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KevinFromTexas · #**6501** Posted **Sep 15, 2009, 10:16 PM**

Oh man, those are too cool!! I had been wanting to make a trip back over there. I'm glad you did. Great framing on those. Man the skyline looks good there. And I really like the way The Austonian looks from that angle. I can't wait to see what it'll look like once they light it.

Mike, I sent you a PM back. I also messaged you on your photo album.

MichaelB · #**6502** Posted **Sep 15, 2009, 11:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by zx14

The topping out party is thursday right? Maybe a tree will be part of the fesivities.

ReaLLY? Crap. I leave town Thursday AM!

priller · #**6503** Posted **Sep 16, 2009, 2:15 AM**

Anyone going to the topping out party?

KevinFromTexas · #**6504** Posted **Sep 16, 2009, 2:20 AM**

Will it be open to the general public, or by invitation only?

jowens · #**6505** Posted **Sep 16, 2009, 2:32 AM**

WOW! Great stuff LoneStarMike!

LoneStarMike · #**6506** Posted **Sep 16, 2009, 2:49 AM**

Thanks everyone! Here's one more from yesterday that I didn't post.

What is that crane on the right-hand side of the photo? (Behind the Sabine and rising above it) Is that something at the Concordia site or is it something else?

priller · #**6507** Posted **Sep 16, 2009, 2:56 AM**

I think that crane is at UT, isn't it?

KevinFromTexas · #**6508** Posted **Sep 16, 2009, 3:02 AM**

Yeah, I think it's just one of those two on the UT Campus. You can see the very top of the shorter one just to its left above that state office building. If you look, all the way to the right, is another UT building (science building?). If that crane was for the Concordia site, I would think it would appear to the right of that UT science building. But these are clearly to its left.

LoneStarMike · #**6509** Posted **Sep 16, 2009, 3:04 AM**

It looks to be around UT, but I couldn't think of anything under construction in that area where they'd have a crane that tall. Then again, I don't get over that way very often.

I didn't even see the crane when I was walking yesterday. I only noticed it when I looked at the photo.

KevinFromTexas · #**6510** Posted **Sep 16, 2009, 5:45 AM**

Archived 360 Condominiums construction camera photos. From day 1 until she was topped out 2 years later.

Enjoy!
http://oxblue.com/pro/open/demo/r1p&demo=1

Mopacs · #**6511** Posted **Sep 16, 2009, 2:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by JMancuso

the skyline has changed so much...seems like yesterday, that i took this:

WOW, what a transformation! The Mopac river crossing view is almost unrecognizable now, with all the west end highrises, along with the added density within 2 blocks of lower Congress. Its hard now to recall the 'gaps' in the skyline that existed just a few years ago. Amazing.

LoneStarMike · #**6512** Posted **Sep 16, 2009, 3:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by Mopacs

WOW, what a transformation! The Mopac river crossing view is almost unrecognizable now, with all the west end highrises, along with the added density within 2 blocks of lower Congress. Its hard now to recall the 'gaps' in the skyline that existed just a few years ago. Amazing.

No kidding. I have almost this exact same view from last Month.

Then:

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Originally Posted by JMancuso

the skyline has changed so much...seems like yesterday, that i took this:

Now: (August 15, 2009)

tgbAustinite · #**6513** Posted **Sep 16, 2009, 4:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by priller

I think that crane is at UT, isn't it?

yes; it's a new bioscience research center. click the link below for info and rendering:

http://cns.utexas.edu/major-initiatives/norman-hackerman-building

jowens · #**6514** Posted **Sep 16, 2009, 4:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

The "now & then" comparison is so revealing of the growth of our skyline!

Notice how the "W" will fill in another gap from this angle.

Mopacs · #**6515** Posted **Sep 16, 2009, 4:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

No kidding. I have almost this exact same view from last Month.

Then:

Now: (August 15, 2009)

Wow! And just a few years prior, the there was an even larger gap without the Frost and Hilton... not to mention 300 W 6th, the Hampton Inn, Austin City Lofts and the Whole Foods building. All of this in less than 10 years.

And then there's this shot, from the mid-80s...which I scanned in from an old Texas Architecture magazine. There was basically nothing between 5th street in the river, with a few exceptions:

Strayone · #**6516** Posted **Sep 17, 2009, 1:56 AM**

I had to save that last night photo from 9-24 LSMIke just great stuff. Oh it is also my desk top.

Strayone · #**6517** Posted **Sep 17, 2009, 2:09 AM**

Memory lane stuff going on in the last few photo's in that mid 80's picture is precisely the time I moved to Austin. San Jacinto center, 100 Congress and One Congress Plaza don't appear to have begun construction , what a huge change the last 2.5 decades has brought about.

ivanwolf · #**6518** Posted **Sep 17, 2009, 4:26 AM**

There are 3 cranes on the UT campus, I am not sure if they are for the same thing or not.

The Austonian crane has not been moving much the last week, pretty much stays over Congress all day, although they had something hanging from it today mid day. Guess the topping out party would be soon as stated before for the end of September.

Not sure if anyone noticed but the crane for Lavista on Lavaca came down. So now we have a Intel shell on Lavaca now.

JoninATX · #**6519** Posted **Sep 17, 2009, 4:50 AM**

Yeah Lavista on Lavaca is pretty much an eyesore for the moment. I thought they had all the financing done the second time, It really is irritating to see this again

zx14 · #**6520** Posted **Sep 17, 2009, 5:15 AM**

what building is being built in that picture?