lol, the 80's just took a big stair-stepped shit downtown :grumpycat::grumpycat::grumpycat::grumpycat::grumpycat::grumpycat::grumpycat::grumpycat::grumpycat::grumpycat::grumpycat::grumpycat::grumpycat::grumpycat::grumpycat::grumpycat::grumpycat::grumpycat:

Well at least I'm not alone in this. I'm really pretty flippin surprised this is getting the nod on this forum.

You aren't alone at all. From what I've seen written here, we're split pretty evenly. In fact, I think the "don't likes" slightly outnumber the "likes" (and at the very least have been more vocal about it).

and folks are in favor of wal-mart apartments on east 6th!

Man... whoever said that east 6th street is hipster is totally bonkers. haha

Count me in the "don't like" category. I'm very disappointed, but given the number of changes so far, there's always the chance it'll change again.

Green's gone brown. :(

I can't believe you guys are freaking out over the building. It's a classy, mature looking tower, something Austin would do well to have more of to give its skyline more gravitas. The fanciful Oz glass city look was kind of getting out of hand, if you ask me, and it doesn't make the place look serious if that's all that's going up.

I like my dinky HEB. The HEB at South First & William Cannon. It's the smallest HEB in Austin and I can find everything. I'm usually in and out of there in 10 minutes. It can be a bit hectic on the weekends during the day, but that's when you avoid that one and go to the bigger one down the street. That other one I'm talking about, at Brodie and William Cannon, sometimes feels like a train station. The place can be so busy sometimes. I do like it, though, the food never has a chance to sit and get old on the shelf before it's bought.

Passing as just an acceptable building is not enough for this lot. What was going in these lots was supposed to be signature towers. These are huge city owned lots in the most booming part of downtown Austin right on Town Lake. Years and years went into looking at the proposals, and for it to come to this is not acceptable to me. If it were just a random downtown parking lot being turned into this building, I'd be fine with that. But it isn't just some tall building going up on some random lot.

Also, for me, boring brown buildings have been out of hand for a long time now. It isn't some fancy Oz like blue glass box that I'd say needs to go here. Pretty much anything other than another boring brown building. lol. Heck there was one proposal with yellow like pipes all over the place that was amazing. It looked electric. Being the Green Treatment site, I wouldn't even mind green! :D

Lastly, regarding Austin needing mature and serious looking buildings... lol... Neither of those describe Austin at all. It just doesn't fit this city and the culture in Austin. IMO, Dallas & Houston can keep the serious, while SA keeps the mature. This would fit much better in any of those cities and they would all no doubt be rightfully thrilled to have it. The building isn't bad in itself, but to me it is horrible for this lot.

That's my problem with it. The building looks mature, as if it were a hospital built in the 80s...and not in a good way.

AND it's not as if we're being divas about this. I would be totally fine and probably supportive if it were somewhere else downtown...but if you look back at all the other groups who submitted their lovely proposals and we end up with BROWN STACKS....it's really deceptive. Oh, and San Antonio was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this design :runaway:

Here's what a tower should look like, imo: http://buildingatx.com/2013/08/exclu...or-5th-brazos/

The tower I had mentioned hearing about was announced today and broken by BuildingATX.com. 47-story dual hotel/apartment combo tower at 5th & Brazos.

I prefer the dinky HEB at S.Congress / Oltorf. :tup:

My HEB is Slaughter & Manchaca.

Holy. Shit.

That is f*ing beautiful.

Well, it's big, I'm not sure it's beautuful. The tower portion is totally plain and featureless. But I'm guessing that this is just a preliminary rendering. I like the bottom part a lot.

As someone on reddit pointed out, no parking garage. Pretty cool, no?

http://i.imgur.com/yLrWI7e.jpg

Image courtesy of BuildingATX

Ugh.

You guys are right that Green Sucks as brown stacks... I'm not saying it's good... I'm just hoping they at least keep the height and glass.... It's unbelievable that they would go from that cool triple tower design to this....

As for the new project... I'll take it.... it's another W, and it will bounce light around nicely.

Triple tower design? You do realize that the other towers that were part of this development are on totally different lots. There's another apartment tower along the river and an office tower that are still planned.