Austin | Travis Co. Courthouse | 239' Feet | 13 Floors | Complete - Page 7

MichaelB · #**121** Posted **Jul 7, 2020, 2:59 PM**

Another Stunning Photo.

Urbannizer · #**122** Posted **Jan 5, 2021, 8:41 PM**

1/5

clayton_rogue · #**123** Posted **Jan 26, 2021, 6:14 PM**

Urbannizer · #**124** Posted **Mar 20, 2021, 12:48 AM**

I believe this is topped out.

The ATX · #**125** Posted **Mar 20, 2021, 1:07 AM**

Nice. It's starting to look like a courthouse now. Still no word on when the office tower will start as far as I know.

Sigaven · #**126** Posted **Jun 3, 2021, 5:05 AM**

This is the first building I've seen in awhile where the glass isn't overtly blue like most other new buildings downtown. It appears more on the blackish side. Nice change from everything else going up. Hopefully we'll see more variation in glass colors!

Urbannizer · #**127** Posted **Jun 3, 2021, 7:36 AM**

Urbannizer · #**128** Posted **Jul 9, 2021, 1:38 AM**

chinchaaa · #**129** Posted **Jul 9, 2021, 1:18 PM**

Hate to say it, but I think that cement is going to look real dated real soon.

wwmiv · #**130** Posted **Jul 9, 2021, 6:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by chinchaaa

Hate to say it, but I think that cement is going to look real dated real soon.

If real soon means now.

drummer · #**131** Posted **Jul 9, 2021, 7:11 PM**

Like a soviet era building with better windows.

valhalla · #**132** Posted **Jul 9, 2021, 7:55 PM**

so this is ugly

wwmiv · #**133** Posted **Jul 9, 2021, 8:07 PM**

Honestly, I don’t find it all that bad. I’m not a fan of the variegated roofline and think it would look better with a flat roof, but that’s my own taste. The panels aren’t bad, but the color differences in the concrete are hard to discern and will be obscured relatively quickly when it’s dirty. A bigger difference could have kept that impression better over time, which would have helped more in breaking up the facade for visual interest.

Someone in another thread recently was speculating that we may see a return to facadism and a move away from modernism, with computing technologies potentially making construction of detail significantly easier and cheaper. I hope that’s the case. Pre-cast concrete (or other materials) panels assembled in a more highly detailed facade would be nice accentuated by the same window layout in the overall massing this building has.

resansom · #**134** Posted **Jul 9, 2021, 8:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by chinchaaa

Hate to say it, but I think that cement is going to look real dated real soon.

Is that just "raw" concrete or is there something more deliberate/permanent going on with those "concrete panels?" If you look closely, the differences in shade/color appear to be too well defined for that to be just typical concrete variations in color...

lonewolf · #**135** Posted **Jul 9, 2021, 9:38 PM**

at least we have clustered the ugliness!

drummer · #**136** Posted **Jul 12, 2021, 2:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by wwmiv

Honestly, I don’t find it all that bad. I’m not a fan of the variegated roofline and think it would look better with a flat roof, but that’s my own taste. The panels aren’t bad, but the color differences in the concrete are hard to discern and will be obscured relatively quickly when it’s dirty. A bigger difference could have kept that impression better over time, which would have helped more in breaking up the facade for visual interest.

Someone in another thread recently was speculating that we may see a return to facadism and a move away from modernism, with computing technologies potentially making construction of detail significantly easier and cheaper. I hope that’s the case. Pre-cast concrete (or other materials) panels assembled in a more highly detailed facade would be nice accentuated by the same window layout in the overall massing this building has.

I would certainly be okay with more detail on buildings. As long as it doesn't look cheap, which pre-cast "details" sometimes can. With improvements, I'm sure this can be changed.

We vs us · #**137** Posted **Jul 12, 2021, 2:07 PM**

The east/west facades have interesting cutouts with weird sort of iron piping insets. We'll have to get Urbannizer to get a couple of shots. They're interesting, but also weirdly carceral. Which, ok, it's a court building. But also wtf?

valhalla · #**138** Posted **Jul 12, 2021, 6:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by We vs us

They're interesting, but also weirdly carceral. Which, ok, it's a court building. But also wtf?

Yea I mean it's a family court building so . . .

Maybe they made the building foreboding to deter people from getting divorced?

Urbannizer · #**139** Posted **Jul 16, 2021, 7:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by We vs us

The east/west facades have interesting cutouts with weird sort of iron piping insets. We'll have to get Urbannizer to get a couple of shots. They're interesting, but also weirdly carceral. Which, ok, it's a court building. But also wtf?

Here’s one, only the east side has the cutouts.

DaveinWimberley · #**140** Posted **Jul 16, 2021, 8:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

Here’s one, only the east side has the cutouts.

Looks like the Oakland jail.

The first renderings that came out made this look like an attractive building. Boy, were they wrong!