AUSTIN | Project Updates Thread Part II

[llamaorama]

I've said it before, but "old Austin" isn't really that different from any other small city in Texas. The pre-gentrification landscape of the central city, sans hipster or cool stuff from a few decades ago, really just looks like any given part of Waco, Temple, Wichita Falls, Bryan, etc, to me.

It would be different if Austin were like, say, Cincinnati, with some geniunely historic and rare neighborhoods threatened by total urban renewal annihilation.

But no, I don't think anything is being lost with new construction. I think the larger buildings being built in Austin today are going to be the classics the city will be known for far in the future. "Very representative and high quality examples of the early 21st century urban modernist revival architecture", they'll say.