The Travis County bond proposal for the new courthouse is scheduled for a May 2015 vote. So the soil sampling and preliminary planning seem to fall in line with that schedule.
A better rendering might do it justice. The fact that what we have been provided are bad quality scans really adds to the oldsness. Make it monochrome and you'd think that was out of a newspaper business section circa 1987.
Maybe in real life the glass will be clearer and cladding shinier?
Wow, not a fan! I've been really disappointed by a number of Austin's projects, but this one takes the cake. A better rendering wouldn't hurt, but I don't think it's going to keep this from looking like a bad early 80s office building.
They aren't going to make it look all campus-y and university-y because all it is to them is an office building. If they ever decided to sell it would need to be marketable as an office building and be recognizable as one.
It's also not necessary that it follow the style of the Austin UT Campus since it represents all of the campuses which all have their own style.
Anyway, I do hope it goes through some changes, because so far I'm not impressed.
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Dear forum fellows.... Indulge me for a moment, and please predict the year Austin will have it's first 1000+ foot building constructed?
Start construction 2017/2018 and it will be mixed use residential/hotel with ground floor retail. It will go around the area where the homeless shelter(s) are around red river.
Start construction 2017/2018 and it will be mixed use residential/hotel with ground floor retail. It will go around the area where the homeless shelter(s) are around red river.
My guess is that it will be along the rail line, near Waller creek
Start construction 2017/2018 and it will be mixed use residential/hotel with ground floor retail. It will go around the area where the homeless shelter(s) are around red river.
1k+ footer would be nice if it were a futuristic observation tower, ala Space Needle/CN Tower, etc. An immediately worldwide-recognizable building icon!
2021....Sleeker, narrower, 4 point top that looks like a spire. A modified Frost with 2 floors retail, then some office, a hotel, condos floors and then at the top; a restaurant and observation!
They started the UT Tower demo stuff. 2 lanes blocked on 7th. Walking tunnel. Fencing in alley. And a hammer back hoe where the garage is at now, but not for long.
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