Austin | Conrad Residences (307 E. 2nd St.) | 755 Feet | 62 Floors | Never Built

[RyanfromTexas]

Originally Posted by The ATX

Here's a wider view of the rendering:


https://www.austintexas.gov/edims/do....cfm?id=377168

If they use green glass on this one….

Can anyone please photoshop Gumby’s features please?

[JACKinBeantown]

Originally Posted by RyanfromTexas

If they use green glass on this one….

Can anyone please photoshop Gumby’s features please?

The Gumby Building!


https://www.mcgoldrickmarketing.com/gumby-building

Quick job showing that you are correct without making Gumby part of the actual rendering. That would require flipping Gumby or the building around.

[ahealy]

Here we go with the Gumby references. I just twitched from my PT.StacyD

[JACKinBeantown]

Originally Posted by sewaneetigers

Those top two sections on the top floor facing west look brutal. The one on the east below the top or top two needs to come with a liability waiver from that brutal light refraction.

I heard the top was based on Conan O'Brien's hair.


https://articlebio.com/uploads/bio/2...an-o-brien.jpg

But then redesigned to look more like Gumby.


https://www.mcgoldrickmarketing.com/gumby-building

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by We vs us

Also -- based on the segmentation it looks like it's still getting a hotel portion.

326 rooms (no brand named) in the latest info.

[chinchaaa]

Good location for big time height and density. This is right at a light rail station.

[ILUVSAT]

Any update on the residential units? Number? Condo, rental, or both?

Also, who is the architect (or did I miss that)?

[myBrain]

Top segment is sweet with the balconies and the crown. The facade pattern on the middle section just seems like it belongs to a different building.

Probably my favorite thing about this is that it will help build up the skyline to the peak at 98 RR. Instead of just having a supertall jutting out above everything we'll have this, the (potential) Ritz, the Travis, and Block 16 flanking its shoulders.

[Strayone]

WOW might be a signaturish tower...not quite Frost but much taller. BTW I guess the building in the left background to the left of the W is s'posed to the Independent? Too bad the crown doesn't actually look like it does in this rendition!

[ahealy]

Love the post modern aspects, but geez here we go with another set of buildings stacked on top of each other. BUILD IT

[clubtokyo]

Ohhh I really like this one!

[Syndic]

Damn! Now that's a tower.

What the hell's going on with Block 185 and Northshore?

[H2O]

Yeah, whoever they hired to do the renderings really just kind of mailed it in on the skyline. Literally. Probably from China or India. Must have used an old skyline photo and didn't bother to research any of the newer projects.

[Atom_Mirny]

I mean it's their job to sell the new tower - not other people's buildings.

[kingkirbythe....]

Here’s Our First Look at the 65-Floor Tower Headed for Second and Trinity

https://austin.towers.net/heres-our-...d-and-trinity/

Remember the “extraordinary” downtown Austin condo and hotel tower planned by our friendly local Canadian developers Intracorp Homes at 307 East Second Street? Thanks to the project’s appearance at next week’s meeting of the city’s Design Commission seeking its density bonus, we’ve now got our first glimpse at the 65-story, 756-foot tower imagined for this 0.53-acre site at the corner of East Second and Trinity Streets near the convention center — and isn’t it remarkable that we can so casually note the appearance of a new tower rising more than 700 feet around here? If you’re a fan of tall buildings, this city in the 2020s is a brave new world.

[GoldenBoot]

So, is this 775' or 756' (as indicated in design commission documentation)?

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by GoldenBoot

So, is this 775' or 756' (as indicated in design commission documentation)?

It depends on whether you want to use the roof height or the tallest point on the building.

[GoldenBoot]

Originally Posted by The ATX

It depends on whether you want to use the roof height or the tallest point on the building.

I believe the CTBUH defines height as:

"Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the architectural top of the building, including spires, but not including antennae, signage, flag poles or other functional-technical equipment."

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by GoldenBoot

I believe the CTBUH defines height as:

"Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the architectural top of the building, including spires, but not including antennae, signage, flag poles or other functional-technical equipment."

And that's why 775' is is listed as the height. But I think there may be another height change before this gets approved. The first elevations had it as 786', the most recent have it as 775'. But neither set of elevations show the two pointed crown. Floor count still matches the last elevations, but we don't know if the crown change will affect the height.

[GoldenBoot]

Originally Posted by The ATX

And that's why 775' is is listed as the height. But I think there may be another height change before this gets approved. The first elevations had it as 786', the most recent have it as 775'. But neither set of elevations show the two pointed crown. Floor count still matches the last elevations, but we don't know if the crown change will affect the height.

Cool. Thank you.