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  1. MidCenturyMoldy
    I should have added "Not that the symmetry makes it any better." I liked Post-Modernism back in the early 80s...I have since recovered.
  2. MidCenturyMoldy
    Ooh! Thanks! I was wondering where I could find information like this.
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    You know, as I find happens to me a lot in Houston, I don't remember what was there before.
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    The Portland Building without all that pesky symmetry stuff.
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    ^ I ate at the Felix on Westheimer once...in 1985, I believe... I was not impressed. I much preferred Chapultepec, or even the original Tila's (where Katz's Deli is now) in those days. Still, I do miss seeing the Felix sign and name on the building.
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    Yep, Menil Park was there when I lived there. The Center For Photography was a convenience store. What freaks me out is that there are two fairly good-sized live oaks in front of the apartment building where I lived...that weren't there at all when I lived there. Talk about making a person feel old!
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    I definitely agree that it's better than what's currently there, and better than just sticking an apartment tower (or two) on the spot. My concern is that its scale is too big for that intersection. Neither Montrose nor Westheimer are as expansive as that rendering makes them look. Now, if they put giant billboards and neon on it and make Montrose at Westheimer a mini Times Square or a mini Yonge-Dundas Square (Toronto) I'm all in!
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    Yikes! Looks like Randall Davis tries his hand at a Michael Graves knockoff.
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    No offense, but with that comment and especially with the laughing smiley reaction, you're being a bit of an a... well, you get the point.
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    It's hard to have a sense of place when the place you're trying to have a sense of keeps disappearing out from under you. I first moved into Montrose (the fourplex at West Alabama and Mulberry...it's still there) in January of 1979. The flavor of THAT Montrose is long gone. Houston's not the only place that's changing so rapidly that any sense of place is at risk...Dallas and Austin are like that to some extent. Seattle, too. Toronto is almost a whole new city from the one I lived in as a kid for a couple of years in the early 70s. . . . Edited to add: I will say this, azaleas, pine trees, pine needles, live oaks, asiatic jasmine, moss on bricks, broken sidewalks, torrential rain and mildew all scream "HOME" to me. I suppose that's a sense of place.
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    It's not often that I have ZERO qualms about a demolition in Houston.
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    The street to the west of the site is Yoakum, not Waugh.
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    Taken 12/13/19 Taken 12/13/19 Taken 12/14/19 Mies van der Roadkill Taken 12/13/19
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    Kind of amazed to see someone remembers that it was a Holiday Inn.
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    That one's new to me! Is that a moiré effect or is the building melting?
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    Taken 12/13/19
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    Tell me about it! I REALLY dislike the hybrid plan they have for this project. Either restore and repurpose the building as it was, or build something totally new.
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    IMPORTANT NEWS BULLETIN: The light was back on nine days ago.
  20. MidCenturyMoldy
    Just a note: It's Cullinan Hall, named for Nina J. Cullinan. With all the "Cullen" stuff in Houston it's an easy mistake to make. Disregard if autocorrect is to blame!
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    You should have seen it in the early 80s! I knew several people who lived in the apartment building on McGowan at Milam in 1979. Talk about urban pioneering.
  22. MidCenturyMoldy
    It definitely doesn't help make anything easier that there's a giant blob of sunlit white on one side of the photo. Especially when that blob of white is an integral part of the photo. Quickie new version below. I don't know why, but this shot looks a lot better on my screen in Photoshop than on my screen on this website?
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    I try to keep the "HDR" look to a minimum...I guess sometimes I don't succeed at that. Maybe I need to up the contrast a bit. I've already noticed, because of this discussion, that the original has some chromatic aberration (color fringing) that couldn't be removed on my iPad but can be removed on my Mac.
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    I was thinking about that last night. What occurred to me is that the new Glassell plaza actually opens everything up even more. Before, the Noguchi garden was entirely closed off from view from the street. Now the garden will be open to view on two sides and be much more inviting.
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    Actually, I'm interested in what it is you're seeing specifically when viewed on this site that looks overly compressed. Or maybe more specifically, what it would look like if it weren't overly compressed. ETA: Some of any weirdness may come from the fact that that image was post-processed using Photoshop Express on my iPad because i didn't have my Mac available at the time.
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