Taken by WesternGulf at HAIF, Houston's forum. Taken in January:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

thankfully foggy  :wink:

 

good tho and nice to have a big houston thread on here -- it gets neglected.

Here is more:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goodnight from Midtown

 

 

nice pics

Gee. It seems like all it does in Houston is rain :P But given that the last month Texas has been hit with rainstorm after rainstorm...

 

I am spotting a lot of new developments here! Nice!

Yeah, that is Midtown Houston. The skyline in the background is Uptown Houston. It has about 29 million square feet of office space.

 

I am spotting a lot of new developments here! Nice!

 

Sad...we have the efficiency of CAD and programs that spit out geometric data from 3D models to contractors and fabricators to create sh!t as ugly as modern architecture.  :-P

Thanks for the pics, I used to live in the Rice Hotel, it was nice to see a few shots in the thread

What in the world are there power lines like this running through an urban core for?!?!?!

They need somewhere to hang their shoes.

*sigh* We have power lines like that in our city centers Rando. Hideous. Except they are wooden poles, not fancy steel ones :P

That's not unique to Houston. I do wish developers would bury them, which some do.

*sigh* We have power lines like that in our city centers Rando. Hideous. Except they are wooden poles, not fancy steel ones :P

 

They are steel typically not for aesthetic purposes, but rather for functional reasons.  They are able to carry much higher volumes of electricity and what not, and you do not typically see them in highly populated areas.  The other poles are very typical as they are meant to serve the everyday needs of the built environment...and those are what you see everywhere.  There is a hierarchy of power lines, much like there is for roadways...it is odd (and appalling) to see a highway blasting through the middle of an urban core.  The same feelings rise up in me when I see these high-voltage power lines going through an urban center.

The same feelings rise up in me when I see these high-voltage power lines going through an urban center.

 

 

What sort of feelings... ? Would you say... shocked?! LOL.

It's not like they go into Downtown. Some developers have actually buried many power lines, so maybe these are next. Sometimes, power lines add a nice edge to a city, especially in photos.