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  1. Houston19514
    I just spent some time on St. Martin's website. They have a nice selection of pictures. It appears to be a VERY traditional Episcopal church layout. See, for example Christ Church Cathedral downtown and the National Cathedral in Washington DC, both of which also have the choir "facing" the congregation. They also both have ornate rood screens. I don't really understand your comment about the organ and choir being the ultimate focal point in the room. From the photos, it seems clear that the altar is indeed the ultimate focal point. In any event, the arrangement is VERY traditional and can be found in traditional gothic and episcopal churches around the world. I'm pretty sure I've seen the six candle thing many times as well, but I would imagine that was determined by someone with a firmer theological grounding than either you or I, or, for that matter, the architect. Also, it appears to me to be a quite-restrained (modernized, if you will) rendition of the gothic style. It is positively austere compared to the older gothic cathedrals such as The National Cathedral, St. Patrick's in NYC, etc.
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    Sorry, but your earlier post gave us nothing to agree or disagree with, just a pretentious and dare I say, juvenile, dismissal of the structure. Your latest post, however, is very interesting and actually tells us something. I have not seen the building up close, so I can really neither agree nor disagree with anything you have written. But I find your observations very interesting and informative and they make me want to see the structure even more than before. One question, you complain that the design is very busy for a Gothic style. I may be mistaken, but it seems to me that the Gothic style is a very busy style. Do I have my styles mixed up?
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    No joke. Get a grip, H2B
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    One of the main reasons for the roof on Reliant Stadium is the Rodeo. I've had the same thoughts. There are many summer days where the heat index is higher in DFW and, yes, even as far north as St. Louis, than it is in Houston. But STL and DFW fans manage to go to outdoor games. Maybe Houstonians just got spoiled with having the world's first indoor stadium and all. That, and most Houstonians, espcially those in the media, seem to believe that Houston is the hottest place in the country. Having said that, I think the Commissioner's late and seeemingly random decision to force the roof open was total BS (although I too doubt that it really made any difference).
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    Whatever
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    The City of Houston still owns the property (the former Compaq Center) and Lakewood has a long-term lease. IIRC, it's something like a thirty-year lease with an option to renew for thirty additional years. KJB, do you have a source for your story about Lakewood trying to build where the downtown park is going to be? I'm highly skeptical. There was a connection between some of that land and the new Lakewood Church, but I think your source may have gotten the story confused. Here's the deal... Lakewood entered into the lease with the city to take over the Compaq Center. Crescent Real Estate objected to the lease. (Crescent owns the surrounding Greenway Plaza development, including, I believe, the parking garages.) Crescent also owned the land in front of the GRB downtown (they had held that land as part of the Houston Center development). The City had been wanting to acquire some of Crescent's land downtown. So as part of a global settlement among Lakewood, Crescent, and the City of Houston, Crescent agreed to allow Lakewood into the Compaq Center, Compaq and Lakewood agreed to terms regarding usage of parking facilities, and Crescent sold some of its downtown land to the City.
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    With columns every ten feet, I guess it wouldn't make a very good candidate for condo conversion either.
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    No, Appletree is not owned by Safeway. I believe what happened is that Safeway used to be in the Houston (and other Texas) markets, but completely pulled out. When they pulled out, they sold the operation to a newly-formed company that named themselves Appletree. Appletree went bankrupt, in the early-mid 90s and its Houston stores were sold off at that time... Kroger bought some, I think Randall's bought some, I think Rice bought some...) I'm surprised to hear they still exist at all.
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    ... or if you want to pronounce it correctly
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    www.mosaichouston.com
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    and Foley's was just a division of a larger companyn headquartered in St. Louis. There was no true Headquarters in Houston
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    Let's put an end to this silliness, once and for all. Yakuza was correct. BP's North American HQ is in Warrenville, Illinois North American headquarters 28100 Torch Parkway Warrenville, IL 60555-3938 United States Tel +1 630 420 5111 BP This is also somewhat of a remnant of its "Standard Oil days." BP first bought Standard Oil of Ohio, which was based in Cleveland. For a time, then, BP's North American HQ was indeed in Cleveland. But they later also bought Standard Oil of Indiana (aka Amoco), which was based in Chicago, downtown in the huge white skyscraper right on the lakefront known locally as "Big Stan". When the combined the former Standard of Ohio with the former Amoco, the North American HQ ended up in Chicago (or Chicagoland; I'm not sure when they abandoned the downtown skyscraper and moved to the suburbs.)
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    No, it wasn't that bad. It was essentially the same stuff we've been seeing in renderings on this board.
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    Christ Church's development of that block is also going to include a park. IIRC, the park will be about 1/2 of the block.
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    What is this Laquarda Low design you speak of? Have renderings been posted?
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    I'm pretty certain your memory is faulty. You might be thinking of Lord & Taylor, I don't know for sure about that. Here's a clip from a history of Marshall Field's, which discusses all of the stores they ever had in Texas: Expansion to 1990/Corporate History The 1980's was a slower growth period for Chicago area stores with locations added at just Spring Hill Mall in West Dundee and Stratford Square in Bloomington. But the 1980's did see further expansion into Texas with stores opened at The Galleria in Houston (actually opened in 1979), the Dallas Galleria in 1982, Town & Country Mall in Houston in 1983, and North Star Mall in San Antonio in 1986 . . . The 4 Texas stores were sold in 1997 and the the Columbus, Ohio stores in 2003.
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    You have your Marshall Fields history confused. They were never at Greenspoint, Memorial City, or West Oaks. They WERE in Town & Country and, of course, The Galleria.
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    Thank you. I tried to find it in the census web site, and it shows a substantial increase in the "white" population from 1990 to 2000, but the 1990 numbers that I could find did not separate out non-hispanic whites, so it was really hard to tell.
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    The US Census Bureau has not yet released its 2004 estimates for metropolitan area populations, let alone the 2005 estimates. The 2005 estimates (April 2005) will not be available until about this time next year.
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    Saks also occupied the former Marshall Fields in Town & Country Mall for a short time AND I believe they were also formerly at West Oaks Mall (they closed the store and it became a SEARS, of all things. ;-) )
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    That's very interesting. Do you have a source or link for that information?
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    and of course NONE Of that would ever occur in that dense, non-sprawled urban paradise we call Atlanta. (and yes, I'm being sarcastic)
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    BP's North American headquarters is in Chicago or is it Cleveland...
  24. Houston19514
    BP's North American headquarters is in Chicago.
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    Here's link to the full plan
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