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Westech 360 and Cranes
Page Southerland Page designed the Westech 360 building, I was working there at the time. Two memories of that project. The structural engineers has a devil of a time figuring out how much support to put in the building to hold up the giant "check mark". The artwork was a late addition to the building, I believe it was added while the building was under construction. It made a interesting solution to making the building stand out without violating any city sign ordinances, don't think art counts as a "sign". Secondly, that building was being completed during one of Austin's famous building slumps, the architect firm came close to being the owner of the building when some problems with the fire suppression system almost delayed the issuance of the certificate of occupancy by the City of Austin.
On W Hotel, looks like they are going to leave the yellow crane, both cranes have shorty booms on them now, and neither will reach the entire structure at this point. Will see if they "leap frog" the two cranes up the structure. They are delivering metal studs today, should start on exterior wall partitions next week.
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