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Ladies and Gentlemen, the next Energy Corridor!

 

Yup. In 10 years, it'll be nothing but mid and highrise office/condos along 45 from Louetta to 1488. 

 

Btw, I think the Pyramid is a nod to the Northgate community that used the Pyramid as symbol to represent their community much like The Woodlands uses the pinecone.

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Well, then that's where it should have stayed. I'm sure it will be fine up there and hats off to The Woodlands for another mid rise building.

I just thank the architecture Gods for not putting that any where near downtown Houston.

I'm happy with the likes of Regent Square and others.

Hopefully no rogue suburban developers see that and decide to build their version over in the Waugh /Washington Ave. area.

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Yup. In 10 years, it'll be nothing but mid and highrise office/condos along 45 from Louetta to 1488. 

 

Btw, I think the Pyramid is a nod to the Northgate community that used the Pyramid as symbol to represent their community much like The Woodlands uses the pinecone.

I was being sarcastic.

 

This building is... well I won't tell you how stunning it is, just look at it. What can one expect on our 3rd beltway?

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more butt-ugly buildings for the woodlands area.  anyone with a plan and financing can throw-up whatever they please.  blech!!  doesn't anyone study architecture anymore?  is everything designed by builders, engineers, and construction companies these days?  this building looks like someone's teenager with autocad "went crazy" adding cool stuff to a box.  wrong. wrong. wrong.  the pillar thing is just stupid; it's random, and not in an interesting deconstructivist way.  absolutely bad.  a plain glass box would have been more appealing.  

 

why do you think buildings that have no......class/style/proper context/elegance are getting built right and left?  my guess is that he who holds the purse strings determines what gets built.  am i overly harsh?

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is everything designed by [Developers]builders, engineers, and construction companies these days? 

 

why do you think buildings that have no......class/style/proper context/elegance are getting built right and left?  my guess is that he who holds the purse strings determines what gets built.  am i overly harsh?

 

You are not overly harsh.  Developers - which is a loose term mind you - determine what happens.

 

In this economy I would imagine a lot of the developers who are producing buildings of this scale are not very experienced, or have some grandiose over inflated opinion of their own design prowess?  Sadly, we're getting 3-4 ugly/bad buildings for every decent looking one that goes up.  Oh well, the nasty ones will be the first to be replaced reclad... in 15 years or so.

 

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Of course, lets all remember that Houston, and this particular time period is no exception lol. Every movement or style has it's hero's and imitators. Usually the ratio that arche_757 gave is true through each architecture era where for ever 2,3, or even 4 bad to ok buildings you get 1 decent to awesome building. I mean lets think about this. If every single building was super amazing....then all buildings would cease to be so. The buildings which we deem incredible, and awesome are so because they are at another level above everyone else. Just like not everyone can win or be successful. Not every building is going to be a pritzker prize winner :P

 

Now before anyone says so, yes we do have a greater ratio of ugly to ok buildings than decent to awesome. When suburbia is all you know and low density is all you know then it's tough to really build a culture where you expect stellar architecture, or even buildings that are more urban in nature. We are getting there though. I would say that many of the latest developments are starting to fall into the decent territory rather than just plan ugly. Lets also remember that some of these developers are still strung up by a few ancient ordinances such as parking requirements and a couple others.

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I wish that neighborhood could stay sort of small scale and genteel/Old Houston, and they could redevelop Shadyside like this somehow. But that is probably like wishing that Monday followed Tuesday.

This post was meant for the Topaz Yoakum thread. Not sure how it got on here.

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I saw an ugly building driving to Kings Dominion from DC yesterday and snipped it from Google Earth.

Ugly can be found up here in the DC area too.

Address is 6320 Augusta Drive. This is at the Springfield Mixing Bowl I-95 and the Beltway, sure many of you have seen it in person.

I remember in the 1990s there were some ugly office buildings near Greenspoint visible from 45 that got converted to Self Storage, right off the freeway, that was ugly too.

Like ugly buildings up here like 800 Bell, this building has its defenders too.

"One of favorite modernist buildings. Springfield Tower (Va), 6320 Augusta Dr., intersection of 395 & 295. Feels like it was inspired by Kenzo Tange's Shizuoka Press Bldg. This building, decades old, survives as a cell tower. It has occupants, is underused, and thus, aging poorly. I hope for a preservationist renovation! Anybody have stories on this building?"

http://christiankarkow.com/post/82932180392/one-of-favorite-modernist-buildings-springfield

Nice building if restored. Condition has a strong impact on how people judge a design.

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If it makes y'all feel any better, I'm sure 90% of the red brick warehouses going up in 1900 were considered ugly by the educated of the time, but today every one of them is considered worth preserving, often not despite but because of whatever kitschy ornamentation was tacked on. Time cures aesthetic ills.

I'm more upset at the clear cutting that accompanies all these developments.

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I'm more upset at the clear cutting that accompanies all these developments.

 

I agree and that does seem like a large footprint for the total square footage. A six-story "class A" office building? Really? Does anyone really know what that means anymore? I am an architect and I've seen the term used rather loosely throughout my career. Let me just say if it is only six stories it may have an hydraulic elevator or two like your typical economy hotel. Having one of those slow, often jerky, and occasionally smelly things definitely precludes "class A" status IMO.

 

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