AUSTIN | Projects & Construction II - Page 307

AustinSkyscrapers · #**6121** Posted **Aug 8, 2009, 4:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

My, have things changed!

January 16, 1959.

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/...splay=thumbcap&action=search&pnum=P10469

Be sure to check out the rest of them, there's a few more. The one of the Palmer Auditorium showed it just a year after it was completed!

More here:
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/search/simple.do

Wow. Thats change!! For those who have been wondering what that thing on the lower right corner is, it is just fencing.

MichaelB · #**6122** Posted **Aug 8, 2009, 8:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by austex

Is that the top four floors of the Driskill Hotel with the red roof?

I'd say it is.

And re: cattle. I see what you are talking about : just about the sign on the green house on the lower right side. I think that just might be cattle in a field ! How fun is that?!!!!!

jowens · #**6123** Posted **Aug 9, 2009, 4:22 AM**

I do miss seeing the capitol from this view. Interesting pic!!

jowens · #**6124** Posted **Aug 9, 2009, 4:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by jowens

Does anyone know if there's a lighting scheme for The Spring?

**Bump**

priller · #**6125** Posted **Aug 9, 2009, 3:01 PM**

Photos from yesterday and this morning:

The old bank is gone at 5th and Brazos. But so is the backhoe, so no telling what will happen next.

Looks like the parking garage is one of those pre-fab things.

Capitol, with the new church parking garage in front, Fondren far back on the right.

No construction in this one, I just thought the clouds were cool:

Mopacs · #**6126** Posted **Aug 9, 2009, 3:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by priller

Photos from yesterday and this morning:

Great shots as always Priller. So what's going on with the 55th floor? Is that a setback of some kind? The next setback should be above the 56th floor, I would have thought.

LoneStarMike · #**6127** Posted **Aug 9, 2009, 3:47 PM**

Great shots, priller, and wow - the W is really coming along.

priller · #**6128** Posted **Aug 9, 2009, 4:06 PM**

They're actually working on the 56th floor now.

From the Austonian web site:

Floor 55, which is the club or lounge floor:

Floor 56, the gym floor:

Raining Inside · #**6129** Posted **Aug 9, 2009, 9:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

My, have things changed!

January 16, 1959.

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/...splay=thumbcap&action=search&pnum=P10469

Be sure to check out the rest of them, there's a few more. The one of the Palmer Auditorium showed it just a year after it was completed!

More here:
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/search/simple.do

The most amazing thing about this picture is that I35 is still only three lanes in that area 50 years later!

LWR · #**6130** Posted **Aug 9, 2009, 10:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Raining Inside

Are those cattle or bushes in the lower right corner?

After zooming-in, those "bushes" appear to have legs.

Mopacs · #**6131** Posted **Aug 10, 2009, 1:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by priller

They're actually working on the 56th floor now.

OH! For some reason I thought they were still working the 55th... also forgot about the 56th floor setback. Now it all makes sense, again.

StoOgE · #**6132** Posted **Aug 10, 2009, 2:56 AM**

Can you imagine the view in that gym

LoneStarMike · #**6133** Posted **Aug 10, 2009, 3:49 AM**

Here's a few from behind the Hobby Lobby at Brodie Oaks Shopping Center near Ben White and S. Lamar just after the sun had set tonight.

Skyline

Zoomed in a little more

Zoomed in more. (Can you imagine this view if the T. Stacy project ever got built?)

Frost, Austonian & the Ashton's crown

zx14 · #**6134** Posted **Aug 10, 2009, 5:00 AM**

I think it is crazy that the Austonian does not have an observation area. YOu could put it in the crown on floor 57. A outside glass elevator would go to the height of the deck and because of the set back there would be a walkway into it. A small bridge like walkway. Charge 5 dollars and I know the building would make thousands a day. T shirts and souveniers also. For the idea I only ask for 1 percent of the money. That sounds resonable finders fee right? Im rich!

Raining Inside · #**6135** Posted **Aug 10, 2009, 6:56 AM**

For what it's worth these days, the city has updated the emerging projects list.

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/downtown/downloads/ep_data_0809.pdf

priller · #**6136** Posted **Aug 10, 2009, 3:30 PM**

Interesting. No mention at all of the Star Riverside project.

AustinSkyscrapers · #**6137** Posted **Aug 10, 2009, 3:59 PM**

Was a bit busy earlier this week so let me postbag...

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Originally Posted by jowens

**Bump**

Agree to and add to it another bump.

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Originally Posted by priller

Photos from yesterday and this morning:

The Austonian is really rolling along, W too, plus Four Seasons. Sheesh.

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Originally Posted by Mopacs

Great shots as always Priller. So what's going on with the 55th floor? Is that a setback of some kind? The next setback should be above the 56th floor, I would have thought.

Visible in priller's photo of the Austonian the floor they're working on has a setback, 56th floor.

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Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

Great shots, priller, and wow - the W is really coming along.

Big construction buff.

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Originally Posted by priller

They're actually working on the 56th floor now.

Thx for those renders.

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Originally Posted by LWR

After zooming-in, those "bushes" appear to have legs.

They are downtown cattle.

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Originally Posted by Mopacs

OH! For some reason I thought they were still working the 55th... also forgot about the 56th floor setback. Now it all makes sense, again.

It does make sense again clumsy Mopacs.

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Originally Posted by StoOgE

Can you imagine the view in that gym

The excersise of your lifetime.

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Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

Here's a few from behind the Hobby Lobby at Brodie Oaks Shopping Center near Ben White and S. Lamar just after the sun had set tonight.

Another good plenty of pictures Mopacs.

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Originally Posted by zx14

I think it is crazy that the Austonian does not have an observation area. YOu could put it in the crown on floor 57. A outside glass elevator would go to the height of the deck and because of the set back there would be a walkway into it. A small bridge like walkway. Charge 5 dollars and I know the building would make thousands a day. T shirts and souveniers also. For the idea I only ask for 1 percent of the money. That sounds resonable finders fee right? Im rich!

Nice.

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Originally Posted by Raining Inside

For what it's worth these days, the city has updated the emerging projects list.

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/downtown/downloads/ep_data_0809.pdf

Thanks for that.

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Originally Posted by priller

Interesting. No mention at all of the Star Riverside project.

No mention.. I wonder what has been going.

So. I will continue posting pictures from the Austonian Blog so here it is:

LoneStarMike · #**6138** Posted **Aug 10, 2009, 4:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

My, have things changed!

January 16, 1959.

Cool photo, but I have to admit I'm a little confused. If this photo is from 1959, what is that boxy building just to the left of the UT Tower? Isn't that the J. J. Pickle Federal Building? (It was built in 1965)

And what's that building just to the right and behind the Commodore Perry Hotel? Greenwood Towers? (It was built in 1966/1967)

And finally, what is that small building directly in front of the Perry Brooks Building?

WAustinResident · #**6139** Posted **Aug 10, 2009, 5:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

Cool photo, but I have to admit I'm a little confused. If this photo is from 1959, what is that boxy building just to the left of the UT Tower? Isn't that the J. J. Pickle Federal Building? (It was built in 1965)

And what's that building just to the right and behind the Commodore Perry Hotel? Greenwood Towers? (It was built in 1966/1967)

And finally, what is that small building directly in front of the Perry Brooks Building?

also look at the car on the right its a 1961 Ford.... just kidding i wish i knew my cars well enough. The cars in the picture do seem like a late 1950's models but who knows... Its still amazing how far Austin has come.

Jdawgboy · #**6140** Posted **Aug 10, 2009, 5:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

Cool photo, but I have to admit I'm a little confused. If this photo is from 1959, what is that boxy building just to the left of the UT Tower? Isn't that the J. J. Pickle Federal Building? (It was built in 1965)

And what's that building just to the right and behind the Commodore Perry Hotel? Greenwood Towers? (It was built in 1966/1967)

And finally, what is that small building directly in front of the Perry Brooks Building?

I also don't believe that is from 59. I don't even think I-35 had 3 lanes on each side in 59. I think they added a lane on each side in the early 60's I would have to ask my mother, thats about the time that my moms family moved to Austin.