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On 10/27/2018 at 8:35 AM, Sanjorade said:

 

You make a good point about architecture. As a means of staying relevant, it was necessary for religions to seek architects that could design the latest and greatest. 

 

Do yall think that religions in this day and age will seek to innovate in the digital age as a means to stay relevant? 

 

Funny enough, online porn companies spear head quite a bit of innovation in contrast. 

The new Bahai Temple in Santiago is innovative and represents the tenets of the Bahai faith, oneness....all paths lead to the same place.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=524QKW2HmLM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRT61YB0hSQ (TED Talk on building sacred spaces; highlights the Bahai Temple Santiago at the end.)

 

Me neither. 

bought my two-day pass! super excited about the event and getting to be in the location in light of the recent development news.

My guess is that Chevron saw the cheap oil days coming. Cheap oil means increased downstream opportunities. Chevron builds new refineries to capitalize on cheap oil and gas (temporarily redirecting capital spending). Hence, delay in non-income producing sunk cost projects.

a pierce elevated park would increase real estate values along the perimeter and buildings would connect with it, weaving it into the pedestrian fabric of the city.

 

https://www.bisnow.com/archives/newsletter/new-york/1668-how-the-high-line-has-changed-manhattan-part-1

Very very nice house for sure, but I don't see how the restoration they did here warrants going from 350k to almost 700k. 

 

for one, it's on 2.5 acres in a prime area.  if the house were fully restored on .5 acres, you might have an argument.

I'm sorry, but this trend of lego-esque residential is getting old fast. The block of a pedestal parking garage with no continuity of vertical lines and BROWN colors; looks clunky, dated, uninspired.

It's cheaply built and lacks good planning and design.

Dear Preservationist Friends, a restored MacKie & Kamrath home on 2.56 acres is on the market. TThe owners have restored the home with great sensitivity to the original design and intend to sell to a preservation-minded buyer. They are the second owners and the first owner was Leon Lee himself (architect at Kamrath). It is a once in a lifetime home and very rare (sadly) for Houston. Let's help preserve this beauty by getting the word out to the right kind of buyers. http://search.har.co...ITE71920497.htm

 

Dear Preservationist Friends, a restored MacKie & Kamrath home on 2.56 acres is on the market. TThe owners have restored the home with great sensitivity to the original design and intend to sell to a preservation-minded buyer. They are the second owners and the first owner was Leon Lee himself (architect at Kamrath). It is a once in a lifetime home and very rare (sadly) for Houston. Let's help preserve this beauty by getting the word out to the right kind of buyers. http://search.har.com/site/7-hollow-glen-ln_SITE71920497.htm

 

 

 

 

Bwahahahaha...you had me going for a millisecond.

Go to their website!!  It may as well have been Weingarten.  Banal.  Beige.  Suburban. Blech....right up there with the Howard Hughes Corporation.  Major let down.

The next high-rise will be on Six Pines drive, near the Waterway. The project will begin after Treviso is completed in 2017.

Do tell. Six Pines and what crossroad?

Are there any sidewalks left?! This setback we are allowing is ridiculous. Less floor plate higher buildings please.

I don't disagree with you on that.

But another aspect of all this is anonymity. Same reason I dont like HAIF on FB, or twitter, etc.. A few people on here know me, and I'd like to keep it that way... a few. I'm sure it's like that for most haifers.

If i ever needed to consult Haif for professional help or jobseeking.. I could just as easily start a post to address that need.

Good point.

I'm out.

Linkedin shouldn't be a contest to get as many friends as possible.

I see some of you saying you invited all your facebook friends..?? What's the point of that ?

Is your mom's friend going to get you a job.. how bout your cousin in a band or your best friend's goth little brother?

Linkedin should be lots more selective. I don't want it to be facebook part deux.

Creating a network just for the sake of having a network.. what does that achieve ? Is Joe Bob architect that I know by 4th degree going to help me find a job? No. It's better to have a smaller and more meaninfgul network - Your coworkers, your former coworkers, your former classmates, your clients, vendors you've worked with.

If i were linkedin buddies with any of you and I were looking for a job would any of you, first off, be in my field and able to help me? Second would any of you be willing to help me? I wouldn't be willing to help sopmeone I don't really know and can't vouch for. "Hey boss, I have a resume of someone I want you to look at to fill this position" "How do I know em...?.. well.. he's on an internet forum with me and umm..ermm... well... that's it" Really? That's a sure way to torpedo your own career.

Furthermore.. Linkedin is less important for networking (except for easy contact/managment of your real professional network) and more important as your professional ad space. Have a good profile. Have a professional photo. Have your profile public. ... Include your link in job searching emails or on your personal buisness card. Assume any interview you go on, your interviewer wil be searching for your FB and your Linkedin.

Although I agree with most of your post, over the last ten years many of us have grown to respect the feedback of various haif posters. I do not mind including them in LinkedIn contacts should I require someone with their talents in my office or need services or input from their particular industry. I would be selective with who I connected with, yes. Would I eliminate all possibilities. ..no.

I'm curious how much longer, and how many more high rises it'll take for The Woodlands to seriously consider mass transit.

 

isn't park and ride "mass transit"?  there are three or four very successful park and rides and the woodlands is building a transit center right smack in the middle of town center...the last proposed location is a surface lot near the pavilion at six pines and lake robbins....on the pavilion side.

pedestrian activity to/from St Josephs, the METRO building, and Mickey Leeland Federal Building? i just don't see it happening. how many people live in 2016 Main anyways? it would be legit for those residents, but lets face it.. why spend all this money for a mediocre residential high-rise to have a pretty elevated park in front of it for access to the transit authority headquarters, the hospital, and federal offices? it doesn't make sense. the idea is cool, but I'm with Luminare. it was fun scheming up new designs to repurpose it, but tear that thing down.

like i said earlier. build a few lofty, airy elevated platforms here and there for skyline views and performances underneath, or build a brand new "HighLine" through a part of downtown were trying to revitalize. but just because its already there doesn't mean it makes sense to repurpose it. but if you must.. it would be better to ditch some of the southern traffic flow along Bagby towards the i69 spur and only save the a narrow section of the western portion of the pierce from Buffalo Bayou to the curve around Mickey Leeland, and instead of make the turn, follow a narrowed Bagby that features a wide hike/bike path along it going south into Midtown, possibly going as far south as W Alabama or even Richmond. the Pierce section turn east between downtown and midtown is pointless IMO, and would be better served developed and with a few parks at ground level.

See Discovery Green and Market Square. ..other developers would scramble to build on the perimeter and attach to it...it would become yet another symbol of the greening of Houston. An example that we do not waste what is still usable.

Something from scratch is less feasible than repurposed.....or is it? Guess it depends.

2016 main and st. joseph's and metro could open up to it on multpile levels. It becomes a hub of pedestrian connectivity for this side of town.

I was against this,initially, but am having some serious creative ideas if it were to be repurposed. You're doubling usable public space by repurposing the structure. Underneath? Covered regional 6 day/wk farmer's market with cafés and food trucks....put lipstick on that pig and it is a double decker spine of community activity that JOINS downtown and midtown. It becomes a uniter not a divider...

CHI St. Luke's Health at Holzworth and GP. HBJ article from 2014.