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Which red brick building is across the street? Are you talking about the ones across the Pierce Elevated? Not really part of downtown is it? I stand by my opinion, its atrocious. That's what's wrong with Houston, no one wants to look to the future, there isn't a sense of progress, just badly rehashed styles.

What an atrocity! I think to make it match the station, the firemen should use horse drawn water pumpers. Red brick in that part of downtown looks totally ridiculous!

Niche so you're an urban planner? Please tell us what should UH do with that parking garage?

Niche, what would you rather have, just a stand alone parking garage? That's ugly, at least with retail/services on the ground floor/second floor, it makes it more usable as an urban space. FYI, there are actual University offices at the UH1 Garage, not just retail.

I went to Strake Jesuit and Sharpstown Mall was my hangout. Man good time and great memories there. I remember buying my first CD at Foleys. Buying furniture at Store House for my room and playing arcades at Goodtime Charlie's and then at the video arcade next to JC Penny's. Heck I remember when it was just one story and they added the second floor. Sad to see its decline but I guess time marches on.

I'm sure....

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/money/s...s-506/overview/

Buyer beware. Some of these "outlet" centers actually make different merchandise for those stores. For example, the Polo store and Nautica store in Katy Mills have cheaper quality clothes that are priced accordingly. But its not the same as they sell at Macy's or Sak's. The real outlets, like in San Marcos, are true to the model of outlets, where they send left over real stock to try and sell off.

Niche, $38/semester is like 8 Starbucks coffees or 1 tank of gas. Hardly a deal breaker for today's students. I understand your point, but UH is trying to plan for the future, so I'm all for tearing up surface parking and doing something else with it. The Garage at UH1 is pretty nice with retail/services on the ground floor.

So they get rid of surface parking and charge more for parking in the garage that it replaces? That's just wrong.

edit: I just did a quick look at the rates, its not a lot more to park in the Garage compared to regular parking, a difference of $77/year or $38/semester. That's cheap compared to all the other fees.

Student Parking Permits Annual Semester Spring/Summer

Garage $200.00 $120.00 $200.00

Resident Hall $172.00 $103.00 N/A

Student $133.00 $79.00 $133.00

Economy $50.00 $50.00 $50.00

Economy Plus $75.00 $75.00 $75.00

Disabled $124.00 $74.00 $124.00

Motorcycle $50.00 $50.00 $50.00

Niche, UH already sells more parking permits than parking spaces. So it won't be a problem getting those garages filled. And I don't think it costs any more to park in the garage than surface lots. Its a flat rate permit.

They are building parking garages to replace the surface parking.

Cougar Place, exactly why I hate the new "dorms" that they built. Its the same crappy apartment style construction that doesn't last; read stick construction. Plus the way they are designed, doesn't lend itself to college type living. I mean they are fenced in and are far from campus proper by foot travel. What they should do is build a tower and say that nothing can be built that is more than 15 minutes by foot away. UH has serious urban sprawl.

Sabir must be a total dufus!

Yea great first post.

Let me guess, spanish colonial with fake arches and a red tile roof.

That's a nice house regardless. I wonder if a draftsman designed it back in 1917?

What do you expect, Aggies engineered it. The spur is a total disaster! It has many blind merge lanes, its ridiculous, as is the new Galleria super exchange. And everyone knows the reason for traffic there is all the lane cutters, but the Aggie engineers must not get out of College Station much. All they have to do to fix the north bound spur is start the exit at Greenbiar. Done, that would solve it. And what about that shoulder from hell? Do they really need a shoulder that is 3 lanes wide? Crazy.

Don't even get me started on the Galleria mess. All that money to alleviate traffic and it hasn't done a thing to solve it.

EZtag also works in the airport parking now.

Well if builders hired real architect instead of draftsmen to design houses, it wouldn't be a problem.

It would be as steamy as brick.

Hardi Plank is concrete planks. So you could say that a Hardi Plank house is a concrete house.

Pure profit motive. That's all it is. As far as brick, don't forget its a veneer like anything else they put on the skin of the building. The structure itself is just stick construction.

I thought for sure they would have settled for more than $400k.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/bel...ws/5349352.html

Rachel, you're the one calling me an idiot and you have the gall to say I'm keeping haif from growing? Wow, just wow. Pulling to many allnighters I think. BTW, welcome to the forum, newbie.

my answer indiates what i consider Thaddeus's courses to be.

don't know if you're trying to be sarcastic in stating what i would call it, but the fact that you stated "we had to take MANY MANY engineering classes" comes across as more than just Thaddeus's course.

Maybe it changed when you went to school, but we had a structures class EVERY semester from 2nd year on up. Its wasn't just one COURSE taught by Thaddeus. In fact he was just a TA when we first started. That doesn't include Bachman's environmental systems classes either. The point is that an Architectural degree is a well rounded education. Give yourself more credit Rachel.