Popular Post Amlaham Posted February 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 2, 2022 https://www.houston.org/news/quality-life-post-houston-aims-bring-global-experience-downtown "POST Houston isn’t finished yet. Liu said the goal is to connect the rooftop park, which is open to the public, to Buffalo Bayou. Residential and office space is also not out of the question.." I wonder how thats going to work, but based off of the job they did inside, I'm sure they will execute this well. Glad they don't plan on stopping! 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate4l1f3 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 9 hours ago, Amlaham said: https://www.houston.org/news/quality-life-post-houston-aims-bring-global-experience-downtown "POST Houston isn’t finished yet. Liu said the goal is to connect the rooftop park, which is open to the public, to Buffalo Bayou. Residential and office space is also not out of the question.." I wonder how thats going to work, but based off of the job they did inside, I'm sure they will execute this well. Glad they don't plan on stopping! Hmmm pedestrian bridge from the George Bush monument maybe? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrainTrak Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Or a stairway from the plaza that can cross under Franklin and allow direct access to the trail along the bayou 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 I thought we had already seen renderings showing a stairwell going under Franklin St to the pedestrian path along Buffalo Bayou. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate4l1f3 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 5 hours ago, TrainTrak said: Or a stairway from the plaza that can cross under Franklin and allow direct access to the trail along the bayou This probably makes more sense. I was thinking of a connection to the literal rooftop 🤦🏻♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillip_white Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 On 2/2/2022 at 2:57 PM, Amlaham said: https://www.houston.org/news/quality-life-post-houston-aims-bring-global-experience-downtown "POST Houston isn’t finished yet. Liu said the goal is to connect the rooftop park, which is open to the public, to Buffalo Bayou. Residential and office space is also not out of the question.." I wonder how thats going to work, but based off of the job they did inside, I'm sure they will execute this well. Glad they don't plan on stopping! My vote is for a zipline down and ski lift gondola to get back up. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerNut Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 I vote for a slide right into the bayou... 1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Just now, BeerNut said: I vote for a slide right into the bayou... aka sudden death 💀 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 I would love to see the plaza have a connection to the bayou and maybe redesign the plaza with an eye catching art installation representing Houston as a whole. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillip_white Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 4 hours ago, j_cuevas713 said: I would love to see the plaza have a connection to the bayou and maybe redesign the plaza with an eye catching art installation representing Houston as a whole. An art installation that bulldozes itself... very Houston and I kinda like it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 18 minutes ago, phillip_white said: An art installation that bulldozes itself... very Houston and I kinda like it. A giant bulldozer would be funny. Anyone remember the Spirt of Houston statue that was supposed to be built? There was a topic on this forum at one point I believe. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyc05 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 7 hours ago, j_cuevas713 said: A giant bulldozer would be funny. Anyone remember the Spirt of Houston statue that was supposed to be built? There was a topic on this forum at one point I believe. Wasn't that thread mid 2000s? 😂 Lol 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 whatever they do, they need to figure out a way to make the connection feel open and bright. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post innerloop Posted February 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 7, 2022 (edited) I vote to excavate the entire plaza down to bayou level and have a bayou spur run under the street and come up to the front of the building like the San Antonio Convention Center. Edited February 7, 2022 by innerloop 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 3 hours ago, innerloop said: I vote to excavate the entire plaza down to bayou level and have a bayou spur run under the street and come up to the front of the building like the San Antonio Convention Center. Obligatory "the bayou won't look like that." 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Ewert Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 This is maybe the dumbest question ever asked by anyone, but... could it? Not that we ever would, but if the city decided that having the bayou look nice was important, is there any way you could do it? Put a giant Brita filter in the Galleria? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
springcityparts Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 5 minutes ago, Andrew Ewert said: This is maybe the dumbest question ever asked by anyone, but... could it? Not that we ever would, but if the city decided that having the bayou look nice was important, is there any way you could do it? Put a giant Brita filter in the Galleria? I’ve thought about this as well. I feel like all it would take it to dump a bunch of granite or some other type of rocks to help with filtering and reflection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortune Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 Let's not forget that the SA river shown above is lined in cement. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Fortune said: Let's not forget that the SA river shown above is lined in cement. And it has damns on both ends which helps to minimize the amount of silt in it. They just pumped the water out and removed all the debris in it a couple weeks ago. They do this biannually. https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/01/25/cellphones-chairs-found-as-san-antonio-river-is-drained-cleaned/ Edited February 9, 2022 by hindesky 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freundb Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 Just get that blue stuff from porta johns and dump it in the bayou. What other problems can I solve today? 1 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 17 hours ago, Andrew Ewert said: This is maybe the dumbest question ever asked by anyone, but... could it? Not that we ever would, but if the city decided that having the bayou look nice was important, is there any way you could do it? Put a giant Brita filter in the Galleria? One of the main points of present day environmentalism as well as landscape design is to be true and honest to what naturally exists and not try to enhance or improve upon it. Do not "teach the river a better course," or a better shade or color, for that matter. So I think this would fall into that category. Although the BBP has said that if we have better, more natural drainages leading into the bayou, much of the sediments that wash into it will be filtered out, and the water will be consequently less murky. More like black tea than chocolate milk, if you will. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post springcityparts Posted February 9, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 9, 2022 I would be much more ok with Black Tea than chocolate Milk. A little bit more like what The confluence of White Oak and Buffalo bayou looks like? Or at times, the Buffalo Bayou near the East End. It is amazing to me how different the water can look like. Always seems to be more chocolate milk in the summer / after heavy rain events. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 3 hours ago, H-Town Man said: if we have better, more natural drainages leading into the bayou, much of the sediments that wash into it will be filtered out, and the water will be consequently less murky. A few years ago ordinances were passed requiring developers to confine run-off from construction sites, which reduced the amount of silt going into the bayou. To me, Buffalo Bayou looks a little less murky than it used to. I've read historical accounts of what the bayou looked like in Houston's early days and at one time the water was fairly clear. Much of the silt came from natural erosion of its banks, which was minimal due to dense plant growth. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 1 hour ago, dbigtex56 said: A few years ago ordinances were passed requiring developers to confine run-off from construction sites, which reduced the amount of silt going into the bayou. To me, Buffalo Bayou looks a little less murky than it used to. I've read historical accounts of what the bayou looked like in Houston's early days and at one time the water was fairly clear. Much of the silt came from natural erosion of its banks, which was minimal due to dense plant growth. I suppose the best way to determine what the bayou is capable of is to visit another bayou in an undeveloped area of southeast Texas or southern Louisiana. I don't think any of them are especially clear. Translucent, maybe to some degree. I think Frederick Law Olmsted said that the first clear river going westward across Texas was the Colorado, and all the ones before that were muddy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 (edited) as far as the historical accounts of the waters being fairly clear, that's directly from the Allen Brothers trying to sell people on Houston. https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/See-how-Houston-was-marketed-way-back-in-1836-13188532.php#photo-16079012 Quote There is no place in Texas more healthy, having an abundance of excellent spring water, and enjoying the sea breeze in all its freshness, did development also kill the sea breeze? hahaha. no digs at anyone, just any historical account of things is probably slanted based on the Allen Brother's original account, I mean, great that they got people to move here, cause it has turned into a great city, but any rumors about the actual waterways of Houston can't be trusted. it's always been muddy. no amount of plant growth on the banks is going to change that. incidentally, the photos attached to that article are awesome. Edited February 9, 2022 by samagon 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 (edited) Coworking. Architects. https://www.corgan.com Edited February 18, 2022 by hindesky 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted February 18, 2022 Share Posted February 18, 2022 21 minutes ago, hindesky said: Coworking. Good to see that Common Desk is moving forward. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
por favor gracias Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 On 2/8/2022 at 4:19 PM, Andrew Ewert said: This is maybe the dumbest question ever asked by anyone, but... could it? Not that we ever would, but if the city decided that having the bayou look nice was important, is there any way you could do it? Put a giant Brita filter in the Galleria? I wish the Galleria could filter out that sewage smell that's been plaguing the parking garage for years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post j_cuevas713 Posted February 20, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2022 Went to POST tonite after dinner to grab some dessert and the energy in this place is awesome. I can’t wait for tenants to start filling in the office space. What a gem 💎 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 AMEN TO THAT @j_cuevas713! It really is the coolest place and cant wait to see what they do in and around it... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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