I rode my bike over to the ashby area today and that crappy apartment complex there has lots of tenants. I can't imagine the high rise having that many more people living on that spot than do now. And even if there are, the whole traffic argument is bull because I live in houston house apartments downtown, which is three times the size of the ashby high rise and maybe about once every ten minutes a car enters or leaves the parking garage. Hardly enough traffic to cause congestion. Even if Houston house were located in a residential neighborhood this wouldn't even cause traffic let alone a 21 story tower.
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This doesn't really have anything to do with anything but I was up in one of halliburtons offices today down in the energy corridor and had this view.
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Yuck, I love that area, I used to go down to Sheldon Lake S.P. all the time growing up. This will no doubt damage the ecology of the park and the flow of the creek into Sheldon Reservoir. The state park offers some of the most important egret, spoonbill, and night heron nesting areas in the Houston area; its also home to lots of Alligators and the threated Le-Contes Sparrow and large cypress swamps. I guess that land was destined to be destroyed by suburban sprawl at some point or other, oh well. |
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I want to go back up there and bring my real camera with me and take some photos up there at night or just better photos with my D700. Its a pretty kick ass view, makes it look like NYC from that far away.
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Source: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/101/2...13e06461_o.jpg It's outdated though, but it is from near those towers from the MacHaik building at I-10 and Kirkwood. Here is one I took from their rooftop fitness center last year. http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5150/5...9b532955_b.jpg |
That photo must be really old, isnt City Center now on the bottom left side of the photo? If so that photo is about 10 years old or so. I might have my location wrong though.
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more importantly, the memorial herman tower off gessner/ I-10 hasnt been built yet. not too mention the other buildings right around there; cemex, hotel, etc..
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Any photo that doesn't have the Memorial Herman tower is fine by me. I can't stand that tower. In fact when driving from Austin to Houston the only thing I look forward to less than the I-10 traffic is having to pass by that horrible building. There are some great towers in Houston. I just don't understand why the ugliest one has to be so on its own, and then have to silly top to make it stand out even more.
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Swamplot: Highrise Replacing Allen House Remnant? The Latest Rumblings Around Regent Square
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Images from Swamplot http://swamplot.com/wp-content/uploa...eign-tower.jpg http://swamplot.com/wp-content/uploa...treet-view.jpg I like it. It's not too flashy and it'll be interesting to see how the rest of the project unfolds. |
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Holy cow! There are cranes going up ALL OVER Houston. Here's some pics that another member took of the Anadarko site in The Woodlands...
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Love those skyline photos. Its easy to forget how many buildings there really are in Houston. But it looks just as good as always.
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