Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
You can’t blame a house for leaving if you never gave it a reason to stay.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Eventually you will come to understand that demolition heals everything, and demolition is all there is.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
In its function, the power to demolish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
COMMENT OF THE DAY: A STEAMY BACKWARD GLANCE TO METEOR’S PRE-SHOWER DAYS 
“Oh, the memories of 2306 Genesee St., circa the late 1970’s! When the space was Houston’s 3rd bath house . . . All sorts of debauchery took place within those walls. I, of course, will not divulge what happened there.” [Happy Go Lucky, commenting on Meteor Crashes to the Ground in East Montrose] Photo of 2306 Genesee St., prior to demolition: Meteor Lounge
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The avenging bulldozer now rises to make the houses tremble!
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
As it is permitted, these must all come to an end.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
What you raze now, you will harvest later.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
All bets are off for this hand of houses.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Blessed are the houses that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Artist Ken Mazzu’s been back at the easel and back on the Houston demolition beat lately, finishing up some new works to be featured in next month’s building-themed art show at the William Reaves / Sarah Foltz Fine Art Gallery at 2143 Westheimer Rd.. The show will feature some of Mazzu’s paintings of ’round-town teardowns, along with works of 2 other Houston-focused artists (late photographer Jim Culberson and living painter Richard Stout). The gallery will even host Houston archi-historian Dr. Stephen Fox for a talk about The Changing City on the 14th.
Mazzu’s had a lot of subjects to choose from since a set of his demo-themed canvases went on display back in 2013; he sends over some previews of new pieces, including the scene above commemorating the disassembly of the former Downtown headquarters of the Houston Chronicle. Other recent works feature newly-parking-lotified 509 Louisiana St., the dissolution of the octagonal Solvay mid-rise, a pile of post-blow-up downtown Foley’s debris, and more:
New Works Retrospective
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
These are pretty special, depending on what you can live with.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A house is never finished, only abandoned.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
You miss 100 percent of the demolitions you don’t take.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Peaceful country living until the bulldozer strikes.
The complex containing Midway’s planned H-E-B-and-midrise at the southeast corner of Heights Blvd. and Washington Ave. won’t be named Northbank Buffalo Bayou after all, Nancy Sarnoff reports this week — it’ll be called Buffalo Heights. Above is Ziegler Cooper’s rendering of the proposed structure, which would take up the northwest corner of the old Archstone Memorial Heights apartments property (which was bought in 2014 by the current owners). That development previously gave its moniker to the surrounding neighborhood; it remains to be seen if this latest rebranding attempt will stick.
The new midrise would sit about half a mile south of the official southernmost edge of the Houston Heights (as drawn for voting in last month’s local-option Heights moistening election), and about half a mile north of Buffalo Bayou (though only a quarter mile from the Buffalo Wild Wings a few blocks west down Washington Ave). The new design shows off 5 stories of apartments (tallying up as 232 units) on top of the 2-story H-E-B, with about 37,000 sq. ft. of office space and a couple of other retail spots in the mix.
First of Its Name in Memorial Heights
