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Houston, TX - Taken around 6:15pm. Southwest Airlines and a communications tower off of Richmond and Graustark.
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author: joey : Oakland, CA
 redwood road at mountain boulevard. deep in the bowels of the east bay hills
author: upfromflames : Brooklyn, NY

I don’t think this building has a name yet. But it sure has a reputation. Curbed calls it "the tower of Bushwick".
Although there are other new buildings in the area around Wykoff Ave in Bushwick, there is nothing as tall and audacious as this. Turkmanian, the owner, did this by buying air rights from neighbors and by exploiting the floor to area ratio of the structure---less floor space = more height--in this case, 14 stories worth.
According to a source in DCP, he planned to use the other space to provide parking for every tenant, since “anyone that lived...
author: groovehouse : Houston, TX

Houston, TX - Photo taken in the Museum District near the Cockrell Butterfly Center at the Houston Museum of Natural Science
The Warwick Towers
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author: groovehouse : Houston, TX

Defunct Sign Tower, Houston, Tx.
This old sign used to rotate with the name of an insurance company/salesman. Now it sits, rotting, waiting to either fall or be demolished.
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