As Austin's inevitable growth chugs along, one of the more interesting side effects of the city's sky-high land values is a need for clever, compact architecture, in order to maximize the value of small and challenging pieces of property. These are scraps of land you wouldn't necessarily, as a developer, choose to build upon if you had more choices -- but it's Austin, so you often don't.
My favorite example of this phenomenon for a while was the planned patron to get the full story and gain access to TOWERS' archive. (Sign-in)
