Austin | Vesper (84 East) | 452 Feet | 41 Floors | Complete - Page 8

The ATX · #**141** Posted **Aug 11, 2021, 1:11 AM**

The site is so small and packed with equipment with a lot of activity, I suspect cement will be pouring within a week or two. A status update to U/C should happen real soon.

myBrain · #**142** Posted **Aug 11, 2021, 1:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Maybe they'll use a cactus for the topping out ceremony.

People looking at the marketing material: "I wonder if I could see those mysterious lights in the desert from my balcony?"

Ground floor retail, but it's an empty Prada store

JoninATX · #**143** Posted **Aug 11, 2021, 1:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by Syndic

What in the bloody hell is that travesty of a marketing effort? Austin is not the desert, you silly Yankees. Stop it.

If only Big Bend NP was closer to Austin, but unfortunately their geography is quite a bit off.

valhalla · #**144** Posted **Aug 11, 2021, 2:25 AM**

Remember when the Korean firm depicted 92 red river in a snowy tundra and then the Winter storm happened? Maybe this yankee firm has a crystal ball or is forecasting their own predictions using climate models.

drummer · #**145** Posted **Aug 11, 2021, 1:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by valhalla

Remember when the Korean firm depicted 92 red river in a snowy tundra and then the Winter storm happened? Maybe this yankee firm has a crystal ball or is forecasting their own predictions using climate models.

Please don't say that...

The ATX · #**146** Posted **Aug 15, 2021, 5:47 PM**

Lots of rebar for the columns onsite. Here are some inside renderings from the money folks. The same NYC real estate investment firm financed Natiivo.

https://www.atco.us/

Riverranchdrone · #**147** Posted **Aug 15, 2021, 9:23 PM**

Woah. The cowboys are winning in that first picture. I dont believe it.

The ATX · #**148** Posted **Aug 15, 2021, 9:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Riverranchdrone

Woah. The cowboys are winning in that first picture. I dont believe it.

And they're beating the NY Giants of all teams.

atxsnail · #**149** Posted **Aug 16, 2021, 2:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by myBrain

Ground floor retail, but it's an empty Prada store

I'm surprised none of the "art gallery as pedestrian improvement" for the density bonus haven't proposed a Marfa Prada-esque exhibit. Honestly I think it would be better received than some of the existing proposals

davidberko · #**150** Posted **Aug 16, 2021, 9:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Riverranchdrone

Woah. The cowboys are winning in that first picture. I dont believe it.

Lmao. But....BUT....they're America's team!

Urbannizer · #**151** Posted **Aug 18, 2021, 10:00 PM**

The ATX · #**152** Posted **Sep 17, 2021, 9:59 PM**

Tower crane going up this weekend:

From Steve R. on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/TheATX1

IluvATX · #**153** Posted **Sep 17, 2021, 10:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

Tower crane going up this weekend:

Nice. I’m assuming it is/will be a luffing crane?

The ATX · #**154** Posted **Sep 17, 2021, 10:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by IluvATX

Nice. I’m assuming it is/will be a luffing crane?

Yes, it's a luffing per the crane license permit.

sjk · #**155** Posted **Sep 17, 2021, 10:44 PM**

Can someone explain the significance of it being a luffing crane? Is it simply that it can lift heavier objects?

Echostatic · #**156** Posted **Sep 17, 2021, 10:51 PM**

Different shape. Luffing cranes are used to fit in tighter environments and a city with more luffing cranes compared to tower cranes is typically a dense one.

In this example the blue cranes are luffing jib.

The ATX · #**157** Posted **Sep 17, 2021, 11:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Echostatic

Different shape. Luffing cranes are used to fit in tighter environments and a city with more luffing cranes compared to tower cranes is typically a dense one.

In this example the blue cranes are luffing jib.

Good post. That's why we are seeing a lot more Luffers in Austin now than we did 5-10 years ago.

Lobotomizer · #**158** Posted **Sep 18, 2021, 1:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

Good post. That's why we are seeing a lot more Luffers in Austin now than we did 5-10 years ago.

But, but, but....

It'd be better to have the parking lots, and used car dealerships instead because all these buildings aren't designed by starchitects.

Adding much needed housing inventory be damned. Adding millions to the city's tax base be damned!

It could be better, and I don't love it, so the city should stop it or something.

This era will be looked back on as a golden era. It won't last forever. We have our 5th new tallest u/c in the last 20 years, and will soon be comparable to the Dallas skyline.

But we still have nonstop complaining. Build a massive skyline? Complain. Urban development all over the city, NSEW? Complain. Booming economy even during global pandemic? Complain. Voters approve world class transit system including downtown subway? Complain.

It's madness.

davidberko · #**159** Posted **Sep 18, 2021, 6:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by Lobotomizer

But, but, but....

It'd be better to have the parking lots, and used car dealerships instead because all these buildings aren't designed by starchitects.

Adding much needed housing inventory be damned. Adding millions to the city's tax base be damned!

It could be better, and I don't love it, so the city should stop it or something.

This era will be looked back on as a golden era. It won't last forever. We have our 5th new tallest u/c in the last 20 years, and will soon be comparable to the Dallas skyline.

But we still have nonstop complaining. Build a massive skyline? Complain. Urban development all over the city, NSEW? Complain. Booming economy even during global pandemic? Complain. Voters approve world class transit system including downtown subway? Complain.

It's madness.

It IS madness. Totally agree. I have an outsider perspective as a transplant and I can honestly say what Austin is doing with its urbanity is unbelievable for a city its size. Punching above its weight is a total understatement. Lived near Chicago for 10 years and grew up in Detroit so I've seen some nice downtowns. Yes, Detroit has a nice downtown lol. But Austin, a once sleepy state capital and college town? Wow. What Austin has done in the 2000s is mind blowing. I for one am frothing at the mouth as an urbanist enthusiast

the Genral · #**160** Posted **Sep 18, 2021, 7:58 PM**

Can we please stop the use of the word "complaining" and replace it with critiquing? We all have our own opinions which should be respected. There's no denying the incredible progress in the last 2 decades, but there are different and legit ways of grading it.

I appreciate your defense of what's being built and where we are at, but some of us would like to see more from a design point of view, not just tallish boxes and blue glass for the sake of density and fillers. We deserve that.