Medical Tower Demolition
#1
Posted 17 August 2012 - 10:49 AM
#2
Posted 17 August 2012 - 07:39 PM
#3
Posted 17 August 2012 - 08:46 PM
I also did the taxes for a slum lord that owned a dozen crap houses in the hospital district. He got millions for them as the hospitals expanded. Mostly for parking lots.
#4
Posted 18 August 2012 - 11:58 AM
#5
Posted 19 August 2012 - 03:35 PM
#6
Posted 19 August 2012 - 07:13 PM
Here's a photo of the demolition taken on August 18, 2012.
I am going to say if I was tearing this building down, I would start tearing out the top first. I don't get it.
Nice shot. Sure is a big building to tear down. I wonder why.
#7
Posted 24 August 2012 - 01:10 PM
#8
Posted 24 August 2012 - 02:10 PM
Still hard to understand the business sense in destroying that much office space.
#9
Posted 24 August 2012 - 02:24 PM
As for the small number of columns supporting the building, I think the Landmark Tower had even fewer on the inside at the ground level supporting a 30 story building. If you remember on that building, it became apparent that the bank wanted a virtually column free interior, so they put plate girders above the lobby to support the offices above. This allowed the removal of most of the columns on the inside.
#10
Posted 25 August 2012 - 07:06 PM
#11
Posted 25 August 2012 - 09:12 PM
Blame the destruction of this building on my father. He is a building jinx. After WWII he officed in the Medical Arts Building, then the Doctor's Building, then this one. All three have been torn down or are in the process. He has outlived them all. Thank goodness he is now retired and is no longer going to cause the loss of another office building in our city.
Sure enough curious what your Dad did for a living... And where was the Doctors building?
My Wife's Mother worked in The Gas Building downtown with her twin sister. In the early 50's. Her brother was an electrical engineer and worked at that time in the TESCO (Electric) Building. They all had many medical appointments in the Medical Arts Building.
We always accused my Mother of putting businesses out of business. She was working for 3 companies in a row that went under.
#12
Posted 26 August 2012 - 03:48 PM
He was a dentist. The Doctor's Bldg. was at 800 5th Avenue. It was torn down and now is part of Harris Hospital.
Blame the destruction of this building on my father. He is a building jinx. After WWII he officed in the Medical Arts Building, then the Doctor's Building, then this one. All three have been torn down or are in the process. He has outlived them all. Thank goodness he is now retired and is no longer going to cause the loss of another office building in our city.
Sure enough curious what your Dad did for a living... And where was the Doctors building?
My Wife's Mother worked in The Gas Building downtown with her twin sister. In the early 50's. Her brother was an electrical engineer and worked at that time in the TESCO (Electric) Building. They all had many medical appointments in the Medical Arts Building.
We always accused my Mother of putting businesses out of business. She was working for 3 companies in a row that went under.
#13
Posted 28 August 2012 - 08:26 PM
#14
Posted 30 August 2012 - 06:44 PM
#15
Posted 31 August 2012 - 08:36 PM
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Posted 31 August 2012 - 08:44 PM
#17
Posted 04 September 2012 - 05:33 PM
#18
Posted 04 September 2012 - 07:54 PM
http://www.fortworth...ch=1
My comment under the image I posted at the time was: "This building actually looks better in the picture than it does in real life. Up close, the place is very ugly. If I had never seen this building before and someone asked me what it was, my guess is that it would be the county jail."
#19
Posted 04 September 2012 - 07:56 PM
Blame the destruction of this building on my father. He is a building jinx. After WWII he officed in the Medical Arts Building, then the Doctor's Building, then this one. All three have been torn down or are in the process. He has outlived them all. Thank goodness he is now retired and is no longer going to cause the loss of another office building in our city.
Gee - do you think you could perhaps talk him into coming out of retirement to open up an office in that TCC monstrosity that was recently built on the bluff by the courthouse? Please? Pretty please?
#20
Posted 04 September 2012 - 08:17 PM
#21
Posted 04 September 2012 - 08:36 PM
Dismuke, will you be attending the implosion?
I think I probably will. That is, if I am a good boy and get myself up that early on a Sunday morning. Usually implosions are scheduled pretty early. But this one should be worth getting up for.
#22
Posted 04 September 2012 - 09:03 PM
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Posted 04 September 2012 - 09:14 PM
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Posted 04 September 2012 - 09:19 PM
#26
Posted 05 September 2012 - 09:47 AM
There are "skirts" around the bottom of the building too, probably to contain debris from the implosion.
It depends. Are the skirts color coordinated with the blouse of the building?
#27
Posted 05 September 2012 - 11:32 AM
Also, bringing these small floor plate buildings up to the current building codes can prove to be very challenging.
I am curious about a couple of things. Aren't older buildings grandfathered in from changes made to newer building codes? But aside from that, what is it about buildings with small floor plates that makes them more challenging to bring up to code?
Not trying to defend keeping that ugly building around - just curious as there are quite a lot of buildings around with similar or even smaller floor plates.
#28
Posted 05 September 2012 - 11:48 AM
#29
Posted 05 September 2012 - 03:14 PM
#30
Posted 05 September 2012 - 10:37 PM
http://www.star-tele...imb-aboard.html
Adrian
#31
Posted 07 September 2012 - 11:54 AM
Because of real issues with such a public forum as this, I have placed the text of the Star-Telegram article on my own webspace here
#32
Posted 07 September 2012 - 08:26 PM
https://www.dropcam.com/p/nzFzQw
#33
Posted 07 September 2012 - 09:11 PM
#34
Posted 07 September 2012 - 09:30 PM
#35
Posted 07 September 2012 - 09:43 PM
#36
Posted 08 September 2012 - 01:14 AM
#37
Posted 08 September 2012 - 08:11 AM
Just a thought - 460 car garage, anyone see (more) traffic congestion coming? When driving on West Rosedale toward I-30, let say, around 5pm, there is some traffic back-up. Seems employees are stuck with 9-5 work hours in this day and age of healthcare technology. 8th can be worst with two lanes each without a turn lane. Putting too many buildings - and car garages - in one big parcel is like a bubble soon to be burst with those traffic bottlenecks. Hope I am making sense.
All the more reason to cheer on the people building townhouses, apartment buildings, and mixed-use buildings on the Near Southside, so more of those medical district employees can commute without getting on I-30 or I-35W. And might I add, a good public transit system linking Near Southside, Downtown, the TCU area, and the CD would also help with the traffic problems.
I just hope we don't fall for the same old logic of "more traffic? Widen the street!" that has never worked.
#38
Posted 08 September 2012 - 08:20 AM
#39
Posted 08 September 2012 - 01:12 PM
Agree they need more housing and mass transit for the hospital district. I think the rail line could help a lot. For sure in the long run.
#40
Posted 08 September 2012 - 03:02 PM
Adrian
#41
Posted 08 September 2012 - 07:47 PM
#42
Posted 09 September 2012 - 08:36 AM
Now, here's a little closer view of the pile of rubble:
#43
Posted 09 September 2012 - 09:07 AM
Good pictures by the way, I went with a video to make sure to get the whole thing, but those stills are pretty nice!
#44
Posted 09 September 2012 - 09:35 AM
#45
Posted 09 September 2012 - 10:08 AM
#46
Posted 09 September 2012 - 11:38 AM
#47
Posted 09 September 2012 - 03:28 PM
I thought about taking several lenses and just shooting from a street somewhere with the best lens for the distance.
And Jeff, my YOUTUBE of the landmark tower implosion was my first video. I would sure do it better today (wouldn't we all) but I had just purchased, but had not moved into, my condo on 34 facing that direction. I wanted very much to be on the balcony but they warned against it. As I was a Director in the HOA I figured I sure better conform. (Did not want to be the dope on the balcony on Channel 5 that night.)
#48
Posted 10 September 2012 - 06:51 AM
Hey John, I think we were standing right in front of you, I think that's my buddy Dan in the lower left of your shots. I think the rest of the forum members must have been up at the top of the Baylor Parking garage getting their illicit private property shots!
Good pictures by the way, I went with a video to make sure to get the whole thing, but those stills are pretty nice!
That looks like me, but it is not. You were just to the right of me, so you would be in the shots also. I think it's the kid that was sitting on the curb while we were waiting.
I got startled by the initial explosions. My finger slipped off the trigger and I missed the very begining of the building coming down. My pictures start at about the 4th or 5th of John's.
#50
Posted 10 September 2012 - 07:03 PM
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