Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Let’s call the end of these things the beginning of their permanence.
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Demolitions
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
This is how we carve out more living space.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The select; the elite; the next to be gone:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
We remember how they were in their prime. We’re now well past prime time.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Deep Forest cleansing, River Oaks remaking, Auto Service removal, and other urban pastimes.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The vanishing Tanglewood single-story — and other mysterious disappearances of local note:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Macy’s Outlet on the outs; barnstorming in South Houston Gardens; other structural deficits:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A bit of re-burgering at Westheimer and Montrose, a Napoleon defeat, and other Houston ploughing-overs:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
An introduction to the demolition arts, in 14 Houston addresses:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Here come the groceries. There go the houses.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Having earned our independence, we can dispose of our old dependencies.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The seeds of new homes will be found in the ruins of the old.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
No room for ghosts — with the old haunts gone.
A view from up in the U.S. Home building at 1177 West Loop South shows the white house originally home to architecture firm Caudill Rowlett Scott — and for the last couple decades home to Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists — now getting crunched along Buffalo Bayou. The properties now occupied by 1177 and its nearly-demolished neighbor at 1111 West Loop South were bought together as a single tract by CRS in the late ’60s.
A 1997 feature on the iconic (and difficult to photograph) building in Cite magazine by architect Jay Baker explains that prior purchasing the land, the firm had been working out of the Dow Center at the corner of Richmond and Edloe — but having become the largest architectural practice in Houston, its execs wanted to get into a more eye-catching workspace. The 8-acre, largely-in-the-floodplain property they bought, however — which included a 40-ft. drop-off — proved tough to design on . . . and its tenants tough to design for. In June 1967, CRS founder Bill Caudill wrote to his mother: “Boy what a week I am having . . . In my twenty years of practice I have never had such a terrible client. Imagine an architect doing a building for 15 other architects.â€
The completed building went as much into the site as on it: Two office levels were fitted facing bayou-side greenery, low enough (and ultimately beneath the 100-year-flood level) to allow a 50-ft.-long bridge from the 610 feeder road to access the roof-deck parking lot that was placed on top.
Here’s a closer-up view of the ruins:
The Final Photo
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Adios, vacuum shed! And this little piece of West Gray:
