Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as a house whose time has come.
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Friday’s knockout of the last walls standing of the Town & Country III office building by CityCentre can now be added to Swamplot’s small but smashing video collection of doomed structures taking a light swing at their demo crew on the way down. To be fair, the semi-controlled collapse of the midrise’s final walls looks to have been much less of a surprise than last fall’s award-winning Corporate Plaza parking garage acceleration incident: while footage of the Town & Country toppling does show the cloud of dust stirred up by the pullover, it captures no contemporaneous cloud of suspense regarding the fate of the operator and nearby construction workers. (The video above also captures commentary from some onlookers in CityCentre Five, who’ll likely have a similarly clear view of the next few teardowns on the docket.)
- Previously on Swamplot: Smashing Views of a Half-Eaten Katy Fwy. Office Building from CityCentre Five;Â Midway Fences In Empty 1970s Office Park Where 3 More CityCentre Towers Might Sprout
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CityCentre Grab and Smash
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Now there is nothing. No house breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Now I spend my time just demolishing houses of yesterday.
With this latest photo dispatch from the southeast corner of Milam and Prairie, Swamplot reader Brie Kelman adds the latest chapter to her ongoing chronicle of the disappearance of the former Houston Chronicle headquarters complex from Downtown. In the month since her last report, 4 or more stories have been taken down from the structure facing Prairie St.; there’s now just a single story left. Not even a complete story, even. Just a few scenes:
Time for the Kicker
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
I have found the paradox, that if you demolish until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more demolition.
A perch in one of the upper floors of CityCentre Five affords views of the dramatic exits of Town & Country III, IV, and V, 3 seventies-era office buildings fronting I-10 at Beltway 8 — which began last Friday. First to go is the 4-story Town & Country III at 10565 Katy Fwy., shown disappearing above. Next on the list (and cordoned off by the perimeter fence that went up earlier this month): Town & Country V at 908 Town & Country Blvd. (the 6-story structure on the left) and Town & Country IV at 10575 Katy Fwy. (4 stories, and hiding behind it).
The Taking of Town & Country III, IV, V
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Now the demolitions are over, I don’t want any trouble to begin.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition does not come by breaking out, but by giving in.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Where we demolish is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Where all the apartments went on Bellaire Blvd., and other Houston stories:
More angles on the ongoing obliteration of structures at the freshly former Exxon Upstream Research facility on Buffalo Spdwy. at W. Alabama St. come this week from one of reader MontroseResident’s more elevated perches. The most prominently visible act of deconstruction has been the shattering breakup of the parking garage in the campus’s northwest corner, due south of the now-mostly-reskinned River Oaks Luxury Apartments midrise on Westheimer (which was stripped down to the slabs in the last 2 years for retooling as The River Oaks condo tower, visible below on the far left):
Crushing on Buffalo Spdwy.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Chop House Cheddar Burger, Hash Brown Sticks, Shakes, Fruit Chews.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Leave now the valley yet ye shall not be forgotten, ’til we ourselves meet our ’dozerly fates.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A Cavalcade of removed tech; plus the house (above) on Wharton eats it.
