The Pecan Park Eagle

“SAVE THE ASTRODOME!”

About a year ago, architectural artist Patrick Lopez suggested on these same Pecan Park Eagle pages that the Astrodome could be preserved as a fitting structural artifact by our preservation of its girded superstructure in overlay upon something like a botanical garden in that same historical space where so much great local history has unfolded.

https://thepecanparkeagle.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/what-are-we-going-to-do-with-the-astrodome/

Now it seems that a UH graduate school architectural student  named Ryan Slattery has been pursuing his master’s thesis with a plan along those same lines.

http://newsfixnow.com/2013/03/26/what-to-do-with-the-astrodome-reddit-has-answers/

Slattery still needs to come up with a cost strategy for effecting this conversion, but it does look great from a conceptual standpoint – and one that’s a whole lot better than a plain additional parking space patch in the middle of an already extant sea of cement.

Let’s keep our prayers pointed and/our fingers crossed that the rising wave of support for a more artistically inclined and historically dedicated Houston public voice shall finally rise up to win this day for the most important local structure we have ever sat around and paid to watch go to hell.