Austin | ATX Tower (325 West 6th) | 675 Feet | 58 Floors | T/O

[Urbannizer]

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[resansom]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

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Great pics, thanks.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but - damn - Ladybird Lake looks disgusting in every picture that I see, these days. Is there -nothing- that can be done to get rid of all of that... stuff?

[Riverranchdrone]

Originally Posted by resansom

Great pics, thanks.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but - damn - Ladybird Lake looks disgusting in every picture that I see, these days. Is there -nothing- that can be done to get rid of all of that... stuff?

Maybe Carp can slowly fix that. Really we need a good flooding rain to give Town Lake a sort of natural colon cleansing.

[davidtexan]

Photos from last night about 60 seconds before I fell off my scooter in front of Republic Square and broke my arm. Some very bright lights installed in the parking garage here.

[ahealy]

Originally Posted by davidtexan

Photos from last night about 60 seconds before I fell off my scooter in front of Republic Square and broke my arm. Some very bright lights installed in the parking garage here.

Omg you ok?! Been there before :/ That itchy cast.... ugh.

Also, the lighting and mesh is so fucking ugly.

[AusTex]

Originally Posted by ahealy

Omg you ok?! Been there before :/ That itchy cast.... ugh.

Also, the lighting and mesh is so fucking ugly.

And time ten floors EVERY night. Just think when they replace the light bulbs and they don't match the color of the ones next to them!!! Truly the ugliest parking podium in town. And ugly metal railings on the balconies to boot. Not a winner of a tower in my book.

[ahealy]

Originally Posted by AusTex

And time ten floors EVERY night. Just think when they replace the light bulbs and they don't match the color of the ones next to them!!! Truly the ugliest parking podium in town. And ugly metal railings on the balconies to boot. Not a winner of a tower in my book.

The fact that the city allowed this to be built as-is blows my mind. $$$ money money money in Austinland.

[IluvATX]

Maybe at night when the mesh isn’t visible it will look like office floors if you can’t see the cars.

[Altoic]

Originally Posted by davidtexan

Photos from last night about 60 seconds before I fell off my scooter in front of Republic Square and broke my arm. Some very bright lights installed in the parking garage here.

That sucks.. hopefully your arm heals quickly.

[Sigaven]

Originally Posted by IluvATX

Maybe at night when the mesh isn’t visible it will look like office floors if you can’t see the cars.

Nope, the garage lights will always be on and you will be able to see the cars and the slope of the floors. Terrible terrible

[gillynova]

[Urbannizer]

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[gillynova]

[davidtexan]

[AusTex]

Originally Posted by gillynova

I am sure glad the traffic does not flow in the direction of this photo. Not a pretty picture of these two towers from this angle. The transition from the metal skirt on ATX to the glass is very jarring. Both buildings look unfinished, especially the lower parking podiums. This diminishes the human experience on the street in our city. This type of banal architecture multiplied across the city IS going to eventually hurt the livability of downtown Austin. No one, on a subconscious level, wants to spend time near such impersonal large buildings. We have gone through this in past decades, in other cities. I guess humans really do have to repeat history to relearn mistakes from the past!

[Sigaven]

Originally Posted by AusTex

I am sure glad the traffic does not flow in the direction of this photo. Not a pretty picture of these two towers from this angle. The transition from the metal skirt on ATX to the glass is very jarring. Both buildings look unfinished, especially the lower parking podiums. This diminishes the human experience on the street in our city. This type of banal architecture multiplied across the city IS going to eventually hurt the livability of downtown Austin. No one, on a subconscious level, wants to spend time near such impersonal large buildings. We have gone through this in past decades, in other cities. I guess humans really do have to repeat history to relearn mistakes from the past!

What bugs me is that developers in this city used to be really good about concealing parking podiums. Austonian, Frost Bank tower, 515 Congress, 600 Congress, 300 W 6th etc. With few exceptions, most of what we get now is this lazy and cheap garbage like 6xGuad and ATX tower.

[futuresooner]

Here's to hoping something tall on the old post office site hides it from the west and Lavaca Plaza gets demo'd & built with something tall as well to hide from the south.

Like, 6th & Guadalupe is probably the single ugliest intersection in all of downtown now, which says a lot.

[ahealy]

Originally Posted by AusTex

I am sure glad the traffic does not flow in the direction of this photo. Not a pretty picture of these two towers from this angle. The transition from the metal skirt on ATX to the glass is very jarring. Both buildings look unfinished, especially the lower parking podiums. This diminishes the human experience on the street in our city. This type of banal architecture multiplied across the city IS going to eventually hurt the livability of downtown Austin. No one, on a subconscious level, wants to spend time near such impersonal large buildings. We have gone through this in past decades, in other cities. I guess humans really do have to repeat history to relearn mistakes from the past!

This. Both of these turned out to be forgettable and disappointing, especially from this angle.

The Austin of today is more about quick profit / greed than longterm community benefit, so it's no surprise we repeat these mistakes. You can look at these towers and almost hear the convo in designing them down. Like, I highly doubt anyone put a second thought into the fact that both look completely unfinished. This trend began with Independent, then 5th and West...