Why bad? I thought it was awesome! :D

Doesn't Brooklyn have a Supertall? I think I've read it before somewhere.

Not really, no. And the term "supertall" usually refers to only buildings that are at least 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall.

sounds dirty :D

oh wow. bad typo. Freudian slip? I don't know.

I don't know if anybody here is a civil engineer, but is the ground in Austin stable enough for a supertall? Manhattan has all that nice granite to keep things in place, but we've got a bunch of soft limestone. I don't know if that factor alone is enough to preclude a supertall, but it might make things more expensive.

The ground beneath Houston is not the best though Houston has two supertalls.

The Corazon on East 5th.

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

http://i.imgur.com/R1QtIRV.jpg

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

http://i.imgur.com/3kZD3FH.jpg

This is nothing we don't know already, but there is some eye candy from the Marriott cranes.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl....html?page=all

For any person interested...no posts in 5 days for Austin might be a record! :rolleyes:

Apparently, absolutely nothing is happening in Austin anymore! :help:

Thank You and Good Night! :sly: ( or check the "Regional Section" for Austin to see posts. ) :yes:

how do you guys post your photos? URL?

Click on the picture icon up top, then copy the link and it will upload.

I would have been posting more on what's going on across Austin but my computer hard drive crashed last week. Finally got my smart phone working which was acting up until recently.

JW Marriott could start rising a bit faster now. The jutting 3rd Street portion seems to have topped out. So, it's just the Brazos Street part of the tower that will be rising now.

http://i.imgur.com/duuMdp4.jpg

So basically they've toped out the little white tower indicated below—right? Does anyone know if there are any changes to the design at this stage? For instance, that wall they've built on the top of the 3rd street section/tower does not appear on this model, or at least on this model, that floor has windows.

http://venish.com/apc-marriot-side.jpg

If you look on the 20th page of the JW Marriott thread you will see that the model is accurate.

I think it's just the very top of that 3rd Street portion. It looks like a roof is going right on top of that wall.

Marriott Progress
 

Looks like the South side crane on the Marriott just got jacked up higher today.

Here is an article about the Austin hotel boom.

http://skift.com/2013/10/06/austins-...st-in-the-u-s/


One thing that was mentioned in the article was about Fairmont's plans. I copied from the article:


"And then there’s the Fairmont, a premier brand that plans to make its second Texas appearance with a $350 million convention hotel that would tower 580 feet at Red River and East Cesar Chavez near the Austin Convention Center.

That project just reached a major milestone when the city issued a site development permit, said Douglas Manchester, president of the hotel’s developer, Manchester Texas Financial Group. With permit in hand, “our architects are deep into creating the final designs,” Manchester said. “This puts us on track to break ground in January and open in the fall of 2016.”


Looks like the ground breaking date has moved yet again. But the quote from Manchester sounds like it is a positive go. I'm still crossing my fingers for this one.

The January date has already been published elsewhere. That's not a move, just a verification of previously released data.

Edit: this piece is a bit old as well, so it may have been written in the same time period when we first got that information.