coaster or something.

Just think how many Block 98 towers could fit on this parking lot.

If Houston ever got an observation tower (like the Space Needle or better), I think the best place for it would be somewhere around where The Allen is going up near Buffalo Bayou Park or maybe near Regent Square or Hanover Square near the Bayou. That vantage point would have a nearly 360º view of all of Houston's best skylines - without actually interfering with any of them (well maybe the "Montrose skyline", but that would be fine). Yes, a casual rooftop bar and grill on top, say 300-500 ft in the sky would be nice too. I'd certainly take out-of-towners there to here them rave about how wonderful Houston is.

Someone forgot to tell the Houston skyline that there was an oil bust.

Beautiful in it's own way.

Houston's own no frills Little Venice. (sort of)

I love new vantage points!

Thanks for keeping HAIF worth coming to Hindesky.

You too, Highrise Tower. 👍

Same for all our noble, hard working photographers. 

Getting some of these shots is no small effort and I appreciate being able to see them. ❤️

•  <------- grain of salt time.

From some angles, it kind of looks like it was hit by a tornado. The white stucco doesn't work for me. I think the only thing that might work is something darker and less contrasty to the glass. Some kind of reflective silver/chrome/nickel or something shiny might work. Maybe not. I think they should just keep painting it new colors every week until they figure out how to make it less silly looking and more artsy fartsy as it was originally intended. If they had just kept whats going on on the top 3 floors all the way to the ground it would have looked high end. What they have looks kind of like K-Mart sushi.

3 hours ago, EastEndHeritage said:

I am willing to bet my retirement savings that actual Houston residents will vote to tear it down if presented with an actual cost-benefit analysis. This is probably a similar situation with the same people outside Houston wanting more highways at any cost so they can keep their commutes to the 'burbs easy for them at the expense of actual Houstonians.

Fine. In the meantime, just keep paying your taxes. The Astrodome's not going anywhere. I'll bet your retirement that the Astrodome will be standing long after you will.

Whim my butt. The majority of Houstonians don't want Astrodome torn down.

9 hours ago, jmitch94 said:

Kind of surreal to think the setting of so many memories for so many people can be erased just like that. I'm not railing against this at all it just makes me a little melancholy to think that something so essential and permanent as where you live for so many people for years and years can be turned into a patch of dirt that is indistinguishable from any other. 

If it happened to AstroWorld, it can happen anywhere. 😭