HomeDiagramsDatabaseMapsForum About
     

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > United States > Texas & Southcentral > Austin


Reply

 
Thread Tools Display Modes
     
     
  #1001  
Old Posted Nov 1, 2014, 8:08 PM
lzppjb's Avatar
lzppjb lzppjb is offline
7th Gen Central Texan
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Austin TX
Posts: 3,144
It's not the height of the buildings that I don't like about Vancouver. I just don't like how they all look so similar.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1002  
Old Posted Nov 1, 2014, 10:06 PM
KevinFromTexas's Avatar
KevinFromTexas KevinFromTexas is offline
Meh
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: there and back again
Posts: 57,324
Individually, Vancouver has some really nice buildings, but I agree that overall they're too similar. That's not really Vancouver's fault though. A lot of residential buildings look alike. Miami and Honolulu are other examples. It's one of the reasons I was always dreading Austin getting a lot of residential high rises. I have to say, though, that most of what we've gotten has been better than I expected, and now I actually favor residential buildings to office buildings or hotels. Office buildings can be pretty boring by comparison these days.

And I actually am not crazy about the idea of tons of point towers. My position on them is let them exist where it's necessary to develop skinny because of space constraints or capitol view corridors, but having too many of them just like having too much of anything starts to look strange. It's no less weird than a plateau skyline of 400 footers.
__________________
Donate to Donald Trump's campaign today!

Thou shall not indict
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1003  
Old Posted Nov 18, 2014, 7:46 PM
MTM-ATX MTM-ATX is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 45
They are jumping the Seaholm crane today. 4-5 large sections being added.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1004  
Old Posted Nov 21, 2014, 3:09 PM
Digatisdi's Avatar
Digatisdi Digatisdi is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Downtown Austin
Posts: 415
Any predictions of when the tenant finish-out of the low-rise will begin/become noticeable? Granted I can only see the North wall and the Northeast corner so I don't have a particularly complete view
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1005  
Old Posted Nov 25, 2014, 12:16 AM
Syndic's Avatar
Syndic Syndic is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 1,945
Today (11/24/2014):

















__________________
Anti-Leslie Pool. Bury I-35! Make The Domain public!
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1006  
Old Posted Dec 17, 2014, 3:30 AM
OtherKevin's Avatar
OtherKevin OtherKevin is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 88
It has been a while, so here is an updated picture of the Green Water site from today.


(click for full sized image)
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1007  
Old Posted Dec 17, 2014, 4:37 AM
Syndic's Avatar
Syndic Syndic is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 1,945
Always appreciate you sharing your perspective, OtherKevin.

Block 23 has been all cleaned up. Sure does look poised for development.

The other day, I was driving by J.W. Marriott going west on 2nd Street when I noticed I could see all the way down to Seaholm. It kind of hit me then that in the not-too-distant future one is going to be able to drive/walk/bike/whatever all the way from the convention center to Seaholm in one straight shot. That's huge!
__________________
Anti-Leslie Pool. Bury I-35! Make The Domain public!
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1008  
Old Posted Dec 21, 2014, 1:07 AM
Speculator Speculator is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 255
Quote:
Originally Posted by Syndic View Post
Always appreciate you sharing your perspective, OtherKevin.

Block 23 has been all cleaned up. Sure does look poised for development.

The other day, I was driving by J.W. Marriott going west on 2nd Street when I noticed I could see all the way down to Seaholm. It kind of hit me then that in the not-too-distant future one is going to be able to drive/walk/bike/whatever all the way from the convention center to Seaholm in one straight shot. That's huge!
Didn't stay clean long, they've started...

Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1009  
Old Posted Dec 23, 2014, 4:41 AM
corvairkeith's Avatar
corvairkeith corvairkeith is online now
Registered User
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Austin, Texas
Posts: 1,476
Today













Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1010  
Old Posted Jan 16, 2015, 2:09 AM
Jdawgboy's Avatar
Jdawgboy Jdawgboy is offline
Representing the ATX!!!
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Austin
Posts: 5,732
So I mentioned I had taken a few pictures on the Independent thread and would post them here. Took me longer than I said it would and I apologize.












In a year you won't be able to see any of those buildings in the background. Instead there will be a nice canyon effect down 2nd Street to Seaholm. That's it for pics.
__________________
"GOOD TIMES!!!" Jerri Blank (Strangers With Candy)
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1011  
Old Posted Jan 16, 2015, 2:16 AM
midtownstarbucky's Avatar
midtownstarbucky midtownstarbucky is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 43
Thank you Dawg!
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1012  
Old Posted Jan 16, 2015, 2:39 AM
lzppjb's Avatar
lzppjb lzppjb is offline
7th Gen Central Texan
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Austin TX
Posts: 3,144
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jdawgboy View Post
So I mentioned I had taken a few pictures on the Independent thread and would post them here. Took me longer than I said it would and I apologize.
We forgive you.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1013  
Old Posted Jan 16, 2015, 7:27 AM
Nickelplate's Avatar
Nickelplate Nickelplate is offline
De Lurk Squad
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 274
My only thought on this thread is why does midtownstarbucky change his profile pic but yet it stays the same...?
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1014  
Old Posted Jan 16, 2015, 11:37 AM
The ATX's Avatar
The ATX The ATX is offline
Moderator
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Where the lights are much brighter
Posts: 12,016
Very nice JD.
__________________
Follow The ATX on X:
https://twitter.com/TheATX1

Things will be great when you're downtown.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1015  
Old Posted Jan 16, 2015, 6:08 PM
KevinFromTexas's Avatar
KevinFromTexas KevinFromTexas is offline
Meh
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: there and back again
Posts: 57,324
Nice pics. There certainly is history being made there.
__________________
Donate to Donald Trump's campaign today!

Thou shall not indict
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1016  
Old Posted Jan 28, 2015, 4:48 AM
OtherKevin's Avatar
OtherKevin OtherKevin is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 88
GreenWater & Seaholm overview:

(click for larger images)



Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1017  
Old Posted Jan 30, 2015, 4:34 AM
Syndic's Avatar
Syndic Syndic is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 1,945
Thanks, OtherKevin! You're my favorite poster here, because of these images you share with us periodically. This area is evolving so fast. I knew Northshore would speed up the taller it got but it's still surprising to me how fast it's speeding up.
__________________
Anti-Leslie Pool. Bury I-35! Make The Domain public!
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1018  
Old Posted Jan 31, 2015, 10:50 PM
Wagnel Wagnel is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 7
1.27.15
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1019  
Old Posted Feb 1, 2015, 12:39 AM
SkyPie's Avatar
SkyPie SkyPie is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 265
Great photo!
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #1020  
Old Posted Feb 1, 2015, 5:22 PM
ahealy's Avatar
ahealy ahealy is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: San Antonio / Austin
Posts: 2,554
touching my phantom vagina to that photo rn.
Reply With Quote
     
     
This discussion thread continues

Use the page links to the lower-right to go to the next page for additional posts
 
 
Reply

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > United States > Texas & Southcentral > Austin
Forum Jump


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 12:43 AM.

     
SkyscraperPage.com - Archive - Privacy Statement - Top

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.