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Old 07-29-2010, 02:33 AM
 
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Originally Posted by A&M Bulldawg View Post
I wish Houston didn't look like it could be in Mexico!
Not really sure what you're talking about, but I like when people make comments like "it looks like Mexico City" which are intended as negative, when they have no idea what is actually in Mexico City. If they did, they'd realize that comparing Houston to Mexico City is a compliment Houston might not even deserve.

Our skyline's bigger and perhaps better, but in terms of historical architecture Houston doesn't come close.
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Old 07-29-2010, 07:20 AM
 
Location: Houston Inner Loop
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Not really sure what you're talking about, but I like when people make comments like "it looks like Mexico City" which are intended as negative, when they have no idea what is actually in Mexico City. If they did, they'd realize that comparing Houston to Mexico City is a compliment Houston might not even deserve.

Our skyline's bigger and perhaps better, but in terms of historical architecture Houston doesn't come close.
They've obviously never been to Mexico City! I wish some of Houston looked like the nicer parts of DF. Not so much the other parts, though... Talk about contrasts!
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Old 11-01-2010, 03:35 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Buildings Built Above 12+ Stories From 1999-2009:
New York City-517
Chicago- 203
Miami-135
Houston-74
Atlanta-73
Las Vegas-68
San Francisco-49
Los Angeles-27

I hate architecturally dull cities, cities that have no sensation when you drive through them, cities that have no fingerprint identity to claim their own in terms of skyline.

Anyways here's a more updated group of pictures.

Downtown Houston:

http://www.baldheretic.com/pics/houston/sabinehdr.jpg (broken link)

Uptown Houston:


Greenway Plaza:


Texas Medical Center:


And I don't want to include this just yet but it seems to be the corridor for hot development in Houston. With Regent Square, and two new 28 Story Towers, and other buildings scoped out, Neartown is going to change its look sooner than later on. Neartown isn't a skyline in the sense of it, but its emerging to become one and will probably be one by the end of the decade.

Neartown:

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Old 11-01-2010, 08:58 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Continental lost its blue logo at the top & is a boring bright white now.
Has anyone else noticed that shortly after the merger with United closed that they stopped turning on the white lights at the top of the Continental Airlines building at night? The blue looked awesome but now that the white is gone it looks even more drab.
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Old 11-01-2010, 09:16 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Has anyone else noticed that shortly after the merger with United closed that they stopped turning on the white lights at the top of the Continental Airlines building at night? The blue looked awesome but now that the white is gone it looks even more drab.
Yeah. I noticed that this weekend. How depressing....
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Old 11-01-2010, 11:39 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Yeah. I noticed that this weekend. How depressing....
I was driving in from Dallas last night and usually when I come from around the beltway on I-45 I can at least spot the skyline because of the white lights on top of the Continental Building - this time it wasn't until I came under 610 that I was able to finally see the skyline, and barely at that.
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Old 11-01-2010, 04:04 PM
 
Location: DALLAS
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dALLAS SKYLINE IS BETER
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Old 11-01-2010, 04:38 PM
 
Location: Austin/Houston
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dALLAS SKYLINE IS BETER
better lit, yeah!
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Old 11-02-2010, 06:28 AM
 
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Love the pictures. I don't see how Houston looks like Mexico. Anyway, I feel like Houston needs more skyscrapers with some variety in architecture.
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Old 11-02-2010, 10:05 AM
 
Location: Houston, Tx
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Houston has 5 towers over 500' located outside of downtown.

1. Williams Tower - 901 ft.
2. San Felipe - 650 ft.
3. American General - 590 ft.
4. Marathon Oil Tower - 555 ft.
5. The Huntingdon - 501 ft.
Houston has the problem that it is between two major Class B airports. The floor of the airspace for those two areports over most of central Houston, is 2000 feet-- meaning no plane can fly above 2000' unless its in communication with the controlling airport's tower and has their permission (something hard to get from a Class B with their busy workload). You don't want too many tall buildings in between those airports. It's bad enough we have some cell phone towers going up to 700'.
As you can see from the attached photo, there is only a narrow corridor East-West between the two airports. The last thing we need is more tall buildings there.

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Buildings Built Above 12+ Stories From 1999-2009:
New York City-517
Chicago- 203
Miami-135
Houston-74
Atlanta-73
Las Vegas-68
San Francisco-49
Los Angeles-27

I hate architecturally dull cities, cities that have no sensation when you drive through them, cities that have no fingerprint identity to claim their own in terms of skyline.
Most of those buildings built in Miami are condos and they are empty. That's not something any city should be proud of.
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