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    Texas Children's Hospital Pavilion For Women/TMC Garage 21 At 6651 South Main St.

    in Texas Medical Center

    Posted

    These are the newer renderings, by FKP architects and it will be 15 stories.

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    The 15-story, 796,000 SF multi-use hospital includes a Maternity Center, clinic and office spaces as well as some pediatric components built over a 4-level parking garage. The Maternity Center will connect with the current TCH hospital through a multi-story pedestrian and patient bridge. The ultimate site will hold 2 million SF with two 28-story towers serving both Maternity and Pediatric patients.
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    Regent Square: Mixed-Use On Allen Parkway At Dunlavy St.

    in Going Up!

    Posted

    I LOVE the developement (brownstone areas)

    I LOVE the tower

    But together they look like a hot mess... but thank the heavens that SOMEBODY in this town has figured out the concept of rooftop parking, and building the development to the street corner. That's some sweet action!!

    I think the tower and the urban townhomes will work out great together when complete. I like that it seems out of place to some people, while I think its a excellent combination of architecture.

    Just take a look, this Modern building proposed in NYC thats out-of-place with its surrondings.

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    Awesome!

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    Hess Tower: Office Skyscraper At 1501 McKinney St.

    in Downtown

    Posted

    I'm not sure we've seen this particular rendering, but I could be wrong.

    Check out the skybridge going to some(no)where.

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    Skybridge to 5 Houston Center, from the Disco Tower website.

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    Does anyone know if this skybridge is planned? Or Cancelled maybe?

    I know the tower is almost topped out but, they still have time to add a skybridge.

    Gulf Coast Barrier (Ike Dike)

    in Galveston and the Gulf Islands

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    I'm sure the Mainlanders would greatly appreciate that. <_<

    Why would you say such a thing? These people are Galvestonians, products of the Galveston school system, and the GHA. Texas City and West Texas City/La Marque have been making their own strides in building a better community as of late.

    Unfortunaetly J.A.S.O.N, I agree with VicMan but, I would put Public Housing more in La Marque than Texas City. I see the strides in building a better communtiy in Texas City, but not in La Marque.

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    TMC BioPort: 500-Acre Bio Manufacturing Campus

    in Going Up!

    Posted

    Lockmat discovered this development from a link that TheNiche posted in the "Dome over Houston" thread.
    Europa at Houstonian Lakes, a 500-acre master planned community. LandQuest development group (or L Star, they've recently partnered with Starwood development) is the developer.
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    Europa features a variety of new homes, upscale midrise
    condominiums and town homes available at affordable
    prices surrounded by pristine lakes with a European-style village
    center.

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    http://www.enzoinv.com/brochure/brochure.htm (pg. 20-23)

     

     

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    Gulf Coast Barrier (Ike Dike)

    in Galveston and the Gulf Islands

    Posted

    Planning the 'Ike Dike' Defense

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124407051124382899.html

    GALVESTON, Texas -- As the Gulf Coast braces for hurricane season, Houston-area leaders are pushing a plan to build a wall stretching some 60 miles along the coast, hoping to end the annual storm threat once and for all.

    Dubbed the "Ike Dike" after the hurricane that ravaged the Houston area in September, the 17-foot-high wall would straddle the narrow entrance to Galveston Bay with 1,000-foot-long floodgates, allowing access to the city's port in good weather, but swinging shut when a storm approached to block floodwaters. Most damage from hurricanes is usually caused by floodwaters.

    The total cost, according to project backers, would be $2 billion to $4 billion, although those numbers would almost certainly rise, experts say.

    The idea is still in the conceptual stage and has plenty of detractors worried about cost, environmental impacts and whether it would really work. But the Ike Dike has gained significant traction in recent months.

    A state commission set up by Texas Gov. Rick Perry to study disaster preparedness after Hurricane Ike supports moving ahead, and a coalition of elected officials is promoting it. The Houston business community, including powerful interests such as the chemical and shipping industries, has also signed on.

    "This actually has more political legs than I ever dreamed it would have," said Bill King, a member of Gov. Perry's hurricane commission and the former mayor of the Galveston Bay city of Kemah.

    Dike supporters argue that the project has implications far beyond Texas. The area is home to three of the country's 10 largest oil refineries, 40% of its chemical manufacturing capacity and the country's second largest seaport, handling some 600,000 tons of cargo a day.

    "It's a national-security issue," said Bob Mitchell, president of the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership, a local business group.

    Supporters hope that emphasizing the national importance of the project will help win federal funding. Robert Eckels, the chairman of the governor's commission, said most of the money would likely come from the Army Corps of Engineers, which would have to approve the project.

    Supporters also are looking at building the dike along existing seaside roads, rather than directly on the coast, which might allow them to tap federal highway dollars. Even if funding is secured, Mr. Eckels said it would be more than a decade before the dike is completed.

    Bill Merrell, the Texas A&M University at Galveston professor who first proposed the Ike Dike, said he based the structure on existing designs, including swinging floodgates built in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in the 1990s. London has had closeable floodgates on the Thames since 1982, and the Russian city of St. Petersburg is nearing completion of its own massive gates.

    "All the technology's proven. We're not asking for a miracle," Mr. Merrell said.

    Dike supporters find inspiration in past disasters. After an unnamed 1900 hurricane nearly wiped Galveston off the map, island residents built a 15-plus-foot seawall along the island's east end, then raised the island itself by as much as 17 feet, jacking up more than 2,000 buildings and filling in underneath them with sand.

    Compared with that project, Mr. Merrell said, the Ike Dike looks trivial -- at least from an engineering standpoint. But the perception that the project is too difficult could be hard to overcome. Mr. King, the former Kemah mayor, said he initially thought the idea was too far-fetched. But he said the simplicity of Mr. Merrell's plan, combined with the cost of leaving the coast unprotected, won him over.

    "The elegance and the appeal of something like the Ike Dike is, with one swath, all the problems are solved," Mr. King said.

    Skeptics already are lining up. Beachfront property owners worry the dike could block their ocean views. Some environmentalists fear the dike could disturb the fragile ecology of Galveston Bay. Communities at the end of the proposed dike worry they will get more flooding if the wall diverts water their way. And some worry the attention focused on the dike could hurt less-ambitious efforts.

    "It's a distraction from more immediate, more affordable, more realistic things that could be done to make people safer quicker," said Mary Kelly, a vice president of the Environmental Defense Fund and a member of the governor's commission.

    Gordon Wells, a University of Texas researcher who advises state officials on hurricane planning, warns the Ike Dike could actually make flooding worse in Galveston in certain scenarios, trapping water behind the wall.

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