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Originally Posted by StoOgE
Come on now. We're really going to compare the Independent to the Urby? The Independent is a much more interesting building with box sections that are tall enough to give the impression of a slender tower reaching skyward, while the Urby had all the thought of proportion put into it that went into it's super dumb name and somehow despite being 700 feet loots squatty and is hocking out low-rent apartments to 20-something junior analysts.
Urby has too boxy of proportions and is trying very hard to look like a low-rent "chaos" that 56 Leonard pulls off so well.
And while stacked boxes may not be a completely unique building design, it's something beyond the normal value engineering that you get in most high-rises outside of NYC in 2018.
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It certainly is beyond the normal, I give you that. And it will be notable on Austin's skyline. But we all come to skyscraper forums (fora) to keep up with and admire the projects that we're interested in. As a result we all have access to every architectural project around the world of any significance. So we have a lot of buildings to compare at our fingertips (literally). So we're generally all aware of the many stacked boxes out there, and yes this one is similar to the one in Jersey City. It's not exactly the same, but it's pretty close. On the scale of all designs out there in the world, these two buildings are easily within 1% of each other if not much closer.
Anyway, I'm babbling and I don't want to get anybody upset. I'm just stating what I think is fairly apparent.
I'm ready and willing to get back to 600 Guadalupe.
