HOUSTON | Development Thread II - Page 597

The Best Forumer · #**11921** Posted **Apr 20, 2021, 6:32 PM**

Agreed. Reminds me of one I saw posted here. It was taken from the 225/610 interchange flyover during/right after Tropical Storm Allison. It included 5 skylines in one shot.

ski-man · #**11922** Posted **Apr 20, 2021, 8:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by Brijonmang

Uptown skyline from about 2 weeks ago:

Uptown Sunset by brijonmang, on Flickr

That is such a great picture. Need some more of these types of shots from around town.

Dariusb · #**11923** Posted **Apr 21, 2021, 5:00 AM**

^That's a beautiful shot!!

The Best Forumer · #**11924** Posted **Apr 22, 2021, 9:24 PM**

I know... are there others?

TexasPlaya · #**11925** Posted **Apr 27, 2021, 3:54 AM**

Emancipation Center: Dowling At Elgin St.

Nonprofit office space (I believe) plus some affordable housing (orange).

From Urbannizer on HAIF

Dariusb · #**11926** Posted **Apr 27, 2021, 5:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by TexasPlaya

Emancipation Center: Dowling At Elgin St.

Nonprofit office space (I believe) plus some affordable housing (orange).

From Urbannizer on HAIF

That's cool and let's hope so. Also, downtown skyline has really beefed up and stretched out.

The Best Forumer · #**11927** Posted **Apr 29, 2021, 4:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by TexasPlaya

Emancipation Center: Dowling At Elgin St.

Nonprofit office space (I believe) plus some affordable housing (orange).

From Urbannizer on HAIF

How much is the rent?

clubtokyo · #**11928** Posted **May 1, 2021, 3:07 AM**

Cool picture!

The Best Forumer · #**11929** Posted **May 4, 2021, 4:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by clubtokyo

Cool picture!

I know... du u have any to post here?

Brijonmang · #**11930** Posted **May 7, 2021, 7:17 PM**

JManc · #**11931** Posted **May 7, 2021, 7:37 PM**

Great shot

KevinFromTexas · #**11932** Posted **May 7, 2021, 8:55 PM**

Yeah, that's a really nice flattering photo of Houston.

TexasPlaya · #**11933** Posted **May 7, 2021, 10:14 PM**

Great shot. That part of northern montrose is really blowing up along Buffalo Bayou/ W Dallas St.

N90 · #**11934** Posted **May 8, 2021, 12:13 AM**

Great picture Brijonmang. That’s a nice angle if you want to show someone how nice individual buildings in the downtown skyline are. You can go from left to right and focus on each individual building and it’s style and that drive down Allen Parkway headed towards downtown is the perfect drive to show the uniqueness of each of those buildings too. It makes each building standout but doesn’t do as much for the downtown skyline as a collective whole. I don’t like it as an overall skyline view because it gives people the impression that Downtown Houston’s skyline has a lot of gaps and is spaced out between buildings.

I like the Downtown Houston skyline view from the south, from UH. Houston looks like the beast that it should rightfully be recognized as being, no major gaps either, and plenty of density. And great fill in between the two supertalls too.

https://www.uh.edu/magazine/2017-fal...licy-polls.jpg

JManc · #**11935** Posted **May 8, 2021, 12:16 AM**

That's my favorite perspective as well.

The Best Forumer · #**11936** Posted **May 8, 2021, 3:46 AM**

Indeed. I remember someone from a while back... from the Houston Dev Thread I from... 2001 or perhaps even before that... to add BladeRunner style flitters in the night time skyline shot of Houston... to make it seem like a futuristic cityscape. Pretty cool.

Dariusb · #**11937** Posted **May 8, 2021, 5:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by N90

Great picture Brijonmang. That’s a nice angle if you want to show someone how nice individual buildings in the downtown skyline are. You can go from left to right and focus on each individual building and it’s style and that drive down Allen Parkway headed towards downtown is the perfect drive to show the uniqueness of each of those buildings too. It makes each building standout but doesn’t do as much for the downtown skyline as a collective whole. I don’t like it as an overall skyline view because it gives people the impression that Downtown Houston’s skyline has a lot of gaps and is spaced out between buildings.

I like the Downtown Houston skyline view from the south, from UH. Houston looks like the beast that it should rightfully be recognized as being, no major gaps either, and plenty of density. And great fill in between the two supertalls too.

https://www.uh.edu/magazine/2017-fal...licy-polls.jpg

This is a f**king beautiful shot!

Wattleigh · #**11938** Posted **May 8, 2021, 3:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by N90

Great picture Brijonmang. That’s a nice angle if you want to show someone how nice individual buildings in the downtown skyline are. You can go from left to right and focus on each individual building and it’s style and that drive down Allen Parkway headed towards downtown is the perfect drive to show the uniqueness of each of those buildings too. It makes each building standout but doesn’t do as much for the downtown skyline as a collective whole. I don’t like it as an overall skyline view because it gives people the impression that Downtown Houston’s skyline has a lot of gaps and is spaced out between buildings.

I like the Downtown Houston skyline view from the south, from UH. Houston looks like the beast that it should rightfully be recognized as being, no major gaps either, and plenty of density. And great fill in between the two supertalls too.

https://www.uh.edu/magazine/2017-fal...licy-polls.jpg

Any entry into town from the south or southwest have to be my favorite views. Since 90/Main Street was rebuilt, I've used it more and I think it's just past the intersection with South Post Oak where it's elevated for a bit and the skylines wrap around the horizon somewhat so you get Uptown, Greenway/ Upper Kirby, TMC/Museum District & behind them Downtown. I recall going on field trips in the 90s on that route and even then it was pretty neat to see.

Runner up might be the approach from the Southwest Freeway - maybe starting around Sugar Land or Stafford where Westchase shows up and you start moving past it toward Uptown where that skyline completely dominates, while Greenway and Downtown start getting closer and closer.

Then again, thanks to development, you can actually see the Williams Tower from ROSENBERG now on the elevated portion of 59. That made me do a double take on my last visit in December. Hadn't tried to see if I could see any of the other towers.

DCReid · #**11939** Posted **May 8, 2021, 5:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by N90

Great picture Brijonmang. That’s a nice angle if you want to show someone how nice individual buildings in the downtown skyline are. You can go from left to right and focus on each individual building and it’s style and that drive down Allen Parkway headed towards downtown is the perfect drive to show the uniqueness of each of those buildings too. It makes each building standout but doesn’t do as much for the downtown skyline as a collective whole. I don’t like it as an overall skyline view because it gives people the impression that Downtown Houston’s skyline has a lot of gaps and is spaced out between buildings.

I like the Downtown Houston skyline view from the south, from UH. Houston looks like the beast that it should rightfully be recognized as being, no major gaps either, and plenty of density. And great fill in between the two supertalls too.

https://www.uh.edu/magazine/2017-fal...licy-polls.jpg

"..because it gives people the impression that Downtown Houston’s skyline has a lot of gaps and is spaced out between buildings..."

I thought I remember see a photo last year that showed downtown had lots of surface parking spaces? From what I have been hearing, it seems like Houston does need more residential downtown, although I see they are building one or two residential towers. Hope the residential densification in some of the other areas, like Montrose, comes to downtown. How many people live downtown and is there a grocery store now?

N90 · #**11940** Posted **May 8, 2021, 6:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by DCReid

"..because it gives people the impression that Downtown Houston’s skyline has a lot of gaps and is spaced out between buildings..."

I thought I remember see a photo last year that showed downtown had lots of surface parking spaces? From what I have been hearing, it seems like Houston does need more residential downtown, although I see they are building one or two residential towers. Hope the residential densification in some of the other areas, like Montrose, comes to downtown. How many people live downtown and is there a grocery store now?

Phoenicia is a grocery store that’s been there for over a decade now. It’s next to Discovery Green Park. About 8,000 people live in Downtown now, nearly quadruple how many were there in 2010. Yes, there are lots of surface lots downtown but they are primarily towards the south and east. All the skyscrapers are mainly concentrated in the skyline district part of downtown, where it is structurally very dense and there are barely any lots.