More of where that came from — or went to: The Wellington La Peak Apartments top yesterday’s disappearing act 16 times over. Plus: giving the push-off to a bunch of antiques.
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Four local values each lose a structure today: home, church, hair, and drilling.
Hello! These must be going. They cannot stay. We came to say they must be going:
Fewer places to serve off Westheimer, and a few fewer places to return to around town.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A little Blossom picking, and other delights of the spring demolition season:
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Please bear with us as we make a few slight architectural adjustments. Thank you.
Uncertain when beauty meets abuse? Torn Curtin reveals another real estate play:
Some action near the Main St. exit on the North Freeway, plus more farther afield.
Three houses, a garage, and 2 sheds? That makes it.
The Museum of Fine Arts’ Caroline Weiss Law Building, with extensions designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, sits on the southeast corner of Montrose and Bissonnet. On the northeast corner of the same intersection, there’s the Cullen Sculpture Garden, designed by Isamu Noguchi; the Contemporary Arts Museum by Gunnar Birkerts looks in from the northwest. And on the southwest corner . . . there’s this pomo villa-model home from 1991, designed by Will Cannady, a longtime architecture professor at Rice. Cannady, better known in B-ball circles as the architect of Hakeem Olajuwon’s home in Sugar Land, built this place for himself and his family on a half-acre Shadyside lot in 1991 but only lived there for a few years. The home’s second owners kept those cute little longhorn and lone-star frieze plaques on the outside of the 5,720-sq.-ft. stucco mansion, but did add an extra column or two. That should justify putting it all on the market with a $5.25 million asking price, no?
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
If each of you can pitch in with a whack or two, these places will be down in no time:
Before she moved on to greater fame in Arkansas — and designed a home featured in Sarah Susanka’s Not So Big House book series — architect Sharon Tyler Hoover built this Rather Big House for herself in West U. She was known as Sharon Tyler then. This Ranch Romanesque entry fronts 4,792 sq.-ft. of space on a 11,250-sq.-ft. hunk of land: 3 or 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms decked with floor-to-ceiling tile, a library with blueprint-friendly storage, and a black-and-white checkerboard living area where she planned out her next career moves.
The Woodlands Convention and Visitors Bureau has launched a new website that features 28 unique 360-degree virtual tours of various locations throughout the future township, produced by a local company. Showing up most often: The Woodlands Mall, with 5 separate panorama views, followed by the Waterway Marriott with 4 panoramas and Waterway Square and the Avia Hotel on Market Street with 3 each. Organization president Nick Wolba tells the Chronicle, “So many people in the Houston market think of The Woodlands as a place to live. We want them to know this is a great place to visit . . . It’s a very special place as a destination.”
- The Woodlands Interactive Tour [The Woodlands Convention and Visitors Bureau]
- Virtual tour highlights Woodlands features [Ultimate Woodlands]
Panorama: Epic Software
