Construction fencing went up.
Soil retention plans, these seem to be updated from the ones I posted last month.
ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/ATD_AULCC/...stem_PLANS.pdf
And an article on the impending doom for the 9-story building that's on the site now.
http://austin.towers.net/requiem-for...l-at-block-71/
Quote:
Requiem for an Ugly Building: Ashbel Smith Hall at Block 71
JAMES RAMBIN NOVEMBER 9, 2017
I’ve said before that I never met a building I didn’t like. Even among the structures most hated by the general public — from the eyesores brought about by brutalism, to absurd postmodern self-parodies of buildings that aggressively confront the very definition of architecture — I’m usually able to dig up at least one charming element, a shred of evidence that a thinking, feeling human labored over its design with care at some stage. Usually.
So when Austin’s Historic Landmark Commission approved the demolition of the Ashbel Smith building — a nine-story tower constructed in 1974 as administrative offices for the University of Texas by architects Jessen Associates — to make way for the shiny new Trammell Crow office tower planned at Block 71, I couldn’t help but get a kick out of their comments.
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