kjb434 Posted August 12, 2005 Share Posted August 12, 2005 Thanks, the moderators on this forum do a good job of managing topics.Anyway, does anyone know how long the artwork will stay up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 art league just got a demo permit approved by the city of houston, so it won't be up much longer.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston Retail Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 theres a party on satuday at the site and it will be torn down next week enjoy it while you can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarthaG Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 I just heard this building was torn down this week. Too bad.. I really enjoyed it while it lasted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 You may have noticed the new construction on Montrose on the site of the late, great, lamented Inversion House. The Art League Houston's new facility looks promising. Is it just me, or isn't this the way that Hobby Center ought to have looked? Googie, 21st Century, and rational. Not only will this new building provide much needed studio/teaching space, but it also will contain a small cafe, which will be most welcome in an otherwise rather forbidding stretch of Montrose Blvd. Can't find a large-scale rendering online but check out the progress on the Art League's website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesternGulf Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 Yeah I saw the rendering a few weeks back. I will have to wait and see it when it is finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
largeTEXAS Posted December 28, 2005 Share Posted December 28, 2005 Don't get too excited. Irvin Philips, the architect of Tremont Terror, designed the building. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmainguy Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I was by there today-the frame is up. From their website: Check it out...looks promising. [and don't blame the Tremont on the architect...I think it's just another crappy contractor with equally crappy owners.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dream Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 i drove by today and the building is going up nicely. its crazy and just what montrose will embrace. i look forward to seeing this project completed. its good for the neighborhood and city.dream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Hobby Center looks much better from the 29th floor.Not so good at street level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infinite_jim Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 ^agreed, it's out of scale w/r/t the area. This has been a debate amongst my friends is the changing scale of Montrose... seems to me he missed a great oppurtunity to index the neighborhood behind it and across montrose, which imo, is the "loot" of Houston's inovative architecture. My professor said that Irvine is just having fun, and that the art league has been trying to get this built for nearly 30 years and he was the logical choice to get it done on budget and on time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spencer Street Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 irvin philips is apparently notorious for not detailing his works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 the juxtaposition of opposing styles is what it means to be diverse architecturally.........to some, anyway. for some, it is inherent in a progressively urban, mixed-use environ that styles are aberrant and contrasting. should montrose be sugarland? i do not intend to denigrate the honorable ideal of respecting the relationship of a structure to it's surroundings; however, in the "big picture", does it matter, that is, if it's good? for example, if frank lloyd wright's new york guggenheim were to be built on bissonnet between dunlavy and shepherd, would i care? absolutely not.if it is good and enjoyable and functional........let it be. to worry over neighborhood context (at least in houston's free-wheeling real estate climate) is ultimately uncessary.let's enjoy it where it occurs and find the beauty in the contrast. Vive Le Difference! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trosian Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 sometimes difference amounts to a conglomeration of useless and disparate objects that impart a 'customary' beauty...and to accept market forces as architecture would be myopic at best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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