Comments on: Your Nominations for Best Teardown of the Year http://swamplot.com/your-nominations-for-best-teardown-of-the-year/2008-12-09/ Houston, Texas real estate development, home buying, landscape, and design Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:24:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: JustBeachy http://swamplot.com/your-nominations-for-best-teardown-of-the-year/2008-12-09/#comment-14348 JustBeachy Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:55:39 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=4538#comment-14348 Best teardown: the demolition of a city block on Bolsover, including an architecturally significant structure, to make way for the now cancelled Sonoma project. Best teardown: the demolition of a city block on Bolsover, including an architecturally significant structure, to make way for the now cancelled Sonoma project.

]]> By: josh http://swamplot.com/your-nominations-for-best-teardown-of-the-year/2008-12-09/#comment-13967 josh Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:11:40 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=4538#comment-13967 My nomination for the best teardown would be Town and Country Mall. The developer tore down that mall to create CityCentre, the new mix-use developement will breathe life into a stagnant piece of land near Beltway 8 and the Katy Freeway with new restaurants and cafes, class A business buildings, a gym, apartments and townhomes. My nomination for the best teardown would be Town and Country Mall. The developer tore down that mall to create CityCentre, the new mix-use developement will breathe life into a stagnant piece of land near Beltway 8 and the Katy Freeway with new restaurants and cafes, class A business buildings, a gym, apartments and townhomes.

]]> By: marmer http://swamplot.com/your-nominations-for-best-teardown-of-the-year/2008-12-09/#comment-13917 marmer Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:53:20 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=4538#comment-13917 Nomination: The Cohen House on Moonlight Drive. Spectacular and visionary, it fell victim to an unscrupulous tenant and no doubt became an embarrassment to its mega-millionaire owner. Sat vacant and vandalized for months, finally sold to a builder. Structure and slab were so solid they resisted normal teardown efforts. Now the builder is trying to sell the empty lot. Nomination:

The Cohen House on Moonlight Drive. Spectacular and visionary, it fell victim to an unscrupulous tenant and no doubt became an embarrassment to its mega-millionaire owner. Sat vacant and vandalized for months, finally sold to a builder. Structure and slab were so solid they resisted normal teardown efforts. Now the builder is trying to sell the empty lot.

]]> By: marmer http://swamplot.com/your-nominations-for-best-teardown-of-the-year/2008-12-09/#comment-13913 marmer Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:49:13 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=4538#comment-13913 Nomination: 1 Waverly Court. Dramatic mid-90s Glassman Shoemake Maldonado addition and remodel to an existing modern house. A Bissonnet landmark with its "wildly expressionist zinc-faced stair tower;" pictured in the late-90s edition of Houston Architecture Guide. Now a vacant lot; has been for about a year. Nomination:

1 Waverly Court. Dramatic mid-90s Glassman Shoemake Maldonado addition and remodel to an existing modern house. A Bissonnet landmark with its “wildly expressionist zinc-faced stair tower;” pictured in the late-90s edition of Houston Architecture Guide. Now a vacant lot; has been for about a year.

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