That would be highly subjective. Why only 20 stories?

Most of Austin's residential towers are taller than 20 stories.

Just the size I am interested in seeing cool examples of. What works architecturally on a taller building is going to differ, so that is why I specified.

The only residential buildings I can think of around 20 stories are The Shore and The Skyhouse, although there may be some in West Campus that I'm forgetting.

I really like the 360 tower personally. You would know the general design as Atlanta has the original design. Had it not been for a CVC that partially covers the lot, our 360 would be an exact replica. Instead it was altered and the height built to 44 floors instead of 26. I'm not a fan of cookie cutter highrises (Skyhouse) which seems every other city is getting. I'm glad that the 360 tower became unique in that respect.

360 and the W are probably my favorites among the new ones in the last 6 years, followed by the Frost Bank Tower.

I like the W because it's just this big dark slab of a building that has a certain mysterious quality about it. That theme is carried over even more so at night by not having any accent lighting. Except for the geometry, it's Austin's Fountain Place in the way that it stands out and is sort of mysterious and different. My only gripe with it is the base of it along 3rd Street. The color, the materials, the windows and poor interaction with the street leave me wishing they had done more.

The Frost Bank Tower is no doubt an Austin icon now. It doesn't even need to be very tall to remain our signature tower. The first time I actually paid attention to that Matthew Mcconaughey Lincoln commercial, it wasn't perfectly clear it was filmed in Austin until the Frost Bank Tower made an appearance. The lighting of it is spectacular and is really a beacon for downtown from afar. My only gripe with it is I wish it was wrapped with retail and wasn't so squatty.

360 Condominiums really has to be my favorite new building. It's just good from top to bottom. The lighting design is prefect for the building, though, I do wish they had lit "all" of the spire. The glass, limestone panels, the color, the emphasis on its vertical shape. Most of all, though, the detail of the building is really good. If you've ever studied it they really did a good job disguising the garage section. It easily has the most attractive garage of any of our buildings. It also contributes a good bit to the street.

After that I would of course have to say The Austonian just because of its height. I like the color of it, too, it is rather modern with the subdued colors. I like that it takes on a different shape from different angles. My gripes with it is that the base sometimes doesn't look like it belongs with the rest of the building. The top sometimes looks funny, too, but it isn't horrible. It just isn't a "great" crown for being our tallest. I also wish the lighting was a little more dramatic.

I have to agree, Kev. I think the Austonian would look so much better if they had the middle part lit up all the time....not sure why they don't do that anymore.

I'm guessing the exterior lighting might cast light into the condos at night which I imagine the residents might object to. I agree about the crown.

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Totally agree Kev. Also the florescent lighting inside the fitness center on the 56th floor kills the "crown" area at night!:yuck:

I meant the frosted glass in the crescent on the very top. I can't imagine residents can see that.

Photos from the Hotel Indigo site, on Red River across from Stubbs.

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I just saw the new Lincoln commercial with Matthew McConaughey and there is a nice view of the Austin skyline at the end.

Portion of Auditorium Shores could get name change

http://www.myfoxaustin.com/story/266...et-name-change

This is something you'd never expect. You take for granted that the name of Auditorium Shores will always be called Auditorium Shores. But this goes to show that you never know what ways things are going to change.

The long version of that commercial is posted somewhere in the Austin sub-forum. It's pretty cool for a commercial.

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Here's my latest list of Austin's tallest projects. I've included every building that I know of that is 100' and/or 10 stories. There are some Travis County and University of Texas buildings that may be 100', but I don't have their height information.

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A couple of recent shots.

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The Marriot from my office.

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The Colorado St. Tower from 2nd Street intersection.

I gotta say, I'm liking the contrasting colors of the JW Marriott. I wouldn't have thought that would look good - that it would look too busy, but that really goes together well. I'm really interested to see how they'll light it.

I'm very interested to see how they will light it as well. It doesn't seem like they'll have a whole lot of options. It would be nice to see all those silver lines against the glass light up.

Seven

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Cirrus Logic Expansion

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Capitol Commons

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Villas on 26th (West Campus)

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West Campus

Pointe on Rio: This project will not be complete by the Oct. 15th target date. Students were originally scheduled to move in by Sep 15th.

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Crest at Pearl: Finishing touches, students have moved in.

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Great update Urbannizer.

Crest at Pearl and Pointe on Rio are nice looking buildings. And that's good to see that Capitol Commons has started construction. That building is almost 10 years in the making. That makes 16 high rises that are under construction right now with that one starting.

I think it's a shame that seven couldn't stay that pale green. It actually looked very pretty imo.

I 'm with you! I thought it would have been a good alternative to all the "Neutral" colors in town.

Boy skyline sure has changed since '02!
http://www.austin360.com/gallery/ent...gCNT8/#6161437

I hope you don't mind but I added that to the first post of the tread. :)

Good grief!! That old skyline looks mangy! Amazing how the city has changed and grown up in 12 years.

Yeah it almost looks sad and pathetic lol. New Austin skyline laughs @ old Austin skyline. And even newer Austin skyline in 20 years will do the same :D

More like in three years we will laugh. No need to wait 20. :)

The amount of construction in Austin seems to have slowed down. Honestly the projects we're waiting around for have been "almost breaking ground" for like 2 years now. See the Fairmont, Seaholm, and a few others for example.

There's a lot going on but it's glaringly less optimistic in Austin now than 2 years ago IMO.

It's actually quite the opposite, I walked around the whole city today and every corner had some type of construction, weather be renovating some abandon building, or constructing some 20 story tower.

100 Congress renovations

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I'm really digging the new glass.

Seaholm is under construction as we speak. Fairmont is breaking ground on December 1st. 5th/Colorado, 7th/Colorado, and the Greenwater office tower are all goes. There are numerous other projects as well in all stages of development.....I don't see how this would be considered a slow down.

The Fairmont, yes. Seaholm, no. Seaholm has been U/C for a year. You seem to be suffering from that impatient skyscraper nerd time scale that afflicts so many of us. :)

I always mix up Greenwater with Seaholm. I have a hard time differentiating them in thought. What about the Rainey Street towers and the Waller Center towers? The planetarium? When do these finally start?

I've also heard rumblings that Fairmont possibly wasn't going to get off the ground. Delighted to hear that's wrong, that's the best of these towers IMO. How definite?

Pictures I took around town today

Colorado Tower
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5th + Colorado Tower
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JW Marriott
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Stream Reality Partners & The Westin
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Garage Portion
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Littlefield Quarters bottom floor renovations
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The entire bottom floor has been completely gutted, I was going to take a picture inside but felt uncomfortable with all those construction workers eyeballing me. Anyways I'm shocked how massive it is inside.

You're are not keeping up with the project threads in the Austin sub-forum. The Planetarium Tower is long since dead because it would have been on state land, and the state did not want to play nice. The Waller towers are on schedule. The Rainey St. towers are moving along with no interruption to any publicly announced time frames. The only towers that I can think of off the top of my head that have had serious delays are the Fairmont and the Hotel ZaZa. But if you check the threads for those projects in the Austin sub-forum, things are looking good for those as well.

There are too many projects to keep up with in a single compilation thread. You have to check the threads for each project in the Austin sub-forum.

Austin sub forum?

What?

You were busy today Jon. Taking pictures and helping UT students and whatnot. ;)

Several cities have there own sub-forums on SSP. They are not hard to find. The Austin forumers don't post most project info in the threads out side of the sub-forum.

Sure was. But had to end my photo journey due to the heat. :)

There are 17 high rises under construction in Austin right now. 10 of those started this year. 15 of those 17 are in the core.

See here:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/foru...hp?forumid=446

Of course I don't mind. I have another one that is more up to date that I will be posting soon.

http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?cityID=93&statusID=2

They really should update this Kevin.

Don't worry N90, I hear T-Stacy will be topping out next month :D

Who is "they"? This is the internet, feel free to catch up with the postings in that elusive Austin sub-forum and take care of it for us. Welcome to Austin, by the way. :)

Oh, he's talking about the forum gods. We have to sacrifice newbies to appease them for updates. :)

I was looking forward to the T. Stacy tower and had high expectations for it. Too bad it's gone.

This would've been a spectacular skyline for Austin
http://www.austintowers.net/Austin_D...-austonian.php

The T. Stacy tower was first proposed in December 2004, and has long since been declared dead. You really need to stay focused on current projects. :)

T Stacy project died in 2006. I was in high school then and remembered when I walked into my English classroom, there was an Austin American-Statesman on a desk with a big picture of the proposed T Stacy project. It was that big, tall box shaped before a current detail renderings emerged a few months later. Good memories. :)