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Originally Posted by wwmiv
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Houston has a few visual advantages that Austin will find very hard to surpass:
Houston has significant and imposing office towers that have large floorplates, whereas Austin only has one. Our supertalls are both going to be comparatively skinny, with one of them significantly skinnier. We’d need five or six of these to match the visual impression left by Houston’s peak height and bulk. It isn’t only about height, but also bulk and heft, lack of gaps, and multiple skylines. Houston wins on all counts.
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See, I actually don't care much about having a primary dense cluster. FWIW, I think we will, eventually, but I actually like our loose tower topography. Our capitol view corridors will continue affecting our urban landscape in really unusual ways, giving it a graduated, visually-interesting look that none of these other cities will have. Keep Austin Weird.
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