AUSTIN | Projects & Construction III

[Kotliz]

Frankly I'd be excited to see some 250–400 footers, with really good ground-level attractions filling these empty lots, before some sort of extra tall building (750+ feet) sucks up all the oxygen. Although I suspect some of those lots might be in a capital view corridor.

[jtown,man]

I am sorry, but I don't think a super tall ever looks tacky. I know by definition it isn't(or maybe it is, I am too lazy to look up its height) a supertall, but Devon Tower in Oklahoma City does not look tacky, at all. It might look a little out of place, but it looks freaking awesome compared to the rest of the skyline, its not like a 1,000 ft tower in Pflugerville.

Austin's skyline is plenty filled-out and has enough height to look amazing with a 700-1,000 ft tower.

And if any person on here saw that a 1,000 ft tower was being constructed in Austin and were....eh....about it, I would die in astonishment. It would look bad ass and all ya'll know that

[Kotliz]

Originally Posted by jtown,man

I am sorry, but I don't think a super tall ever looks tacky. I know by definition it isn't (or maybe it is, I am too lazy to look up its height) a supertall, but Devon Tower in Oklahoma City does not look tacky, at all. It might look a little out of place, but it looks freaking awesome compared to the rest of the skyline, its not like a 1,000 ft tower in Pflugerville.

Austin's skyline is plenty filled-out and has enough height to look amazing with a 700-1,000 ft tower.

And if any person on here saw that a 1,000 ft tower was being constructed in Austin and were....eh....about it, I would die in astonishment. It would look bad ass and all ya'll know that

To me it's not that a very tall building itself would look tacky, it's what it would do to the skyline as a whole. The Devon Tower is a lovely building but the city skyline as a whole, because of the inclusion of that 840 foot tower, looks kinda silly and out of scale. Most likely, when the city grows up around it, it will fit in better, but I don't think that's a particularly pretty skyline.



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