Houston Chronicle Building At 4747 Southwest Fwy.

[cloud713]

interesting.. i didnt realize they owned the garage too. i guess that makes sense. there is a thread on this in the west loop subforum (where the Chron is relocating to)

[Subdude]

Note dupe topics merged.

 

 

 

[Mab]

 

 

 

 

The Houston Chronicle’s relocation into the former Houston Post building along the Southwest Freeway is expected to begin early next year, executives told the newspaper’s staff last week as they revealed a number of architectural renderings of the new space.

 

Gensler is designing the renovations to the building where the Chronicle is moving most of its 500-plus downtown workforce as it consolidates operations.

The above renderings show preliminary images of how the interior and exterior of the four-story structure could look once work is completed.

The property contains more than 440,000 square feet in seven buildings, most of which are connected. Parts of it already house the Chronicle’s press operations, distribution, circulation and local sales teams.

Located at 4747 Southwest Freeway at the 610 Loop,the property housed the Houston Post until April 1995, when that newspaper closed and its assets were sold to Chronicle parent Hearst Corp.

[monarch]

^^^ very nice mab!

[Luminare]

I still like my "Tower of Houston" idea better >.>

[BeerNut]

I keep meaning to take a picture of this place when I'm driving in that area.  Passed by today and looks they've started painting the building.  The new window holes have been cut for a while now.

[BigFootsSocks]

I doubt it will help them to have the new digs if they ant change their online format. They won't hit the kind of web traffic if they stick with the god awful site and random pop up ads or auto play videos.

Not to mention, their vocal comment base sucks. People get outraged at the stupidest things; I saw someone go on a rant because the author left out a "t" in the word "the" on accident. Who the hell does that?

The site is old, outdated, and is full of vile people, while print is rapidly declining as a medium; they need to change something more drastic than their offices to survive.

[Montrose1100]

I doubt it will help them to have the new digs if they ant change their online format. They won't hit the kind of web traffic if they stick with the god awful site and random pop up ads or auto play videos.

Not to mention, their vocal comment base sucks. People get outraged at the stupidest things; I saw someone go on a rant because the author left out a "t" in the word "the" on accident. Who the hell does that?

The site is old, outdated, and is full of vile people, while print is rapidly declining as a medium; they need to change something more drastic than their offices to survive.

Unfortunately this is not just a Chron problem, it's widespread in the media.

[gmac]

They have two sites -- chron.com and houstonchronicle.com.

 

The chron.com site is pure clickbait to pay bills, while the other is basically the print version in electronic format.

[Urbannizer]

 

http://swamplot.com/slicing-a-window-into-the-houston-chronicles-brutal-freeway-side-headquarters-to-be/2015-12-31/

 

THE NORTH WALL has been breached — windows have been carved into the facade of the Houston Chronicle’s freeway-front structure at the corner of the West Loop and 59 (where most of the paper’s staff will relocate early next year.) The multi-building campus under renovation at 4747 Southwest Freeway was bought from the Houston Post in 1995 after the competing newspaper folded; the Chronicle’s Texas Ave. space was bought by developer Hines in October.

The main building was powerwashed back to a gleaming beige over the summer — to brighten things up further, sections of the 1960s raw concrete Brutalist facade are currently being whitewashed as well, in line with exterior renderings released earlier this year by Gensler.

[lockmat]

This portion was never built, was it?

 

http://www.abeldesigngroup.com/our-work/on-the-boards/