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Old 05-10-2010, 08:03 PM
 
Location: Austin/Houston
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I think one thing that kills it for downtown Houston and I even have to say downtown Dallas does better is displaying signage. To me, the stupid sign ordinance for downtown makes downtown appear bland and unsafe in certain areas. The downtown Mcdonalds in Houston are so plain and office style looking while San Fransico, Dallas and probably every other major city on this earth besides Houston have some style to them.

 
Old 05-10-2010, 08:09 PM
 
Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
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I think one thing that kills it for downtown Houston and I even have to say downtown Dallas does better is displaying signage. To me, the stupid sign ordinance for downtown makes downtown appear bland and unsafe in certain areas. The downtown Mcdonalds in Houston are so plain and office style looking while San Fransico, Dallas and probably every other major city on this earth besides Houston have some style to them.
Downtown Dallas has huge signs on the skyscrapers in downtown. I have never seen a "office style" McDonald's?!?
 
Old 05-10-2010, 08:33 PM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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I think one thing that kills it for downtown Houston and I even have to say downtown Dallas does better is displaying signage. To me, the stupid sign ordinance for downtown makes downtown appear bland and unsafe in certain areas. The downtown Mcdonalds in Houston are so plain and office style looking while San Fransico, Dallas and probably every other major city on this earth besides Houston have some style to them.
I thought the signage ordinance only effected the top of the buildings? I know Continental got a pass when they wanted to illuminate the top of their tower with their logo at night. I happen to like that the top of Houston's Downtown buildings are slapped with corporate names. Other parts of Houston don't have this though.
 
Old 05-10-2010, 08:56 PM
 
Location: Austin/Houston
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Downtown Dallas has huge signs on the skyscrapers in downtown. I have never seen a "office style" McDonald's?!?
office style in my definition is plain and unexciting.

And i never said Dallas didn't have signs on their downtown. If you read my post, i was saying that was something Dallas did better than Houston.

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I thought the signage ordinance only effected the top of the buildings? I know Continental got a pass when they wanted to illuminate the top of their tower with their logo at night. I happen to like that the top of Houston's Downtown buildings are slapped with corporate names. Other parts of Houston don't have this though.
It's actually no higher than 80 ft or something like that. Although, they have made recent exceptions with the Pavilions.
 
Old 05-10-2010, 09:01 PM
 
Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
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office style in my definition is plain and unexciting.

And i never said Dallas didn't have signs on their downtown. If you read my post, i was saying that was something Dallas did better than Houston.



It's actually no higher than 80 ft or something like that. Although, they have made recent exceptions with the Pavilions.
I was agreeing with you!
 
Old 05-10-2010, 09:28 PM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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Whatever with those screens that were suppose to go with Pavilions??? That would've been awesome.
 
Old 05-10-2010, 09:34 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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HP (Houston Pavilions) NOT Hewlett Packard:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/Houstonpavilion.jpg (broken link)

^^ Lookin pretty raw man.
 
Old 05-11-2010, 12:43 PM
 
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HP (Houston Pavilions) NOT Hewlett Packard:



^^ Lookin pretty raw man.
Houston Pavilions is not that tall......and all of the renderings are a little more interesting and edgy than the real product in person...kinda like the first renderings of the Winspear were Waaaaay better than the finished product....but the finished product is still stunning.
 
Old 05-11-2010, 01:04 PM
 
Location: Austin/Houston
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shoot i wish the pavilions looked like that rendering. maybe after the area matures a little.
 
Old 05-11-2010, 01:56 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Houston Pavilions is not that tall......and all of the renderings are a little more interesting and edgy than the real product in person...kinda like the first renderings of the Winspear were Waaaaay better than the finished product....but the finished product is still stunning.
They're not done completely yet. More stores are coming in, but yeah the buildings, not as impressive as the renderings.
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