AUSTIN | Fairmont Hotel | 595 FEET SPIRE/456 FT ROOF | 37 FLRS | Complete - Page 90

drummer · #**1781** Posted **Jun 27, 2017, 6:49 AM**

Cast your votes on what should be on top of the spire:

a) a lone star
b) a bat
c) an electric guitar
d) an armadillo
e) a cowboy hat
f) a full-on cowboy on a bucking horse
g) a pedi-cab
h) a hipster (or just an iPhone)
i) a longhorn
j) a outline of Texas
k) a blind salamander
l) a bicycle (road bike or otherwise)
m) <<enter your own idea because I'm out of my own>>

Please, please...only one vote per person. Let's keep this civilized.

wwmiv · #**1782** Posted **Jun 27, 2017, 6:59 AM**

m) an invisibility cloak.

The ATX · #**1783** Posted **Jun 27, 2017, 7:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by wwmiv

m) an invisibility cloak.

That was really good.

My main complaint about the spire is not so much that it exists, but because they didn't add five feet and call this a 600 foot tower. Was there a meeting where they compared renderings and decided to go with a 595' height because it looked better than 600'?

wwmiv · #**1784** Posted **Jun 27, 2017, 7:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

That was really good.

Did I win something?

drummer · #**1785** Posted **Jun 27, 2017, 7:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by wwmiv

Did I win something?

Bragging rights, I suppose. I didn't think up any sort of prize, sorry.

Geckos_Rule · #**1786** Posted **Jun 27, 2017, 4:26 PM**

m) Have the spire make a 90 degree angle, so the whole building looks like a juicebox

AusTxDevelopment · #**1787** Posted **Jun 27, 2017, 4:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Geckos_Rule

m) Have the spire make a 90 degree angle, so the whole building looks like a juicebox

Jdawgboy · #**1788** Posted **Jun 27, 2017, 5:05 PM**

It's horrible. Not only is it the wrong kind of lighting, the spire itself looks terrible. Time to e-mail Manchester to complain that if they can't spend the effort to put up LEDs, then they might as well take the spire down.

KevinFromTexas · #**1789** Posted **Jun 27, 2017, 7:29 PM**

One possibility is that this lighting is only temporary and was put in place to satisfy FAA laws. Now that the crane is down there wouldn't have been any lighting in the airspace above the building. The only reason I say this is that if this was the finished product on the spire that it should also have a red aircraft warning light on the spire, but it doesn't have that yet. I'm also not sure this is the full height of the spire. It's supposed to be 144 feet tall.

Maybe AusTxDevelopment could take his whirly bird up for a closer look.

lzppjb · #**1790** Posted **Jun 27, 2017, 7:36 PM**

Yeah, I don't think it's done. It doesn't look 144 feet tall.

Sigaven · #**1791** Posted **Jun 27, 2017, 8:03 PM**

Also, the renderings show the spire being completely smooth from bottom to top (as opposed to telescoping as it appears to be doing so) - maybe what we see is just the under-structure and there will be a final cladding that goes over it?

edit: see below

The ATX · #**1792** Posted **Jun 27, 2017, 8:26 PM**

That's from the portfolio of the Block 185 rendering architect. I don't know if we can trust that rendering to be the actual one.

JoninATX · #**1793** Posted **Jun 27, 2017, 9:47 PM**

If I'm not mistaking, a while back before The Fairmont got started someone mentioned a helicopter would carry the last segment of the spire to top it off?

The ATX · #**1794** Posted **Jun 27, 2017, 10:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by JoninATX

If I'm not mistaking, a while back before The Fairmont got started someone mentioned a helicopter would carry the last segment of the spire to top it off?

I remember that. But it was only speculation.

gabetx · #**1795** Posted **Jun 28, 2017, 12:01 AM**

Hey lets be positive here... At least we will have THE walkie-talkie tower of Texas! It is the signature tower that we were never hoping for.

drummer · #**1796** Posted **Jun 28, 2017, 4:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by Geckos_Rule

m) Have the spire make a 90 degree angle, so the whole building looks like a juicebox

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Originally Posted by gabetx

Hey lets be positive here... At least we will have THE walkie-talkie tower of Texas! It is the signature tower that we were never hoping for.

Haha, these are great.

H2O · #**1797** Posted **Jun 28, 2017, 10:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by gabetx

Hey lets be positive here... At least we will have THE walkie-talkie tower of Texas! It is the signature tower that we were never hoping for.

What's a walkie-talkie? Is that like a cell phone?

drummer · #**1798** Posted **Jun 28, 2017, 12:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by H2O

What's a walkie-talkie? Is that like a cell phone?

It's kind of like a walkman, I think.

the Genral · #**1799** Posted **Jun 28, 2017, 4:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by H2O

What's a walkie-talkie? Is that like a cell phone?

A walkie- talkie is a two way radios that were transmitters and receivers, so they sometimes had long antennas for extra range. They were named that because you could walkie while you talkied, and they weren't tethered to a large bulky transmitter or receiver, completely portable, I believe they were invented to be used for field communication starting in WWII. I used them while a fire fighter in the 90's. Probably still in use today. Select a channel and push a button to talk, no dial up, but you probably knew that...
Kind of a childish name for it, as I heard a comic once said, "General Patton, here is your walkie talkie, and your gunnie shooty, and some foodie eaty".

ahealy · #**1800** Posted **Jun 28, 2017, 5:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by gabetx

Hey lets be positive here... At least we will have THE walkie-talkie tower of Texas! It is the signature tower that we were never hoping for.

lolll..careful, reaching that far might result in your arm falling off