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  1. bachanon
    hughes landing just keeps getting uglier. the first building is ugly with a huge ac/utility visible on top (and it's WHITE). building #2 will be the same. hughes is cashing in on woodlands prime property like a pimp with a fresh-faced virgin........makes me sick. 10 waterway looks like a cheaper design now too. just stupid..........
  2. bachanon
    Vicious Pink!!! Ccccan't You See. Other songs by same are Take Me Now and 10:15 to Nowhere. Check spotify or Wes Wallace who spins at classic #s on Fridays. Wallace has a website.
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    http://houston.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/09-13-13-a-surprise-look-at-mfahs-new-upside-down-triangle-building-design-sends-artists-into-a-tizzy/ Although no actual picture is shared on culturemap's website, apparently the new design is an upside-down triangle. Interesting. Look forward to seeing an actual rendering!
  4. bachanon
    very cool presentation...thanks for sharing!!
  5. bachanon
    Dallas and W. Gray, from Downtown to River Oaks, would be fantastic development corridors. Imagine a revived Montrose Blvd Management District connecting the Dallas/W. Gray development corridor with Main. Add a few major park projects......I digress. I have no problem with Dallas as a street name in Houston. Any commitment to Dallas street as a retail corridor should extend outside I-45/Pierce to enhance pedestrian activity beyond the CBD. Downtown streetscape/pedestrian planning needs to ALWAYS extend beyond the freeway perimeter to increase Downtown interconnectivity with emerging neighborhoods.
  6. bachanon
    . ....that's just wrong....so wrong.
  7. bachanon
    . I've enjoyed the play by play of the wind down of an income producing property transitioning due to economic demand.
  8. bachanon
    Yep....no earth moving or survey markers.
  9. bachanon
    ..........as i work in the building next door, i can say for sure that there is nothing going on at the site. having said that, i will make the effort in the morning to look for any signs of survey markers and such. no earth is moving at this time.
  10. bachanon
    Nice shots! Thanks for sharing and welcome to the forum! I'll post a link on the HAIF facebook page.
  11. bachanon
    I like this game.
  12. bachanon
    . I was being a dork. I knew you weren't implying anything personal. I've been too long in my own head this weekend. Back to topic.....
  13. bachanon
    are you calling me fat? so, skanska is simply maximizing the value of the land. my thoughts on the epa are purely anecdotal, stemming from a friend who worked in new home developments. as we discussed how the woodlands planned for flood control before some of the current flood mitigation regulations, my friend described how epa regulations make it less feasible to preserve trees and natural features. he said it is now cheaper for developers to clear cut in order to meet federal and state requirements regarding run-off. he said the predicted run-off from the parking and structure floor plates have to be accounted for in a measured mitigation plan. also, roads have to be lower than ground level so that all run-off flows into the gutter system, which requires barriers (during construction) to be built around the places the roads are carved out because sediment cannot run from the construction site into the gutter system. however, if they bulldoze it all and rebuild the earth where it needs to be to avoid all of these concerns, it's cheaper. maybe someone in the industry can shed more light on the matter. people like curbs, but they are part of the problem. best scenario is to have the roads be the high point so that run-off flows into green-space. the green-space then has forested areas and ponds to more easily absorb the run-off rather than water flowing into gutters, then bayous towards the gulf. i wasn't looking for a reason to blame the epa, but from what "i've heard", there are better ways to plan for flood mitigation than we are currently required to do under current epa regulations. although not an exact comparison, lisa gray's article in the chronicle this week highlights the differences between environmentally sensitive planning and what government planners/regulators allow.
  14. bachanon
    ............i totally missed that. he did actually say an "announcement of a new building on top of the existing museum parking garage." this would definitely be news!
  15. bachanon
    touche' (hate that word....looks like a cross between touch and douche) just listened to warm leatherette today. another fun one:
  16. bachanon
    relive my a**.....this is perpetual youth young man!
  17. bachanon
    Interestingly enough, flood mitigation requirements by the Environmental Protection Agency often make it cheaper to bulldoze everything and start over. The culprit may be excessive regulations or even basic infrastructure requirements.
  18. bachanon
    Art Deco isn't significant?
  19. bachanon
    The parking garage is for the Riverway complex and fronts Riverway street on the N. 807 S. Post Oak is across the street on the S. side of Riverway street. Right?
  20. bachanon
    I wonder how many HAIFers have numbers as a guilty pleasure? I've been once in the last year.
  21. bachanon
    ......uhhhh, no comment.
  22. bachanon
    The view from Neimans to the new Saks would need to be the same should the renovations provide a continuous open corridor. The new configuration may have a more significant WOW factor when one enters the central mall corridor if bookended by Neimans/new Saks.
  23. bachanon
    Excellent reason to bump this topic. Malls are changing. Interesting how the affluent malls "learn" a completely different lesson than malls in low income areas. Or, is it the same lesson with a different model? Gulfgate/Northline vs Memorial City for instance.
  24. bachanon
    it seems that many times people are looking for a wow factor, they really mean a gehry or a calatrava, something that is over the top. houston wows with subtleties and practical beauty.
  25. bachanon
    i like the last one (sans the stupid lyrics). her voice has an interesting quality. i'd like to hear her sing grown up songs. i'd forgotten i had a thing for kylie minogue and olivia newton john until i listed to your video posts. i usually do not share that either. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHGaW8lBlSk my "cassette" walkman had newton john's album "physical" playing for hours on end as our family traveled across the country on family trips.....that and amy grant. now that i think of it, i listened almost exclusively to female singers until my late teens....figures. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZFO3WiBQDM
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