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Originally Posted by JAYNYC

That's great to hear. Hopefully all projects planned for each city come to fruition.

Don't get me wrong, while I find the rate and diversity of Austin's tower diversity to be impressive, it's downtown skyline won't have the same impact that Dallas' and Houston's downtown skylines have, even when all of those projects are completed, IMO. I'm just personally not a fan of its linear, along-the-lake density pattern (that you also find in a couple of other major US cities); instead, I prefer the more traditional circular- or square-cluster downtown buildouts that you see in not only Dallas and Houston, but also L.A., Philadelphia, Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis, etc. Downtown Austin's skyline still looks cool (and will only continue to look cooler) though, and way better than one could have envisioned just 15 years ago.

Austin does not have any of the types of skylines you've described. It isn't circular, it isn't square, and it isn't just density along the river. In reality, it is a triangle with the Lamar & the river, 35 & the river, and the State Capitol being the three corners encapsulating its density (although even this understates the degree to which Austin's skyline currently pours over those boundaries, and will ever more so into the future). This will be even more true once the current wave of skyscrapers is finished.