The most striking work of architecture currently demanding your attention on Austin’s downtown skyline is undoubtedly Indeed Tower, the 36-story office structure formerly known by its number Block 71 in the original downtown plan and set to be occupied in part by the job-gettin’ folks at Indeed along with whichever subtenant those flashy rascals at the Teacher Retirement System of Texas can find after being…
Austin, Here’s Your Chance to Name Zilker Park’s New Train
After tooting around since 1997, the much-loved miniature train at Zilker Park known as the Zilker Zephyr is no more, thanks to erosion from a number of heavy rainstorms at the park washing out its tracks in 2019 — but the Austin Parks Foundation will bring the experience of riding tiny rails to a new generation of Austinites in Summer 2021, as…
East Austin’s Long-Neglected Govalle Park Finally Gets Some Attention
Though its facilities remain closed to the public in the hottest months of summer thanks to the ongoing pandemic, East Austin’s renovated Govalle Pool is ready to roll whenever we are — and with these much-needed and long-awaited upgrades completed earlier this year after breaking ground back in 2018, it’s time to extend the same courtesy to the surrounding facilities at…
A Three-Story Bar Is Business as Usual on Sixth Street, and That’s Too Bad
The longtime “Dirty Sixth” watering hole Maggie Mae’s, which has slowly grown in stature at 323 East Sixth Street since its opening in 1978, now sports seven different bars on two levels over thousands of square feet technically spanning three buildings — and now it’s growing upward. That’s at least the case presented earlier this…
405 Colorado’s Oddball Architecture Gets a Surprising Thumbs-Up
Earlier this month, we made the case for 405 Colorado, Austin’s latest architectural oddball office tower now under construction downtown from developers Brandywine Realty Trust. Having heard lots of opinions from readers over the last couple of years since the reveal of the building’s design in 2016 by the architects at Duda Paine, we thought it was time to open the floodgates and…
Meet Block 16, a Downtown Austin Tower Plan Surprising Enough for 2020
In the blissful before-times of October 2019, as we unwittingly approached the conclusion of what we’re now calling the pre-pandemic era, we learned all about an office tower in the works downtown that would occupy the southern half of Block 16 in Austin’s original city plan — in other words, the bottom half of the block bound by San…