mollusk Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 The Family Law Center and the Harris County Administration building (the latter of which has its concrete cladding spalling like crazy). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstontexasjack Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 The Family Law Center is hideous. Despite construction of the new civil courthouse, foreclosure notices are still posted at the Family Law Center to help spruce the place up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 At least FLC is an honest hideous, unlike the banal, derivative hideosity of the civil courthouse. Both are better inside than out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 At least FLC is an honest hideous, unlike the banal, derivative hideosity of the civil courthouse. Both are better inside than out. Thank you. I could never had said it any better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 The Family Law Center and the Harris County Administration building (the latter of which has its concrete cladding spalling like crazy). The Family Law Center is hideous. Despite construction of the new civil courthouse, foreclosure notices are still posted at the Family Law Center to help spruce the place up. Gotta disagree with both of you. The Family Law Center looks to me more like straight up modernism than brutalism. And imho, it's not hideous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fernz Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Not very filial with that building, but doesn't look bad at all in that picture. Thanks for posting H-town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Gotta disagree with both of you. The Family Law Center looks to me more like straight up modernism than brutalism. And imho, it's not hideous. I would peg it as transitional between "traditional" high modern and Brutalism. The vertical pilasters terminating before the ground level and the glassed-in ground floor are typical modernist elements, but the overall concrete execution seems Brutalist. Does anyone know when it was built? One thing I really like that one sees in a number of buildings in Houston at the time is the recessed windows to allow interior shading. A brise-soleil, if we want to get all fancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted May 21, 2014 Author Share Posted May 21, 2014 IMHO, the reason the Family Law Center is currently hideous is just because it's roughly 40 years old - an age at which pretty much everything is at the low point for being out of style. Other than the inadequate elevators, the building functioned pretty well until they started cramming additional rooms into the hallways to support the growth of the courts. There's been some discussion about tearing it and the adjacent former DA building down for a new, larger building. Offhand, I think it would make more sense to take out the building that has structural issues that require it to be surrounded with decked scaffolds (admin), move those functions into the similarly sized FLC (and the DA building if need be - I don't know what, if anything, is in there now), and build a new FLC on the site of the admin building. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NenaE Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Does anyone know when it was built? Harris County Family Law Center1969 / Wilson, Morris, Crane & Anderson - the same year they built the Houston Post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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