Austin | 80 Red River | Feet | Floors | Proposed

[valhalla]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

I have to admit this one was kind of an ugo, so meh.

It was too boxy and bland. It would be one thing if our skyline were bigger and more accommodating of more average stuff, but coming here and laying an 800 foot box is...savage.

You speak harshly, but you speak truly. This project was an egg. Fight me. Yes it was a ritz carlton. But the architecture is yoikss. Boxes stacked on top of each other. Revolutionary!!! Not.

Hopefully, this is an opportunity for something better.

[The ATX]

The more I think about it, that unexplained rendering on M2's website could be an update of this project - if the Travis tower is no longer part of the project. The name of the image file is "ritz-c-1", and it it's not the Nashville RC. That could very well be lady Bird Lake in the front of it. The levels are difficult to count because of the design, but it could be around 45-stories.

[kingkirbythe....]

Originally Posted by The ATX

Ug-o.

The original wasn’t so great either, but at least it was taller.

[migol24]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

I have to admit this one was kind of an ugo, so meh.

It was too boxy and bland. It would be one thing if our skyline were bigger and more accommodating of more average stuff, but coming here and laying an 800 foot box is...savage.

It would be nice if Austin built a cylinder building of some sort.

[The ATX]

If anyone can make out the name or logo at the bottom right corner of the tower rendering, it might be a clue.

[KevinFromTexas]

It looks like it could be an Imageshack watermark, but I can't imagine a developer being ok with someone else's watermark on their renderings. I haven't used Imageshack in years, but I do seem to remember they would put watermarks on images that were hosted for free similar to how that appears.

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

It looks like it could be an Imageshack watermark, but I can't imagine a developer being ok with someone else's watermark on their renderings. I haven't used Imageshack in years, but I do seem to remember they would put watermarks on images that were hosted for free similar to how that appears.

That image is also being used as the banner on their updated (but still crappy) website. So whatever project it is for, it must have some significance.

[Echostatic]

That definitely could be Lady Bird Lake. See the creek leading towards the tower, in roughly the same position as Waller Creek. And the stand-up paddleboarders. The buildings in the background don't match what would be there, but they seem like filler anyway.

[myBrain]

I like the design of this new rendering, especially the base. It feels kind of retro. It would be a shame to lose the height though. An 800 footer would make for a better progression up to the supertall next door.

[We vs us]

That's a weird rendering. It's like from an alternate dimension Austin where town lake is twice as deep, and the Travis doesn't exist. I'm not completely convinced that's what we're looking at.

[ohhey]

That building design is actually pretty interesting, so I doubt it's an Austin project. It's got a cool retro-futuristic vibe going on.

[Sigaven]

Originally Posted by ohhey

That building design is actually pretty interesting, so I doubt it's an Austin project. It's got a cool retro-futuristic vibe going on.

The shade! But it's so true lol.

[Max Tower]

hottest architecture trends of nyc trickling down to austin again



https://www.dezeen.com/2019/10/09/la...ork-high-line/

[AJB]

Oh the shade, so true (Love this!) LOL

[Tyrone Shoes]

Just wondering if this thing is still alive or has it passed on to the great beyond.....

[Geckos_Rule]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Shoes

Just wondering if this thing is still alive or has it passed on to the great beyond.....

I'm guessing that regardless of how guaranteed it is that this building will be built, we won't see movement on it any time soon. With construction beginning in earnest on the Travis and 98 RR on either side of this, I doubt they can manage to have construction going on this at the same time.

[The ATX]

Site prep for the Travis and 98RR are already overlapping, possibly due to the Waller Creek enhancements that are also happening. 80RR would be between those two. Once the Travis and 98RR are complete, we may be looking at this project and 99RR getting started.

[enragedcamel]

Yeah I like it too. Besides, it has got to be much better than whatever currently occupies that lot, right?

[Urbannizer]

80 Red River listed as a planned development by Build Central:

https://www.buildcentral.com/planned...-austin-texas/

[sewaneetigers]

I think I was westaustinballer; all I did was embellish anything and everything.

That username sounds familiar. I was the kid who would post a picture of some celebrity when we had the [show us you] thread. And then, like 4 years after I posted a picture of Ashton Kutcher (me), I posted a real picture of my 6th grade friends and me posing -- I am not sure the correct word is these days - but someone who is attracted to the opposite gender identification than what they identify as (if you analyze that past sentence, it turns into a mind boggling set of scenarios because of the indefinite and evolving set of variables, despite it being hyper-specific. The sentence has a life of its own).

Thank you for the welcome-back. I appreciate it.

FYI - my attribution of the image(s) stems from the language used by others on this thread, and has no correlation to any personal opinion or belief.