Museum Of Fine Arts Houston At 1001 Bissonnet St.

[monarch]

^^^ @rgarza what part of china are these replacements items being shipped from?  shall they be immediately placed in quarantine... before being placed upon the exterior of our multimillion dollar museum?  what form of safety measures do your bosses have in place... to ensure that these particular items were not constructed in WUHAN, CHINA? 

[rgarza]

We have been instructed not to lick these windows. It’s been pretty difficult for us dumb construction workers, but we’re managing. Seriously, though, I don’t know where in China they’re coming from, but I’m pretty sure any microbes on the glass will be long dead by the time they get here. Covid-19 can live up to 5 days on glass and metal surfaces and these replacements are taking weeks to get here. We’re fine. Just to be safe though, please do not lick this museum! I repeat, this is not a lickable museum!!

[JBTX]

8 hours ago, monarch said:

^^^ @rgarza what part of china are these replacements items being shipped from?  shall they be immediately placed in quarantine... before being placed upon the exterior of our multimillion dollar museum?  what form of safety measures do your bosses have in place... to ensure that these particular items were not constructed in WUHAN, CHINA? 

 

Sea freight from China takes about 30 days on the water, my man. No need to quarantine the items.

 

Remember, this stuff comes over on massive container ships where the MFAH's is but one of 20,000 containers. Depending the route, that boat stop many times before it gets here.

 

Also, I think the Chinese government would LOVE the map you posted. They appear to have absorbed some neighbors on that map 😄.

[mkultra25]

7 hours ago, rgarza said:

We have been instructed not to lick these windows. It’s been pretty difficult for us dumb construction workers, but we’re managing. Seriously, though, I don’t know where in China they’re coming from, but I’m pretty sure any microbes on the glass will be long dead by the time they get here. Covid-19 can live up to 5 days on glass and metal surfaces and these replacements are taking weeks to get here. We’re fine. Just to be safe though, please do not lick this museum! I repeat, this is not a lickable museum!!

 

 

[hindesky]

3 hours ago, mkultra25 said:

 

 

I like the longer video version better.

[mkultra25]

On 5/10/2020 at 6:00 PM, hindesky said:

I like the longer video version better.

 

Well, I figured I'd probably bring down the wrath of the moderators on my head if I posted that one here. 

[tangledwoods]

not sure where their pricing was at but yall do know that Cristacurva down in Mexico makes plenty of curved glass....  

[BeerNut]

On 5/10/2020 at 7:10 AM, rgarza said:

We have been instructed not to lick these windows. It’s been pretty difficult for us dumb construction workers, but we’re managing. Seriously, though, I don’t know where in China they’re coming from, but I’m pretty sure any microbes on the glass will be long dead by the time they get here. Covid-19 can live up to 5 days on glass and metal surfaces and these replacements are taking weeks to get here. We’re fine. Just to be safe though, please do not lick this museum! I repeat, this is not a lickable museum!!

 

Aww man I was hoping there would be lickable wallpaper.  

 

[cloud713]

On 4/20/2020 at 8:18 PM, zaphod said:

I mean, they could always improve on it with LED lighting. A nice warm white would look really good at night.

That’s the plan.. I think the design will really shine at night.

 

On 5/10/2020 at 2:23 PM, mkultra25 said:

 

 

Ugh, this makes me sad that day for night is no more.. best festival ever.

[rgarza]

For those that are interested, the remaining tower crane will be coming down this weekend. If you’ve never seen it before, it’s a pretty cool process. 

[samagon]

On 5/13/2020 at 12:42 AM, cloud713 said:

That’s the plan.. I think the design will really shine at night.

 

Ugh, this makes me sad that day for night is no more.. best festival ever.

 

I can say, without any doubt at all, Aphex Twin at Day for Night was the best live show I have ever seen, and probably will ever see.

 

from the backdrop of downtown Houston, to the way he timed the music just right to slowly build, and just when the cold front blew in, he changed the tempo. what a show.

 

anyone who likes that kind of music and couldn't be at that event missed something very special in my opinion.

 

it is a tragedy (for Houston) that Day for Night couldn't make it as an event.

[rgarza]

Friday afternoon. A little hard to see because I had to snap this picture while I was working,  but the crane tear down crew is up there above the cab prepping for tomorrow’s task. 

[Houston19514]

What time will this start and about how long will it take?

[rgarza]

@Houston19514 they probably started at 0630 this morning. Should take most of the day. 

[hindesky]

I guess that slow boat from China still hasn't made it, lots of missing or broken sets of glass.

[rgarza]

@hindesky I stopped asking when the replacements are arriving because it just seems to cause premature hair loss among the project managers lol. Apparently, there was even talk of trying to get replacements put on a cargo plane, but of course we weren’t the only ones to have that idea so space is at a super premium on cargo planes. We removed as many broken pieces as we could while we still had the tower crane but there are still a few that we’ll have to use a mobile crane for. I’m guessing that won’t happen until the replacements finally arrive though. Silver lining (for me, anyway) is that I’ve got some job security 😂

[JBTX]

17 hours ago, rgarza said:

Apparently, there was even talk of trying to get replacements put on a cargo plane, but of course we weren’t the only ones to have that idea so space is at a super premium on cargo planes.

 

Can confirm. Many of my clients who used to use air freight to move smaller volume products are getting pushed off the planes and back to sea. Space on planes comes at too high of a premium at the moment. Too expensive for most. 

[tangledwoods]

What really sucks about this facade is that the owner now has a difficult to maintain building.  The contractor right now has leverage to get replacement pieces (retainage, successful contract closeout, etc).  5 years from now the supplier will have very little insensitive to provide glass for a broken piece cause by the proverbial lawnmower throwing rocks.   I guess they could buy a bunch of attic stock but it looks like most of the pieces are in different sizes.

 

 

[Texasota]

I would expect the individual pieces to be a bit less breakage-prone once they're installed, but I have to agree that *ease of maintenance* must not have been high on the list of priorities for this cladding choice.

[rgarza]

From what I’ve seen, most of the breakage has come either during installation or because of faulty installation. Other than that, it takes quite a bit to break the tube glass like being hit with a tower crane block or a boom lift swinging into it. Other than that, it seems like a pretty strong design, but only time will tell. 

[hindesky]

Like the look of the alcoves.

[rgarza]

This is the install on the canopy that covers the courtyard facing Main St. It’s gonna look beautiful once it’s done, but boy oh boy is it nerve wracking to install. Each piece weighs in the neighborhood of 1200kg and we’ve got to be directly underneath it while it’s being put in. 

[danielsonr]

16 minutes ago, rgarza said:

This is the install on the canopy that covers the courtyard facing Main St. It’s gonna look beautiful once it’s done, but boy oh boy is it nerve wracking to install. Each piece weighs in the neighborhood of 1200kg and we’ve got to be directly underneath it while it’s being put in. 

Is there some sort of cladding on the courtyard walls, or is the concrete just painted? It appears to no longer be raw concrete in your (and hindesky's) photos. 

Edited July 5, 2020 by danielsonr

[rgarza]

@danielsonr it’s painted. What’s most interesting to me is that they left the inconsistencies from the wooden forms and the paint almost seems to highlight it. It gives it a kind of organic look with the imperfections that contrasts with the interior where everything is very polished and clean. 

[X.R.]

So these canopy's and alcoves correlate to the gardens and meditative spaces they are creating around this development? Rode by yesterday and was trying to match up the schematics to what we're seeing. 

 

Edit: Looks amazing, btw

Edited July 6, 2020 by X.R.

[hindesky]

I think I spotted the ship the new glass tubes are coming in......

[rgarza]

A couple of pics of the ceiling in the main atrium, taken from the third floor. As you can see, there’s tons of natural light augmented with some artificial light. I can’t wait to see this building once she’s finished!

[mls1202]

It's going to be a shame to ruin these beautiful, clean walls with a bunch of paintings...😉

[rgarza]

@hindesky our ship finally came in! 😂 

[JBTX]

2 hours ago, rgarza said:

@hindesky our ship finally came in! 😂 

 

 

Praise be!