Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The water will wash away our houseprints but not the fact we made them.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A house down on the ground is another reborn up high.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The sun has set for this list of sentenced sites.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Rise above the demolition and you will find the sunshine.
The dust-up above on the northeast corner of 3300 Main St., where the former city code enforcement building has been getting disassembled to make way for that retail-footed residential highrise, was part of the on-site scene this past Thursday, a reader notes. Crews started in on the late-60’s building after those August demolition permits were issued (following a round of asbestos extraction). The shot catches both the MATCH theater building on the left and the tiny red canopy of Thien Thao Chinese Herbs, on Travis and Francis streets behind the post-wok-fire redo of Mai’s.
- Previously on Swamplot: Main St. Mod Code Building Under Assault From Rooftop, Ground Level, Interior; Asbestos-Laden Mod Code Enforcement Office Now Getting Swapped for Mixed Use Highrise on Main St.; Digging into the Dirt Around the Old Code Enforcement Building in Midtown; Developer Buys Old City Codes Building; Decoding the Code Building Sale; Downtown Warehouse Rehab: Houston’s Next Permit Office
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Shorter, Then Taller
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
No tricks, no treats, just pure flattening fright.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Picture this or don’t; they’re all still coming down.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
And out of the brush an excavator shall rise!
The now-glimmering interior of the former house at 6822 Rowan Ln. in Sharpstown is open to the public as of this weekend, and will be for the next 2 months — up until the scheduled demolition of the heavily fire-damaged 3-bedroom structure. Demolition artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck (who these days sign their work as Havel Ruck Projects) recently converted the condemned building into another tunnel-through-the-living-room-style temporary art piece, though with much sharper lines than their previous Inversion House. Last Saturday’s opening reception for the new place (which is actually called Sharp) is part of the October-November-straddling Sculpture Month Houston campaign (which is setting up promotional events for other art installations around town through November 19, if you’re interested).
The pentagonal hole in the front of the structure matches the outline of the knocked-out front windows, as seen in these pre-conversion-but-post-fire listing photos of the demo-bound house:
Condemned Open House
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Houses have the tendency to fall apart when they’re awake, you know?
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Used to be mentioned is better than never mentioned at all.
The former Social Security Administration office at 3100 Smith St. and its gorilla-hawking mural wall are no more, following some weekend excavator grazing. Demo permits were issued last week for structure, which sat north of Elgin on part of the planned site of developer Morgan’s next Pearl-branded apartment development (the one with the built-in ground floor Whole Foods).
City permission for the planned mixed-use building to cozy up to the street were approved in February; the project will also straddle that now-closed segment of Rosalie St. between Smith and Brazos onto a section of the previously cleared block to the north.  Here’s what the layout might look like from above, per the plans included with the variance request:
Rosalie Redecoration
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
When I let go of the sheds I have, I receive what I need.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it’s flattened.
