High-rise Civil Courthouse in Downtown Houston (2016 photos)

The facade of the Harris County Civil Courthouse is already showing the effects of the Houston weather.

Close-up of Lone Star atop Harris County Civil Courthouse 

West-facing facade of modern Harris County Civil Courthouse 

Bits of three local courthouses: 1910 Harris County Courthouse (left), Juvenile Justice Center (front),
Civil Harris County Courthouse (center back)

High-rise Criminal Courthouse in Downtown Houston

Harris County Family Law Center (front) and Criminal Justice Center (back)

1201 Franklin, Houston, TX 77002

Franklin Street looking West: Old Jail, Criminal Justice Center (right)
(Sep 17, 2016 photo)

Top of South-facing facade of Criminal Courthouse - Harris County, Texas (Houston)
(9/15/2016 photo)

Harris County Criminal Justice Center seen from Main Street Bridge at UHD

San Jacinto St Northbound - Family Law Center - Criminal Justice Center - Old Jail Building  (Sep 15, 2016 photo)

Buffalo Bayou - Main Street Bridge - Harris County Jail Facility - Criminal Justice Complex with high-rise courthouse 

Crown work high up on the Downtown Skyline

Zoom shot of top of new Hines skyscraper under construction on Main at Texas Ave

in Downtown Houston, Texas (Aug 2016 photos)

Former Union National Bank Building, now Hotel Icon on corner of Main and Congress

Located on the corner of Main and Congress, historic Hotel Icon also frames Market Square on the Travis Street side.

Hotel ICON

Travis at Congress - Clock Tower and Hotel Icon (Aug 20, 2016 photo)

Travis Street Restaurant Row - Clock Tower - Hotel Icon 

Hotel Icon Parking Garage on corner of Congress and Travis St. 

Partial view of Houston is Inspired Mural on Treebeards wall
Can you find a bit of Hotel Icon in this pic? 

View from Milam Street: Hotel Icon and County Building/garage with bright white wall facing West 

220 Main Entrance to Hotel Icon Restaurant Line & Lariat 

Christ Church Cathedral on Texas Ave

Mirror image of church tower cross in skyscraper glass wall 

1117 Texas Ave, Houston, TX 77002

Fannin Street between Prairie and Texas Ave.  - Criminal Courthouse in the distance 

Courthouse Dome and Church Tower with Cross 

Red-brick Sam Houston Hotel

SAM HOUSTON HOTEL 

Sam Houston Hotel with vintage street lamps on Main in foreground 

North-facing red brick wall of Sam Houston Hotel (with signage)

View of Sam Houston Hotel from Fannin St at the 1910 Courthouse 

Sam Houston Hotel with Texas flag hoisted - SW corner
View from Texas Street in Downtown Houston
(9/1/2016) 

View from Main Street looking East 

State of Texas Map carved in stone

Bas-relief on facade of Ned Holmes Hall at Lamar High School 

3325 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX 77098 

Mirabeau Lamar High School (wall inscription) 

UHD Gator Wall Mural

Gator mural on building adjacent to UHD's outlying parking lot 

427 N Main St, Houston, TX 77002

He is looking at you ...

UHD Gator Wall artist information 

Welcome Gators! to University of Houston Downtown 

Gator wall with Downtown Houston Skysccrapers 

Black and Red House in Montrose, with Lanterns, and variations on the theme

A converted single-family residential property on the corner of Westheimer and Stanford has joined to the impressive number of tattoo parlors in Montrose. Black and red is not all that common a color combination for a house or a biz, to be sure, but it is not entirely unprecedented either, whether the application be secular or not so secular. 

Mark's  Fine Dining in a Church RIP 

1658 Westheimer - Former church and restaurant 

Mark's.- Now demarcated from Shaw's westward and no longer serving the congregation attuned the finer and more uplifting things in life, but still a commanding presence on Recycled Rags Row. 

Red brick with black deck: The Royal Oak Bar & Grill (Jan 2016 photo)

The Black Wall with Red Accents 

The Black Faced Wall
Black at least on a dreary day (otherwise grey), not to mention low in light during business hours,
the Numbers Night Club, with a little red cheer out front, both solid and striped. 

And then there is the black & white edition of a Montrose tattoo parlor  ...

Houston Ink Society 

.... and that polychrome version of a tattoo venue across from the biskit junkie on the corner of Taft 

Sacred Heart Tattoo at 327 Westheimer across from El Tiempo Cantina on Westheimer and Biskit Junkie on the West (Taft)