Austin | 6G | 874 Feet | 65 Floors | Complete - Page 122

Lobotomizer · #**2421** Posted **Jan 28, 2022, 2:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by ski-man

Being someone who moved to Austin originally in 1980, that skyline looks amazing. Always wanted to see Austin look like that, and it is only going to get better looking.

It would be interesting to see a photo from that location from 20 years ago.

We vs us · #**2422** Posted **Jan 28, 2022, 3:26 PM**

This thing is just so massive. Not just tall but bulky, too. As the KXAN camera shows, it's at a point where the best perspective is from several miles away.

gillynova · #**2423** Posted **Jan 28, 2022, 4:47 PM**

When is that crane going up?!

IluvATX · #**2424** Posted **Jan 28, 2022, 5:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by gillynova

When is that crane going up?!

They do the crane jumps on Sundays. So this Sunday?

IluvATX · #**2425** Posted **Jan 30, 2022, 5:24 PM**

Crane is being jumped today.

Urbannizer · #**2426** Posted **Jan 31, 2022, 4:54 AM**

A few more before the jump.

gillynova · #**2427** Posted **Feb 1, 2022, 6:28 PM**

Can confirm the crane went up Sunday

gabetx · #**2428** Posted **Feb 2, 2022, 5:42 AM**

I tried to put the towers as level as possible. I put my drone at 542ft, but I'm sure its not that accurate. But it looks like 6x is definitely taller than Indeed. Also, I can't wait to see the next crane jump!

Urbannizer · #**2429** Posted **Feb 9, 2022, 5:05 AM**

Urbannizer · #**2430** Posted **Feb 12, 2022, 10:15 AM**

MichaelB · #**2431** Posted **Feb 12, 2022, 2:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

THAT is a nice photo. The composition is wonderful. And the texture really interesting.
Take note it's the mix of materials and scale that adds to a more interesting landscape.
You know.... all those things we are loosing at a rapid rate.

ahealy · #**2432** Posted **Feb 12, 2022, 3:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by MichaelB

THAT is a nice photo. The composition is wonderful. And the texture really interesting.
Take note it's the mix of materials and scale that adds to a more interesting landscape.
You know.... all those things we are loosing at a rapid rate.

A-frickin-men to that.

enragedcamel · #**2433** Posted **Feb 12, 2022, 6:34 PM**

Well, it surely can't be that hard to have a brick outline for the first few floors of a modern skyscraper, right? Maybe a few architects should try that. It would re(add) variety to the city.

JACKinBeantown · #**2434** Posted **Feb 12, 2022, 8:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by MichaelB

THAT is a nice photo. The composition is wonderful. And the texture really interesting.
Take note it's the mix of materials and scale that adds to a more interesting landscape.
You know.... all those things we are loosing at a rapid rate.

Yup. I'm so tired of all-glass buildings. Look at One American Center next to Indeed. Indeed is much taller but it has no sense of scale because it's a wedge with all glass (at least it's not a box). Whereas OAC looks like a building with a lot of floors because you can see them. Aloft too; it's a box but at least it has interesting fenestration.

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Originally Posted by Urbannizer

dilliam · #**2435** Posted **Feb 13, 2022, 9:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by JACKinBeantown

Yup. I'm so tired of all-glass buildings. Look at One American Center next to Indeed. Indeed is much taller but it has no sense of scale because it's a wedge with all glass (at least it's not a box). Whereas OAC looks like a building with a lot of floors because you can see them. Aloft too; it's a box but at least it has interesting fenestration.

People are always mentioning "sense of scale", but honestly, I don't really understand what you mean. Can't you understand the scale of a building within the context of other buildings? Even though I don't mind them, I understand the gripes with all glass towers... the "scale" stuff is confusing, though.

enragedcamel · #**2436** Posted **Feb 14, 2022, 1:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by dilliam

People are always mentioning "sense of scale", but honestly, I don't really understand what you mean. Can't you understand the scale of a building within the context of other buildings? Even though I don't mind them, I understand the gripes with all glass towers... the "scale" stuff is confusing, though.

A lot of glass buildings, especially ones that have been value-engineered, don't give a sense of solidity or substance to observers, compared to concrete ones.

MichaelB · #**2437** Posted **Feb 14, 2022, 1:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by ahealy

A-frickin-men to that.

JACKinBeantown · #**2438** Posted **Feb 14, 2022, 1:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by dilliam

People are always mentioning "sense of scale", but honestly, I don't really understand what you mean. Can't you understand the scale of a building within the context of other buildings? Even though I don't mind them, I understand the gripes with all glass towers... the "scale" stuff is confusing, though.

Thanks for asking. Here's what I mean.

The Woolworth Building in New York is 792 feet tall. The John Hancock Building in Boston is 790 feet tall. So they're almost exactly the same height. But the Woolworth has a design made to look tall, and a big part of that design is a white building with clearly delineated windows.

https://2015.ctbuh.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Woolworth_Overall2_MGa-769x1024.jpg

While Hancock is all glass of the same color. On Woolworth you can see each floor clearly, while on Hancock all you basically see is a monolith of blue glass. (In this picture you can see the lines between floors, but remember that you're looking at a still image on a bright, sunny day. Usually it just appears as one sheet of blue glass in real life. Still, every floor looks exactly the same.)

https://s3-production.bobvila.com/slides/21124/original/john_hancock_building.jpeg?1501005178

The sense of human scale comes to play when you remember that the average grown human is between 5-6 feet tall. So when you see the windows on Woolworth, you can see all those clearly delineated floors and imagine people on each floor, so it gives you a sense of how tall the building is. You can't do that so easily with an all glass building. Maybe at night when the lights are on, but that's pretty much it.

So when all glass buildings are added to skylines, it takes away part of that sense of grandeur because you lose the human scale. Look at New York City before and after the glass/box buildings were added. The old skyline was beautiful, grand and soaring.

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2700/4083894465_30b7e76d34_z.jpg?zz=1

The new skyline... it has a bunch of boxes blocking the view of the older, more majestic skyscrapers.

https://d21xlh2maitm24.cloudfront.net/nyc/Brooklyn-Bridge-Park.jpg?mtime=20190620143027

kingkirbythe.... · #**2439** Posted **Feb 14, 2022, 3:08 PM**

I'm definitely picking up what you're putting down JACKinBeantown.

JACKinBeantown · #**2440** Posted **Feb 14, 2022, 3:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by kingkirbythe....

I'm definitely picking up what you're putting down JACKinBeantown.

Haha! (like button)