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Pumping the Pipeline, Flashing Lights in the Sky: New Skater Shower on Sabine...
The foundation for Open Channel Flow — a 60-ft.-tall public artwork built from steel water pipe and featuring a pump-it-yourself outdoor shower — is now in the ground at the Sabine Water Pump Station....
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Buffalo Bayou Sodders: Brave and Unfazed
Reader Jeromy Murphy sends in this photo he took this morning along the banks of Buffalo Bayou, from the jogging path in Buffalo Bayou Park under I-45. What’s going on over there across the water?...
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Houston’s New Bayou Park Pump-n-Spritz
Note: Story updated below. Feel like taking a quick 16-ounce shower after your turn sweating or just watching the action at the Jamail Skatepark? It looks like Matthew Geller’s pipe sculpture at the...
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Bayou Trail Bike Route Signs Built for Two
These signs, in versions specially designed for both taller and shorter readers, are now posted on the north side of the recently revamped Buffalo Bayou trail just before it ducks under Memorial Dr.,...
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Buffalo Bayou Pump-n-Spritz On the Fritz
Open Channel Flow — that 60-ft. public showerhead behind the Lee and Joe Jamail Skatepark — cost $154,000 to build. Apparently, that sum didn’t include any rainy-day money for maintenance: Pump all...
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What’s Been Happening at Buffalo Bayou Park
The dirty work continues: Here are some photos of the progress, as of last night, of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s big plan to soup up the soupy waterway. Above, you can see the new view from...
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Buffalo Bayou’s Abandoned Basement Now Ready To Be the Subject of Your...
Now have at it: SmartGeometrics has made available for free on a website launched yesterday the data from 3D scans of the allegedly leaky, 87,500-sq.-ft. 1927 underground water reservoir near Sabine...
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Where the Dogs Will Play Along Buffalo Bayou
Here’s a rendering that shows how that informal dog bowl along Buffalo Bayou near Montrose Blvd. will be formalized and capitalized into a Dog Park. Construction, says a PR rep for the Buffalo Bayou...
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A Quick Overhead Survey of Buffalo Bayou Park
How long has it been since you’ve run along, rowed along, or flown over Buffalo Bayou? Guy-out-with-his-Phantom-quadcopter Marco Luzuriaga filmed this scene earlier this month above a short section of...
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Need an Introduction to All the New Stuff Going into Buffalo Bayou Park?...
Here’s a photo from earlier this month showing construction progress on the new Wortham Insurance Visitors Center on Sabine St., fronting the “Waterworks” area of the ever-expanding Buffalo Bayou Park...
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Take These Preview Drives Down the New, Slower, and More Parkway-Like Allen...
A couple of simulated fly-overs of a portion of a revamped Allen Pkwy., put together by consulting engineering firm Walter P Moore, show how the signature River Oaks-to-Downtown sorta-highway will...
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Houstonians Are Attaching Their ‘Love Locks’ to Buffalo Bayou’s Rosemont Bridge
Last week in gay Paris, authorities removed panels from the Pont des Arts that had been weighted down by hundreds of thousands of attached padlocks — installed there since late 2008 by visiting...
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The New Tiny, Ultra-Mod Police Memorial Police Station on Memorial Dr.
Here’s the just-completed 250-sq.-ft. Memorial guard post recently completed in Buffalo Bayou Park. It’s right by that spot just south of Buffalo Bayou from Glenwood Cemetery where you’ll always find...
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Finding Buffalo Bayou’s Lost Lake and Its ‘Morning Glory’ Hole, Almost Ready...
A reader sends pics of 3 notable new features near the western end of Buffalo Bayou Park that appear to be just about complete: The multi-purpose private event space known as The Dunlavy, overlooking...
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Comment of the Day: The Buffalo Bayou Park Pinch
“When I see the improvements come on line at Buffalo Bayou, I keep thinking to myself ‘what’s the catch? Are these on loan from another city? Will Culberson make us take them down so he can build a new...
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New Dunlavy Traffic Signal Rising by Cemetery on Allen Pkwy.
The metal arm of a future traffic signal is now reaching out of the ground across a few westbound lanes of Allen Pkwy. at the intersection with Dunlavy St. The new crosswalk will protect foot traffic...
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Now Hiring Tour Guides for That Abandoned 1927 Cistern Buried Along Buffalo...
Wanted: Buffalo Bayou Partnership is seeking some college types to show people around the long-empty city drinking water reservoir near the intersection of Sabine St. and Memorial Dr., which the group...
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The How and Why of Turning the Cistern Buried Along Buffalo Bayou Into a...
As Buffalo Bayou Partnership continues to seek out tour guides for the cavernous 1927 city water reservoir and maybe-future-art-space buried in Buffalo Bayou Park, University of Houston architecture...
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Buffalo Bayou’s Cistern Opens Friday But You Can Peek In Right Now via...
Friday’s tours of the 1920s underground water reservoir buried along Buffalo Bayou are already booked up, but the space will be open to the public Thursdays through Sundays from here on out. A...
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The Places a 117-Ft.-Tall Yellow Corkscrew Tower Could Fit In Along Buffalo...
Architect Paul Kweton sends his idea for a multi-deck observation tower for Buffalo Bayou Park, adding to the list of unsolicited but interesting projects dreamed up for the public space. The plans...
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