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Old Posted Apr 27, 2013, 7:57 PM
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More about it: http://iloveswinn.com/2013/11th-and-baylor-street/

Would be neat to find any old renderings of the failed condo project that produced that canvas.
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More about it: http://iloveswinn.com/2013/11th-and-baylor-street/

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.

Here is the site plan info.
https://www.austintexas.gov/devrevie...erRSN=10099831

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TMI and Hermann Lungkwitz



In case any of y'all are wondering what the TMI looked like way back when...It's by the Texas painter Hermann Lungkwitz (1813–1891)
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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:

The Castle On The Hill

If you read the comments, another reader provided a link to an Austin Chronicle article about the Baylor Art Wall and it mentions:

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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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Awesome pics. Love that before and after.
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I think in 5 years the before and after photos will be the most dramatic change we'll ever see.
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Once all the towers get built I should go out to Austin and make another video like this...

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I think I may have already put them on here, but not sure. These are soo cool. Some of them bring back memories of when I had my car and I'd just be driving around Austin. I don't drive much these days.

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This one is of the W during construction. Someone should do something similar to that if and when Greenwater or Fairmont gets built!

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Old Posted May 4, 2013, 6:32 AM
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This is an old one... from 2007. At :25 you can see some cranes... I'm not sure what from. Probably when they were building the Amli, but Amli was finished in 2006. Either way, its cool. And what I like the most about these videos is that all of the tracks have that same vibe that I get from Austin, if that makes sense.

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This one is kind of odd.

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This is pretty cool. See Austin's development growth from 1984 to 2012 in satellite images.

http://world.time.com/timelapse/
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Wow, Mike. Those skyline shots are great. I love those last few with it glowing from the sunlight. Where was that hot air balloon? I like those skyline views looking through the grass at Butler Park.
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Where was that hot air balloon?
The hot air balloon was in that grassy area of Zilker Park just east of Mopac. I passed right by it later, after I had crossed the lake from north to south on the Mopac Pedestrian Bridge and was on the trail headed towards Lou Neff Point.

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I second the motion... Wow! Incredible pics!
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Just noticed the Rhodesian Ridgebacks with the booties on. Sort of humiliating for such a hearty dog. Is this common on dogs dt?
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Old Posted May 11, 2013, 6:12 AM
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Just noticed the Rhodesian Ridgebacks with the booties on. Sort of humiliating for such a hearty dog. Is this common on dogs dt?
It's a good idea to have your dog wear shoes if you live in an urban neighborhood and walk your dog a lot. It's not so much because it's hot, of course it hasn't been very hot lately anyway. The biggest reason is to protect them against canine illnesses that can be passed along by them stepping where an infected dog has been or even stepping in that dog's poop, and then licking their paws and then getting sick. It's just a good idea. Parvo is the big reason. There was as an outbreak of it last summer in Texas and a lot of dogs died. A friend of my mom's who breeds poodles lost all but one puppy from two litters they had because of Parvo. They lost 6 puppies I believe. My sister also lost 4 of her dogs because of it. My mom's friends probably picked up Parvo at a dog show. My sister thinks their neighbor's dog was sick, because right before her dogs became sick, her neighbor's dog disappeared - presumably it died as well.

Rhodesian Ridgebacks definitely are hearty dogs. They were originally bred by Europeans to help with hunting lions.
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That's actually a pretty well framed out and nice picture from just a camera phone.
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It reminds me of the Emerald City skyline scene in the Wizard of Oz. It just as a sort of odd otherworldly loo to it. That's a cool photo. I really think composition is more important than what kind of equipment you're shooting/editing with.
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It reminds me of the Emerald City skyline scene in the Wizard of Oz. It just as a sort of odd otherworldly loo to it. That's a cool photo. I really think composition is more important than what kind of equipment you're shooting/editing with.
It is a really cool pic. What struck me was how distinct the colors of the different buildings in downtown are. A result of post-processing I'm sure, but it gives the effect of an old colorized film -- where individual items were colored in (not saying the photographer did that, just that the effect used gives it that feel).

That in addition to the fact that it is a rare on-the-water perspective makes it really cool and unique to the forum. Thanks smithlua! Did you take it from a kayak or boat?
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It is a really cool pic. What struck me was how distinct the colors of the different buildings in downtown are. A result of post-processing I'm sure, but it gives the effect of an old colorized film -- where individual items were colored in (not saying the photographer did that, just that the effect used gives it that feel).

That in addition to the fact that it is a rare on-the-water perspective makes it really cool and unique to the forum. Thanks smithlua! Did you take it from a kayak or boat?
From one of the party boats. That's something I'd never even thought of before to get some good pics but I couldn't say no to a work paid trip. It's a great view of everything east of 1st st.

The original pics did turn out too dark so I ran it through a quick editing app.
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