I love/hate that Tanglewood tower. I think the top is fugly and the stucco/eifs stuff that it looks like it will be clad in will look bad in Houston's climate.
On the flip side, I like it's general massing, the height and how slender it is, and how it can grow up on that little corner lot. It's such a Houston building.
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Pretty big complex that will be along the West Loop (610W) between I10 and 290. This area is still a lot of warehouses and industrial but it's definitely been moving towards more apartments and townhomes over the last decade due to it's central location between The Heights and Spring Branch.
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Looks like a Resia/AHS project.
Fort Worth has two of those (one is nearly identical to the rendering above and the other is a bigger version with three buildings) on either side of downtown currently in the planning/permitting phase.
They take the same design and copy it over and over. It won't win any architectural awards and can't be built outside of business-friendly sunbelt cities where NIMBY's are muzzled. I like it though because it's been stated the rents for those apartments will be more middle class than luxury. Like maybe $1300. That's high but not for an urban location these days. In somewhere like downtown Fort Worth they'll add like 1200 new units full of regular people who will frequent local businesses, etc. It's a very good trend if they can break ground.
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No, really. Also, I like the uniformity shaft. The bottom is just horrible. But I guess, what do you expect when you're building essentially a subdivision vertically in a suburban area. Zero street life. You certainly can't ever expect to have retail. 
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