Corazon

AAAH ahealy....don't tease us. Gimme a picture of the street. Some of us hunker down elsewhere.;)

True dat! lol

will do! ;)

New South Shore District renderings

Building 2
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...00182615_n.jpg

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...95049453_n.jpg

Building 1
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...23246460_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...28111032_n.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/southshoredistrict

I just happened to be looking at a photo of downtown Juarez last night, and it jumped right out at me. If you took those ugly stucco hotels next to the Marriott, and moved that ugly old boxy blackish Bank of America building next to them, you would have an ugly twin version of downtown Juarez.

I can't wait for the Fairmont!

http://i.imgur.com/rD8vUQN.jpg

http://impactnews.com/austin-metro/c...-cap-proposal/

This should also go into the public transportation thread. But I also can see a rail line running over I-35 once its capped off. I also feel that the capped portion would be much wider than is being presented. So I can also see bike lanes as well as car lanes and there still would be plenty of pedestrian space. Boy this sure is a good idea. Hope that it comes to fruition. And I'm willing to bet that this section would probably over take Congress Ave as being 1. the most urban and 2. the most central and walked section of the city.

I'd like it to have just 1 more lane each way underground.

Hey, y'all. I just wanted to say I read this thread from page 1 to 113 last night and y'all have helped me decide to move back to Austin. I was at UT from 2004 to 2009 and had a blast watching the city have its first modern urban growth spurt. I eventually left because I started to feel the city was too small and not growing fast enough, but it looks like the city's downtown urban growth is really ramping up again - I'm a big urban development nut and that's pretty much the only criteria I have in picking my new city. Since my job lets me work anywhere, I've decided to move myself and my company up there. I just thought I'd share my little nerd moment and thank y'all for the awesome urban development dirty talk and construction site porn.

Hopefully when I'm up there I can actually contribute something helpful to this thread.

Very cool. Welcome back.

Welcome back, and buckle your helmet.... cuz it's gonna be a wild ride.

What he said! :cheers:

Be sure to bring some water with you, and leave that boat at home, because Lake Travis is almost gone, ugly and polluted, and all the boat ramps have been closed for a long, long time and may not be useable for years, if ever, because of polluted urban runoff. It won't be too long before they have to suck all of the water out of the Edwards Aquifer.

I think you strayed from the comments section of the Statesman.

Hmm guess you didn't look out the window today as well as yesterday because its been raining quite a lot and a a lot of rain fell upstream too which should help the lake levels a little. Is it enough? No but its not bad getting over 5 plus inches of rain in the area, means nobody has to water their lawns for awhile huh...:koko:

Welcome back rvank...

Honest question here folks. Why are there a lot of paranoid people in Austin? I feel that Austin is like the mecca of paranoids, gov't conspiracies and global warming being a hoax. I mean, there is Alex Jones... but even if you look at that movie "Slacker" Linklater did a fine job of portraying the folks in Austin.

I always find most of the youtube videos on my recommended lists that are about gov't conspiracies or whatnot, its not entirely surprising that many of them are from Austin. It's weird. There should be a little study done on it. Or maybe it's simply my own impression. But even when I read comments like the one above it always reminds me about how paranoid people from Austin are.

"We're gonna run out of water." "Austin's becoming more and more like Houston." etc etc This is even coming from a couple of friends I work with here in SF who also lived in Austin for a long time and I am always arguing with them about their ridiculous comments about Austin. Has anybody else noticed this?

I'm not sure why, but there are certainly a lot of douchebag morons in the Austin area, and I say this as someone whom loves Austin.

I'm the last one who can move to Austin, nobody else is allowed in and I hate tall buildings. They're stupid and cheezy. That's not Austin. I've lived here for a month, ok! How long have YOU lived here!? I remember when Austin used to have food trailers on that corner before those condos went in. Growth? Pfft, all those Californians. A solution for growth gong vertical? NO. Just build a fence around the city. Urban rail?!?! HA! Nobody will ride that!

I don't think people realize they're turning into senile rocking chair geriatrics...oops:koko:

Chill. Austin's not Dallas or Houston.
 

Every new highway in the country should have a rail lane in each direction. Cars create traffic... trains alleviate it. Also, even though the Big Dig in Boston went way over budget, the result is outstanding. Go for it, Austin!

Hey, doesn't smoking pot make some people act paranoid?

The results was a subpar freeway with massive cost overruns and major engineering problems that are still being fixed to this day. Thank God the idea in Austin isn't nearly as ambitious or complex.

And thank God one of the major causes of the post-finish problems that faced the Big Dig doesn't exist here in Austin: the ocean. Also not part of Austin's landscape is the fact that we don't have to actually tunnel through the city to build the new freeway, but instead just have to sink it and cap it. Much much easier and costs sooo much less.

Maybe we're just more tech-savvy than other places so *our* paranoids have more visibility.

Seriously though, isn't that just one aspect of being weird?

I remember when Alex Jones was just a lunatic who rented time on on the local access cable channel (2005-06). I used to kill time laughing at the losers who felt that they deserved a podium on local access. Unfortunately Alex went on to national infamy.

He was around a lot earlier than that. He was on local cable access at least as far back as '97. His big thing was "predicting" 9/11 and before that being involved with the Waco (Branch Davidian) survivors.

Just keep in mind "weird" doesn't necessarily mean likable or good. Linklater got it right. Sometimes it's uncomfortable or spooky.

Why are you asking????? Huh? I don't smoke pot.

really.


( :) )

Only while you're high. And for me it was always over sensible things like getting in trouble with the cops. I never worried about being eaten by furniture. :)

Here are a couple of shots of the JW Marriott taken on Sunday, May 25th. Look at that interesting V-shaped support structure on the South side (right side of the top picture).

http://venish.com/JW-Marriot-west-May26.jpg

http://venish.com/JW-Marriot-east-May26.jpg

I'm curious what room the V will be when complete .

It's crazy that the view of Whitley, Hyatt Place, and Hampton Inn from Congress is almost gone. Good riddance, I say. It just feels so alien for something to be there. I wonder what the last building there was and why it was torn down.

Someone should go get some shots of 3eleven. I bet it has made a lot of progress by now. I'm not able to go down there myself right now.

Not a great shot at all [!], but this is what 3eleven looked like on Sunday (26 May) from Bowie street.

http://venish.com/3eleven-Bowie.jpg

Thanks. I thought it would be a little bit taller than that, for some reason. But, man, that is a really tight space to be building something.

Here are a couple not so great shots of 3 Eleven Bowie from the creek side taken last Thursday.

http://i.imgur.com/HXJmCi8.jpg

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

And another view of the V shaped pillars at the JW Marriott.

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

I wonder if they are going to discount the room rates at the Marriott across the street from that ugly windowless west slab of Hyatt Place. :yuck:

I have been very curious as to what this will be in the building.
I take it as an interesting way to create some nice interior volume in a key
space in the building.
I remember the first day I saw them starting to frame this part...
I was very curious.!
Will be fun to see what it truns out to be. ( and I'm just to lazy right now to go search the plans!LOL! )

The last building where the Marriott is going up? It was a parking lot and three small buildings housing Las Manitas, Tesoros Trading Co. and Escuelita del Alma - a daycare center. They were torn down for an earlier version of the Marriott that (thank God) didn't get built.

Source

This was the parking lot and a side view of Tesoros from 2007:

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ke/Tesoros.jpg

......and on the Bazos side was an old "Oscar Snowden's" Appliance store. ( 208 Brazos to be exact). It was a cheap white (probably) 60s era metal warehouse with a glass front. Not sure what year that was torn down.

I'm wondering if that V column has anything to do with the strange little indention on that corner.

http://i.imgur.com/S6WtwUi.jpg

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

This rendering seems to not show it, but there is something going on with the facade down there.

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

http://i.imgur.com/uMnR48W.jpg

It's probably a ballroom or something

It probably has something to do with the cantilever of the 3rd floor over levels 1 and 2 on the south side of the tower. Just my educated guess.

I agree that the Y supports are for the cantilever area. I wonder if the reduced width of the building in the model in the lower floors maybe reduces the structure load/weight so they can have smaller supports? If they built a full building the Y support may have had to be much larger, so instead they made it a design element. That open space where the Y is would be a great bar/dance club area with lights and such. Just me two cents.

This has nothing to do with Austin so if you want me to remove this post I will, however, this is mind-boggling:

This Will Be The World Tallest Skyscraper In A Few Months
China to build a 2,749 foot, 220-story skyscraper in 90 days.

http://gizmodo.com/video-this-will-b...in-a-510140081

What-the-what? 90 DAYS? Now, they are building it out of prefabricated modular units and they don't say how long it took them to prefabricate, but just the thought of assembling 220-floors in 90 days blows my mind. I work in development and I don't see how that is possible. Of course I work in Texas, not China. ;) This would not be possible in Austin, no matter how much money you threw at it. Facinating. Some of the links at the top of the page are interesting as well, btw.

it'll probably be illuminated at night

Not relevant at all to this thread. There are other threads where it would have been.

There is a thread on this development here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199778

Whoooooaaaa!!!!
 

Holy cow! The Sky City is amazing! Watch the video! Although, it may be considered pornography on a skyscraper site!

The Seaholm website has an updated timeline for the progress that's planned:

April, 2013: Excavation for garage begins

December, 2013: Power plant interior demo work complete

January, 2014: Tower foundation complete

February, 2014: Front lawn complete

March, 2014: Power plant dry-in complete

April, 2014: Low rise exterior work

June, 2014: Power plant ready for tenant finish-out, low rise ready for tenant finish-out

July, 2014: Underground garage and streets work complete

September, 2014: Tower ground level ready for tenant finish-out

May, 2015: Tower exterior complete

June, 2015: Tower last unit ready for lease