Captain Impossible

My source at Simon says that in the near term, the residential tower is unlikely. It's going to take a few years, or at least that's how it's looking now.

I like the part where the university suckered its ignorant students into voting for (I, for one, voted against) raising fees to help pay for this scam and then turned around and sold the naming rights for many millions of dollars. It's good to know that a small piece of my student loan repayment (plus interest) is going to this because they clearly needed it so very much.

We need a cat park!

We have one. It's called everywhere.

Many called it completely unlivable.

Some things don't change.

Thanks, Subdude. I've been lurking so long, I already feel like I know many of you (but not in a creepy way).

There's no way that's not creepy.

Yeah, cool project! Someone else beat you to it though. It's called the store directory.

I like the old YMCA building, and I understand that the Y wants a new building, and it's great that they are building it on a parking lot.

Too bad the new owners can't find a way to use the old building rather than tearing it down. Hopefully it won't become a surface lot or sit around empty like the Savoy and Days Inn and Central Bank buildings...

That pattern has already been established for Houston. You really think this will be an exception?

Rumor has it that Shriner's Burns Hospital will not reopen. They got two feet of water in their building, now they want to call it quits. Come on, Methodist Hospital had two floors totally inundated in 2001, along with Baylor, Memorial Hermann and others in the Texas Medical Center. There was never any discussions about not reopenning. These instituitions rebuilt, and protected themselves from it ever happenning again. What is it with these Shriner people?

They're part of the Freemasons, a more than questionable secretive society whose supposed benevolence is a total sham?

Many of the celebrities that were central to demonizing and making life impossible for President Bush for eight loathsome years NOW want to help with the heavy lifting of bringing America back together under President Barack Obama.

Witness Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher

Not that it was all the impressive to begin with, Philip Johnson's involvement aside, but working for Cox Radio totally ruined that place for me. Nice shot, though.

I realize Books a Million isn't Barnes and Noble but they sell pretty much the same stuff! Who cares what they call it.

I do. It's a horrifically bad store. Though, fitting for this project. It's all the worst things about the retail experiences of Florida and California all in one convenient location.

#2 looks enough like the sheet-metal Sears that I don't think the neighborhood needs another one. Edgily staggered window slits aren't going to make the difference on this design.

Are you kidding? This is a much more contemporary option, something that is real and fits into the time in which it was built. Do you really want a cheap Mediterranean/California knockoff with a parking lot in front? Let's start building things that fit into our time and don't try so hard to be something they never could be.

The Mosaic towers have indeed formed their own skyline...and that new skyline blocks out half of the previously fantastic vista of the downtown skyline looking north up Almeda.

What is it with you people and views? I admit, I like them as much as anyone else, but it's the same story in Dallas. As soon as someone builds something that "blocks their view" they freak out. Calm down.

This continues to be the best looking development currently being built in Houston.

A horrific building in a terrible environment. I'm glad I don't have to deal with this monstrosity - or its surrounding area.

Also keep in mind that a building like Williams has behind its design one of the most important figures in architecture over the last century.

We are building our own demise. Robots will kill us all.

Wow, there's a ton of money for a bunch of my family members.

Your view was better than mine. I was on the other side watching down Fannin. I think it was Fannin. I won't post my video, because it's the same, but that was awesome. I can finally scratch that off my list of things to see.

I think I might have been where you were, and if so, we were looking east down Rusk. I didn't know that view in the video would actually be there.

I sure was on the wrong side.

I think it's a great landmark. I don't like the fact that we tear down everything as soon as it hits 30 - 40 years old.

I agree. I was just by there yesterday shooting a band, and it really is an amazing piece of mid-century architecture. I've never been inside, but it needs to stay. It belongs there.

I think he just did a house in one of the neighborhoods.

He also designed the Dallas Theater Center.

It's so misshapen.

I just got mine in the mail yesterday, and ended up using it on the Hardy Toll Road this afternoon. I don't know why you wouldn't get one.

This article talks about a park-and-ride bus route to Huntsville from The Woodlands. I didn't know that many people commuted in that direction.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/woo...ws/5358492.html

Yeah, there's a university up here, sure enough.