Phew! I just went through this thread and I have to say, we have a ton of construction cranes in Nashville but Austin is just on another level in that regard, blowing away all the competition in terms of both height and quality. Just beautiful!!

Three of the 42 I counted are being developed for the Domain/Broadmoor area in north Austin. So 39 are downtown. Fourteen of the 42 have broken ground which is 1/3 of them.

Here's a photo taken by clayton_rogue and posted in the West Campus thread in the Austin subforum about a week ago. It's looking north away from downtown towards campus. The view now has 21 cranes I believe with around 15 more in downtown proper in the opposite direction.

https://i.imgur.com/bHu7bWO.jpg

That’s a beautiful tower

Why can’t nyc and especially Brooklyn get such nice designs?

Wow! At this rate of construction and new projects it seems Austin's CBD will have just as many towers as Dallas's and Houston's CBD. Or am I jumping the gun? That panoramic shot you posted is gorgeous by the way.

Outside of the Texas 4, Nashville is definitely a city that I keep up with. Impressive stuff you guys got going up there.

This one almost looks unreal. It looks like some Southeast Asia city with the hills shown.

I know right, just gorgeous!

I used to live in the treed area on the bottom left. My mom grew up in that same area. It is called Travis Heights. It used to be pretty middle class and suburban, but now has gentrified to the point to where when I move back, it’ll be hard to afford this area. I think the lots now are starting at about $500 k with a hundred year old run down house. They are now demoing those houses to build million dollar houses, thus gentrification.

Yeah that's the downside of gentrification. The increased expense and the pricing out of former residents. I wouldn't be surprised to see highrises start popping up on the other side of the river. That is if it hasn't started happening already.

The area on the middle left is slated for a huge makeover involving towers, but I think the neighborhood will remain the same.

Are you serious? NYC? You're asking why can't NYC have beautiful towers? Have you been sleeping under a rock the past 10 years? NYC has been building the most beautiful scrapers... Good God I could go on but I will lay this to rest :haha:

I do agree with this. Just when I thought NYC would never bust out of safe mode (see: WTC 1) ... it’s gone increasingly daring.

In my opinion I think NYC takes the crown, but I believe Austin is the second city as far as new development goes.

If possible, even more impressive than NYC, given its modest population.

The new skyscraper architecture in say downtown Brooklyn is hideous for the most part

Also

432 park - the big stick
Weird super tall skinny buildings
Multicolored buildings
Etc

Just too much out-there architecture

I much prefer the new towers in Chicago or Austin

Chicago? Miami? San Francisco? Seattle?

I feel like this is a subjective question. In terms of sheer number of new high-rise projects, Seattle or NYC could take the tops. In terms of the mass added to the skyline profile, you might consider San Fran or Miami. In terms of filling in the built environment and increasing density, Chicago, Minneapolis or Denver come to mind. Austin to me tops the list in terms of night-and-day transformation.

Isnt there something that looks like a futuristic chandelier in the works? I remember the architect did some work on some buildings in manhattan?

+1

I love how you selectively left out Hudson Yards - which alone blows everything happening in Austin - as well as the numerous other non-skinny towers sprouting up all over Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and Jersey City.

But yeah - YAY AUSTIN!

This thread has taken a strange turn. It's the Austin projects compilation thread, not a NYC vs Austin thread. Comparing a Metro of over 20 million to one of 2.2 million is ridiculous. Future posts related to NYC will be deleted.

Thanks! We're getting there. haha... I just wish Austin could donate some of it's height to us... we seem scared to go over the 600 foot mark for some reason. lol

This is also a direct result of development under a 35 year old land use code. We're trying to update it to allow for more/smaller housing but NIMBYs... To protect single family zoning from change directly next to a thriving downtown makes as much sense as a bag of hair. Such zoning in the urban core now averages over $500k and is climbing fast. New construction is often $1,000,000+. Knock on wood we allow for responsible land use starting sometime in 2020.

No it doesn't. Too many window frame clad buildings.

I live in Allandale (north central). In the last year, more of the 50-60 year old homes are coming down and being replaced. The first houses to come down are the ones that would cost too much to repair or upgrade. There's a home on my street that came down a couple of weeks ago. My realtor friend told me that the piping under the house had leaked and pretty much ruined the house. So a developer paid the owner about $470K for a house that couldn't be repaired. The home that will replace it will be on the market for $1.3 M. There's a similar one on the street behind me, and there's a street a few blocks from me where there have been four tear-downs. The homes in Allandale that are in good shape are going for astronomical prices, even those that haven't been updated. It's all location. We're now considered central. The Anderson Lane/Burnet commercial districts are very close and have just about everything. My understanding is that Crestview is even more expensive.

You're jumping the gun, but what Austin has going on is definitely impressive.

looks good!

It took Austin years to get over the 400-500' plateau. It'll happen in due time.

Just a few years ago, nobody would believe that 15 towers over 500' would be under some level of development at the same time (8 of those over 600', 4 of those potentially over 700' & 6XGuadalupe at 848')!

Do you think the height will break the 1,000 foot mark?

The rail yard project may break the 1000’ mark. Right now in site prep is the tallest at 848’.

You can add another 500+ footer to that list with today's discovery of how big the new River Street Hotel & Market project is planned to be...46 stories and roughly 611,500 SF.

Expect that it will be +600'

It's condo/hotel.

If each floor is 10-12 feet then 46x12 = 552 feet. It won't crack 600 feet, if it was an office building, which have 15 foot floors, then it would have crossed 600 feet. But because it's condo/hotel, above 500 feet is the best you can expect from it. Not that 500 feet is a bad thing, just 9 years ago Austin would be clamoring for buildings of this height but the current boom has no doubt raised everyone's expectations.

+Market. Watch the ground floors height.

It'll be around 550'.

Which one will be 848'?

6 X Guadalupe.

The elevations show 530’. Is this correct?

The last elevation that Kevin posted in the project's thread showed the top of the building, and it is around 530'. But there's a little bit of guessing involved to get that height.

Would love see a new projects list. Now it’s getting so hard to keep up.

I post new ones more or less monthly. My last one was from 11/02. I have an updated one which I'll be posting soon. I'm just waiting for some height info on the 321 W. 6th St project which could be another significant project.

Bump

Bump also! So much happening in Austin.

60 story tower planned.
https://www.statesman.com/business/2...emplate=ampart

Renderings.

https://i.imgur.com/JxQZdZ1.jpg
https://www.bbva.com/en/bbva-usa-tak...wntown-austin/

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Rendering from the architect's website.

https://i.imgur.com/9lCdeT1.jpg
https://www.pagethink.com/v/project-...xth-Street/fc/

Thank you for posting the update! Another one and I like it!

Re-post from Austin’s main thread:https://i.imgur.com/udSeKQz_d.jpg?ma...idelity=medium

Austin skyline future looking good!

^^^A very bright future indeed! I don't know for sure but I'd bet Austin has more towers under construction than Dallas or Houston.

I’m not sure on that either. It’s quite amazing for a city our size.