First we start off with pics in the medical center
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Entrance to Rice University
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Mecom Fountain Traffic Circle
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Museum of Fine Arts
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Museum of Contemporary Art
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The Calais at Courtlandt Sqaure
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La Strada in Montrose
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Katz's. Open 24 hours
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Westheimer
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Shops in Montrose
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Tremont Tower
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Red Cat Jazz Cafe
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Market Square
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Cotton Exchange Building
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Franklin Lofts
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Uptown Houston Skyline from tallest tower in Texas. View from the 60th floor about 800 feet in the air.
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Williams Tower from Chase Tower
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Texas Medical Center from Chase Tower. If you look closely you can see the cable towers on the outskirts of Houston in the background. The tallest ia about 1800-1900 feet tall.
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Bank of America from Chase Tower
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2nd tallest in Texas and in Houston. Tallest all glass scraper in Western Hemisphere from Chase Tower.
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Chase Tower
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Memorial Hermann Hospital in Texas Medical Center
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Construction Cranes raised for tallest scraper in Texas Medical Center. Memorial Hermann Plaza.
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Construction fence for Project
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Ground Zero of construction work
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Prarie View A&M School of Nursing under construction
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Rendering of Project
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Back to the streets of the Texas Medical Center
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Mia Bella Tratorria on the right and M Bar on the left. Chase Tower in background
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Grasshopper nightclub
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Main Street Square
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1000 Main
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Alexan Lofts
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Gritty but expensive neighborhood north of downtown.
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New Brownstones underconstruction in neighborhood
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Lofts at the Ballpark
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Third Ward
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Skyline form Third Ward
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Thanks for Viewing

WoW. Very Very Nice!!!

Did you just got those pictures yesterday? I was in Houston over the Easter weekend (stay at Magnolia, it was super nice!) they still didn't have the sign for Aladdin yet (coner of Westheimer and Montrose...the old CVS!)

Awesome shots. very nice, thanks for sharing.

no galleria area shots. I always loved housten. nothing really to love about it if you want my honest opinion.. but i just did!!

nice pics! would you say Houston's new lightrail has given the city a bit more of an urban feeling...maybe more pedestrians than before...more foot traffic? I'm convinced Houston looks better than Dallas now.

Did you just got those pictures yesterday? I was in Houston over the Easter weekend (stay at Magnolia, it was super nice!) they still didn't have the sign for Aladdin yet (coner of Westheimer and Montrose...the old CVS!)

yes I did. I stopped in Houston for a minute because my family had a flight from Miami to San Antonio for a wedding. The family stopped in Houston for a while because the plane was not leaving until later on that day. The weather was perfect.

well it doesn't look that bad after all! nice shots.

great pics !

nice pics! would you say Houston's new lightrail has given the city a bit more of an urban feeling...maybe more pedestrians than before...more foot traffic?

the only difference Houston has had as far as pedestrians and light rail are the weekends in downtown, where more and more clubs, bars and restaurants have opened up to be on the rail line. I'll give it about 5 years until a lot of the proposals and approvals are complete for the rail line, which is the main thing that is changing the urban feel of the city. Many developments are changing their style of building because of light rail lines making it more pedestrian friendly.

Looks like a great city

nice pics. thats the best houston thread ive seen.

thanks. glad you enjoyed.

I've noticed a gradual increase in weekday foot traffic on Main Street. Milam, Travis, Louisiana and Smith have always had a decent amount of traffic (that's where the tallest scrapers are congregated) but Main had really become a ghost town while the rail line was being built. Now that people who would never have a reason to stop downtown are being brought downtown by the Red Line, you see more people walking up and down Main. Still not where it should be given a city Houston's size but the change is very noticeable from 10 years ago and 5 years ago.

Houston's also getting more conventions, so you're more likely to see visitors tooling around, especially in the non-hot months (Oct - early May).

great thread texas boy ! but how come u didn't show the very star of houston (according to me) : the enron center towers.

now that the Twins are gone , i would say they are my favourite towers in north america (i even prefer them to NYC's chrysler building, by far !), i would easily fly to houston just to pay them a visit , so sexy !

how tall are they by the way ?
i really like the kind of towers that there is in texas, in general..Dallas is cool too...actually i love shiny and non-boxy buildings, !

http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/Images/US/TX/IAH/EnronCenterNorth-005.jpg http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/Images/US/TX/IAH/EnronCenterNorth-002.jpg

i prefer the one on the right though...

http://www.citroenchen.de/2003/2/usa/houston.jpg

The tallest Enron Tower is 691 feet. The shorter one is 600 feet. Or in European terms, 211 meters and 183 meters.

The tallest Enron Tower is 691 feet. The shorter one is 600 feet. Or in European terms, 211 meters and 183 meters.

merci mon frère ;)

vous êtes bienvenu

great Houston pics

How did this one get by me. Great pics Texasboy where ever you are.

nice to see 4th largest us city, good pics.

Houston looks wonderful. :cheers:

nice to see 4th largest us city, good pics.

Houston is the fourth?I heard DC had been the fourth largest city of the US.

BTW,very nice pics.

Wow, thx for finding this one Pwright. Texasboy, these are some great Houston pics. Some of the best I've seen. If you haven't already, could you post these at SSP city photos, those guys love to rip Houston up and I think these pics will go a long way to silence their criticisms.

Thx again for these awesome pics.

I wonder where TB is living these days?

Houston looks like a modernize version of a northern mexican town.

Houston looks very organize and peaceful.

Houston looks like a modernize version of a northern mexican town.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
anyway, houstons amazing :)

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
anyway, houstons amazing :)

It can go either way. Prob because I've lived in SoCal all my life, I didn't find Texas all that attractive, I can be wrong !!!! but it's not my taste.