Members of the area civic club send some shots of the now-demolished basketball pavilion and its under-construction replacement at Meadowcreek Village Park, off Forest Oaks Dr. south of Patterson Elementary. The arched structure shown above, designed in 1961 by partial River Oaks Shopping Center architect R.H Brogniez, was originally constructed from wood (which got some repairs and lamination in 1997, but was in pretty bad shape by the court’s closure in 2014).
The city initially planned to replace the structure with something else, but received a string of requests from neighborhood residents to keep and repair the original design. Instead, the replacement pavilion (designed by M2l Architects) will look a lot like the original, but done in steel:
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Meadowcreek Village civic club VP Jose Rocha says the new version of the building should be finished by the end of the year. Here are more shots of the action:
Photos: Meadowcreek Village Civic Club
these are some great pics of the work
Wasn’t there a similar, nearly identical one, at Edgewood Park in the 5800 block of Bellfort? It was torn down for structural reasons, too, and doesn’t appear to be up for replacement. Google Streetview from 2011: https://www.google.com/maps/@29.6665545,-95.3319442,3a,75y,350.79h,85.11t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sxJHgsT90hK-V1eJPprUk_g!2e0!5s20110601T000000!7i13312!8i6656
This pavilion had been in the CIP for several years now to be replaced. The community lobbied to get it replaced with a similar design.