One Allen Center Skybridge Pales As Companion’s Destruction Nears

One Allen Center, 1200 Smith St., Downtown, Houston, 77002

Planned Remodel of One Allen Center, 1200 Smith St., Downtown, Houston, 77002

From over the fence at the corner of Smith and Dallas streets, a reader sends a shot of the ongoing scrape-out at One Allen Center. The glassed-in space protruding toward Smith will be undergoing a major reconstructive procedure to square up its corners, if all goes according to Brookfield’s previously depicted plan. Meanwhile, that skybridge in the back on the left is looking a good deal more put together than it did at the end of June, when it got the strip-down treatment; it’s now sporting a brighter, more silver-y skin to match the renderings, which show it backing up a band in that planned twixt-the-towers events space: 

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Planned Remodel of One Allen Center, 1200 Smith St., Downtown, Houston, 77002

Here’s a closer look at the bridge’s new trappings, as well as as the doomed bridge closer to Smith St. (still awaiting demo, as previously enshrined in verse by reporter Ralph Bivins):

One Allen Center, 1200 Smith St., Downtown, Houston, 77002

Images: Swamplot inbox (photos); Brookfield (rendering)

Going Gray Downtown

2 Comment

  • Somebody didn’t get the memo. Bronze and brass are the on-trend colors now in architectural metals. Silver is on the way out.
    Few if any of the current lobby renovations around downtown really improve the buildings. They just make them different.

  • @anon – Haha I guess “Trump Gold” is suddenly back in fashion