009: New project, visiting the site:

It is a movie theatre.

On the dead side of downtown.

Let's start with, what I call, Site 3.



It is surrounded by: Parking lot, Parking lot, Four Seasons Hotel, Houston Center (mall), Apartments (under construction) and Parking lot.





The Four Seasons Hotel, Houston Center, busines towers block all view of downtown lights, but, the theatre would catch attention of four streets.....four streets that are not highly transitted. Damn.



Next, Site 2, Site 3, and Site 4.

Site 2



It gets a clearer view of downtown city lights, is visibly between the George R. Brown Convention Center, Toyota Center, right in front of the Center Point Energy plant (which has interesting vertical strips of lighting at night). A parking lot faces it. It is not next to any other building at all.

Site 1 is right in front of it:



This gives a good view of what these sites are surrounded by.

And finally, Site 4 is right next to the power plant, and diagonal to the Hilton, visible from the George R. Brown:



(You can see the convention center in the background.)

I'm not too sure about this one, especially with that curved shape: would it determine the shape of the actual plan? Either way, the theatre would be disconnected from downtown as well....it would be targetted more for those staying at the Hilton, rather than try to fill up that Sea of Parking Lots.

But it all depends on what the project specifies. After reading that, I will come to a conclusion on what site I feel is better....