It would seem that tilt-wall technology is not just for office buildings in the suburbs — but war memorials in the suburbs too! Yesterday, the Sugar Land Parks Dept. and local members of the Tilt-Up Concrete Association (whose national conference is in Houston this year) dedicated this site in Sugar Land’s Memorial Park for the Veterans’ Memorial, designed by the same firm, Powers Brown, that’s engineering the 6-story Sierra Pines II in The Woodlands, thought to be the tallest tilt-wall building in Texas. If you’re into this sort of thing, you can see how the memorial was propped up into place, thanks to plenty of pics the Parks Dept. posted to Facebook:
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He was holding it only temporarily:
- Why You Should Open a New Store Now [Real Estate Bisnow]
- Sugar Land to get Veterans Memorial for area park [Fort Bend Star]
- Tilt-Up Concrete Association Spearheads Design and Consruction of Fort Bend County Veteran’s Memorial [Tilt-Up Today]
- Previously on Swamplot: Building Trivia in The Woodlands, Another Office Building in the Pines in The Woodlands
Photos: Sugar Land Parks and Recreation
Looks like a set piece from the Halo video games.
Way to go Sugar Land! I like this thing. I’ll probably venture outside the loop to check it out.
While I’m all for any Memorial to War Veterans, hmmm, that’s what makes it all the more regretful to have to say how horrid this thing is, seriously this could be the ugliest memorial I’ve ever seen, it looks like a concrete entrance to a futuristic prison. Wow, that’s ugly
Purdue, you nailed it.
I was going to go with “Star Trek: The Original Series”. One of those ancient temples that turns out to be an evil supercomputer with a sexy lady persona called Leena.
Shannon/WASP/CREOLE???
It looks like a monument to the entrance of Pyongyang People’s Public Park #1.
Maybe it’s nicer in person.
Suburban granite.
Once again – less is more.
Take away that awkward entrance “thing” and hokey bridge with handrails and you may have made something memorable.