- Decades-Old Rice Silos Crumble in East Pearland To Make Way for New Industrial and Commercial Business Park [Community Impact]
- Exxon Starts Shutting Down Baytown Refinery So That It Can Conduct Major Planned Maintenance Overhaul [Houston Chronicle]
- Downtown’s Houston Center Will Undergo Complex-Wide Renovation [Houston Chronicle]
- Waiting on Dozens of New Garbage Trucks, City Will Use Rental Trucks in the Meantime [Houston Public Media]
- Texas Legislators Consider Slapping More Restrictions on Sand Mining in Order To Curb Flooding It May Cause [Houston Public Media]
- 2019 Houston Open Scheduled for Oct. 7 to 13 at Humble’s Golf Club of Houston [Houston Public Media; previously on Swamplot]
Photo of Houston Central Library, Jesse H. Jones Building: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool
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The Houston Center renovations are horribly at odds with the architecture of the existing buildings. Painting the lower floors white and leaving everything else bronze looks really half-as*ed. Gensler seems incapable of designing with any building materials that are not white or silver.
@anon – Gensler is incapable of designing ANYTHING that doesn’t look half-assed.