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Originally Posted by migol24
For the record, I too would like nice architecturally aesthetic buildings. I just would like some height variations here and there, especially the ones rising well over 700'. Or to put it in the same analogy, I certainly would rather date Blake Griffin, 6'10" over Tom Cruise, 5,7"... if I were gay of course. I mean, he's younger, more athletic... need I say more?
Alright I'm gonna go look at some sports illustrated swimsuit edition to get rid of these mental images I've created for myself.
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Bud, you obviously aren't gay, because if you are, your taste in men is questionable at best.
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Originally Posted by AusTxDevelopment
If there is going to be a 1,000 sf (or even 800 sf) building in the next 10-15 years, it will be apartments, condos or mixed use. There won't be a strictly office building that tall in Austin in the near future. Unless Perry is successful in bringing some of those California companies to Austin, our office market is too small to support it at this stage. Even Stacy's proposed Gumby building was only about 30% office.
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It's also worth considering that those Cali tech companies tend to prefer a campus along the lines of Dell in Round Rock as opposed to the JPMorgan Chase Tower in Houston. Those aren't necessarily the companies to court if you're looking to outfit a tall office building...but people seem to love living in the sky. Huh, how funny, I just had a thought. It seems our desires have reversed. We've gone from wanting to work in a tall building and live on the ground...to wanting to live in a tall building a work on the ground.
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Originally Posted by austlar1
That kind of sucks, if true. I am excited by this building. I think it is well designed and will look good at street level. It will house well paid workers who may opt to live in or near downtown. It will certainly add to the credibility factor for downtown Austin as THE place to do business in this area. I am not so concerned about the height, but I am not a skyscraper fanatic. I like really tall buildings when they add something at street level. A lot of the tall buildings I see in other cities with their big street level plazas and gale force downdrafts, are kind of energy drains on the nearby streets. I like to look at impressive skylines from afar, but sometimes I am most struck by the bulk of a skyline just as much as I am by the sight of some really tall buildings poking up or standing alone.
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I like the points you've made here. What I love about Austin is it's unconventional marriage of tall towers with human-scaled low-rise and street-level development. Even the newer developments make an effort to meet the street gracefully. I love tall buildings, having spent so much time in Manhattan and Chicago, but nothing warms my heart like a lively, active street. I think I already said recently on this thread, but tall buildings do not (necessarily) a city make.