HOUSTON | Projects & Construction

[Houstonian]

HOUSTON PROJECTS & CONSTRUCTION

DT Houston
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/phototainable.jpg

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

MAINPLACE
HEIGHT-630FT/192M
FLOORS-46
www.mainplacehouston.com
The building is LEED-certified silver an completion is set for 2010.
http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/1508/600xpopupgalleryey0.jpg

http://images.chron.com/photos/2007/08/21/7561181/311xInlineGallery.jpg

http://i12.tinypic.com/4r7a4j8.jpg



http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/MainPlace/DSC00617.jpg
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/MainPlace/DSC00618.jpg

ONE PARK PLACE
HEIGHT-501FT/153M
FLOORS-37
www.oneparkplacehouston.com
Completion set for 2009.
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/OPPbrochureRendering.jpg


http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r317/am4ever7/OPP0727f.jpg
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http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r317/am4ever7/OPP0727e.jpg

DISCOVERY TOWER
HEIGHT-482FT/147M
FLOORS-31
www.discoverytowerhouston.com
It will be LEED certified and will have wind turnbines.Completiton set for 2010
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/xy_55DC10F3-BB4C-41AA-AD77-3BB82DB7.jpg
http://www.discoverytowerhouston.com/images/gallery/Render_1.jpg
http://www.discoverytowerhouston.com/images/gallery/Render_2.jpg
http://www.discoverytowerhouston.com/images/gallery/Render_3.jpg
http://www.discoverytowerhouston.com/images/gallery/Render_4.jpg
http://www.discoverytowerhouston.com/images/gallery/Render_5.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/DiscoveryTower/DSC00636.jpg

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r317/am4ever7/DT0727a.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r317/am4ever7/DT0727b.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r317/am4ever7/DT0727c.jpg

HOUSTON PAVILLIONS
www.houstonpavillions.com
Completion set for October 08.
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a373/rdavis4559/pav01.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a373/rdavis4559/pav04.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a373/rdavis4559/pav05.jpg

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r317/am4ever7/HP0727b.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r317/am4ever7/HP0727c.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r317/am4ever7/HP0727a.jpg

DT PROPOSALS/APPROVALS


6 HOUSTON CENTER
HEIGHT-N/A
FLOORS-29
www.6houstoncenter.com
A 29 story, 584,000 sf Class A office building that was approved but now is on hold.
http://www.6houstoncenter.com/6hc/brochure/images/pg1.jpg
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/6Overhead.jpg[/

5 ALLEN CENTER
HEIGHT-N/A
FLOORS-50
Brookfield is planning this 50-story office building on a 2.5-acre site west of 3 Allen Center, but will not begin construction until it is at least 50 percent leased, said Paul Layne, Brookfield's executive vice president over the Houston region.
Layne predicted that by the time Brookfield's all-glass, planned LEED Gold-certified building is finished, Class A rental rates downtown will be roughly $50 per square foot on a 10-year lease. That's estimating that rent will be in the mid- to low-$30s per square foot and operating costs will be $15 per square foot.
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/5AllenCenter.jpg[/QUOTE]

EMBASSY SUITES
HEIGHT-N/A
FLOORS-22
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/Embsuites.jpg[/QUOTE]

UNAMED HINES TOWER
HEIGHT N/A
FLOORS-N/A
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/HinesNorthTower.jpg

Other DT Proposals
-New Convention Center Hotel
-La Quinta
-Dynamo stadium

Heres a map of a area of DT Houston that is having alot of development sparked by the new discovery green park.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2132/2651729018_46585abf98.jpg?v=0

TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2177/2237393447_a4dafbb465_o.jpg

UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Outpatient Care Center
HEIGHT-N/A
FLOORS-25
Tallest project under construction in the TMC completion set for 2010.
http://www.whrarchitects.com/_filelib/ImageGallery/Photos/healthcare/methodist/methodist_002.jpg
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/CT.jpg

Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute
Floors-15
http://www.texaschildrenshospital.org/Web/TCNRI/TCNRI.html
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/jananddan.jpg

Texas Children's Hospital Maternity Center
Floors-14
http://www.texaschildrenshospital.org/Web/2010/03Maternity.htm
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/MaternityCenter.jpg
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/house.jpg

Methodist Hospital Research Institute
FLOORS-12
methodisthealth.com
http://www.whrarchitects.com/_filelib/ImageGallery/Photos/sciencetech/mhri/mhri001.jpg

TMC PROPOSALS/APPROVALS

Houstonian
HEIGHT-458FT/140M
FLOORS-40
Rough rendering
http://swamplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/houstonian-tmc-bw-main.jpg

Cross-section
http://swamplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/houstonian-tmc-bw-section.jpg

3800 MAIN????
FLOORS-20
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/3800main.jpg
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/3800main2.jpg

UPTOWN/GALLERIA
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/transco.jpg

UNDER CONSTRUCTION
BLVD Place (3 towers)
http://www.wulfe.com/BoulevardPlace.asp
http://www.wulfe.com/Images/BPPhotos/Lg_01.jpg
http://www.wulfe.com/Images/BPPhotos/Lg_03.jpg
http://www.wulfe.com/Images/BPPhotos/Lg_07.jpg
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC00556.jpg

Cosmopolitan
FLOORS-20
http://www.cosmopolitanhouston.com/
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC00558.jpg

PROPOSED/APPROVED
Turnberry Tower
FLOORS-42
http://www.turnberrytowerhouston.com/
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/TurnberryModel1.jpg
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/turnberrytowerhouston.jpg

HighStreet
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/highstreet.jpg

RIVER OAKS DISTRICT
http://www.olivermcmillan.com/deve/houston/index.htm
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3156/2693648621_759a137584_b.jpg

The Titan
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/TitanChronAd.jpg

Sage Plaza
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/sage.jpg

3100 Post Oak
FLOORS-26
http://www.hicksventures.com/images/restaurant.jpg
http://www.hicksventures.com/images/rendering_f6.jpg
http://www.hicksventures.com/images/rendering_f7.jpg

Regent Square
http://www.loopnet.com/Attachments/F/0/E/xy_F0E2AA26-54F3-44E8-A595-A2F720C92548__.jpg

-35 story twin towers
-Deyaar post oak (80 stories)

OTHER AREAS AROUND HOUSTON
Mosaic I & II
http://www.mosaicofhouston.com/
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/devel_almeda.jpg
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/almedabinzrendering.jpg
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/5808-1.jpg[/QUOTE]

Legacy @ Memorial
http://www.hayneswhaley.com/project_images/MemorialCondos.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r317/am4ever7/legacy0727.jpg

Highland Tower
http://www.highland-tower.com/
http://swamplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/highland-tower-full.jpg
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/HTsmall.jpg
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC00639.jpg
2727 Kirby
http://www.2727kirby.com/
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/render.jpg
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/kirby.jpg

Memorial Hermann Tower
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/memor.jpg
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/pop.jpg

I realized the 4th largest city in the U.S didn't have a thread on here so I made one.I know theres more and I know I could of done it better.I will later on but for now im tired because I stayed up late.Feel free to add more and most of the construction photos are from members on www.skyscraperpage.com

[macpolo]

box here box there
i like box but ...too many?

[theworldshallcry]

Boxes are fine. More important than the shape of each tower is the street-level design. I think Houston is on the right track with most of these projects. Too many towers are built without consideration of the human scale; most buildings shouldn't have plazas.

[cadman2286]

Houston is looking great! Cant wait to see all these projects finished.

[cmc]

Houston coming out with some good projects

[Smallville]

Wow, alot of great projects going up in Houston the 4th largest city in the United States. Go Houston! :banana:

Is there a chance that Houston could pass Chicago the 3rd largest city in the country in the future?

[mbuildings]

stunning !!!!!!!!

[theworldshallcry]

Wow, alot of great projects going up in Houston the 4th largest city in the United States. Go Houston! :banana:

Is there a chance that Houston could pass Chicago the 3rd largest city in the country in the future?
I'll have enough babies to ensure that doesn't happen.

[Houstonian]

The Video (http://www.mainplacehouston.com/videos/Video%20Rendering.html) and the Building Presentation (http://www.mainplacehouston.com/videos/Building%20Presentation.html) of mainplace is up running.

[worried1]

Do any of these wonderful buildings in Houston sell as service appartments or condohotels:)

[ROYU]

Nice projects for Houston. I think it is only missing a new supertall.

[Houstonian]

^^
Yeah your right its called Deyaar Post Oak its 2 towers attached.One 89 stories and te other 55 stories it will be in the Galleria and if this baby gets built it will be the tallest in Houston!!
:banana:

It should come out looking something like this tower in Dubai...
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/dubai.jpg

[Houstonian]

Time to update this thread....

SouthPointe

Renderings

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/Drawing.jpg


http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/Astroworld.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/Drawing2.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/Drawing3.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/south-pointe-bridge.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/south-pointe-water-bridge.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/Suthpoint.jpg

From Swamplot...

One of Swamplot’s best tipsters forwards a link to a website featuring lovely renderings of a family of glassy office buildings and blocky parking garages squatting on the former AstroWorld site — along with a rather direct question: “Is this real???”

Well, the Crosswell Torian website is a real website, where the development company proudly presents its AstroWorld tower roundup under the name SouthPointe: “a hundred+ acre, transit-oriented mixed use development.” But a brand-new 13.5-million-sq.-ft. project doesn’t exactly seem tailor-made for today’s cautious real-estate market.

If the SouthPointe design isn’t real, though, it’s a brilliant parody — down to the ultra-generic name and its not-so-silent extra vowel. It expertly answers this question: How might a bunch of suburban developers — some of them from, say, Conroe — make a complete mockery of Houston’s highest profile and best connected redevelopment site?


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To be fair, the former AstroWorld site brings with it a number of problems: It has far-too-easy access to Houston’s major employment and activity centers by freeway, light-rail line, and even pedestrian bridge. In less deft hands, the development might make it too easy for people to transfer from one transportation method to another. Fortunately, the designers of SouthPointe have avoided that sort of nonsense with their clever plan, clearly modeled after several better-known suburban office parks.

Except this office park appears to be built out of several smaller office parks, each of which is labeled with a separate theme: “institutional/medical,” “office/corporate,” residential, or “mixed use/urban.” A collection of separately themed office parks — on the site of a former theme park. Get it?

They even have a website Now.

http://crosstorian.com/southpointe

Also this developement has been redesigned multiple times due to its location, the developer already owns the land and the site is already cleared.

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New Renderings of Regent Square:

Forgot to post this yesterday and as you can see its 4 towers now..:)

http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1724/201/63/159900085/n159900085_30398184_5256.jpg


http://www.cbre.com/NR/rdonlyres/3839781A-02F3-45C0-900D-8F6208D527A1/695771/OfficeRendering_webjpg.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/Location.jpg

After a delay and a new design for this developement expect a ground breaking in 2Q of 2009..

More renderings and info here: http://www.cbre.com/USA/US/TX/Houston+Galleria/property/regentsquare.htm?pageid=0

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Five Allen Center

New renderings..

Look at the Modern Sculptre!:)

From Swamplot..

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/5-allen-center-sculpture.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/5AllenCenter.jpg

A major downturn in the economy tends to make it a bit easier to happen upon images of developments that have been planned in secret — though finding them can be somewhat less exciting than unearthing plans that are actually likely to happen. A tipster reports HAIF user lockmat’s discovery of two images of Brookfield Properties’ planned Five Allen Center office tower Downtown. We saw one hazy picture of this building back in June. But is there any more to it now than just a few pretty pictures?

Five Allen Center is marked “pre-development” on the Brookfield website: a 50-story, 1.2-million-sq.-ft. office tower planned for a 2.5-acre site at the northwest corner of Downtown — at the northeast corner of Houston Ave. and West Dallas. That’s a rather prominent position.

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Discovery Tower gets new name, Tenants, less floors, and higher height.

The newly named Hess Tower will only be 29 stories above ground instead of 31 but, its height is now 490ft instead of 482ft

Hess is a New York Based company and they will occupy 100 percent of the building.

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Earth Quest Adventures.

Rendering:
http://i40.tinypic.com/1zyagjr.jpg


Link: http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...ost&id=1150

I think its 1,600 acres and Groundbreaking is somewhere between Spring-Fall.

When completed it will be the second largest tourist attraction in Texas. (Alamo is 1st)


I will post rcent constuction photos soon.

[Houstonian]

Heres developements that have been cancelled, put on hold or delayed.

Titan
Last week, Houston developer Randall Davis scrapped plans to build the 25-story luxury condo tower proposed for a McDonald’s site on Post Oak Boulevard just north of San Felipe. Davis said his ability to obtain financing for the building will expire early this year, and he hasn’t met his lender’s 40 percent pre-sale requirement. He’d sold about 20 condos since announcing the 80-unit project in 2007.

High Street
Last month, Trademark Property Co. said it was halting construction of the 7-acre, mixed-use project on Westheimer just inside the Loop. The Fort Worth-based developer said it wasn’t “smart business” to open a project in 2009 or early 2010 with a big retail component.

Sonoma
In November, Lamesa Corp. said the retail and condo project in Rice Village was off — for the time being. The property owner, who was being assisted with the development by Randall Davis, said economic uncertainties and tumultuous credit markets had kept it from securing the loan it needed.
Turnberry Tower

In October, Aventura, Fla.-based Turnberry Associates said its 34-story, 184-unit building planned near the Williams Tower had been “discontinued” because turmoil in the financial markets caused traditional construction lending sources to dry up, “even in a city as prosperous as Houston.”

Hanover tower
Also in October, Houston apartment developer Hanover Co. put off the residential tower it said was going to be its “landmark project in Houston.” The 37-story project, planned near Post Oak Boulevard and San Felipe as part of the BLVD Place development, hit the skids because of the “dysfunctional credit markets,” the company said.

KBR
The weak economy and troubled credit markets scuttled plans for a new office complex planned near Katy for Houston-based KBR, the company saidlast month. The campus was designed to include more than 910,000 square feet of space at the southwest corner of Interstate 10 and Grand Parkway.
1717 Bissonnet

The developers behind this residential high-rise designed for the corner of Bissonnet and Ashby say red tape, not access to financing, has slowed its progress. Dubbed the “Ashby high-rise” and “tower of traffic” by angry neighbors, the building has been denied city permits multiple times since area residents started putting up a stink over a year ago.

BLVD Place
It’s under construction, but Ed Wulfe recently said the timeline of his mixed-use development on Post Oak Boulevard at San Felipe was affected by Hurricane Ike. Moreover, Hanover is pulling back on its tower, and a luxury hotel developer has yet to make its plans final. Whole Foods, which has been terminating and downsizing leases in other markets, said the Houston project is going forward as planned.

Regent Square
GID Urban Development Group, the Boston developer that tore down nearly all of the Allen House apartment complex for this mixed-use project, is expected to break ground in the second quarter of this year. The first phase was supposed to start in 2008, but a redesign has caused a delay. GID recently said it was in final negotiations with its lenders.

[Houstonian]

As of Today the 37-story tower has been cancelled but construction has resumed on BLVD Place but the 66-Story Ritz Tower is On Hold.

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/BLVDPlace.jpg

[Mexicola]

Houston is very futuristic looking. I was in awe when I was there 2 years ago.

[daneo]

I like houston, nice skyline, setting etc. but the one park place is sooo ugly:p

[Chupavi]

Very very nice but if i can comment HOUSTON need some "wired design" to be more interesting.

[SilentStrike]

i never thought of houston and buildings together, but now i see it even has a skyline :P

[Houstonian]

i never thought of houston and buildings together, but now i see it even has a skyline :P


Yup, the 3rd (or 4th) largest skyline in the U.S too. :D

Here's a large pano of most of Houston's skyline.
http://www.streetsofindy.com/misc/cities/houston/pfhoustonlarge.jpg
(MCC here on SSC)

Anyway here's some updates.


Legacy @ Memorial
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03935.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03937.jpg

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One Park Place; set to open in next month.
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03910.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03930.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03905.jpg

Name's under wraps
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03923.jpg

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Discovery tower (which is now named Hess Tower.)

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/DiscoveryTower/DSC03902.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/DiscoveryTower/DSC03899.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/DiscoveryTower/DSC03922.jpg

The underground garage is now completely covered by what will be the plaza/driveway.
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/DiscoveryTower/DSC03926.jpg
Credit goes to Wattleigh on www.skyscraperpage.com

[Houstonian]

MainPlace
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a373/rdavis4559/IMAG0129.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a373/rdavis4559/IMAG0130.jpg
Rdavis4559 on www.skyscraperpage.com


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Renaissance @ Greenspoint. 22 floors with 500,000 sq feet of class A office space. If everything goes correctly it will be the newest development in the Greenspoint area since 1995.

httP://www.zieglercooper.com/images/proj866.jpg

http://www.zieglercooper.com/images/proj864.jpg

http://www.zieglercooper.com/images/proj862.jpg

http://www.zieglercooper.com/images/proj863.jpg

[novaguy]

WOW ,America sure like driving,look at the size of the parking garage next to the tower.

[Goyazny]

Looking these new projects and wandering if there is more than one Architect studio in the world.

Check this out:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3355/3273285144_4dcb854b04_o.jpg
Familiar?

Or this one:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3519/3273285010_c0a252a676_o.jpg

These are 2006. project for Belgrade. Serbia. In construction, now.

Looks that architects, indeed, are generaly, in some kind of creative crysis.

[Houstonian]

32 stories yes? no?

Well this is going up in the TMC.


http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1155/3174702695_b6a72fb983_o.jpg

[Houstonian]

Construction updates from this week!

Mainplace

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/MainPlace/DSC03968.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/MainPlace/DSC03953.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/MainPlace/DSC03962.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/MainPlace/DSC03969.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/MainPlace/DSC03973.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/MainPlace/DSC03959.jpg

2727 Kirby

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03997.jpg

Methodist Outpatient Center
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03744.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03986.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03992.jpg

BioScience Research Collaborative (aka Rice Collaborative Research Center)
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03748.jpg

MD Anderson Alkek Hospital Vertical Expansion
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03979.jpg

Methodist Hospital Research Institute + Cranes
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC04006.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC04021.jpg

Texas Childrens Hospital Maternity Center
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC04014.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC04016.jpg

Memorial City Condos + Cemex Center w/ Westin & MH Tower in distance
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03869.jpg

Condos
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03887.jpg
From Watteliegh on SSP

[Houstonian]

This is a concept that is getting closer to be becoming a realility.

It will be called the "Astrodome studios". :banana:

From Swamplot


Still waiting in the wings, the long-promoted but as-yet-unmade proposal to turn the long-vacant Astrodome into a giant indoor movie lot is almost ready for its closeup, says Christine Hall in the Houston Business Journal. Astrodome Studios co-executive directors Elise Hendrix and Cynthia Neely

along with a laundry list of supporters, including “Dazed and Confused” director/writer Richard Linklater, are one month away from presenting a proposal to Harris County that would put a major soundstage and movie production studio into the proclaimed “Eighth Wonder of the World.”

“We would have absolutely everything a creative agency would need to film a movie,” Hendrix says. “With 140,000 square feet, you wouldn’t have any problem building a city in there if you needed to.”

But what would an Astrodome movie studio look like, really? To help unimaginative county officials picture the transformation, Astrodome Studios has prepared the dramatic photo-illustration above, along with a series of similarly rich diagrams:

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/1.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/2.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/3.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/4.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/6.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/7.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/8.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm99/YahTrickYah57/9.jpg

This development has a website and a myspace lol.

Site:http://www.astrodomestudios.net/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1


Myspace page:http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=203362342

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[Houstonian]

Downtown YMCA...
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a373/rdavis4559/mailgooglecom.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a373/rdavis4559/mailgooglecom2.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a373/rdavis4559/mailgooglecom3.jpg


OPP


http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03910.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03930.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03905.jpg

Name's under wraps
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC03923.jpg

[Houstonian]

Here are some construction pics from last month that I forgot to throw in.

Pictures from The Woodlands, which to anyone who does'nt know is located about 25 miles north of downtown Houston. The area is booming and its where The Woodlands Mall and Waterway is located.

Just a few years ago there was nothing but urban sprawl BS out in this area but now it starting to look like an actual city!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3019/3131403692_e2d337d144_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3122/3130572361_9c1945ef5e_o.jpg

This is the new developement for the Woodlands. The tallest tower (20 stories) is already u/c and the others are already built or in the process of being built.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3091/3130572145_b82d7b822d_o.jpg

A low rise under construction named 'Avia' in The Woodlands Market Square. (Can you see the rendering?)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3229/3130572005_6365ac9c3a_b.jpg

Some more development along the waterway. The white building on the left is the new Marriott Hotel.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3296/3130571799_ec3b19f1ca_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3115/3130571571_c91042820e_o.jpg

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Texas Medical Center


A lot of the projects I barely know about.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3084/3175540710_54ce6fcb9c_o.jpg

Behind the not yet finished Outpatient care center on Main Street.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1104/3174705191_19f4b3c2a4_o.jpg

This tower is located quite a ways away from the main medical center.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3077/3175539404_b1175319dc_o.jpg

Look at all of those cranes!
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1103/3174703377_086b3da708_o.jpg

MD Anderson Caner Center Vertical Expansion
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1004/3174702233_41eb67501e_o.jpg

Forgot the name of the building on the right....
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3125/3175534908_75970838a9_o.jpg

(Off Topic) Hundreds of Muslims downtown saying that they did not condone terrorism.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/3174700475_2ce6421469_o.jpg
(All pics from Photolitherland on SSP)

[TexasBoi]

WOW ,America sure like driving,look at the size of the parking garage next to the tower.

That's because this one is all the way out there but still in the city limits. If Houston was the size of the Midwestern and Northeastern cities, the area that this is built in would be the suburbs. But because Texas cities are so massively big, this is in the city limits.

[Talbot]

I am glad that a compilation was finally started for Houston. Thanks for taking the time to start this thread Houstonian, and everyone who has contributed since then.

[Houstonian]

I am glad that a compilation was finally started for Houston. Thanks for taking the time to start this thread Houstonian, and everyone who has contributed since then.


No Problemo. I am thinking of making threads for Austin as well.

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Update:

Outpatient care center almost t/o. Now all it needs is the three spires. :)

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3168/img0432o.jpg
Sorry for the poor quality more pics of this coming soon

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Town Country/CityCentre

Ok most of y'all don't know anything about this developement. Its a mixed use urban developement in suburban area of Houston (west Houston), currently u/c.

More info here: http://www.citycentrehouston.com/home.html

Renderings:

http://i37.tinypic.com/2mra60y.jpg

http://i38.tinypic.com/j8lb9t.jpg

http://i33.tinypic.com/2z51xyt.jpg

http://i37.tinypic.com/2ai0rj5.jpg

Hotel Sorella
http://i34.tinypic.com/w0q6o7.jpg

Construction update from Jan.

http://www.citycentrehouston.com/construction.html

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Building Implosion

Also Compass Bank building in Uptown ( 2200 Post Oak.) Will be imploded on March 15th o make way for.... ( possibly a new tower).

Here's a pic of the building.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/issaaa/Porter%20Park/Houston-PostOak038.jpg

[()_T]

No Updates?! :(

Well I have soome :)

YMCA now has a crane!

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC04185.jpg

Outpatient Care Center, now almost t/o.
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC04273.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC04276.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w208/houtosme/HouConstruction/DSC04270.jpg
From ChannelTwoNews on HAIF

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Some good news,

From Swamplot...

Here’s a surprise: a construction permit for a new 23-story Chinatown Asiatown condominium tower was issued yesterday for Park 8 Place. Remember Park8? That’s the freeway feeder megastrip project planned for just across Brays Bayou from Arthur Storey Park, along Beltway 8 south of Bellaire Blvd. The one that called itself “The Land of Oz.”

The entire development was supposed to include three 20-something-story residential towers, a hospital, two 2-story retail-and-office strips, and a couple of parking garages — all in a quaint freeway-and-park-side setting. A foundation was poured for the first condo building last year, but Park 8 CEO David Wu put the project on hold after he was unable to secure financing. So the construction crane came down.

If a single condo tower is the only piece of the project that’s now been funded, the result might be a little less overwhelming than the complex portrayed in this old Park 8 promotional video:

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According to the city report, yesterday’s permit cost Lyda Swinerton Builders more than $46K. The official address for the project is 8018 W. Sam Houston Pkwy. South.

http://swamplot.com/the-land-of-oz-ready-t...3-13/#more-7304 (http://swamplot.com/the-land-of-oz-ready-to-rise-again/2009-03-13/#more-7304)

[sieradzanin1]

Please Update:bow::bow::). Nice Architecture Houston