1250 S Capital of Texas Hwy (where Austin Diagnostic Clinic is). I was messing around and went up to the 5th or 6th floor, and the office as you step out of the elevator has a great view of the skyline. Had a secretary there, but I didn't have a good camera and was nervous about asking. haha
That's the Cielo office complex. You can go up to the 4th floor (of the building with ADC), there is a Business Suites shared office location there. Just ask the receptionist, I'm sure she'll let you tour the place and take pictures (esp if you might be interested in a shared office one day). There is a balcony you can go outside on, and yes the view is very nice!
A few photos from the 5th floor of the Blackwell Thurman Criminal Justice Center. The ones where it's sunny were from April 22, 2013 and the gloomy, cloudy ones were the following day. I was in the building for jury duty.
When you first get there, you have to go through an airport-style security screening. They never questioned my camera. Floors 3-9 have a lobby for the general public that runs the length of the building and the windows face the south. I think there are only two courtrooms on each floor - one on the west side of the elevator bank and the other on the east side of the elevator bank. Attorneys, witnesses, spectators and potential jurors enter the courtroom from this lobby.
These are some of the views from that lobby.
I was actually chosen to be a juror and had access to other parts of the floor that were off-limits to the general public. When we came back from lunch, we used a special hallway (you have to be buzzed in) that runs the width of the building and leads to the jury deliberation room and the rear entrance to the courtroom. The hallway for my courtroom faced west and the hallway for the other courtroom faced east. These are some views from the west hallway:
At the end of that hallway, you turn to the right and enter another hallway. On the left side of that hallway was the jury deliberation room with windows that faced north and on the right side of the hallway was the back entrance into the courtroom that the jurors used. (There were no windows in the actual courtroom.
These are some views from the jury deliberation room:
My case was a DWI case. It took us about 5 minutes to elect the jury foreman and about 2 minutes to decide the defendant was guilty.
Great pics, Mike! Thanks for sharing those. That's an interesting view of the TMI Castle.
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Kevin, I found an interesting vantage point, but I don't have the gumption to go into the office and ask if I can take photos. Maybe you could sometime. Only thing is I'm pretty sure this particular view is through glass only. But it is clean.
1250 S Capital of Texas Hwy (where Austin Diagnostic Clinic is). I was messing around and went up to the 5th or 6th floor, and the office as you step out of the elevator has a great view of the skyline. Had a secretary there, but I didn't have a good camera and was nervous about asking. haha
I know exactly where you're talking about. It's the Cielo office complex. Three brown midrises. I'll have to do that sometime whenever I'm over there.
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WHOA...what's going on here? Where is this? Looks awesome, when I get down there I'll need to visit, obviously.
That's the Baylor "Art" wall it's a block west of N. Lamar downtown. I took a bunch of pictures of it in January, and much of it has been repainted/re-tagged since then by the looks of this picture.
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That's the Baylor "Art" wall it's a block west of N. Lamar downtown. I took a bunch of pictures of it in January, and much of it has been repainted/re-tagged since then by the looks of this picture.
... He asked where, not what. It's at Baylor Street and 11th.
Would be neat to find any old renderings of the failed condo project that produced that canvas.
The project was called "Castle East". It would have been an 8-story building. It really wouldn't have appeared that tall, though, since each level would have followed the contour of the bluff. So basically it would have appeared only 1-story taller than the bluff.
I can't find any development pages about it, but I had found the site plan info on the city's website. And I also came across a rendering from somewhere.
Would be neat to find any old renderings of the failed condo project that produced that canvas.
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The project was called "Castle East". It would have been an 8-story building.
Although Castle East was never built, the foundation for the failed condo project that produced the canvas was from a much earlier condo project in the 1980's. Jude mentioned it in this blog post:
It's ironic that the Baylor Street walls are the foundations of a would-be condo, stalled after a botched soil test decades ago and again recently when the housing bubble burst. Although, "it's very likely something will happen soon," Clark said.
A former co-worker of mine had four brothers who all worked for the fire department. I remember her mother telling me that when the first condo project was proposed in the 1980's, the fire chief at the time said that if it ever caught fire, that the firemen wouldn't try to fight it from Baylor Street. They'd fight it from down on Lamar. I got the impression that they thought the hillside wasn't stable enough, but I (or my friend's mom) could have been wrong.
That site plan info you posted for Castle East had an address of 1109 W. 11th Street. I think the official address for the project back in the 1980's was 1008 Baylor Street.
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