AUSTIN | Project Updates Thread Part II - Page 265

The ATX · #**5281** Posted **Jul 29, 2018, 12:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by subbufromaustin

does any have anyone have updates on block 185, Indeed HQ,6th and Guadalupe, and the republic? also does any have any nice panoramas of downtown Austin before and after

The latest updates for those four projects would be in the dedicated threads for each of of them.

subbufromaustin · #**5282** Posted **Jul 29, 2018, 12:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

The latest updates for those four projects would be in the dedicated threads for each of of them.

thanks

LoneStarMike · #**5283** Posted **Jul 29, 2018, 9:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by paul78701

There was some talk of a hotel going up on the northwest corner of the IBC block. That was a fair amount of time ago though. So, the plans could easily change before any dirt moves. Also, it looks like the lone building on that lot is being leased out now. So, I wouldn't expect anything is going to happen there in the short run.

It used to be listed on the Emerging Projects page, but all it ever said was:

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Planned

IBC is looking at developing this site on W. 6th street at Nueces as a hotel.

The last (actually the only) rendering I ever saw was on Michael Hsu's website.

It was called Living Tower

Sigaven · #**5284** Posted **Jul 29, 2018, 5:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

It used to be listed on the Emerging Projects page, but all it ever said was:

The last (actually the only) rendering I ever saw was on Michael Hsu's website.

It was called Living Tower

Holy crap that would be beautiful

The ATX · #**5285** Posted **Jul 29, 2018, 11:53 PM**

We have a thread for "Living Tower" a.k.a. "6th & Nueces Hotel".

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=217483

the Genral · #**5286** Posted **Jul 30, 2018, 12:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

We have a thread for "Living Tower" a.k.a. "6th & Nueces Hotel".

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=217483

After revisiting this thread, I re-realized how much fun Tech House brought to this forum.

Urbannizer · #**5287** Posted **Jul 30, 2018, 7:00 PM**

Caught a crew taking soil samples at N Lamar and Koenig.

N Lamar at Koenig by Darius Fontenette, on Flickr

Urbannizer · #**5288** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 11:12 PM**

lzppjb · #**5289** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 11:27 PM**

^BD - Big Dawg Apartments

The ATX · #**5290** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 1:12 PM**

I've noticed over the past two days that the city has started dropping the file attachments on building permits. I hope it's just a temporary glitch because that is where we get the first significant info about a lot of projects including elevations.

GoldenBoot · #**5291** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 5:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

I've noticed over the past two days that the city has started dropping the file attachments on building permits. I hope it's just a temporary glitch because that is where we get the first significant info about a lot of projects including elevations.

Have you contacted them about it?

Maximusx1 · #**5292** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 6:56 PM**

Not sure where to post this, but there is significant activity/construction going on at the new cold air/water plant between the Gables and the railroad tracks along Electric Drive.

I have always hoped that once that thing got built that it might allow the state garage at 3rd and Nueces to change function. I have no info/insight into that other than I wish that is what would happen. Also construction of this cold air station might also preclude the long awaited underpass under the railroad up to 3rd Street.

hookem · #**5293** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 7:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by Novacek

That's actually what gives me hope.

If Morrison makes the mayoral race about CodeNext, Adler (who is _far_ ahead in fundraising and it seems support) will have to defend it, and it's on the same ballot.

Looks like he’s going the other way. Adler now suggests scrapping it:
http://austincouncilforum.org/viewto...9a5469b0616ade

hookem · #**5294** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 9:03 PM**

And based on the replies by the other council members, CodeNext is officially dead.

We vs us · #**5295** Posted **Aug 1, 2018, 10:48 PM**

I can't recommend this post enough, not least because we get some callout in the first few grafs, and not least because the title is a riff on a Raymond Carver book of short stories (SO good if your a former English major).

https://austin.towers.net/what-we-ta...ers-in-austin/

This seems like a corner of a much larger argument that's going on in the city -- an Austin identity crisis that's hitting one of its periodic boiling points. You can see this everywhere, in all of our conversations. CodeNext was just a casualty of some of these same conflicts, but the PSV discussion also encompassed it. Some of it is about spending money but a lot of it is about bigness, how big Austin was and now is, what that means for us, and what Austin should look like if its all grown up (should it even be called Austin?)

Anyhow, James's post is a nice momentary distillation of what's going around at the moment. Worth a read.

lzppjb · #**5296** Posted **Aug 2, 2018, 12:18 AM**

Good article. I just don't understand little comments like this thrown in:

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and yes, they’re unfortunately all guys

Why is it unfortunate? I find it neither fortunate or unfortunate. It's just a fact.

Max Tower · #**5297** Posted **Aug 2, 2018, 1:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by lzppjb

Good article. I just don't understand little comments like this thrown in:

Why is it unfortunate? I find it neither fortunate or unfortunate. It's just a fact.

https://www.architectural-review.com...017497.article

By all accounts, women design buildings in the same manner as men, so I find it unfortunate that they are historically underrepresented in the built environment for reasons that appear unrelated to the practice of architecture.