Austin | 6G | 874 Feet | 65 Floors | Complete

[myBrain]

Great updates, thank you Riverranchdrone

[IluvATX]

This one is about to slim down quite a bit.

[Urbannizer]

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃

[The ATX]

It's getting close to 500'.

[The ATX]

The CTBUH updated their website yesterday with an article on 6XG. But Check out the rendering. SMH.


https://www.ctbuh.org/news/austin-mi...new-milestones

[the Genral]

Originally Posted by The ATX

It's getting close to 500'.

It doesn't seem like it to me.

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by the Genral

It doesn't seem like it to me.

It's difficult to count floors because of the glass and safety netting. It appears the core is at either level 36 or 37. If it's 37, the elevations have it as 504'. If it's 36, the height is 494'. The highest section of the core in this webcam view can be compared against the 542' Indeed Tower and the 516' Hanover tower. But comparing the tops of buildings is not the best measurement because of their distance from each other and varying ground elevations. Without checking the Indeed and Hanover elevations, I believe one corner of 6XG is a fair amount lower than Indeed or Hanover which would add to it not looking 500" when comparing it to other nearby towers.

[IluvATX]

Originally Posted by the Genral

It doesn't seem like it to me.

I believe the core is at level 36 and they are forming up level 35. So it’s probably around 475ish feet.


http://www.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=304537

[The ATX]

But notice that floor 13 is missing in the elevations. So the height would be for level 37 if the core is at level 36. That's ~978-~484=494ish.

[The ATX]

It's a slow news day. Maybe we could also go back to arguing whether the final height is 874', 875', 876' or 883'.

[IluvATX]

Originally Posted by The ATX

It's a slow news day. Maybe we could also go back to arguing whether the final height is 874', 875', 876' or 883'.

It’s going to be somewhere between 874’ and 883’.

IMO it’ll be 883’ since that’s what the FAA says.

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by IluvATX

It’s going to be somewhere between 874’ and 883’.

IMO it’ll be 883’ since that’s what the FAA says.

We may never know the actual height. Until we get more info, the developer's statement of 875' is what I'm going with. The 883' is not the FAA's height, but the height of whoever filled out the FAA application.

If any of the anonymous sources who have provided me with elevations in the past wants to do so again, it would be greatly appreciated.

[the Genral]

But then again, what's 8 feet among friends...

[ILUVSAT]

Well...it does mean a knock either up or down a few rungs in both the U.S. and World rankings. But, I know from where you're coming.

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by the Genral

But then again, what's 8 feet among friends...

But it's a hell of a lot among skyscraper nerds.

[the Genral]

Originally Posted by The ATX

The CTBUH updated their website yesterday with an article on 6XG. But Check out the rendering. SMH.


https://www.ctbuh.org/news/austin-mi...new-milestones

What a terrible rendering. They literally squatted the entire downtown including and especially 6X.

[Echostatic]

Fixed that...

[Riverranchdrone]

Originally Posted by The ATX

But it's a hell of a lot among skyscraper nerds.

So size DOES matter.

[Urbannizer]

The bigger the better? Oh my…

[JACKinBeantown]

Originally Posted by the Genral

They literally squatted the entire downtown including and especially 6X.

It's like when my mom watches TV on the non-HD channels. Fix the aspect ratio, Mom!