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enragedcamel · #1 Posted **Jan 25, 2021, 8:09 PM**

One thing I'd love to see in Austin is skyscrapers with sky bridges connecting them. Is there such a project in the pipeline?

If we're lucky, we'll even get something totally crazy like this: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...tors-1.8922110

SproutingTowers · #2 Posted **Jan 26, 2021, 1:53 AM**

Keep an eye on the South Central Waterfront Plan.

We vs us · #3 Posted **Jan 30, 2021, 6:57 PM**

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Keep an eye on the South Central Waterfront Plan.

I just saw this comment. What’s up?

GoldenBoot · #4 Posted **Jan 25, 2021, 10:24 PM**

^^^No. And probably never. There are a lot of entitlement challenges in developing that type of structure in Austin (and the U.S. as a whole).

Echostatic · #5 Posted **Jan 27, 2021, 1:40 AM**

delete

clubtokyo · #6 Posted **Jan 30, 2021, 5:10 PM**

This is interesting:
https://www.businessinsider.com/hyat...r-18500-2021-1

Better article:
https://www.travelandleisure.com/hot...onth-long-stay

enragedcamel · #7 Posted **Feb 2, 2021, 5:37 PM**

Can we please get some interesting projects similar to this?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-...bshare_twitter

Mopacs · #8 Posted **Feb 2, 2021, 6:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by enragedcamel

Can we please get some interesting projects similar to this?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-...bshare_twitter

I agree that boundaries should be pushed with design. Though I can't help but see this...

https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyl...-treat-ranking

Tyrone Shoes · #9 Posted **Feb 4, 2021, 3:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by enragedcamel

Can we please get some interesting projects similar to this?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-...bshare_twitter

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Tulsa almost got one....." to build a skyscraper shaped like a tornado on top of a Tulsa parking garage. The towering structure, proposed within the region known as Tornado Alley, is designed to include a museum dedicated to weather, a storm research center, a revolving rooftop bar and restaurant, and a grassy roof. Lighting would also be added so that the whole building would appear to be slowly spinning to passing drivers."

https://ssmb.in/tulsa-tornado-tower/

atxsnail · #10 Posted **Feb 4, 2021, 3:43 PM**

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Tulsa almost got one....." to build a skyscraper shaped like a tornado on top of a Tulsa parking garage. The towering structure, proposed within the region known as Tornado Alley, is designed to include a museum dedicated to weather, a storm research center, a revolving rooftop bar and restaurant, and a grassy roof. Lighting would also be added so that the whole building would appear to be slowly spinning to passing drivers."

https://ssmb.in/tulsa-tornado-tower/

We need this exact tower, except light it up in red/orange and give it a pineapple slice crown

myBrain · #11 Posted **Feb 2, 2021, 6:32 PM**

That's awesome. Like an evolution of the sphere they have in Seattle.

I wonder how open it is to the public? IIRC you have to book an appointment to tour the sphere in seattle. The Vessel at Hudson Yards also requires a reservation. I get that that may be necessary to avoid overcrowding, but it kinds sucks if you can't just check it out spontaneously.

Always thought something like the Vessel would be really cool next to the hike and bike trail, where you could cap off a run/stroll with a climb to the top. Maybe where the substation is in front of the Indy.

freerover · #12 Posted **Feb 2, 2021, 6:57 PM**

FBI is out raiding some places in Cedar Park and Round Rock.... Another One?

zrx299 · #13 Posted **Feb 2, 2021, 7:39 PM**

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FBI is out raiding some places in Cedar Park and Round Rock.... Another One?

"We da best"... at fraud.

Echostatic · #14 Posted **Feb 2, 2021, 6:59 PM**

I much prefer the building on the right to the ice-cream looking inefficient wacky thing in the middle.

We vs us · #15 Posted **Feb 2, 2021, 9:50 PM**

Bezos announced he's is stepping down later this year, as it happens.

https://mashable.com/article/jeff-be...-to-step-down/

GoldenBoot · #16 Posted **Feb 2, 2021, 11:11 PM**

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Bezos announced he's is stepping down later this year, as it happens.

https://mashable.com/article/jeff-be...-to-step-down/

As CEO. He's still their Board's Executive Chair. He just doesn't want to deal with the day-to-day activities of a CEO, I guess. However, he still will have control as majority owner and Board Chair.

drummer · #17 Posted **Feb 3, 2021, 2:22 PM**

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As CEO. He's still their Board's Executive Chair. He just doesn't want to deal with the day-to-day activities of a CEO, I guess. However, he still will have control as majority owner and Board Chair.

A lot of folks seem miss this part. Dude is still the boss.

drummer · #18 Posted **Feb 4, 2021, 5:03 PM**

I wonder how that twister tower would hold up in an actual twister event...

myBrain · #19 Posted **Feb 4, 2021, 5:28 PM**

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I wonder how that twister tower would hold up in an actual twister event...

Haha that's what I was thinking, it looks like they're just asking for an f5 to come through.

Though maybe this totem is meant to appease the tornado gods

We vs us · #20 Posted **Feb 10, 2021, 4:03 PM**

ICYMI, Salesforce just announced it's doing away with the 9-5 workday, and will offer partial or full remote status to majority of its workers.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/9/22...ex-coronavirus

I know this is (yet again) just one company, but it's clearly taking hold among the biggies in the tech sector. If this gets going at scale, it could completely upend some of those basic citybuilding dynamics we all love, especially in places that are tech-heavy.