Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
If you can dream it, you can demolish it.
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Demolitions
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their demolitions.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
They say the best use sometimes starts with a clean slate.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not demolish?’
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The discovery of demolition was the first big step toward a civilized life.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A picture is worth a thousand words, but no picture is worth about five demolitions.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I demolish and I understand.
The former Mental Health and Mental Retardation Association building at 2850 Fannin St. and its many murals are now rubble, a reader notes. The shot above catches the destroyed structure next to Sebastien Boileau’s Preservons la Creation mural across the street on the back of 2800 San Jacinto St., juxtaposed with what appears to be some carefully timed oncoming traffic to add that dramatic glow to the painted figure’s outstretched spray paint can. The reader also caught one of the excavators climbing atop its defeated adversary earlier in the day, beneath the giant cross of the St. Joseph Professional Building:
Cycles of Midtown
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition is not an event, it is a habit.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Our sorrows and houses are healed only when we touch them with demolition.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It’s bad, huh? Like houses rolled in sand.
The building at 2850 Fannin St. (seen here across the Main St. light-rail tracks next to the recently gassed Art Supply building) has been split into pieces as of this morning. A reader on the scene caught sight (and footage, above) of several excavators simultaneously scraping away at the scene, with aid from a small bulldozer. Here’s a few more views of what was left of the structure and its extensive paint job:
Parting Shots
No permits on the city holiday, but the breaking will resume tomorrow.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Some trails are happy ones, others are blue.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Have we eaten on the insane root that takes the houses and garages prisoner?