HoustonMidtown Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 www.topazvillas.com http://search.har.com/engine/4520-Yoakum-Blvd-31-Houston-TX-77006_HAR31794685.htm 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avossos Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 If they are going to treat down a house for this, I am very very dissappointed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 pffft they are calling this "Italian Renaissance" lol. Yeah....sureeeeee whatever you say buddy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoustonMidtown Posted May 31, 2014 Author Share Posted May 31, 2014 If they are going to treat down a house for this, I am very very dissappointedI haven't been down to that end of Yoakum in years but it looks like (according to google maps) that this may be an empty lot that backs up to 59 -- I'm not sure how exact google maps is though - I will take a ride down there this weekend and look 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtterlyUrban Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Personally, for a mid-rise building, I like it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Yeah hopefully this is going in the vacant lot and not replacing the prairie mansion on the other side of the street. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryDierker Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Yeah hopefully this is going in the vacant lot and not replacing the prairie mansion on the other side of the street. The address is 4520. Are even numbers on the east or west? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryDierker Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Actually google street view shows the variance sign on the empty lot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Personally, for a mid-rise building, I like it. I actually agree, but it isn't the kind of architecture that they say it is. All it is a marketing ploy to make it sound exotic, and fancy. The ignorant fools who designed this probably have no idea what Italian renaissance even is! *cools off* *whew* I needed to get that off my chest lol..... (and no none of this was aimed at you >.> if you were wonderin) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryDierker Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 (edited) n/m. The variance sign on the empty lot was for Yoakum Enclave. a 3 story office building. http://swamplot.com/a-little-vacant-lot-on-yoakum-gets-some-approval/2013-04-16/ ftp://edrc.houstontx.gov/2013/Applications//2013-1185/SubdivisionPlatPDF_Yoakum%20Enclave%20pdf.pdf unless they changed their mind about what to build here. Untitled by Not.Larry.Dierker, on Flickr Edited June 1, 2014 by LarryDierker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 n/m. The variance sign on the empty lot was for Yoakum Enclave. a 3 story office building. http://swamplot.com/a-little-vacant-lot-on-yoakum-gets-some-approval/2013-04-16/ ftp://edrc.houstontx.gov/2013/Applications//2013-1185/SubdivisionPlatPDF_Yoakum%20Enclave%20pdf.pdf unless they changed their mind about what to build here. Untitled by Not.Larry.Dierker, on Flickr Note that the variance hearing was scheduled for more than a year ago. Even numbers are on the west side of the street. I would guess the office building proposal has been replaced by this condo proposal. 4520 seems to be the empty lot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoustonMidtown Posted June 1, 2014 Author Share Posted June 1, 2014 Note that the variance hearing was scheduled for more than a year ago. Even numbers are on the west side of the street. I would guess the office building proposal has been replaced by this condo proposal. 4520 seems to be the empty lot. Here is a pic of the empty lot from this morning - the variance sign is gone....4520 is the empty lot -- the house beside the empty lot is 4510 and the house beside that is 4500 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillip_white Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 It looks like this property was sold at the end of January. I wonder why the previous owner decided against the office building after getting the variance approved.http://www.search.har.com/search/solddetail/38431955/0-Yoakum 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elseed Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Keep the buildings coming in the Loop! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/breaking-ground/2014/06/montrose-to-get-more-luxury-condos.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I actually agree, but it isn't the kind of architecture that they say it is. All it is a marketing ploy to make it sound exotic, and fancy. The ignorant fools who designed this probably have no idea what Italian renaissance even is!*cools off**whew* I needed to get that off my chest lol.....(and no none of this was aimed at you >.> if you were wonderin)In fairness, many Italian Renaissance palazzos were fortress-like in the lower floors for the event of mob attacks or inter clan warfare. In that respect, this building carries on the tradition. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Palladio is spinning in his grave (which I fear he has done a lot of over the years!) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I will defer to those on this forum who actually are design professionals... but aren't symmetry and proportion the holy grails of Italian Renaissance in general and Palladian in particular? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arche_757 Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Yep. I wonder who the architects are? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminare Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 You know it's funny that we praise Palladio and while he was a fabulous architect who set the gold standard in terms of villa architecture set in the classical vernacular....lets not forgot that even he didn't know what he was really doing xD Palladio pretty much put his own spin on Classical architecture for a new age/new enlightenment. During that period it was assumed that all the Entablitures, Doric/Ionic/Corinthian Columns, and everything else you would associate with Greeco-Roman Classical architecture was on EVERY building of ancient time. Of course we understand that this wasn't the case, but after architects would do their grand tour across Europe and marvel at the wonders of Rome and Athens who wouldn't think that, not just temples and public buildings, but even everyday homes must have been from the same mold. -breaks long tangent- The brilliance of Renaissance architecture was classical architecture set to their contemporary proportions and ideals of symmetry. Another element which was essential was the stratification or hierarchy of both classical orders and materials depending on building function as well as proximity to the street level or plaza, and building height. .....This has none of those things xDIt has none of the classical orders carefully regulated by rigorous proportions, and the materiality is all wrong as well.I think the real culprit behind this was the real estate/marketing team for this. "hey I need to be able to sell this thing that you drew....give me something that is quick and simple that you think it looks like" "ummm Reinaissance?" "hmmm YEAH you're right! I remember seeing some pictures from my child's return from study abroad....thats perfect!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobruss Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Good work Triton. Can you do that with the proposed Chelsea, heading south from Downtown on the spur just before you get to 59. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Good work Triton. Can you do that with the proposed Chelsea, heading south from Downtown on the spur just before you get to 59. That's not from me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 What was the name of the midrise office building near this location? It was closer to Montrose and 59. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TowerSpotter Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 This one? http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/27613-richmond-and-yoakum-new-officecommercial/page-2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 This one? http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/27613-richmond-and-yoakum-new-officecommercial/page-2 No, it was a proposed one. I believe the address is 905 Woodrow St, Houston, TX 77006. I keep thinking One Fifty or M One Fifty... I don't know honestly. It was an all-glass midrise office building. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TowerSpotter Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 No, it was a proposed one. I believe the address is 905 Woodrow St, Houston, TX 77006. I keep thinking One Fifty or M One Fifty... I don't know honestly. It was an all-glass midrise office building. Haven't heard of that. I just looked on devmap.io, and still couldn't find it. Here maybe you can... http://devmap.io/cities/houston/developments##415 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alec Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 What was the name of the midrise office building near this location? It was closer to Montrose and 59.M Fifty Nine. It's at Montrose and 59, currently an African art gallery. The site and a rendering is on devmap.io if anyone wants to copy it here - I'm on my phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triton Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 M Fifty Nine. It's at Montrose and 59, currently an African art gallery. The site and a rendering is on devmap.io if anyone wants to copy it here - I'm on my phone. Ah, thank you! Imagine this and this on the north side of 59: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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