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Man, I don't know, guys. I am really underwhelmed with all of those. I was expecting more urbanism and less park. I really can't see how any of those is any better than any other. They all seem pretty bad.
I think it's a forgone conclusion that Lake|Flato is going to win, though. The city council loves them, for some reason. But their creation of a water park-looking place shows that they really don't know Austin at all. A water park? What's next? A Farris Wheel? So hokey and mundane. No thanks. I've resigned myself to the fact that I'm going to be disappointed. I guess I would lean toward the CMG one. Their vision for Palm Park is kinda nice. |
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On the parks subject: Compared to many other cities, Austin does not have a lot of parks.. We need more. |
ps. This looks pretty urban to me :tup::tup:
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Is that that Nahua Tower? That angled one near the Mexican Cultural Museum. That building was mentioned as being 400 feet tall.
And it looks like they left out the Hotel Van Zandt. That one is still in the planning stages. it's supposed to be 197 feet tall and be just north of The Shore. |
I put the images together to make it easier to look at the pictures from each team and understand where they are pictures of.
Tomorrow I might try to do a thing that puts each teams proposal for each area together and compares them. To kinda see each side by side. Because they are all very different. Like one thing that has the plan for Waterloo Park of each team all side to side, and another that has the lake front park for each side by side, and same of the Convention Center park together. Note!!: The image is BIG! :) |
Groundbreaking imminent for SkyHouse Austin high-rise
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BevoLJ that map looks awesome. I like how it gives you detailed images in that 2nd picture.
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And that's great news about Skyhouse. I'm going downtown again today to go see the Waller Creek designs at City Hall. I'll take some pictures. |
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Well, I went. I got there too late, though. I did talk to someone, and she said that the images they have at those presentations are basically the same as what they have on the website. I asked if there were any models or anything, and she said no.
The next presentation location is at the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum tomorrow. I'm considering going, but if I did, man that would be 4 days this week that I've rode my bike downtown. I've already logged 63 miles this week! I did get some nice photos inside of City Hall, though. And I also wondered around the Hilton Convention Center Hotel and Hilton Garden Inn for some photos. |
http://www.statesman.com/business/st...e-2464503.html
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It would connect with all of the cool new redevelopments they've got planned on the other side. |
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Has anybody watched these on Youtube? I think these are pretty awesome and I like how the City of Austin its doing its job to inform the citizens. Unfortunately this video only has 67 views. I wonder if there's an actual TV channel in Austin that shows these.
btw thanks Kevin for the tips on how to embed vids! |
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