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| All Offcite Posts Tagged: Transit | Date Posted | Categories |
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Houston Central StationRendering of proposed Central Station by Snøhetta On the evening of Tuesday, January 24, the Houston Downtown Management District, along with Metro and its design-build component, Houston Rapid Transit, hosted a public presentation of five proposals for the new “Houston Central Station.” They were the result of an invited competition whose impressive advisory panel featured [...] |
01.27.12 | Architecture Reviews |
A Stroll Along Hillcroft and 59A ramp arcs over the Hillcroft Transit Center, photos by Rose Kuo In this Hear Our Houston audio tour and contribution to Unexpected City, Raj Mankad, the editor of Cite and OffCite, takes us on a tour of the triangle-shaped area bounded by Highway 59, Hillcroft, and the Westpark tollway. First he braves the feeder [...] |
09.22.11 | Unexpected City |
OffCite Goes to China: High Speed RailIn this series, Christof Spieler gives regular reports on his trip to China for a special issue of Cite. Read more about RDA’s China initiative here, which includes a knockout lecture series in the Fall. The Beijing-Shanghai high speed rail line opened on June 30; I rode it four days later. Cruising along smoothly at [...] |
08.12.11 | Infrastructure |
Art and TrafficGeorge Greanias and Lillian Warren We all are familiar with Houston’s no-zoning tradition and have been cautioned not to romanticize or over-estimate its beneficent influence on our chockablock city. Perhaps, though, we can successfully practice no-zoning for conversations and confrontations that otherwise languish in isolated “discourse communities.” That model seemed to be the impetus behind [...] |
05.20.11 | Art & Culture Infrastructure |
All Aboard for the Art Deco TourUniversity of Houston Downtown from Allen’s Landing, this photo Wikimedia Commons, all others Celeste Williams Houston is home to a wealth of Art Deco and Streamlined Moderne architecture. Celeste Williams received a grant from the Rice Design Alliance in 2000 to develop a self-guided tour along the METRORail. Williams, an architect with Kendall/Heaton Associates, worked [...] |
06.09.10 | Architecture Preservation |
Setting Up Commuter Rail to Fail?Mayor Annise Parker and Christof Spieler from April 8, 2010 Houston Chronicle. Wednesday, Mayor Annise Parker gave Christof Spieler, Chair of the Cite editorial committee, a big hug after swearing him in as a Metro board member. A picture of their embrace landed on page B3 of Thursday’s Houston Chronicle. It was a landmark moment [...] |
04.09.10 | Infrastructure |
Furniture buyers unite! You have nothing to lose but your La-Z-Boy.All photographs courtesy wacdesignstudio. “I came home with a high fever; my ears still hurt. Just from the noise — a ringing in my ears. It is very toxic. But it’s Houston.” Jenny Lynn Weitz-Amaré Cartwright is describing the after effects of Sunday’s Furniture Sale on North Freeway (announced last week on OffCite), a daylong [...] |
03.11.10 | Art & Culture Design |
Guerrilla Furniture SaleScott Cartwright and Jenny Lynn Weitz-Amare Cartwright showcase their first furniture line. [Photo courtesy wacdesignstudio] In January, the New York Times reported that employment at US architecture firms had dropped from its July 2009 peak at 224,500 to 184,600 by November. Commercial development has ground to a halt, the big car manufacturers have pulled the [...] |
03.05.10 | Art & Culture Design |
Transit War Whoop: Headlines May 23 to June 3A bronze chariot from the necropolis of Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of the Qin dynasty, on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science [Photo S. J. Alexander] A Chronicle editorial last week celebrated the budgeting of $150 million in federal money for light rail and suggested that the METRO CEO and Chair shared [...] |
06.04.09 | Architecture |
Houston: The Walking CityPedestrian realm cross-section showing a 15 foot minimum distance from a mixed-use development to the street [From City of Houston Urban Corridor Planning] The city released an implementation report for the urban corridor planning initiative, which aims to “create a high quality urban environment in areas along METRO’s light rail corridors.” It is the product [...] |
01.14.09 | Infrastructure Place |
