Remember when the YWCA on Waugh just below the Heights looked like this?
Now it looks like this:
Actually, it’s all but gone now.
Swamplot reader Jason Ezer sent in photos of the teardown to the real estate site, which noted the design of that Y had been an award-winning piece of post-modernism designed by Taft Architects.
It lasted almost 30 years before becoming obsolete, which might be some sort of record for Houston.
This article appears in Apr 21-27, 2011.