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Wow love it! How many feet?
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Boxy... but in a good way... i like the plants on the sides...
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Based on story, the office will be the wide chunk and they'll build the apartments (skinny chunk) on top at a future date?
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Rice University unveils plans for former Sears building

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Rice University will begin renovations in May on the historic Sears building on Main Street, a project that aims to transform the Midtown property into the centerpiece of what leaders hope will become a thriving innovation district.

Rice, which announced its latest plans for the property Wednesday, said the renovated 270,000-square-foot building will be renamed The Ion.

"I gleefully applaud this next giant step in the creation of an innovation hub that will take Houston closer to becoming a world leader in data science and digital technologies" Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said in a statement. "As I said last year when the idea was unveiled, we have to leap, not stroll, into the economic frontier. Now the physical transformation of The Ion will help get us there."

The Ion represents the first phase in the development of Rice's broader innovation district to be developed across 16 acres of land in Midtown to include commercial development, housing and public spaces.

Through academic and corporate partners, the redesigned former Sears building will host educational events, demonstrations, hack-a-thons and programming. Restaurant and entertainment venues will be added, as well.

Completion of the project is expected next year.


Houston-based Hines is managing the development on behalf of Rice Management Co.

The renovated building will retain signature elements of the original art deco design, including historic corners, glass block windows, decorative tilework and a three-sided storefront with architectural canopies Rice said.

New York-based SHoP Architects, James Carpenter Design Associates, and James Corner Field Operations, along with the Houston office of Gensler, to are involved in the redesign of the 1939 building.

The building has been pared down to its art deco façade after metal cladding placed around the structure in the 1960s was removed.


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Old Posted Jan 30, 2019, 6:44 PM
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Based on story, the office will be the wide chunk and they'll build the apartments (skinny chunk) on top at a future date?
That's correct.
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so it guess it'll be a long time before the apts get built... ugh.
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Hines Senior Living Signs Up for Former Momentum Audi Dealership on Richmond

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HERE ARE A few views of the new senior living apartment building that’s making an appearance in this week’s Houston city planning agenda, on the spot occupied by Momentum Audi at the southeast corner of Richmond Ave and Revere St. (That’s right across the street from the currently open Moment Volkswagen of Upper Kirby dealership at 2405 Richmond.) Architecture firm Munoz Albin’s design for the building appears to be a 7-story setup, with some new landscaping planted along the sidewalks that encircle the structure.
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3000 Richmond Will Come Crumbling Down in April

*Coming down for a 15-story office tower

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TENANTS HAVE been filing out of the 5-story office building shown above at the northeast corner of Richmond Ave and Eastside St. in anticipation of its planned collapse 2 months from now, according one employee who’s still inside but won’t be for long. Building management gave all occupants — including Imparali Tailor, luggage retailer Kipling, and dozens of other business and medical groups — notice last year that they’d need to hit the road.

Designed by Wilson, Morris, Crane & Anderson, the building is one of a dozen vertically-windowed mid- and lowrises that then-not-yet-famous Houston developer Gerald Hines built along Richmond in the early 1960s to accommodate businesses looking to spread out away from Downtown for the first time.
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Should it be saved? And what will rise in its place?
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I live in Kingwood. I would love something like this but the impact on flooding and drainage is a legit concern.
That has to be one of the cooler looking projects I've seen, I really hope there's some sort of work around.

It'd be a dame shame if that never happened.
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Should it be saved? And what will rise in its place?
I worked in that building about 9 years ago; it was in poor shape back then. We were all complaining that they implode the building
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Should it be saved? And what will rise in its place?
Saved for what reason? It's ugly as hell.
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In the 70s, a college roommate from Chicago and I took a tour of that area of Houston and this is one of the buildings we looked at. We both liked it a lot, along with several others along Richmond. But that was then, and this is now. I have no idea why I liked it. I certainly don't now.

The roommate was an architecture or architectural engineering major. I've always wondered if any of the members here from Chicago happen to be this roommate. He's in Chicago, and probably retired by now.
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Mid-rise Offices

40 years ago Wilson, Crain, Anderson had their offices in the WMCA designed mid-rise at about 5400 Westheimer. The building still stands according to Google. I was a gofer for them one summer. These buildings not only had a grace and stylishness about them but were very well built. Fun place to work the summer of '73.
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Hines reveals designs for downtown apartment tower




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Houston-based Hines, the 61-year-old international real estate firm that's been involved in 29 developments in downtown alone, plans to start construction next month on its newest hometown project: a 46-story apartment tower the company says will be its most impressive residential development yet.

"This one's very special," said Kevin Batchelor, senior managing director with Hines. The cost of the project per unit, he said, will be the company's highest to date for a residential tower in Houston.

The building, which will be called the Preston, will go up at the corner of Preston and Milam streets on the site of the former Houston Chronicle garage. It will be the tallest residential building downtown, and its design will give it a distinct place in the city skyline.

The design sites the building diagonally to Houston's street grid, providing wider, uninterrupted views from the units, said Jorge Munoz, principal of Munoz + Albin, the architecture firm chosen to design the tower.

"It became very clear to us that by rotating the tower it would not only capture better views for the residents, but we would open up an urban plaza within our site," Munoz said.

The design also takes into account its location kitty-corner to two important neighbors: Market Square Park to the north and a new Hines office tower under construction to the south.

The building, which will have 6,800 square feet of street-level retail, will share the block with the historic Hogg Palace condominium building fronting Louisiana Street.

The new tower will be loaded with amenities and pricey finishes. The 373 units will have floor-to-ceiling windows and quartz countertops, stainless-steel Bosch appliances, wide-planked wood flooring and custom Italian-made cabinetry.
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Awesome. Yep they showed the second pic about a month ago but not the first angle. It's nice yet... short. how tall is it supposed to be?
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Awesome. Yep they showed the second pic about a month ago but not the first angle. It's nice yet... short. how tall is it supposed to be?
Not short at all. At 46-stories and 549’ feet, it’ll be the tallest residential building in Houston both in height and floor count.
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Ah... I must have overlooked that. Thanks!
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Ismaili Muslims hire rising architect Farshid Moussavi to design first U.S. cultural center in Houston

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The worldwide Ismaili Muslim community announced Wednesday it is moving forward with plans to make Houston the site of its first U.S. cultural center and to create an architectural landmark in the heart of the city that will reflect a spirit of tolerance, diversity and learning.

London-based Farshid Moussavi Architecture has won the commission to design the important new building on a high-profile, 11-acre site at the southeast corner of Allen Parkway and Montrose Boulevard. A rising star who also has taught for more than a decade at her alma mater, Harvard University, she was selected from a star-studded selection list of finalists that included David Chipperfield, Jeanne Gang and Rem Koolhaas.

“The rigorous competition was a vivid illustration of the global stature that an Ismaili Center holds in the architectural and built environment community, and of the attractiveness of Houston as a destination city for world-scale architecture,” said Dr. Barkat Fazal, president of the Ismaili Council for USA.

Houston’s Ismaili Center, the seventh globally, will be the institutional, intellectual and cultural center for the Shia Ismaili Muslim community in the U.S.

The Aga Khan Foundation purchased the Houston property in 2006 and in 2011 donated the seven monumental artworks — Jaume Plensa’s “Tolerance” sculptures of kneeling figures — that are situated just across the street in Buffalo Bayou Park.

The building will occupy less space than the landscaping, he predicted, with outdoor spaces that connect visually to the adjacent Buffalo Bayou Park.

Samji said a construction timetable and budget would not be finalized until Moussavi’s designs are complete. He expects the entire project will take several years.

Houston is home to one of the nation’s largest Ismaili Muslim communities, with an estimated 40,000 members.
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