What should an iconic downtown Austin tower look like? - Page 3

oberthewhat · #41 Posted **Feb 3, 2021, 8:10 PM**

Im thinking.. future/techy/texas rugged..

give me something id see on starwars

N90 · #42 Posted **Feb 3, 2021, 8:18 PM**

https://cdn.luxatic.com/wp-content/u...Khaleesi-3.jpg

https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/20..._dezeen_sq.jpg

https://imgs.6sqft.com/wp-content/up...upertall-8.jpg

drummer · #43 Posted **Feb 3, 2021, 9:22 PM**

That's...interesting.

enragedcamel · #44 Posted **Feb 3, 2021, 9:55 PM**

Just bring back art deco.

I want gargoyles on every skyscraper!

enragedcamel · #45 Posted **Feb 3, 2021, 9:57 PM**

Also:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/r...-432-park.html

Quote:

The nearly 1,400-foot tower at 432 Park Avenue, briefly the tallest residential building in the world, was the pinnacle of New York’s luxury condo boom half a decade ago, fueled largely by foreign buyers seeking discretion and big returns.

Six years later, residents of the exclusive tower are now at odds with the developers, and each other, making clear that even multimillion-dollar price tags do not guarantee problem-free living. The claims include millions of dollars of water damage from plumbing and mechanical issues; frequent elevator malfunctions; and walls that creak like the galley of a ship — all of which may be connected to the building’s main selling point: its immense height, according to homeowners, engineers and documents obtained by The New York Times.

Less than a decade after a spate of record-breaking condo towers reached new heights in New York, the first reports of defects and complaints are beginning to emerge, raising concerns that some of the construction methods and materials used have not lived up to the engineering breakthroughs that only recently enabled 1,000-foot-high trophy apartments. Engineers privy to some of the disputes say many of the same issues are occurring quietly in other new towers.

Yikes! Let's hope our upcoming tall ones don't have similar issues.

KevinFromTexas · #46 Posted **Feb 4, 2021, 1:50 AM**

I don't know. Modern architecture sometimes is like Stephen King novels. Weird for the sake of weird.

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Echostatic · #47 Posted **Feb 4, 2021, 3:37 AM**

Not long ago, Denver's 1801 California Street would have been an icon in Austin. I do love good 80's architecture, and it's my favorite tower in Denver, so I'm biased, but I could totally see this looking great and contrasting our modern tallests. Love me some granite 45 degree angles.

N90 · #48 Posted **Feb 4, 2021, 5:06 AM**

https://uh.edu/engines/transcothrougharches.jpg

https://s3.amazonaws.com/hines-image...l_hres_web.jpg

https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img...0/SKGA1014.jpg

And it has that 360 degree rotating beam light at the top at night

N90 · #49 Posted **Feb 4, 2021, 5:21 AM**

ahealy · #50 Posted **Feb 4, 2021, 2:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Echostatic

Not long ago, Denver's 1801 California Street would have been an icon in Austin. I do love good 80's architecture, and it's my favorite tower in Denver, so I'm biased, but I could totally see this looking great and contrasting our modern tallests. Love me some granite 45 degree angles.

I am right there with you (as I've mentioned earlier in this thread). Give me all the granite you can add onto a skyscraper. At this point if we even got something above 30 floors in pink granite it would pop so much with all that blue glass.

N90, Williams is also one of my favorites in the US.