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  1. Nate99
    Cool picture rechlin.
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    I walked by there today and you could hear big crashes of what sounded like debris falling inside the building. I wonder if they punched a hole through the interior floors that they are now dumping stuff down through as they go. The excavator stationed by the hole on the south side of the building seems to be the only thing capable of taking the debris away, that is, none of it seems to be taken out by the scaffolvators.
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    I didn't think of that, that makes a lot of sense.
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    Hole made bigger: New hole near Milam/Capitol:
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    Really good view of the work from the top of the old Foley's garage: Near the Milam/Dallas corner, you can see where they are framing up a big rebar "cage". No idea what that does. More toward Lamar, you can see a big terraced excavation with what looks like a concrete bottom. I'm not sure that is is though, could just be the ground prepped really well for whatever is going on top of it.
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    Seems about right. Maybe they'll pick up speed as they get better at it and, once they get down to the last 3 or 4, they'll probably be able to pick it apart with heavy equipment from the ground.
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    Skyhouse photobombed my Macy's picture, thought I'd go ahead and double post it.
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    They have brought in and/or are building on site the steel reinforcement for concrete forms to be poured.
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    Big crane lifting boxes of stuff out there today...
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    You had me at "agritainment"
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    Everyone's preferences are on a continuum, so what seems absurd to some seems reasonable to others. I think there is an equilibrium point with commute times. Even when you go to places with large scale heavy rail, people will still go 90 minutes door to door. I don't think you will ever alleviate that pain. The "problem" with I-10 is that you have desirable places to live and go to from (nearly) Brookshire to downtown, so it is going to be bad, always, often in both directions. The expansion brought more cars to the area, but that was kind of the idea as I see it. If you have a big city without traffic, you probably have a larger problem than traffic ever was.
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    The Sheraton came down from the top. There is a thread on it in the crater Houston subforum. Cost was $8 million according to an article, which probably included the modifications to use the top as a surface lot and keep the underground parking functional. It had another building < 50' away, so imploding it was probably never going to happen, even if they did not want to retain the garage underneath.
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    The Days Inn is quite something. I doubt that it will even make visually interesting urban decay as it rots away. It's freaking huge too in a sea of mostly empty lots. Maybe they'll eventually build tall buildings all around it and hide it from everyone.
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    The speculation was that teh proximity to the church across the intersection and the Magnolia across Fannin precluded implosion. I'm not sure what the minimum setback needs to be for a building of this size. The way they are going about it looks quite expensive, but I guess it is all in the project economics.
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    Maybe they will pop them out and replace from the inside? It might be earlier in the thread, but somewhere I got the impression that this penthouse was for elevator mechanicals. If that were the case, something other than an actual window could be installed there too. Agreed that it seems odd to completely refinish the exterior all around and leave the raggedy old window frames.
  16. Nate99
    Perhaps I was amusing myself at others' expense, but I certainly do not take it seriously to ever expect to make an enemy. It's just opinions. More pics to come.
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    Agreed, you didn't say that. Your particular phrasing sounded like a unfairly negative hyperbole though. If you had characterized my position as, "Your opinion is not important because you don't have money in the project" I would have agreed with your characterization, because that's pretty much what I think. Importance is relative. You may have meaningful thoughts on the matter, but less pragmatically so than people with actual skin in it, again, my opinion. If it's not going to matter, it's not that important of an idea, I think we look at this completely differently. But I don't equate someone holding an unimportant opinion to the person being unimportant, that's just an ugly way to phrase something. It's that you said "You're not important because you don't have the money that they do". That sounds like "shut up poor people you have no value" to me, but that could be an incorrect inference on my part and its not what I think.
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    "Hold accountable", "Walmart", "They always do this to us", "smdh", "mediocre Texas historicist architect". I find it all to be delightfully overwrought and so entirely predictable an outrage over something so small, or more succinctly, self parody. Criticize all you like, it makes this place enjoyable. If you think these stars are that serious and important, more power to you, I'll be enjoying the discussion while you are here for whatever smug satisfaction you get from knowing more about architecture than me but still having the exact same amount of impact on the actual architecture being discussed. My post in #342 just pointed out the obvious, they like the stars so on they go. It must be my lack of reading comprehension that precludes me from seeing where I implied that all should be silent on their choice. I'll be danged if it doesn't look to my uncomprehending self like I criticized them too, in post #342 of all places.
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    Here you go... You're going to see what you want to. The histrionics over a small feature seemed over the top to me, and parodies are funny, not antagonistic. If I am itching for an argument, you certainly seem itching to oblige. I'm not. It's all opinion and there is no perfect or objective.
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    Was just wondering what the hold up was. I understood the money to do the renovation was part of the "stimulus" back whenever that happened, but I could be wrong on that. From the earlier description, the renovation was needed to keep the weather out if nothing else.
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    That was not meant to be personal to you, just an observation on the general tone of things like this thread that I find humorous, but perhaps I'm easily amused. I could write the replies myself as a joke, and many have, it's fun with stereotypes, certainly nothing serious like "developers hate poor people".
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    You can either call it a pure restoration, or look at it like your trying to make the building look good. If you value originality above all else, I guess that's what you like, I'm more of the opinion that either you like it or you don't, regardless of how long it has been there. Someone thought it looked bad enough to spend a lot of money and cover it up completely back in the 60's, or whenever that happened. It could happen again.
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    Childish was too strong, I changed my wording. I bent nothing, you assume ill motives to people that disagree with you on something trivial. Either way, the argument continued fresh with the usual arm waving over something that might actually be faithful to the original.
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    Cutting torch in action: From the ground, hard to see the stars at all: Maybe they just wanted to blend in to the neighborhood.
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    If you base "importance" on someone's opinion of architecture preservation, you've got problems that more money won't solve. I said that the stars seemed unnecessary, but I guess that doesn't meet the "holding them accountable" standard. Inferring (there's a difference between that and someone else implying something) ill motives from everyone that disagrees with you is silly. And if they are, do you retroactively dislike the original styling?
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