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Anadarko's 30-story headquarters building, which was completed in 2002, also received the 2008 and 2009 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Energy Star Award in recognition of its savings on energy consumption. The company has worked collaboratively with various vendors to upgrade features such as the air filtration, the building automation system, and lighting infrastructure and controls. In addition, the team improved the facility's recycling programs and implemented green-cleaning and water-usage control programs.

I like street spam, it lets you know your in a place where people don't care that much about their surroundings, like jail, except for the mind.

If everyone stopped tipping, maybe restaurant owners might actually have to pay their employee's a decent wage like any other service industry. What a weird tradition.

^Actually, I see Attica being dogpiled by rhetoric and he is the only one using source material and concise logic. Try again. The Glenn Beck rumor is telling in how you react to such nonsense, conversely that same method colors your perception.

so an article written by the author of The Bush Tragedy is the real media?

In NO way does your reply address the content of the article. Bias or not.

Fox news is truly a sad commentary of the failure of education in America.

How can you directly correlate pedestrian activity and land use proximity to a world class arts center? It is a destination, and your barometer for architectural beauty and urban vitality seems to be rooted in an 19th century romanticism. Beaux-Arts is not exactly a design paradigm for Dallas IMO.

A few notable architectural pieces in the arts district (the Winspear and the Wyly are quite cool) and all the sudden they are comparing Dallas to NYC and Chicago? Huh? I mean good for Dallas, but they do realize no one really lives downtown and the arts center isn't walkable from any residential/retail zone? Comparisons the NYC and Chi-town almost diminish the developments, b/c Dallas is never going to match those cities' urban vitality or architectural beauty.

I smell envy.

O' Horse Blinders!

No functioning "roof" is level flat. While not a homeowner myself I've designed & spec'd plenty of commercial jobs involving parapets and resealing tar roofs, perhaps you could ask some commercial property owners who they insure with. Good luck and let us know how it works out; welcome to the forum.

Depends greatly on the existing structural integrity. It might very well be that to build atop your existing, conditions would require a steel balloon frame which is quite pricey. By jacking up the existing, the first floor and footings can be spec'd appropriately for the given load.

http://www.dailymail...l-crisis-s.html

Top ten Chinese billionaires

Name Est. worth Industry

1 Wang Chuanfu $5.1bn Mobile phone parts, Batteries

2 Zhang Yin $4.9bn Paper

3 Xu Rongmao $4.7bn Property

4 Yang Huiyan & family $4.6bn Property

5 Huang Wei & Li Ping $4.4bn Property, Finance

6 Liu Yongxing $4.4bn Chemical industry

7 Lu Zhiqiang $4.4bn Property, Finance

8 Zhu Mengyi & family $4.4bn Property

9 Wang Jianlin $4.3bn Property, Hotel,

10 Liu Zhongtian $4.1bn Aluminium, Plastics

Property and development is still booming in east Asia. Just looking at the WSJ article from the other day also indicates their appetite for steel is still quit ravenous. The big issue here is two-fold: are they developing for the people's future or are we about to witness a great peasant uprising? And that brings about the energy issue too; which alone is scary but with a gilded society as theirs, revolution may not be as far fetched as it sounds. I guess we'll see in about a decade how or if a crisis this turns out to be. By then maybe load demands can be sorted through advances in battery technology along with other diversified energy sources.

i was surprised what was left out myself. these are pretty much mainstream places. i do though hope to get a report back from anyone that does go to the happy go lucky. always memorable.

I saved my girlfriend (now wife) from being whored out in a xanax haze from there. Had to talk the pimp down, crazy times..

The sad part is that the building was completed in 1980! Darned thing didn't even make it 30 years!

The taxpayers deserve a better return on their investment for whatever is built in it's place. Do you think they will pony up for a 60-70 year building?

I think the type of gentrification most oppose is "block busting," where developers attempt to sanitize entire urban areas with faux culture and lifestyle centers. They instantly commercialize a place and take away the long time residents comfort of being. Meaning that where there once was a time they could sit on their porch and observe a commonplace event like a sunset, now the vibe is that they're loitering for not being or pretending to be someone important or engaged in some form of consumerism. Believe it or not, vacant lots serve a purpose greater than adjacent land valuation. In a city sorely lacking in public space, these spaces are the parks for children. It boils down to your morality, is the dollar almighty or is there a greater purpose in your existence here?

The integral ad-hoc method of gentrification, manifested as building density is preferred. It is as urban pioneers are the purifying agents of brown fields and perceived blight, they (as the precursors to gentrification) act much like the biological function of wetlands.

Channeling Rafael Moneo much, are we?

In Moneo's wildest dreams.

Ok thanks, you've more or less confirmed a rumor I heard from some friends. We have a couple places like that in NOLA too. Always an interesting story how it comes about, but I'll refrain from spoiling everyone's fun.

Cheers~

Also Depeche Mode's Violator album synchronized with Nosferatu.

:thumbs up:

Is that the place where it's "cool?"

Yay Marigny!

It's hard to say if this is a good thing. It seems like a short term sol'n to a long term problem that will not end well.

I'm personally of the opinion we should use the CIA to create a peasant uprising to depose of Mexico's ruling class. They've proven to only stifle innovation and b/c of that; it is the reason we are having the illegal immigration problem in the first place.

To answer the other question, no, we shouldn't ever follow Mexico's lead on anything.

Aren't they seriously overestimating the navigable width of the river at that point?

That's right between the old highway 90 bridge and the algiers ferry. The scale to me seems completely off. That looks as if it would cut off at least half the channel, making it effectively a one-way for the big ships.

Definitely a neat idea, though. People will laugh now, but in another 50 years, in Manhattan, I can see it.

Thank you! It looks like a 1st year architecture student designed it the week before it was due. Cesar Pelli unimpressed.

Sidenote: In the early 80's, there was a design competition for a tower in downtown NOLA. Cesar Pelli's design was one of the entries. In a follow up publication (which I cannot find any info on atm) he was ripped for not having a clue as to how his spatial dynamics affected perception. Simply terrifying, like looking into the abyss or posting on /b/. Him and Moneo were so clueless as to the effect of their work at the time that they and their boasters had the publication pulled. Thankfully the project flopped. It would be hard to see an oblique and contorted MGM style pyramid atop the skyline.

Don't bet on it. Arcologies were conceived of over 50 years ago by an architect with ambitious dreams. It's 2009, why don't WE have arcologies? We don't even robots that can take out the trash!

Who is this architect with ambitious dreams?

New Orleans is like the Detroit of the south. Once trends like neighborhood tipping and white flight took hold, the city was basically handed over to the black community for leadership. In turn they enacted policies of retribution and now have a thriving tourist industry where a thriving oil industry once was. Not all whites left and the situation is not as racially segregated in the city as it was when whites were in power. Where the whites landed from their flight is in places like St. Bernard or Jefferson Parish. They, like the surrounding suburbs of Detroit, have looked at the rotting city core as the fault of the black's leadership. Hence this volley of accusations on both sides. Having been raised in NOLA and Harahan, I can tell you that race plays a crucial role in the politics and public developments. While the article may sound simplistic, it is one side of a complex issue and may have some truth to it.