AUSTIN | Projects & Construction III

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by jtown,man

Yeah man, my bad. I click submit without looking things over.

lol

Why bad? I thought it was awesome!

[migol24]

Originally Posted by OU812

The Williams Tower in Houston is (I think) a 'supertall' that really sticks out, but it's pretty awesome nonetheless. It's supposedly the tallest building outside of a CBD in the US? (not counting NYC or Chicago probably)
http://i.factmonster.com/images/transco.jpg
Love that rotating beacon at night!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...iams_Tower.jpg
http://0.tqn.com/d/architecture/1/0/...owerFlickr.jpg

Doesn't Brooklyn have a Supertall? I think I've read it before somewhere.

[KevinFromTexas]

Originally Posted by migol24

Doesn't Brooklyn have a Supertall? I think I've read it before somewhere.

Not really, no. And the term "supertall" usually refers to only buildings that are at least 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall.

[lzppjb]

Originally Posted by wwmiv

I agree on the balanced approach of moistly infill but an occasional tall tower. We aren't big enough to have a super-tall just yet, and that stands the chance at sucking up market oxygen and counteract the infill we desperately need.

sounds dirty

[wwmiv]

oh wow. bad typo. Freudian slip? I don't know.

[Hairysun]

I don't know if anybody here is a civil engineer, but is the ground in Austin stable enough for a supertall? Manhattan has all that nice granite to keep things in place, but we've got a bunch of soft limestone. I don't know if that factor alone is enough to preclude a supertall, but it might make things more expensive.

[shakman]

Originally Posted by Hairysun

I don't know if anybody here is a civil engineer, but is the ground in Austin stable enough for a supertall? Manhattan has all that nice granite to keep things in place, but we've got a bunch of soft limestone. I don't know if that factor alone is enough to preclude a supertall, but it might make things more expensive.

The ground beneath Houston is not the best though Houston has two supertalls.

[corvairkeith]

The Corazon on East 5th.

[KevinFromTexas]

This is nothing we don't know already, but there is some eye candy from the Marriott cranes.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/bl....html?page=all

Oct 25, 2013, 7:39am CDT
Steel skies: The lowdown on the meteoric rise of Austin tower cranes

Jan Buchholz
Staff Writer-
Austin Business Journal

A gaggle of tower cranes implies that real estate development is on the march. That surely is the case in Austin where the steel structures puncture the skyline every few blocks.

“There’s only five businesses in the U.S. that do this full time. We’re one of them,” Lord said at the time.

Joking aside, both Lord and Smith say tower cranes are actually delicate animals, each with their own parameters of operation. All tower cranes are made in Europe and Asia, and operators have their favorite types. Some swear by German and Italian manufacturers and some swear at the Chinese brands.

Currently, there are more than a dozen tower cranes operating in Austin. It's hard to believe, but three years ago that was how many were in operation across all of Texas. Today there are between 80 and 90 in the Lone Star State, Smith said.

[AusTex]

For any person interested...no posts in 5 days for Austin might be a record!

Apparently, absolutely nothing is happening in Austin anymore!

Thank You and Good Night! ( or check the "Regional Section" for Austin to see posts. )

[NYC_Longhorn]

how do you guys post your photos? URL?

Originally Posted by AusTex

For any person interested...no posts in 5 days for Austin might be a record!

Apparently, absolutely nothing is happening in Austin anymore!

Thank You and Good Night! ( or check the "Regional Section" for Austin to see posts. )

[JoninATX]

Originally Posted by NYC_Longhorn

how do you guys post your photos? URL?

Click on the picture icon up top, then copy the link and it will upload.

[JoninATX]

Originally Posted by AusTex

For any person interested...no posts in 5 days for Austin might be a record!

Apparently, absolutely nothing is happening in Austin anymore!

Thank You and Good Night! ( or check the "Regional Section" for Austin to see posts. )

I would have been posting more on what's going on across Austin but my computer hard drive crashed last week. Finally got my smart phone working which was acting up until recently.

[Syndic]

JW Marriott could start rising a bit faster now. The jutting 3rd Street portion seems to have topped out. So, it's just the Brazos Street part of the tower that will be rising now.

[Kotliz]

So basically they've toped out the little white tower indicated below—right? Does anyone know if there are any changes to the design at this stage? For instance, that wall they've built on the top of the 3rd street section/tower does not appear on this model, or at least on this model, that floor has windows.

[JoninATX]

Originally Posted by Kotliz

So basically they've toped out the little white tower indicated below—right? Does anyone know if there are any changes to the design at this stage? For instance, that wall they've built on the top of the 3rd street section/tower does not appear on this model, or at least on this model, that floor has windows.

If you look on the 20th page of the JW Marriott thread you will see that the model is accurate.

[Syndic]

I think it's just the very top of that 3rd Street portion. It looks like a roof is going right on top of that wall.

[Kotliz]

Looks like the South side crane on the Marriott just got jacked up higher today.

[oberthewhat]

Here is an article about the Austin hotel boom.

http://skift.com/2013/10/06/austins-...st-in-the-u-s/


One thing that was mentioned in the article was about Fairmont's plans. I copied from the article:


"And then there’s the Fairmont, a premier brand that plans to make its second Texas appearance with a $350 million convention hotel that would tower 580 feet at Red River and East Cesar Chavez near the Austin Convention Center.

That project just reached a major milestone when the city issued a site development permit, said Douglas Manchester, president of the hotel’s developer, Manchester Texas Financial Group. With permit in hand, “our architects are deep into creating the final designs,” Manchester said. “This puts us on track to break ground in January and open in the fall of 2016.”


Looks like the ground breaking date has moved yet again. But the quote from Manchester sounds like it is a positive go. I'm still crossing my fingers for this one.

[wwmiv]

Originally Posted by oberthewhat

Here is an article about the Austin hotel boom.

http://skift.com/2013/10/06/austins-...st-in-the-u-s/


One thing that was mentioned in the article was about Fairmont's plans. I copied from the article:


"And then there’s the Fairmont, a premier brand that plans to make its second Texas appearance with a $350 million convention hotel that would tower 580 feet at Red River and East Cesar Chavez near the Austin Convention Center.

That project just reached a major milestone when the city issued a site development permit, said Douglas Manchester, president of the hotel’s developer, Manchester Texas Financial Group. With permit in hand, “our architects are deep into creating the final designs,” Manchester said. “This puts us on track to break ground in January and open in the fall of 2016.”


Looks like the ground breaking date has moved yet again. But the quote from Manchester sounds like it is a positive go. I'm still crossing my fingers for this one.

The January date has already been published elsewhere. That's not a move, just a verification of previously released data.

Edit: this piece is a bit old as well, so it may have been written in the same time period when we first got that information.