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This is now a $50m museum, rather than the $30m - $40m previously reported.

Hopefully no construction delays.

Ground breaking ceremony May 15 10am

Sorry for bringing back an old thread. But I think this topic is still somewhat exciting.

I went to NYC in Janurary and visited the newly expanded MoMA. I also spent quite some time at Mr Taniguchi's Nine Museums Exhibition. I must say I came away very impressed and am very looking forward to this new building in the Museum District.

IMO Houston lacks diversity in architecture design, namely modern oriental design. With Asian being a strong community in the city, the city itself definitely needs a few good examples of Asian architecture. And that's exactly what Mr Taniguchi does best. I have not seen anyone else who could combine traditional oriental elements with minimalist so well.

The only thing I'm worried about is the fact that he's done so many museums and with a small budget like that, this one for us Houstonians might end up being a not-so-special-one compared to his other works. Let's hope he pulls it off

That is cool.......i am a huge enthusiast of his.

I now live in LA, and his Disney Concert Hall is gorgeous, eventhough it may look a little odd in pix.  in person is really nice.

YES, Houston does need another big name like in the 80's when Burgee/Johnson and those guys were a buzzword all over town.

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thanks for the tip. I will be on watch.

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Here's the article and the thread. Someone posted it up already.

http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...?showtopic=1857

I too am captivated by FG's works. I used to walk pass his "Ginger and Fred" in Prague everyday when I was there on vocation.

If I'm not mistaken, that'd be FG's first in H-town?

But I don't think he does religion. I read an article in yesterday's Houston Chronicle and they are talking about have FG do the expansion of MFAH, which I think is a great idea. The man loves museums and Houston needs his name

This one is on Hawthorne @ Yupon. It's behind that Sky Bar on Montrose.

EDIT: I could be wrong. But there's a pair of townhouses there that are very similar to the ones in the picture

I saw a German film called Head-On at Angelika Film Centre in downtown a couple of weeks ago