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Northcrossed · #**4341** Posted **Dec 12, 2008, 1:06 PM**

Austin chooses architect for new central library
Council surprises staff by choosing second-ranked firm

By Sarah Coppola
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/12/12/1212library.html

Acting against the advice of its city staffers, the Austin City Council chose the architectural team of Lake/Flato Architects and Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott on Thursday to design a new central library

nixcity · #**4342** Posted **Dec 12, 2008, 1:40 PM**

^As nice as a new central library might be it sure would be nice to use that money for light rail or to help fund the huge shortfall of police officers right now.

M1EK · #**4343** Posted **Dec 12, 2008, 6:35 PM**

Especially since the new library is basically inaccessible by transit and will never be on the major spine

zx14 · #**4344** Posted **Dec 12, 2008, 10:26 PM**

What are the odds with the economy of the austonian calling it quits putting the roof on at 30 and selling what they have. Hope santa can bring some pics for us so far away.

CHAPINM1 · #**4345** Posted **Dec 12, 2008, 10:48 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by zx14

What are the odds with the economy of the austonian calling it quits putting the roof on at 30 and selling what they have. Hope santa can bring some pics for us so far away.

That's horsecrap and we all know it...

priller · #**4346** Posted **Dec 12, 2008, 11:28 PM**

Don't worry. More photos coming this weekend. They were moving up the floor supports to start working on floor 29 this morning.

MichaelB · #**4347** Posted **Dec 12, 2008, 11:36 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by zx14

What are the odds with the economy of the austonian calling it quits putting the roof on at 30 and selling what they have. Hope santa can bring some pics for us so far away.

Where does that keep coming from? I thought that rumor was laid to rest long ago?

shanny · #**4348** Posted **Dec 13, 2008, 2:33 AM**

ok these posts need to stop...The Austonian will be 56 stories and 683 feet tall...why would they have a half-way party this week if they were gonna stop at 30? some people forget that this project has the backing of one of the largest real estate companies in the world. end of discussion.

Northcrossed · #**4349** Posted **Dec 13, 2008, 3:22 AM**

But they also promised a dog crap robot.... The cutbacks start small and next thing you know it's a dozen floors gone.

Jdawgboy · #**4350** Posted **Dec 13, 2008, 3:41 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Northcrossed

But they also promised a dog crap robot.... The cutbacks start small and next thing you know it's a dozen floors gone.

No, that will not happen, the building will be built as planned...

Dan Denson · #**4351** Posted **Dec 13, 2008, 4:01 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

This is the only one we've seen of it so far:

I'm thinking though that the design will be different. This rendering shows three towers. Those smaller two towers have been canceled. The project hasn't been made smaller, infact it's larger, but they placed all the hotel rooms in a single tower. They're calling it 26 floors, but it was supposedly 34 floors at one point.

And of course greenbelt's rendition of it if it were about three times as tall and plagued with a big gorilla. Also notice the giant people eating pigeons.

Now I see why people were saying it would be ugly. Hope the basic design is radically different from this.

zx14 · #**4352** Posted **Dec 13, 2008, 5:18 AM**

sorry about the negative post looks like it will be ok. thanks for the info however maybe 4 floors have already been chopped off cause 26 plus 26 is 52they should have had the party when 28 was finished. just joking glad to see this and also the spring should have its topping out party soon. maybe a christmas topping out party?

Saddle Man · #**4353** Posted **Dec 13, 2008, 5:51 AM**

There's been a rumor going around DANA since the parking garage-only rumor was proved wrong. This rumor says that the Austonian will stop at 35 floors. So I guess the party was a 4/5ths party, not a half-way party.

Only six floors to prove this one wrong.

Dale · #**4354** Posted **Dec 13, 2008, 5:56 AM**

I think they should continue to build it to 62 stories just to piss-off the handwringers, rumormongers and naysayers.

Nickelplate · #**4355** Posted **Dec 13, 2008, 9:34 AM**

I think the developers will knock the building down and put the automatic pooper scooper on the vacant lot to scoop up the pile of sh*t that everyone thinks it will be!!

Northcrossed · #**4356** Posted **Dec 13, 2008, 1:04 PM**

Paper came and went, leaving behind historic building

By Ben Wear
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/12/13/1213tribune.html

Ralph Barrera/AMERICAN-STATESMAN

shanny · #**4357** Posted **Dec 13, 2008, 4:50 PM**

they had the half way party at 28 floors...

KevinFromTexas · #**4358** Posted **Dec 13, 2008, 10:06 PM**

No more rumors guys. If you don't have credible info to report than don't post it.

priller · #**4359** Posted **Dec 14, 2008, 12:22 AM**

Texas Monthly Building/East Ave

From I-35:

Rear view:

From the North, access road:

Walling off the front from the parking garage, which will eventually go there:

Clearing off the lot next door:

W Hotel & Residences;

Elevator core:

No idea what's in those crates. I thought they looked like oranges at first:

Lotsa rebar in those columns:

Retail on 2nd Street:

Austonian:

Four Seasons Residences:

JoMo · #**4360** Posted **Dec 14, 2008, 3:02 AM**

I did not want to be the one to start a rumor but I am an architect downtown and another architect in my firm talk to one of the contractors and was told that the austonian would be crowning off the build soon because of the status of our national economy. I heard this two weeks ago.