The first new directional ring to return to Post Oak Boulevard will go up this week at...
Not only will the signs — part of the jewelry-like hardscape of the tony shopping/dining/working area — do their job of letting motorists know which street they're on or are turning onto, they will also signal that years of construction work on Post Oak Boulevard are over.
Towering office buildings, residential high-rises and hotels sprang from the ground, too, including Philip Johnson's Transco Tower , Cesar Pelli's Four Leaf Towers and I.M. Pei's Warwick Post Oak . Hines led the way in connecting top architects to building projects, and other developers quickly embraced the idea.
Beer and senior designer Michael Doyle put together ideas for highly polished, custom-made arches, street lights, trash bins and even bus shelter benches and the rings that have hovered like halos over the intersections. Part art and part architecture, they add an intangible quality to the mix that is Uptown: retail, dining, office buildings and beautiful surroundings.
The long-shot plan included the series of 40-foot, highly polished stainless-steel rings that have hung at six intersections. They were drawn from the notion that Houston is an oil and gas town, and those substances run through pipes. Take those pipes, shine them up and give them a new task, and Beer and Doyle believed they could become iconic symbols for both the Uptown District and Houston as a whole.
The new replacement rings will be the same size, 40 feet in diameter, but they are dramatically different in other ways. Instead of a single solid tube, they consist of two tube rings — an 8-inch ring on top and 3-inch ring on the bottom, connected by stainless-steel fins, all the way around, making them look a bit more like crowns than halos. They're embedded with LED lights, technology that didn't exist when the original rings were made.
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