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  1. MidCenturyMoldy
    Huh? The photo was actually shot raw. What is it you're seeing that you're calling "overly compressed?" Here's the photo straight off the camera memory card, converted from raw to non-compressed jpeg, with no changes whatsoever from how it was shot other than reducing the resolution from 300 pixels/inch to 72.
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    YES! Exactly my thoughts as well.
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    I was skeptical when I first saw the renderings and model...even when I saw the first glass tubes going up. Now I CAN'T WAIT for this sucker to be finished.
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    I really enjoy seeing your photos of this building, but you've just GOT to start holding your camera or phone level. It drives anal-retentive aspergers types like me CRAZY! 😜
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    Taken Monday afternoon.
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    One of these things is not like the others...
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    "Chacun à son goût" as they might say in a Berlioz opera. 😊
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    Not sure how much respect I'm actually due, but I find it hideous. Especially the truncated top. And it's made worse for me when I consider who Rice originally hired to design their opera house. We could have had something designed by the firm that designed these: ETA: I must say I've yet to see the building in person. I'm hoping it's the rendering itself that makes it so offensive to me. But I still think Rice lost an opportunity by taking the conservative route. IMO, Houston is in dire need of some new signature architecture.
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    Sea level rise and stronger and more frequent hurricanes, along with more frequent major to catastrophic rain events won't help, either.
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    I guess you've forgotten about the Great Floods of 1929 and 1935 that led to the building of the Barker and Addicks Dams? "In fact, it was devastating flooding that led to the construction of the dams. Long before the record-setting rains from Hurricane Harvey, there were the deadly 1929 and 1935 Great Floods of Houston." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/30/houstons-besieged-dams-compromised-by-harvey-rainfall-were-built-70-years-ago-after-devastating-floods/
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    I'm not so sure about Rice anymore after this:
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    I'm not feeling this one. Yeah, Jean Nouvel is definitely a "starchitect," but I don't like this as much as some of his other works.
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    I'm old enough to remember Gerald Hines working with Philip Johnson and I.M. Pei. Hines and Johnson reputedly had a working relationship that consisted of Hines reining in Johnson's wildest ideas and Johnson wheedling and cajoling Hines into giving him more of a free hand. Good stuff resulted. I wish the current Hines Interests would be more daring in their designs for Houston.
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    I had completely forgotten about those drawings. I loved them back in the day!
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    I'm going to miss that old Holiday Inn building. Thirty years ago I lived in a rental house on State Street that backed onto Memorial on the last block before Houston Avenue. My upstairs bedroom had a whole wall of windows that was completely filled by the view of downtown buildings. Those seniors have an affordable and incredible view of downtown and July 4th fireworks.
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    Never mind. Is there a way to delete a post?
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    That's why the building looks farther away than the Caydon rendering.
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    Now that we've got that out of the way, I'd like to point out that the rendering for The Preston does *not* get larger at the top nor distort the upper floors. 😈 (It seems farther away and less intimate because of that.)
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    My putting the word in quotation marks was *specifically* meant to convey the fact that it was all a matter of interpretation.If I were certain I never would have done so. ETA: In fact, my use of quotation marks was meant to convey a lack of seriousness, as well.
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    Wow. Just...wow. Anyway, you'll notice I put quotation marks around "fixed." Secondly, I used Photoshop CS6, thank you. And I didn't just stretch the base. That wouldn't have corrected the exaggerated top of the original. Actually, I corrected perspective from the top down (but not too, too much), you might have noticed that nothing at the base of the rendering was lost...if you had actually looked. I free-resized a portion of the top to reduce the exaggeration of the top corner. I did some content-aware filling because correcting the perspective left voids on the sides. I used the "patch tool" to clean up a bit afterward. Oh, and I did it super fast because, well, because I was just having some fun. So forgive me if it ain't perfect. And last but not least, I 'fixed" the rendering because when I showed it to a friend, he thought the building was going to be triangular because of the pronounced corner on the top. Next time, try decaf, maybe? ETA:That wouldn't have corrected the exaggerated top of the original. Actually, I corrected perspective from the top down (but not too much), you might have noticed that nothing at the base of the rendering was lost...if you had actually looked. I free-resized a portion of the top to reduce the exaggeration of the top corner. I did some content-aware filling because correcting the perspective left voids on the sides. I used the "patch tool" to clean up a bit afterward. Oh, and I did it super fast because, well, because I was just having some fun. So forgive me if it ain't perfect.
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    Is there an echo in here?
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    I know it's not quite as dramatic, but I "fixed" the image. I'm guessing the building is more likely to look like this.
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    My first thought was Nit Noi, a block and a half away.
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