Beautiful photos. Wow.

We get it done!

Tesla just moved their HQ to Austin!

Austin continues to boom!

I literally told my wife right after reading that, "I'm glad we already bought our house." I've been saying that a lot lately.

I think I got this right...


Austin – Under Development over 400’:

-98 Red River - 73/1,022’ - Site Plan Under Review
-6XGuadalupe - 65/876’ - U/C
-80 Red River - 64/802’ - Site Plan Under Review
-307 E. 2nd - 64/786’ - Site Plan Under Review
-321 West - 63/771’ - Approved
-4th & Brazos-T2 - 60/750+’ - Proposed
-Block 16 - 47/723’ - Site Plan Under Review
-The Republic - 46/710’ - Approved
-4th & Brazos-T1 - 50/705’ - Site Plan Under Review
-415 Colorado - 47/640’ - Site Plan Under Review
-The Modern - 55/600+’ - Site Plan Under Review
-The Travis - 52/594’ - Site Demo
-Block 185 - 35/594’ - U/C – T/O
-44 East - 49/573’ - U/C – T/O
-River Street Res. - 48/572’ - Approved
-80 Rainey - 48/552’ - Site Plan Under Review
-Indeed Tower - 36/542’ - U/C – T/O
-99 Red River - 36/540+’ - Proposed
-Hanover Republic Sq - 44/516’ - U/C
-Hanover Brazos - 45/513’ - U/C
-Vesper - 41/452’ - U/C
-5RR Residential - 37/452’ - Proposed
-300 Colorado - 32/446’ - U/C – T/O
-1215 Red River - 36/400+’ - Proposed
-The Annie B - 35/400+’ - Site Plan Under Review




**NOTE: This does not include the ATX Tower-East (potential supertall), ATX Tower-West (500+') proposal, a few 400+'/500+' buildings in the SouthShore/Southbank (old Austin American Statesman site) development, and a potential 400+’ tower in The Domain area.

Wow, that's quite a list!

X-posting from the Austin sub-forum. Site being cleared for the 1,022' 92/98 Red River Tower.

The skyline looks great now but will really be cooking once all of these proposals are built!

NOTE: 4th & Brazos-Tower 1 seems to have received a bump from 44/656' to 50/705'.

That makes 9 projects under development over 700'.

Also, two more towers popped up on the radar late last week. We don't know how tall they will be. One of them has the potential to be pretty tall (near the CC). The other is encumbered by a CVC over a chunk of its site (West Sixth area).

So, based on what's on the board today, The Independent (Austin's current tallest at 690') will be the 10th or 11th tallest by 2026ish!?!

WOW!

Amazing!!!

Renderings now online for 4th and Brazos:

I fixed this rendering. :D

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...9683d6c8_h.jpg

I really like 4th and Brazos. It's not just a bunch of blue glass.

Not a fan of the ginormous podium though. In the future when there are self-driving cars there are going to be a lot of loft apartments with strange, split level floorplans that advertise a sloping living room floor as a feature :P

Is that wood in the spandrel spaces? If so, that would be very unique. The 17 floors of parking is a bit egregious, but otherwise this looks pretty awesome, with a huge dependency on the materials used.

It's probably a fake wood material similar to what's being used on the midrise Whole Foods expansion on the other side of downtown.

Yeah I agree I like the wood look. This is a great looking building! Love the ground floor retail and Paseo!

The rounded corners looks a bit retro-80s to me. But I like it.

Where’d you get that the material for the Whole Foods expansion is fake wood? Whatever material it is, it looks really good in person. Here’s some pics for reference.

https://austin.towers.net/admiring-t...ffice-project/

https://austin.towers.net/wp-content..._12-scaled.jpg

https://austin.towers.net/wp-content..._11-scaled.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/V3kbhJ5.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/6Pv9keI.jpg

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

I just heard it floating around somewhere else on the forum.

That Whole Foods Expansion Building is a great example of a really nice design being beset by poor or sub-optimal craftsmanship. The uneven black flashing on top of the silver tiles and uneven bottom to some of the curves of the silver tiles take an otherwise excellent design and make it feel a little cheap. Otherwise, that's a great building. Will try to check it out in person when I'm in Austin this weekend for the first time in over 6 years.

I agree the Whole Foods expansion looks great and nice use of materials!

Lincoln Ventures Announces Mixed-Use Development at 80 Rainey

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...g?format=2000w

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...g?format=2000w

98 Red River supertall FAA crane permits:

525 feet - Work Schedule: 11/01/2022 to 07/31/2024
https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...98842842&row=2

1,001 feet - Work Schedule: 04/01/2022 to 11/30/2024
https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...98842831&row=1

1,236 feet - Work Schedule: 10/01/2022 to 09/30/2025
https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external...98842830&row=0

^^^Oh...and the 710'/46-story Republic office tower is alive. Just received final approval. Soon thereafter, they filed a number of construction permits!

^Great to hear!

80 rainy is such a nice looking building!

Excellent!

It's crazy to think Austin could have a supertall, two 800'ers, five 700'ers, two 600'ers, and several more over 400' tall - all under construction at the same time.

NBC national news is in Austin all week profiling the most popular city to move to in the nation:

https://youtu.be/csoPwDhXsE8

Nice video. The city looks good. I like the way Austin has developed a wall of buildings as the face of Downtown, with a park across the river (or Town Lake as I still think of it or Lady Bird Lake).

Cool!

It's an exciting thing to witness! I think it's definitely one of the most rapidly transforming skylines in the country.

To me, Austin already has the most beautiful skyline in the state, and possibly west of the Mississippi. And with all the new talls under construction and planned, it will be spectacular.

Totally agree!

Very cool!

No.

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Nice ones RRD. A couple new desktop background options.

Are you sure? Because when I watched on Friday they were in Phoenix. On Tuesday when I watched they were in St. Louis.

That's one hell of a panoramic skyline view!

Anyone else notice the new Kay Jeweler's commercial was filed in Austin? The first scene was from the summit of Mount Bonnell.

Wow! That's interesting.

There is also a pharmaceutical ad that looks to be partially filmed on the Riverwalk in SA.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...ed6cac40_b.jpg

I also so that. Looks like the entire commercial was filmed in Austin now that I look at it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tu_eMQuKGk

Here's the filming permit:

A Developer’s Opulent Plans Along Lake Austin Include Luxe Condos, a Park, and a Funicular

A sign of the times on a showstopping Hill Country peak

https://www.texasmonthly.com/style/d...ark-funicular/

The 145-acre Camelback property on Lake Austin, just west of the iconic Pennybacker Bridge, rises straight up a series of limestone cliffs to a densely forested ridge 380 feet above the water. It’s as close to a proper mountain as you can find in Central Texas. And what a mountain. From the top, you can see the sweeping semicircular curve of the Colorado River below, and off to the east, a gap in the hills frames the Oz-like cluster of high-rises in downtown Austin, ten or so miles away.

It’s here that property owner Jonathan Coon has built a four-story metal-frame viewing platform that rises above the treetops and affords lucky visitors one of the most commanding views in the state. The platform won’t be here for long, though: It exists only so that Coon can sell people on his new plan, announced Tuesday, to turn the Camelback into the site of an ultra-luxury condo community with 179 cliffside homes, a private marina, a sprawling athletic center with outdoor and indoor tennis courts—and an air-conditioned, glass-box funicular that will whisk residents from hilltop to lakeside in two minutes flat. Four Seasons, the luxury resort company famous for such properties as the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera as well as high-end hotels and residences in Austin, Houston, and Dallas, will manage the property, to be known as the Four Seasons Private Residences Lake Austin.

Yes.

I get a 404 for that article. Got another link?