MidCenturyMoldy

On 10/17/2022 at 11:01 AM, Texasota said:

I kind of hope this just ends up a stripmall or a drive through carwash

Mattress Mall.

On 10/31/2022 at 11:14 PM, aachor said:

This is clearly a massive deathray mirror designed to torch the Embassy Suites using the light of the setting sun.

My idea was Embassy Suites would close that location and Skanska would buy the dirt and tear down the building. I like your idea better. 

2 hours ago, cityliving said:

You have to apply for a special Commercial license with the FAA.

Yes, a Part 107 license. But I was thinking Part 107 pilots still had to observe ceiling restrictions and can exceed the ceiling limit only when flying within 400 feet of a building… so I thought you got an exemption and I was wondering how that was done.

47 minutes ago, phillip_white said:

Technically you don't need an exemption if you take off and operate within 400 ft of a tall building. The ceiling is measured from the top of the structure, not ground level. Since cityliving appears to be flying at around 1,000 ft, they should have notified (and received approval from) the FAA regarding day/time and flightpath.

I know a drone pilot must have a Part 107 license to fly 400 feet higher than a tall building as long as it’s within 400 feet of said building, but I thought that was only in unrestricted airspace. 400 feet being the ceiling in all unrestricted space. 
 

My Mavic Air 2 won’t even let me take off in my own backyard without LAANC authorization because I live in a 0 feet restricted area. That’s what I get for buying a know-it-all drone. 😄
 

Come to think of it, I’m not sure LAANC authorization will even cover it in a 0ft restricted zone. 

On 10/12/2022 at 1:32 PM, cityliving said:

 

 

What is it you have to do to get an exemption from the FAA’s 200ft altitude limitation in that area? And even the general 400ft limit elsewhere, like near the Allen? 

4 hours ago, Texasota said:

…just because its worse than what was originally proposed

The eternal hope that developments will live up to their original proposals is our version of Charlie Brown kicking the football this time.

How much does one have to hate Houston to make this mistake? From the Chicago Athenaeum website, 2021 Awards::  https://www.chi-athenaeum.org/the-2021-awards/?page=13

On 4/27/2022 at 5:56 PM, freundb said:

SHE'S BACK!!!

How did I miss this???

2 hours ago, editor said:

Fraud is a rather specific accusation.  For those of us who haven't been following this closely, can you elaborate or provide sources?

See the final posts on the second page of  Urbannizer’s thread that I linked in my post.

On 3/11/2022 at 9:48 AM, hindesky said:

If it ever finishes supposed to look like this.

https://tcw-group.com/projects/sovereign-at-the-ballpark/

Same "design" firm as the hideous "Chelsea at Museum District" project which turned out to be fraudulent. 

https://tcw-group.com/projects/the-chelsea-at-museum-district-high-rise/

2 hours ago, JBTX said:

That we had a drone, lol.

Nothing in the park area around it says "no drones" and we had checked with the museum beforehand, just in case. Museum had no complaints. Probably just a security guy on his high horse.

Nope. Somewhere on the MFAH website (I don’t remember exactly where) is the statement that the museum campus is a “drone-free zone.” It’s also a tripod-free zone. I had no trouble because I was flying the drone from the southeast corner of Binz and Fannin Streets… completely off the MFAH campus but within direct sight of my drone.

I just saw this on my Twitter feed. Google is evil.  

52 minutes ago, dbigtex56 said:

Squash it with what - a monster truck? A steam roller?
I think the developer would quash any efforts to do such an unlikely thing.

1 hour ago, trymahjong said:

Oh my, to whom should I praise the new Metro stop?

talk about a fabulous upgrade……….wow

Now, if the buses could actually use the street without being swallowed up by a pothole...

13 minutes ago, clutchcity94 said:

Isn’t Museum District off Montrose considered a really good location?

It's a great area to live in. Not great at all for retail or restaurants. Which is personally depressing because I lived behind the Plaza Hotel many years ago when the original Montrose Butera's Deli was where the Glassell is now and the neighborhood was a lot more alive than it is now.

4 hours ago, texas911 said:

 I'm getting Chelsea Market vibes on this.

This is a MUCH better location than Chelsea Market.

50 minutes ago, jmitch94 said:

In New York they usually don’t even close the side walk down. This is just another example of our city bending over backwards for big money interests at the cost of everyone else. 

It's not just Houston. Lanes on two major streets in San Antonio (Broadway and Nacogdoches) have been closed for a year now while some large mixed-use apartment building is being built.

And lanes get closed all the time in New York. Usually it's a covered sidewalk that temporarily replaces the lane that's closed.  

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.754783,-73.9990259,3a,60y,233.13h,87.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s589UpDdx98pW3SiuyYxJcA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

1 hour ago, freundb said:

I understand gaps are necessary, but uniformity is key. Most of the lower ones look fine, and those will be the ones most people see, so I guess its ok. The top is a little sketchy. Not many people are gonna see it but this would drive me nuts.

Looks to me like that upper right corner is sagging below the rest of the panels. Like it just needs to be pushed up and properly affixed. 

29 minutes ago, hindesky said:

I follow a bunch of these guys on IG. There are guys that do this all around the U.S. 

There's a video I found on Youtube some time ago that is both fascinating and scary as f*ck. It consists of drone footage over downtown at night interspersed with these guys and girls hanging off the edges of buildings. I wish I could find it again. It's very well done.

25 minutes ago, cityliving said:

Probably photoshopped, there is no way these people can have access to the rooftops of these buildings. 

It's been a thing for a while now. http://swamplot.com/reaching-the-downtown-skyline-photography-studio-at-the-top-of-houston-highrises/2015-02-13/

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Downtown-Houston-skyline-photos-daredevil-crew-14837927.php

29 minutes ago, hindesky said:

From the earlier render I once posted this should be getting a canopy and a fountain wall so I don't think this is finished yet. Don't know when it be back open.

Do we know if this is definitely happening? Is it safe to get my hopes up? 

16 hours ago, X.R. said:

Growing up I don't think stuff like this was really a thing in Houston (90s-2000s).

Now imagine what it was like 2 decades earlier! 😱

3 minutes ago, editor said:

What?  No!  When you see a minor mistake, you're supposed to just write angry, sanctimonious rants on the internet under an anonymous name.  You don't do something constructive!

 

I have a talent for hiding my angry, sanctimonious tone within a seemingly helpful tweet. 😄

I tweeted the correction to them and they thanked me and changed it.