IAH design plans unveiled: Terminal D to be replaced by new international terminal

Molly Ryan
Reporter-
Houston Business Journal
Apr 24, 2014, 4:37pm CDT
http://bizj.us/vkbat/i/1
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/m...l-d-to-be.html

There was a fire overnight at The Suzanne apartments. Unlike the Axis apartments that burned down last month, this one is made out of steel - so it was put out pretty quickly. By Jax on HAIF:

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/25/edyga5am.jpg

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-te...8475.php%C2%A0

Just ran the numbers.

DT-TMC-UT (everything inside that Triangle)
Land area: 54 square miles
High rises and skyscrapers existing in Triangle: 366
Proposed and under construction in Triangle: 68
Rest of the city's proposals and construction: 46

Why have there been so many fires in Houston lately? Did they ever find the cause of the first building that caught fire?

I thought that the stand alone part that they were adding to the Galleria would face Westheimer. The Galleria defiantly needs to update the two towers connected to it. They are aging the center and making it not look worth of those high-end retailers.

The Westin hotel was renovated not too long ago from the interior but not the exterior. Although I do agree they should really give the exterior a makeover.

Well they did say with this Galleria redo that the exterior would get a face lift as well, I guess to keep up with the new guys BLVD Place, River Oaks District, etc. So hopefully that means the two towers as well. What happend to the plans to add a condo tower to the Galleria?

Yeah I'm guessing it has to do with keeping up with the other guys. If so those stripmalls on Post Oak Boulevard are totally doomed for re-development.

Maybe your referring to the Multifamily highrise? Thats still on tract, its bolded in the article above posted by Urbannizer.

Is there something I'm missing here, buried in this story? How ironic that in order to attract higher-end shoppers and retailers they are going to destroy the only architecturally significant - and I would argue "classy"- component of the entire complex: The Philip Johnson facade for Saks Fifth Avenue, originally a Marshall Field's. (see the fourth photo down and the telltale signature curved wall with the names of imaginary retailers on it) :hell: Wouldn't it make more sense to try TRY to integrate the new building design with that and make something MORE instead of just destroying one of the only good things about the place? But I suppose they can slap up some stucco and tell their share holders that they are doing something productive.

The mass infill development factory spat out another one today. Credit to Urbannizer!

At 2020 McGowen, 100 units, 5-6 floors, say hello to Viewpoint Square.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7442/...655523a0_b.jpg

http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/h...-2020-mcgowen/

Apart from the duplicate listing for Kirby Grove, amazing list of "under construction." This makes 28 buildings and over 500 new skyscraper stories in Houston:

• 2929 Weslayan 39
• BHP Billiton Tower 30
• Hanover Post Oak 29
• 1111 Travis 23
• Astoria 25
• Energy Center IV 22
• Energy Center III 20
• SkyHouse River Oaks 25
• SkyHouse Houston 24
• Noble Energy Center 2 20
• 3737 Buffalo Speedway 18
• Samsung Tower 18
• Energy Tower IV 17
• Kirby Grove Tower 16
• The Sovereign 21
• 2229 San Felipe 18
• Kirby Grove at Levy Park 16 DUPE
• Azalea Court Tower 17
• Phillips 66 Headquarters Tower [2] 15
• Phillips 66 Headquarters Tower [1] 15
• Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan 12
• West Memorial Place Building 1 12
• Southwestern Energy Headquarters 10
• Hyatt Regency at Galleria 14
• Brazos Towers at Bayou Manor 14
• Hanover South Hampton Tower 2 12
• Hanover South Hampton Tower 1 12
• Towne Centre I 10
• Five Chasewood 10

It seems like the time to add the headstone for the Texas Tower is now, as it is just a memory like the rest of these:


• Sheraton Lincoln Hotel
• Houston Main Building
• Southwest Tower
• National Standard Building
• Shamrock Hotel :(
• Lamar Hotel
• Great Southern Life Insurance Building
• Electric Building
• Macy's Downtown
• YMCA Downtown
• Montagu Hotel
• Ben Milam Square
• Medical Arts Building
• Methodist Hospital Diagnostic Clinical Ctr
• Mayfair Hotel
• Anderson Mayfair Hotel
• Texaco Building Annex
• San Jacinto Building
• Jefferson Davis Hospital
• Crowne Plaza - Texas Medical Center
• Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Galleria
• Veterans' Administration Hospital
• Travis Tower Garage
• Cenikor Building

Kenny & Ziggy's demolished? Heresy!:runaway:

29.

The second Millennium tower is under construction in Westchase. It's 22 floors. It's not on the database for either proposed or under construction. It's been under construction for over a month now I think. BTW there's another building under construction next to it and one across the freeway between Sam Houston and Rogerdale where that 6 story corporate building with the pond/lake in front of it.

Right off the top of my head - Belfiore, Marriott Marquis and Air Liquide Centre towers are missing from the list. Samsung Tower is pretty much complete, same for the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan and some of those floor counts are incorrect.

Sheikh Zayed
Samsung Tower

- 2

Air Liquids I
Air Liquids II
Marriott Marquis
Belfiore
Millennium II

+ 5

The new total UC is 31.

Some of the UC's don't have cranes yet, so technically still on the proposed list. 609 Main has a crane, but it's being used for demolition. Keeping that list updated over the next several months is going to be challenging indeed.

Urbannizer's pretty good at keeping track. He's added everything to the development map. http://devmap.io/cities/houston/developments##401

BTW Urbannizer, is it possible to add the new international terminal at Hobby and the new Terminal B and Mickey Leeland International terminal at IAH to the development map? The renderings for the new terminal at IAH are amazing FTR.

Sounds good, I'll also add the Galleria redevelopment to the map.

Interesting map. I didn't see the Halliburton campus expansion(two 8-story buildings on Beltway 8 near the airport), but it's pretty comprehensive.

I'm trying to think of anything that may not be on there but it seems to have it all. I'll check HAIF and my posts here to see if there's anything else missing.

Edit: Research Forest Lakeside might be the only thing left. I think it has nearly half a dozen to a dozen buildings 6-8 stories in its blueprints.

Doesn't Houston have more skyscrapers in the city limits than Los Angeles?

Thankfully Urbanizer, for the most part, focuses on urban development that will have an impact on the core of the city. We don't need to know about every office park or garden style apartment complex that are a dime a dozen developing on the fringes.

No.

I've spent quite a bit of time in LA and the thing that always strikes this highrise-buff as odd is how few highrises it has for such a gargantuan city.

And Houston has even fewer ?

Want a snapshot of Houston? Read this:

http://news.rice.edu/2014/04/24/a-ci...nsportation-2/

Yesssss, I also feel like most small suburban developments should not be mentioned here.

Houston has 50 skyscrapers in it's city limits

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ngs_in_Houston

Los Angeles has 34 skyscrapers in it's city limits

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...in_Los_Angeles

Since when is 400 feet an official number for the definition of a skyscraper?

Besides, there are multiple clusters of tall buildings all over the Los Angeles region, especially in places like Glendale and Long Beach, just for a few examples.

Aaron (Glowrock)

Well it's wikipedias definition.

Care to provide your own numbers by your own definitions?

The two Halliburton buildings are taller than the apartment wrap-arounds and closer in than the Exxon Mobil campus. But that one's been a quiet project. Halliburton's not blowing a horn over it. They both appear to have topped out.

The Woodlands is starting to remind me of Tyson's Corner here in the DC area.

http://www.elkus-manfredi.com/project/the-woodlands/

I like seeing this. Is there a DT for The Woodlands?

Capitol Tower: 4/25 by Triton, peeling off the exterior

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Alexan Midtown: 4/27 by LarryDierker

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7214/...a8fecdbf_b.jpg


Skyhouse Houston: 4/27 by Jax

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https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7110/...ce9b553c_b.jpg

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4306 Yoakum: 4/27 by Jax

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7101/...b85e9930_b.jpg

2929 Welsyan: by Jax and Me

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2899/...93d4caf2_b.jpg

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2904/...37975a18_b.jpg

21 Eleven: 4/27 by Triton

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7416/...96022b8b_b.jpg

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7410/...51b76cd8_b.jpg

Levy Park: 4/27 by Triton

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7409/...df9ac9b3_b.jpg

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2923/...e9fcd4ef_b.jpg

BHP Billtion: 4/25 by Tottottitto

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2916/...aaece800_b.jpg

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2905/...20983efd_b.jpg

Astoria: 4/25 by Totttottitto

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2895/...bf3165e4_b.jpg

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5213/...21acaa62_b.jpg

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7379/...15e0f7a5_b.jpg

Not particularly, Double L. I just think that any definition of a skyscraper that includes a minimum of 400 feet is going to make the list of skyscrapers extremely small in most cities. It's too restrictive.

But anyhow, it doesn't really matter.

Aaron (Glowrock)

This is the stuff that belongs in the General Development thread for Houston.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=209922

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Wow, I never knew a 320+ foot building would look so small in Houston's skyline. Skyhouse looks really tiny in those pictures.

I don't think it's that tall. The one in Austin is 264 feet and they're all more or less identical.

Bisnow is reporting two more hotels for the Woodlands - a Holiday Inn and a Staybridge Suites. Six and four floors, respectively.

Just much farther out.

Key words being "starting to remind me".

Anyhow, I was talking about the architectural style (new urbanist), the mass of office space being generated, the use of a mall as an anchor for shopping, etc.

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I don't think of the Woodlands as anything more than a mere suburb but it's one of the few suburbs in the Houston region that's doing it's job and pulling it's weight (the others being Sugar Land and Katy). The jobs, office space, and the like are necessary, there should be a major job center in every corner of the Houston metro. It will keep things decentralized, will keep the housing prices in check (further from DT = lower housing prices for new construction in undeveloped areas), and most of all it will keep the chokehold that is known as traffic from entering the loop more ferociously than it has been in decades past.

TBH I don't know what Parker and her constituents at METRO were thinking by delaying the LRT expansions of the Post Oak and Richmond lines, I wonder how often she actually sits in the traffic known as 610 @ 59 to feel for the people of her city.

My understanding is the City Compilations forum is for everything which is development related.

There is a certain impediment named John Culberson, who is preventing the Red Line from getting out west along Richmond. Time for some traffic problems!:koko:

I think of The Woodlands now as a city with an impressive core, far different from a "mere suburb". I do think of places like Cypress and Pearland as mere suburbs. They're different as night and day from The Woodlands.

yes there is a "downtown" in The Woodlands. there are two 450' towers along with a number of other mid-high rises. not counting the buildings/development on Lake Woodlands like Hughes Landing and Research Forest Lakeside.

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Hughes Landing

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http://blog.chron.com/primeproperty/...es-Landing.jpg


Research Forest Lakeside

http://www.coydavidson.com/wp-conten...h-Phase-12.jpg

http://s.lnimg.com/xnet/mainsite/Htt...dth=0&Height=0


true but the one in Austin is a floor shorter and a different roof design. id guess the Houston one is around 280'. still, shorter than the 320' guestimate.

as someone else mentioned, it was Culberson who blocked the federal funding, and thus halted the university and uptown rail lines. fortunately uptown is moving ahead with a BRT line, with local TIRZ(?) money, for the time being that can be converted in the future to light rail.

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The Woodlands has its own urban core, but it has been incorporated into the Houston city limits (unless it seceded), so being a city in its own right is not possible.

And I now see the area is not yet annexed but not able to incorporate.

I think the 50-year standstill is supposed to prevent either incorporation or annexation, but I can't help but think the Woodlands is going to end up in Houston eventually, as will Springwoods. The locals may not like it but it will prevent the city from being noosed by independent suburbs (e.g., Dallas, Atlanta, St. Louis).

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