HOUSTON | Never Built Projects from the 80s

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Houston Center

[scalziand]

Is that that a single giant megablock? Wow.

[Double L]

No there are roads in there...Houston Center was eventually built just not in that way.

[photoLith]

Wow, thank goodness that was never built, there would be no hope for density in the part of town if those plans went through.

[Double L]

How does a building a bunch of skyscrapers provide no hope for density?

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Originally Posted by strickn

Note how different Three Allen Center looks when more than fifty floors. Since this got it wrong, I'm not sure whether the project, referred to above as HL&P, was from before 1983 when Three Allen Center was topped out. Anyway, the picture is p.87 from the February 1988 Connoisseur magazine

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[photoLith]

Originally Posted by Double L

How does a building a bunch of skyscrapers provide no hope for density?

Do you not see how spread out those buildings are? Its like a glorified suburban office park, yuck and not dense at all.

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Originally Posted by photoLith

Do you not see how spread out those buildings are? Its like a glorified suburban office park, yuck and not dense at all.

It's not bad, though. It could've been worse. That looks MILES ahead of what Century City currently is.

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Cullen Center - 1977