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Welcome to the third iteration of our dangerous game of approval and disapproval: Yes Ma’am, No Ma’am. Every issue, we’re rating stuff that we love or hate about any topic. It’s time for an architectural showdown: we’re dishing out
praise and shade to the most, well, interesting structures in Houston. So grab your hard hat, we’re about to get down and dirty.
Yes Ma’am
Houston’s Historic Blue Tiles. Forget boring curbs, bring back the white and blue ones.
No Ma’am
The Alley Theatre. At this point, it’s begging to be put out of its misery.
Yes Ma’am
The Beer Can House. Trash never looked so good.
No Ma’am
The FBI Building. Why so much green?!
Yes Ma’am
The redesigned Rothko Chapel. It’s like a giant sensory-deprivation chamber, but chic.
No Ma’am
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Gotham City called, they want their prison back.
Yes Ma’am
Post Houston. Love the glow-up…literally.
No Ma’am
AT&T Building on Jefferson. Seriously, who’s locked behind those weirdly placed windows?
Yes Ma’am
La Carafe. The historic building gives off French Quarter on a budget, in a good way.
No Ma’am
The Houston Chronicle building. Villain lair or office? You choose.
Yes Ma’am
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir. It straight-up puts the Parthenon to shame.
No Ma’am
George R. Brown Convention Center. There’s just way too much going on…and it’s all bad.
Yes Ma’am
The Kinder Land Bridge. Future, here we come!
No Ma’am
Williams Tower. All that reflection has to be a hazard in Houston heat.
Yes Ma’am
Twilight Epiphany Skyspace. It’s basically a 24-hour Instagram filter, and we’re into it.
No Ma’am
The Allen Tower. You cannot convince us that thing doesn’t sway when it’s windy.
Published in the Welcome to Boomtown! issue of Houstonia Mag.
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