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16 hours ago, KirbyDriveKid said:

Is that the final exterior (between window) material going up on the west side of the bottom seven-or-so floors in the photos?

Doesn't look like it. Here's what it looks like zoomed in.

11 hours ago, Luminare said:

I'll be honest. I've never seen a stairs configured in this way. Definitely going to walk this next time I'm in town. Have any of you seen Inception? Its like that moment when Joseph Gorden-Levitt's character was showing Ellen Page...Elliot Page...ugh...whatever anyway, the Penrose Steps or infinite staircase, but then the illusion was broken to show that its all a trick and the stairs then separate. Pretty neat. 

They are cool. They look even more like an illusion from the second floor like @tigereye posted in his twitter pics. 

2 hours ago, emmanume said:

This reminds me of POST

LOL. 100%

17 hours ago, tangledwoods said:

Fun Fact of the day back in the 90s there was a large regional contractor named Beers Construction (bought by Skanska).  Back in the day Hoar and Beers at a Joint venture and no one could decide which name would look less bad: Hoar and Beers or Beers and Hoar.

I love juicy tidbits like this. 🤣 Thank you!

Oh man, the grand opening is gonna be packed. Looks like a fun event, I may just make it out. 

42 minutes ago, nate4l1f3 said:

Will this have a rooftop bar?

Doesn't look like it currently. 

On 11/1/2021 at 8:55 AM, Luminare said:

The bottom picture looks like a mockup wall to me. From the renders they have a lot of overhangs and when buildings are very streamlined and abstract, detail at corner conditions become really important as you don't have trim to hide any craftsmanship that is off. Then again I could be wrong and its actually a column, but looks like the beginnings of a mockup to me.

Could be. Since the picture was taken, they rotated it 90 deg. I'll keep an eye on it. 

3 hours ago, Texasota said:

What in god's name is a .heic file? Is this some Apple nonsense?

It's their version of .heif, but they had to give it their own name because, Apple

Normally I see a larger helicopter there. But I believe this is the oil and gas company that Gordy owns. He has the Gordy and Sons outfitters and I thought he was one who owns all the land for the Buffalo Heights District where HEB is.

Hopefully impacts are minimal. The Yale underpass saves me often from the damn trains. 

1 hour ago, BEES?! said:

It’s r/houston, they hate absolutely everything on there, lol. 

True, but "this building sucks cuz its blocking the view of the other buildings" is one of the more ridiculous things on that sub.

11 hours ago, hindesky said:

From reddit/houston/user/AViralRat

There are two reddit posts from this bridge, and the amount of hate this building is getting is remarkable. 

On 10/8/2021 at 8:36 AM, tangledwoods said:

Just an FYI, mistakes happen ALL THE TIME in construction.  TAS (the concrete sub here) screwed it up and will replace it without complaint or cost to anyone else. That whole whoopsie is probably going to cost them less than 10k, nothing to really write home about, they will work the weekend and make up the time so schedule shouldn't be an issue either.  Oh and I would bet you a chicken dinner that the goofball that screwed up here did not go home and is in fact the one on the boom lift chipping out the bad concrete.  We call those "teaching moments"!

Interesting. I find all this stuff fascinating but I have no idea how it all works behind the scenes. Back in my home town, a vertical support for a flyover ramp was being torn down about a week after it went up. The DOT project Facebook page claimed the contractor put the support a few feet from where it was supposed to be. I wondered how much that cost and if anyone got fired. 

For this building I'm just glad my apartment doesn't overlook the construction site. The noise from them removing the concrete is quite annoying!

And now they are tearing down the concrete they just put up.