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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas
Some more neighborhood views around South Austin from Friday and Sunday. I went and grabbed a few new ones I've noticed recently.
That is Crockett High School to the left. My old school.
This is a first. A view of a downtown building from the jogging track at Crockett. It sure would have made things more interesting if the building had been there when I was in school. lol
This is from the Shell station at South First and William Cannon. This is across the street from Bedichek Middle School, which was my middle school, and the filming location of Dazed and Confused! You can see Frost of course too, and I hadn't ever noticed it, but if you look to the left on the horizon, that looks like 300 West Sixth. 360, One American Center, Frost and now The Austonian all show up there, but I didn't realize anything shorter than that would.
This was taken at Turtle Creek Boulevard and Cougar Drive. You can see Frost at this spot too, but it wasn't showing up. The Austonian partially blocks it, and the trees do too. It's quite noticeable at night, and in the winter the view is even better. This is right next to Odom Elementary School, which was my school. It's funny, but all three of my schools that I went to now have some pretty noticeable skyline views right next to them.
This last one is from Emerald Forrest Drive. And oddly enough, the best view I saw that day was right in my neighborhood.
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Your pics from your schools inspire me to tell you to do something. In my school, Mills Elementary on the corner of Escarpement Rd. and Davis Lane, go to the track area right next to the trees to the east of it. There's a skyline view from I think 300 West Sixth to Four Seasons Residences. I want you to take a picture from there.
I have been looking in the skyline view from there since 1st grade. Pinnacle Campus would be to the left of the skyline view in the trees. If you can't see the skyline from there next to the trees, scoot yourself to the west. The skyline is so gorgeus from there.
It would be great if you take a picture from there.
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Originally Posted by Mopacs
Thanks for posting the photos Kevin. The distant skyline views I find the most fascinating at this point. There are so many areas to the west that now have views of the Austonian. It's popping over ridges left and right, particularly near Lake Travis.
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Spotted it from the bridge next to the dam on Lake Travis. I forgot what it was called though....
The Austonian was sticking up fairly nicely.
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Originally Posted by MichaelB
Do you guys get the feeling it almost makes the town seem smaller? Keep you reminded of how close downtown is to many neighborhoods.
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Of course. The Austonian is way taller than the average skyscraper height for downtown. (I would say about 360 feet is the average)
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Originally Posted by shanny
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Just one stunning photo with that affect. 12 skyscrapers here were built after 2000. New desktop background!
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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas
Uh, did they raise the crane for the W? It sure looks tall in that photo. About 300 feet I'd say.
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They did, definately... Update thread saying crane sections were delivered to the site.
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Originally Posted by priller
Yeah, they raised both cranes on Sunday and Monday. I took a picture of it on Sunday but it was from the iPhone and crappy so I never posted it.
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Wow. Look at that crane raise. Looks a bit weird though. And seriously, that IPhone shoot is not crappy. It's good. And where did he yellow crane go???
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