Tag: Office Buildings

Medical Buildings
07/31/13 10:00am

The Parc Binz: Slimmed Down and Cheered Up

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Museum Park, Office Buildings
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Here’s the latest rendering of the once-protested Parc Binz development that’s going up on the corner of Binz and Chenevert in Museum Park. Prime Property reports that this mixed-use building, designed by Energy Architecture, should be all ready by the end of the year. During construction, though, the scale of it seems to have shrunk: Originally proposed to stand 6 stories and have 75,000-sq.-ft. of office, retail, and medical space, Sarnoff sizes what is actually being built at 50,000 sq. ft., and this brighter new rendering shows only 5 floors.

You can compare it with the previous one — featuring a solitary fellow brooding in the gloaming out on the terrace — after the jump:

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Downtown
07/30/13 3:45pm

Is This the 41-Story Office Tower Planned Beside Market Square Park Downtown?

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Highrises, Office Buildings, Proposed Developments, Skyscrapers
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A reader sends Swamplot what appears to be the first rendering of the Gensler-designed International Tower: What has been tentatively described as a 41-story, 750,000-sq.-ft. office building, developed by Stream Realty and Essex Commercial Properties, would go up on a Linbeck-owned block Downtown that now is a surface parking lot bound by Preston, Prairie, Milam, and Travis; it’s immediately south of Market Square Park and immediately west of where Hines has said it is considering building another residential highrise. The reader adds that the first 2 floors of the new tower would be devoted to retail and what appears to be a restaurant; construction could begin as early as next year.

Image: Gensler

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Demolitions
07/24/13 5:00pm

The Clubbing of the Houston Club Building Begins

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Downtown, Highrises, Proposed Developments
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Here’s a photo of the little rubble pile forming outside the former Houston Club Building at 811 Rusk, a presage of the bigger rubble to come. Skanska, which bought the 18-story building standing on the block bound by Rusk, Capitol, Travis, and Milam, has said it plans to replace it with a 34-story, 700,000-sq.-ft. office tower that’s being designed by Gensler.

Photos: HAIF user Nate99

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Highrises
07/23/13 4:00pm

“Stop” Signs Oppose 17-Story Hines Office Building on San Felipe

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Neighborhood Disputes, Office Buildings, Proposed Developments, River Oaks, Signage, Vermont Commons
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These understated “Stop the San Felipe Skyscraper” signs started going up about knee-high this weekend in River Oaks and Vermont Commons to protest that shiny 17-story office tower that Hines is proposing to build nearby. Though these signs — spotted at the corner of Spann and Welch and San Felipe and Spann, catty-corner from the proposed site — might be lacking the services of an imaginative cartoonist like their yellow precursors across town in Boulevard Oaks, their message still comes through, directing the onlooker as well to a recently launched website for all things skyscraper-stopping:

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Downtown
07/22/13 4:00pm

Making Some Fannin St. Office Space More Spiffy

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Office Buildings, Office Space, Quicklink, Renovations
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MAKING SOME FANNIN ST. OFFICE SPACE MORE SPIFFY The owners of 1301 Fannin said today that Ziegler Cooper has been contracted to renovate the 24-story Downtown building’s soon-to-be-available office space. Maybe inspired by those unveiled upgrades planned for Houston Pavilions — er, GreenStreet located right next door, the data center and commercial tower with Luby’s on the 13th floor will have almost 80,000 sq. ft. of space come up for lease this August. The building, which just underwent an exterior and lobby renovation in 2009, sits on the block bound by Fannin, San Jacinto, Clay, and Polk. [Swamplot inbox; previously on Swamplot] Photo: LoopNet

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Office Buildings
07/22/13 2:00pm

The Latest Rendering of the New Phillips 66 Global Headquarters in Westchase

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Proposed Developments, Westchase
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This latest rendering of the global headquarters that Phillips 66 plans to build in Westchase during the next few years doesn’t seem all that different from an earlier one published on Swamplot in June — except it comes from CEO Greg Garland and was shared with Houston-area employees this morning in an email. Additionally, Garland’s message says that construction could begin by the end of the year on the 14.2-acre campus just north of Westheimer along the Beltway 8 feeder. After the jump you can see a pair of floor plans included with the rendering that show some of the planned amenities, like a dining room, coffee shop, fitness center, and Grab-and-Go:

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Land Development
07/18/13 10:00am

The Beginnings of a Mixed-Use District on Richmond?

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Mixed Use, Office Buildings, Proposed Developments, Upper Kirby
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This corner of Richmond and Wakeforest appears likely to be developed into a new office building, part of what a recently approved application to reduce the building setback on both streets from the Upper Kirby Redevelopment Authority suggests is a plan to transform this block between Wakeforest and Eastside into a “mixed-use pedestrian-focused transit node.” The demolition of vacant office buildings here near Levy Park appears to have begun in 2009; the office building shown in the photo above, also apparently vacant, is likely the next to go.

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Energy Corridor
07/12/13 10:00am

A New 17-Story Office Tower Just Like the Others in the Energy Corridor

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Office Buildings, Office Space, Proposed Developments
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Here’s a look at the design from Morris Architects for the new 17-story Energy Tower IV. Does it seem familiar? That’s because it’s going to be identical to 2 existing ones: Energy Towers II and III. Construction, reports the Houston Business Journal, is expected to start next month. Developed by Mac Haik Realty, the new tower is planned to be 450,000 sq. ft., bringing the total amount here in the Energy Plaza at Kirkwood and I-10 to more than 2 million sq. ft. of office space. Prime Property adds that the building will be open in 2014.

Rendering: Mac Haik Realty

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Office Buildings
07/11/13 10:30am

Apache’s New 34-Story HQ in BLVD Place

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Proposed Developments, Uptown
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A development report from Hines includes this rendering of what appears to be the new Apache Corporation headquarters planned for mixed-use BLVD Place just north of the Galleria. The report names the wafer-like building “Project Alpha” and describes it as 34 stories and 750,000-sq.-ft. of office space with a fitness center and cafeteria. Currently, Apache is headquartered at Post Oak Central.

Rendering: Hines

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Downtown
07/09/13 11:30am

Bigger? Taller? Hines To Redesign Proposed 609 Main St. Office Tower

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Office Buildings, Proposed Developments, Skyscrapers
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Hines says that it isn’t quite ready to say that the office tower planned for 609 Main will be taller than the previously described 41 stories and 815,000 sq. ft. Still, a rep from Hines says that increasing demand for office space Downtown is driving a redesign from Pickard Chilton, and it’s likely that the tower will end up comprising more square footage — if not more stories. The proposed block, bound by Main, Texas, Fannin, and Capitol, is shared now with the vacant Texas Tower — though it’s still unclear whether that building would be torn down to make room. At any rate, it seems that we’ll soon know: The second round of designs should be completed by the end of the year, says the rep, and construction could begin as early as January.

Rendering: Hines

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Downtown
07/03/13 4:00pm

Chevron’s New 50-Story Tower on Site of Downtown Y: Bigger, Boxier, Just as Blue

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Office Buildings, Proposed Developments, Skyscrapers
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To form a power trio with the 2 curvaceous Enron hand-me-downs it has occupied since 2004, Chevron will be building a more boxy 50-story tower on the urban meadow left behind when Kenneth Franzheim’s Downtown YMCA came down in 2011. Chevron announced today that the HOK-designed building at 1600 Louisiana and Pease will provide 1.7 million sq. ft. of space, including training and conference rooms, more parking, and a cafeteria. This rendering suggests there will also be plinth-top common areas and — as though a subtle homage to what preceded it on this 85,000-sq.-ft. lot — a gym.

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Magnolia Grove
06/28/13 10:00am

A 25-Story Office Tower Aimed for Washington and Waugh

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Office Buildings, Proposed Developments, West End
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No tenants? Worry about that later: PageSoutherlandPage is designing a 25-story spec office tower for the West End. Dubbed 22 Waugh, the proposed 220,000-sq.-ft. building would sit just south of Washington Ave. A rep from PageSoutherlandPage, which is partnering with Stream Realty on the project, says that the building would be located on the corner of Waugh and Barnes. It appears that it would be directly behind that Bank of America branch. The Houston Business Journal reports that the building could begin going up as soon as November.

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Museum Park
06/27/13 2:05pm

A Museum Park Mud Pit Marked for Homebuilder’s Office Building

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New Construction, Office Buildings
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This little lot on Almeda Rd. is being cleared for a 2-story office building. Between Blodgett and Wentworth and smushed between the Spanish Village Restaurant and a 2-story brick home, the lot at 4716 Almeda is just a bit more than a tenth of an acre. A replat application submitted to the city indicates that the proposed 3,000-sq.-ft. building is meant to be the new standalone headquarters of Mayberry Homes, which will be relocating from a retail center just down the street at 4412 Almeda.

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Office Buildings
06/20/13 4:00pm

Southwestern Energy Begins Building Its Corporate Headquarters in Springwoods Village

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Proposed Developments, Springwoods Village
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Here it is, the new corporate headquarters that Southwestern Energy is building for itself in Springwoods Village, just south of the new corporate headquarters that ExxonMobil is building for itself. Construction, reports Fuel Fix, began this week. Speculation about the building began in April, though, when a film-noir-ish black-and-white version of this rendering was leaked via HAIF. It appears that the only difference — you know, besides the Oz-like transformation to the realism of color — is the addition of Southwestern Energy signage, including that little formulaic icon to the left. The 10-story building and 7-story garage, where the company will consolidate about 1,000 Houston employees, will occupy 25.6 acres alongside I-45 and should be ready to go in 2014.

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Freeways and Toll Roads
06/19/13 11:00am

What Houston’s New Phillips 66 Global HQ Might Look Like

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Office Buildings, Proposed Developments, Westchase
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This rendering appears to show the new Phillips 66 global headquarters planned to go up in Westchase. Back in September, the ConocoPhillips offshoot announced it would be building something on the Beltway 8 feeder next to a pair of hotels just north of Westheimer. The announcement went on to say that the 14.2-acre site bound by City West Blvd., Private Dr., and Cityplace Dr. will have a training and development center, conference space, credit union, gym, cafeteria, coffee shop, and convenience store.

Rendering: Swamplot inbox

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