Comments on: Your Nominations Please: Favorite Houston Design Cliché

By: MDT

MDT — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:14:37 +0000

“Tuscanization” has to be the best description I have heard in a long time. Nothing says “cheap” like a column and some fake stucco. I am afraid Houston will eventually melt!

By: JustBeachy

JustBeachy — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:53:21 +0000

For most grandiose project: the Titan and Diamond Beach

For best delayed or cancelled project: Titan, Diamond Beach, and the Sonoma

By: JustBeachy

JustBeachy — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:52:25 +0000

For most grandiose project: the Titan and Diamond Beach Galveston

For best delayed or cancelled project: Titan, Diamond Beach, and the Sonoma

By: toots

toots — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:20:16 +0000

One man’s turret is another man’s tower. Turrets or towers, both are penetratingly wrong poking through the Houston horizon.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:20:18 +0000

I’d like to go more specific while jumping on the tuscanization bandwagon and nominate TURRETS as a design cliche. These suckers are popped onto nearly every new home going up in Bellaire to add to their “European appeal.” Swamplot had an entertaining article about some of these design flaws which you can see here : http://swamplot.com/bellaire-n.....008-07-01/

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:38:17 +0000

I agree with the “Tuscanization” of new home construction

By: toots

toots — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:46:01 +0000

Towers. Nothing is more place making than a tower in the crotch of a strip mall with bloated Italianate surround details on unopened openings. Developers, if you’re going put a tower in the project, at least make it accessible to more than the birds you want to keep out! Not everything is tower worthy. Keep your towers in your pocket for just the right and appropriate moment.

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:22:23 +0000

Tuscanization! Ripping off a Southern California ripoff.

By: Jen Mathis

Jen Mathis — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:30:19 +0000

Stucco’s not *too* bad; unless it has a useless keystone detail in it- ZING!

By: RWB

RWB — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:17:51 +0000

I will say the two-story entrance ways on McMansions. To me, nothing says, “I have a bloated sense of self-worth” than one of these ginormous and utterly non-functional sallyports. They look all the more ridiculous when the front door is normal sized. The best (i.e., worst) of them are no wider than the double front door, go up at least two stories, and are topped with an arch, giving them the outline of an enormous phallus–no doubt reflective of the owners of these monstrosities!

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:36:10 +0000

One word - Stucco.

By: Larissa Lindsay

Larissa Lindsay — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:27:21 +0000

The idea that you need to see how many different materials can be on the exterior of a building. Corrugated metal siding with wood accented windows, plaster panels, metal and glass stairways, brick piers, etc. argh.